- I do listen to what Trump says, directly from his speeches in his rallies. I also watched the 3 debates. Its very, very bad. His speeches have no substantive content. It's all vague and very scary and full of qualifiers, but no concrete policy. I would never vote for someone who talks like that. I find it insulting to my intelligence to have someone trying to convince me of their views with such a poor speech and arguments.
- The man has many glass ceilings and he acts like he's the only one that is decent. He's not even prepared to talk in depth about any of the policy issues on the table. He just throws out these sound bites and a mumble jumble of confusing words when he's past those sound bites. As people say here, when you squeeze it, no juice comes out.
It's clear to me you only watch 30 second sound bites of Trump's rallies and speeches from political comedy TV shows and not a whole unedited speech from start to finish. I know this because you are repeating the message pushed upon by the media of Trump being a "scary" buffoon. Make no mistake, Clinton employs cognitive scientists with the explicit purpose of instilling this image in your mind of him and you fell for it hook, line and sinker.
For instance, did you watch his speech in Gettysburg, PA where he outlined what he plans to do in his first 100 days in office? He lays out 28 different points
- Trump has a mile long trail of scandals, bad business practices, deceiving claims, outright lies, displays of ignorance on international matters - from his own mouth. This is not media bias, it a factual track record of things he says that check out wrong, legal scandals that can be verified and all sorts of factual evidences.
- In my country, I want a learned, knowledgeable, level-headed person to be my president, and Trump doesn't check any of those pre-requisites.
1) Trump has been involved in 500+ business ventures all over the world and has a net worth somewhere in the billions. If he has so many bad business practises, why do people continually do business with him?
2) On the topic of international matters, I'm going to assume you are referring to the Middle East. In reality, no candidate is an experienced war general and any candidate running will rely heavily upon experts to make their decisions. A better way to look at it is, do Trump/Clinton have good track records for surrounding themselves with smart capable people?
Trump: spent his life successfully erecting hotels all across the world and to carry out such a task you need to surround yourself with smart reliable people from many walks of life.
Clinton: her top aide Huma Abedin is so incompetent she shared a laptop with her sex offender ex-husband which lead to the reopening of FBI investigation. John Podesta, the chairman of her campaign whose email was hacked, fell for a simple phishing attempt. And his password at the time was P@ssw0rd, what an idiot.
- Trump lies all the time. That's a game killer for me right there. He even says himself that things he defended in the past are not true.
Such as?
- Trump is racist and xenophobic. There is plenty of evidence for that, even from himself. You need to work to make those emigrants prosper, not kick them out. At this point, your government is already deporting a large number of problematic emigrants. I see no problem there, if people are destabilizing society. I understand that many people voting and supporting Trump are also racist, xenophobic and scared about what these emigrants can bring. Those people should vote for Trump, but stay out of the GOP. From want I read, the GOP official stance is to be more inclusive towards minorities and Trump represents the exact opposite.
If Trump is xenophobic, what does that make you? Xenophilic?
Currently 94 million Americans are out of work. Trump has pointed out how bad unemployment is and how continuing to import a million new immigrants annually only makes it harder for the people currently unemployed to find jobs. Secondly, as far as illegal immigrants go, he is only asking to enforce the current laws in place and deport illegal immigrants. You know what truly is destabilizing? the 40+ million people on food stamps? How about we focus on getting those people working before importing more?
Lastly, the US is filled with racial strife. Stop adding more seasoning to the stew (new immigrants) until you resolve current race issues with the people here
- There are plenty of good republican candidates that would represent brilliantly the core of the party. And I'm sure you can name a few Republicans defending this view if you follow the news. Trump is not one of them. Maybe Pence, who was not even a contender, would do a better job representing the party core values than Trump. And he's more competent and articulate too.
What people do not understand is that a presidential candidate has to raise roughly half a billion dollars to run for president. To get donations, candidates must offer favours in return for donations. By the time they get elected they are absolutely hamstrung from their donors that they cannot actually carry out most of their promises to the voters because they are beholden to the special interests that gave them big $. This is what make Trump so different. He has taken record lows in donations and poured much of his own money into his campaign. He's also taken a huge financial hit running by a) losing out on the 200m/year he makes by not working and b) destroying his brand (bookings at his hotels are way down since running). Trump is an actual opportunity for change because he is an outsider that isn't bought and paid for. He is a huge maybe. Yes he could be terrible but we KNOW any of the alternatives will be 100% the same thing over and over which is bad.
- Most high-profile Republicans are now quiet instead of energetically supporting Trump. What does that tell you? If you are a traditional conservative republican you cannot be happy with this nomination.
It tells me they like the corrupt system because they enjoy getting rich off of it. Look at the past presidencies and you'll notice whether they're republican or democrat nothing changes - exploding debt, endless immigration, growing size of government, more war. The Republican party is just 20 years behind the Democrat party no real difference.
- His tax plan is **** and that has been reported by independent analysts.
If everything you see posted in the mainstream media is 99% negative about Trump, do you at least stop and wonder if perhaps you're being misled?
Anyways, Trump's plan is to simplify the tax system so you don't need a team of accountants to take advantage of the same deductions the ultra rich are presently able to take.
- This is also happening in Europe: people are getting tired of the government and feel that it is not working for them. The traditional parties need to take a hard look at this and start putting the people's needs first, really fast. If this doesn't happen, populist movements will rise. Nothing good ever came out of populist governments. Just look at History.
- Trump is a populist demagogue. That alone should stop most people right there from voting for him. Once you establish that, no further argument should be needed to convince people to go another way.
You've fallen for the Trump = Hitler nonsense.
- You have more parties in the US, albeit very small. You can write-in your candidate. If Trump is not suitable - and he's not - go find and vote on someone else who is.
- Trump does not represent the GOP in many issues. For example, the GOP is ideologically favorable to free trade agreements:
The US has been screwed over by trade deals for decades. Look at NAFTA and now the rise of TPP. It has destroyed America's manufacturing industry. Believe it or not Trump and Sanders are basically saying the same thing about Trade, but I'm sure you interpret the words coming out of Sanders as reasonable while Trump's mouth unreasonable.
- Clinton also has a strong emigration policy dude, come on. It's just that hers is reasonable, realistic and humane.
No she doesn't. She wants to important half a million Syrian refugees and ISIS has stated they plan to infiltrate the West using refugees. Secondly, it was revealed in her Wikileaks emails that she gave a speech to Brazilian bankers stating she wants "open borders." Those aren't sane and reasonable by any measure. In fact, when polled most Americans want to see decreases in immigration while Clinton is pushing for more.
But apart from my own personal views, such as that you need more political parties, the general idea in this post about Trump holds true for the vast majority of Europeans following your election. Most people here think he'd make a terrible president and are a bit baffled how so many Americans still support him and can't see past his populist shallow nonsense. Peace out.
Europe is in absolutely terrible shape, why would Americans listen to Europeans on how to run their country?