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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust think about it.Trump becomes POTUS, a corporation will run the government.Just saying.
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Just think about it.Trump becomes POTUS, a corporation will run the government.Just saying. (Original Post)
SummerSnow
Mar 2016
OP
Yes I know.But now even more so.He won't talk to congress, he'll talk to his...
SummerSnow
Mar 2016
#2
It certainly is. I can't think of anyone else but Sessions or Sheriff Arapaio.
SummerSnow
Mar 2016
#10
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)1. Don't they already?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)2. Yes I know.But now even more so.He won't talk to congress, he'll talk to his...
Board of Directors (Cabinet) .Cabinet post will all hail from Trump Inc.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)3. Then he's in for a big shock
when he discovers that all spending has to be enacted and approved by Congress. He can do deals with cabinet secretaries until he's blue in the face, but nothing will get done without the consent of Congress. I think Trump and his followers will be unpleasantly surprised if (God help us) he's elected, because the president is not all-powerful and can't do squat all by himself.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)4. He will truly conflict with Paul Ryan.
Can you picture his State of the Union address? Disastrous.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)6. Trump will pick Jeff Sessions as his VP pick.
Yee gads, that's hair raising.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)10. It certainly is. I can't think of anyone else but Sessions or Sheriff Arapaio.
libodem
(19,288 posts)11. Shudder
Johonny
(20,890 posts)7. I think most people fear that no one will run the government
Trump wants the title of president, he doesn't want the job.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)9. The Treasury will be drained again by the billionaire class,
as the infrastructure of the nation continues to fall apart.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)12. Uh, already the case. nt
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)13. They already do (nt)