And that's why he is President, he acts normal, like your regular guy. I bet you have said somthing similar in gest or with friends down the pub at some point in your life.

I've had enough of the political answers we are fed, good to see a normal bloke in power

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We were talking about his character

You will never get me to believe that having a president with all the presidential gravitas of a 3 year old is a good idea. Modern society is slipping into more vitriolic and hate filled keyboard exchanges and I look to leaders to set the tone correctly. Trump is very dangerous in the way he has made children all over the world think its just fine to throw insults and names around without rebuke.

He has even said its ok to physically attack people you disagree with politically, offering to pay legal fees to MAGA hat waving mob members if they assault protesters.

I do have major issues with his policies, positions and decisions if you are interested, which I will detail below in a top 10.

The US economy is doing well, but this was largely down to Trump inheriting a strong economy post 2008 from Obama. I would love to see Trump's steady and calm leadership during the sub prime crisis.

Trump has done some things well, he has made some good moves, some correct decisions. Overwhelmingly though he is a catastrophe of a potus.

1 - Revoking security clearances from former senior govt members if they dare to criticize his crazy behavior.
2 - Declaring victory over ISIS 3 months early and threatening to withdraw US troops against the advice of his own leaders in the area, plunging the region into disarray.
3 - Caging children and separating families at the border
4 - His muslim ban
5 - Denying climate change, how predictable for an old white republican
6 - Giving MBS a free pass for murdering a US resident
7 - Contradicting his own intelligence community, disagreeing with them, and telling his senior generals to "go back to school" because he knows more about ISIS - dangerous and ridiculous. Not to mention his treatment of the DOJ.
8 - Declaration of phony national emergency circumventing the congress, to build a useless wall to appease his MAGA base
9 - Not rebuking Nazis
10 - Trying to repeal laws protecting pre existing conditions

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

1 - Revoking security clearances because you dont like what someone said about you is totally unprecedented and is petty and ridiculous.

2 - Not sure its a nothing burger, his leader in the region immediately resigned once Trump made his announcement which had not been aligned with any of this team in the area first, that is unprecedented. It is indicative of Trump's inability to make calm and concise decisions as opposed to sowing chaos and uncertainty with ill thought out knee jerk reactions.

3 - Family separation was in place at times in the past, but Trump seemed to take particular pleasure in caging children.

4 - It very much started out life as a muslim ban.

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5 - I would happily point out stereotypes of old black people, if I knew of any. Climate change deniers are quite literally ruining the planet for future generations. This is the worst thing anyone can do.

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7 - It is not just unprofessional to chastise and contradict senior intelligence officials publicly, it is downright dangerous. These people are supposed to operate under a mandate from the POTUS which empowers them to run global affairs as necessary. Being openly ridiculed by your own commander in chief is ridiculous and makes America weaker, not stronger.

8 - Damned if he does, and damned if he doesnt, through his own idiotic and misleading actions! He promised mexico would pay, what about that campaign promise? Its a nonsense. Run the government according to the needs of the day, not keeping some simplistic soundbite promise designed to whip xenophobes into a frenzy at MAGA rallies.

9 - He said there were "very fine people, on both sides". He utterly failed to condemn the white nationalists because he likes their votes and support.

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10 - He is at it again, trying to hurt American people with pre existing conditions:

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More unpredictable and reactionary stuff from Trump, fine when you are running a NYC real estate empire, not fine when you are the leader of the free world. He is piss poor as a president and will go down in history as such.

In 100 years Nixon and Trump will be taught in schools to show the corrupt, ineffective and criminal presidencies of the past.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

What utter hyperbole. Trump affecting children's behaviours now, give me a break!

Of course! Nothing to do with cutting regulation, cutting taxes and giving the markets confidence as a pro-business president.

1. I have no problem with this. John Brennan had claimed Trump had been blackmailed by Putin and is unstable. He has no reason to have access to national secrets.

2. ISIS is now defeated in Iraq and Syria. Yet you cannot even acknowledge it.

3. It was always government policy implemented by Obama. No media outrage back then though!

4. Fake news. Not a Muslim ban. So many Muslim countries not on the list.

5. President Trump to 60 Minutes in October: "I think something’s happening. Something’s changing and it’ll change back again. I don’t think it’s a hoax. I think there’s probably a difference. But I don’t know that it’s manmade. I will say this: I don’t want to give trillions and trillions of dollars. I don’t want to lose millions and millions of jobs … I’m not denying climate change."

6. Tricky one diplomatically as SA are allies - Obama would have done the same.

7. His own intelligence committees made up of partisan Obama holdovers?

8. Build the wall by this means is justified. Don't you want one?

9. Fake news. He was making the point that far left and far right are one of the same.

10. While yesterday a judge ruled Obamacare statute is unconstitutional.

I second that motion.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

Yep, he has a mixture of paranoia and mental instability like many, but he's been able to make it work financially for him.

I don't know if what he has is fixable but people like Joe Rogan are a good influence on him I think.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)