Trump is easily distracted by shiny objects
Again, the Times says Trump lies, in a headline:
Why Corporations Are Helping Donald Trump Lie About Jobs
The byline is The Editorial Board, so it’s not just one writer, it’s basically the whole outfit.
President-elect Donald Trump would like everybody to believe that his election is energizing the economy by forcing businesses to create thousands of jobs in the United States. And companies like Sprint seem perfectly happy to go along with this fiction because they know they can profit handsomely by cozying up to Mr. Trump.
They point to his lie about the 5000 Sprint jobs, and add:
In sum, Mr. Trump’s statement was hot air, just like his tweet in which he thanked himself for an increase in a consumer confidence index last month.
Lie, fiction, hot air.
It’s easy to see why SoftBank and Sprint might want to help Mr. Trump take credit for creating jobs.
It’s because he’s anti-regulation, including anti-trust regulation that would hinder their plans.
This is crony capitalism, with potentially devastating consequences. If Mr. Trump appoints people to the antitrust division and the F.C.C. who are willing to wave through a Sprint/T-Mobile merger, he will do lasting damage to the economy that far outweighs any benefit from 5,000 jobs, jobs that might have been created even without the merger. Individuals and businesses will find wireless service costs a lot more when they have only Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile/Sprint to choose from.
Also mergers cause huge job losses, not gains.
It has become abundantly clear that Mr. Trump is easily distracted by shiny objects, especially if they reflect back on him. He’s more interested in boasting about how he personally saved a thousand jobs at Carrier, say, than in policy details that could make a difference in the lives of tens of millions of workers. Never mind that Carrier is only keeping about 800 jobs and that its chief executive said that the company would get rid of some of those anyway through automation. This should greatly worry Americans, especially people who are counting on Mr. Trump to revive the economy and help the middle class.
They’re calling him stupid as well as a liar, as they must, because he so obviously is.
A goldfish?
So he tells it like it isn’t. A stopped watch is right twice a day. I don’t think Trump could clear even that bar.
Hey, well at least he’s not politically correct.
I think the Defence Department should look into the material from which Trump voters’ information bubble is made as it would be great armour plating for tanks and battleships; it’s completely impenetrable. All of this stuff was there to see, clear as day before the election. It’s disheartening to realise that tens of millions of your fellow Americans enabled this idiot/asshole/bully and must likely be idiots’/assholes/bullies themselves.
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Oh no not-Bruce. They MUST be opwessed and downtrodded. We must be at fault for not ‘listening’ to them so they would vote for Jill Stein.
Hillary, being sane and competent, wasn’t a ‘viable alternative’ to this lunatic. Sure, and the Klan were just protecting their ‘way of life,’ Hitler was just responding to ‘our’ oppression of the poor little 2nd Reich, and the 9/11 killers were proletarian revolutionaries….
If we lather-rinse-repeat enough, we can hand the Big Cheeto a second term. That’ll bring the Revolution, won’t it?