Donald Trump stood before a gathering of supporters at his Mar a Lago retreat where he outlined a string of controversial policy goals for his recently announced 2024 presidential crusade.
Speaking for a little more than an hour in the ballroom of his Florida mansion, Donald Trump touched on hot-button social issues like drug crime, COVID-19 directives and transgender participation in school sports, but was notably muted on abortion, an issue that’s proved challenging for Republicans to navigate in the midterm elections.
Seeming to take a lesson from the recent races that saw his top followers rescinded in favour of more reasonable contenders, the former president held back from wading too far into his claims that the 2020 election was robbed from him.
Nonetheless, he did grumble about the length of time it’s taken to count all the votes in some states and pledged that voting would be much different next time around.
Donald Trump said that they will do whatever it takes to bring back honesty and trust in their elections, and to eradicate cheating, he would immediately demand voter ID, same-day voting, and only paper votes.
Trotting out a story he’s told numerous past demonstrations, Donald Trump also promised to impose the death penalty against clearly all people charged with dealing drugs and compared it to authoritarian China’s policies for cracking down on criminality.
Donald Trump said that when he was in China and he was with President Xi, he asked the President if they had a drug problem, in which the President said that they didn’t have a drug problem and that they have a speedy trial.
He said China make the fentanyl that comes into their country and that every drug dealer during his life or her life, on average kills 500 people with the drugs that they sell, not to mention the ruin of families. Then Donald Trump said that they were going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught selling drugs, to receive the death penalty for their pain.
It’s not actually clear if Donald Trump can unilaterally act to alter the criminal code without Congress’ permission.
He also pledged to reinstate the thousands of service members who’ve been forced out of duty for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine and suggested they would be reimbursed for time lost.
So, nothing to support the economy or regular Americans, he’s a fool, although I’d love to know what a regular American is.
Americans are passionate but extremely naive and so divided as a country, mind you, in the United Kingdom, it’s becoming the same, but if Donald Trump continues to go down this path, he’s going to kill the majority of his disciples with his death penalty.
This isn’t a manifesto, just a checklist of dopey ideas that will appeal to his tiny Trumpist looney bin base, yet those ideas will probably get him elected again, and there are numerous people who can’t wait for him to be elected again so that he can apparently make America great again, although I’m not actually sure when America was great, when they had segregation, when they had slaves and when women’s rights were non-existent.
And how will any of these things tackle inflation or better the American economy? And people need to learn something about the politics of authoritarianism – it’s an extremely bad thing.
So, Donald Trump’s policy is to put a flag on Mars. That should do wonders for improving the standard of living for the majority of Americans!
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