Opinion - Trump 2.0: How many days before he loses momentum?

[Dulcinea]

(The Hill) The Wall Street Journal recently featured a line from the “Karate Kid” movie to describe President-elect Trump’s agenda for his first 100 days in the White House: “Strike Hard, Strike First, No Mercy.”

That means on day one, Trump wants GOP majorities in the House and Senate voting to lower taxes, cut spending, increase border security and end subsidies to promote clean energy.

But as boxer Mike Tyson once put it, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” The punch that is already rattling the Trump agenda is the jolting fear of immediate failure.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. By Jan 30th he will be the oldest buffoon balloon in office.

do the world a favor, blow that gasket.

[magicarpet]

26. Can djt pronouce this work,...

ANEURYSM,... the exploding variety would be just dandy.

[sop]

2. It will all start falling apart for Trump right after his inauguration address.

This inaugural address will be Trump's long-awaited thumb in the eye to all the people he feels slighted him over the last four years. His 2017 "Carnage" speech will seem like a bouquet of roses compared to the dark, violent threats he'll make this time around. Trump's advisers won't be be able to contain him.

[SergeStorms]

12. ...."all the people who slighted him".....

In the demented Turd's mind that includes just about everyone, doesn't it? I'm not at all sure some of his family members could escape his evil gaze on that count.

He is, without question, the most thin skinned and immature being I've ever encountered. Omitting the "human" before "being" was NOT an omission by accident. I've seen no empirical evidence he's a human being. 😉

[Callie1979]

3. Inflation & the stock market performance will be a big indicator.

How far he bends over for Putin
How much foreign allies are willing to put up with.
Will the deportations REALLY focus on the criminals? Will they have ANY actual success with it?
How will the business community react to the next 6 months?
Will he really be stupid enough to try to charge people like Schiff & Cheney??

[bronxiteforever]

8. Tariffs. His 50 year long obsession with Tariffs.

People think he won’t do it. He will.

[Callie1979]

13. I dont think he will. At least not nearly to the extent he SAID he'd do

Too many of these business people who have been giving him money are going to tell him not to
Plus, he bluffs a LOT in EVERYTHING

[bronxiteforever]

15. Hope you are right! Bluff is not the word I would use

Bullshit seems closer to the mark

[JHB]

16. A lot of what is later called "bluffs" is him changing direction once he realizes it'll make him look bad

It's as consistent as "barely knew the guy", "he delivered coffee, I think", etc.

[Ray Bruns]

4. Six scarramuccis

[Javaman]

5. I give him a week before the real president, the apartheid kid, takes over and runs things.

we will see weird shit going down in Washington with the orange assholes scrall on it, but mysteriously, he will be golfing somewhere, miles and miles away from DC.

[Autumn]

6. If the media doesn't cover it it doesn't happen.

He had lost momentum before he was elected.

[Initech]

9. People are going to find out really quickly how terrible his policies this time around are.

And fuck Fox News and Elon Musk for propping him up like this.

[DENVERPOPS]

10. He hasn't lost momentum

and has been in the news everyday for the past 8+ years. Now, he is really on a roll.......

The only thing that will stop him from going Hyper-Trump is if, the day after inauguration if the house does the 25th amendment thing, and the Senate joins in..........

Otherwise it will be mayhem with every RepubliCON Politician and every corporation going into warp speed to try and engage WarpDrive for their particular agenda.......

There has never been a time like this before...............The RepubliCONs have worked long and hard for this moment and will not back away in the slightest, this time around.............

[Martin68]

11. He's already lost quite a bit of momentum.Picking stupid little fights he can't win.

[Quanto Magnus]

14. He's just gonna golf

like last time... Then lie

then lie some more

then lie some more...

[Orrex]

17. It's kind of a shame that he hasn't fucking died already.

What the fuck is he waiting for?

[Aussie105]

19. The preservatives all the fast food he has eaten in the past

have kept him alive so far.

Plus his hatred for the rest of the human race. Hate can be a great energizer.

[magicarpet]

27. He gets off on tormenting people,...

..... he can't die. Just so many more people to be royally screwed by djt.

[Aussie105]

18. Trump talks big but can he deliver?

He will find out once at the oval office desk, that governments move slowly and his planned instant takeover and destruction of Democracy isn't a smooth process.

All it needs is some Trump appointees to show how incompetent and unprepared for their jobs they really are, and Dems to fold their arms and say 'No you can't!'

[bmichaelh]

20. 41%

Tonight, On Ari Melber's The Beat, Trump's favorability rating is 41%.

That compares to George Bush's 49% in December before his second term and Obama's 57% in December before his second term.

[Diraven]

21. He'll go on a golf vacation

By the second week. Elon Musk and JD Vance will be left running things.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

22. Evrything Trump touches dies.

Except apparently Ivanka.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

23. Democrats had better become THE opposition party.

They better vote in lock-step against Trump's destructive agenda. No reaching-across-the aisle bullshit. Absolutely NO compromising.

If Hakeem Jeffries attempts to appease Republicans and help Trump force his toxic agenda on us, then Democrats in the House should revolt against him.

Now we're going to find out for sure if we live in an oligarchy that controls both Republicans and Democrats.

Democrats had better not make nice with fascism or the Democratic Party will be completely finished.

[azureblue]

24. rump is now focused on Elon

He originally thought of Elon as a rich rube, but Elon is buying his way into the government, and pushing his own ideas, most of which agree with Trump's. But Trump will not let Elon steal the limelight, so Trump is going to forget all the promises he made and forget his agenda. Trump will get nothing done, and the GOP is already a mess.

[Dulcinea]

25. This bromance won't last.

The Oval Office isn't big enough for these two colossal egos.

[doc03]

28. The way it is going before he is inaugurated.

[lees1975]

29. He made a huge mistake today.

So I think the wheels will come off before he is inaugurated.

[Javaman]

30. he already has. the apartheid kid is in charge now. nt