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So to answer ubiq’s question
Let’s open a new thread.He’s been very good to the Jews.
The economy is doing well.
His administration has handled foreign policy well.“So to answer ubiq’s question”
What question?
I know why people support him. That was not my question at allMy question there was (and I’m paraphrasing) :
If you don’t like Trump’s character, are you disappointed that the party didnt’ nominate someone else.
the answers I got were interesting. I will keep that there since I don’t want ot hijack your thread.
But my question was not “why do you support Trump”The Democrats are worse. Their policies would undermine democracy world wide, let the Russians, Chinese and ISIS have a free-hand, lead to a nuclear war in Eretz Yisrael, destroy the American economy and tolerate or encourage persecution of frum Jews both in America and elsewhere.
And note that I am basically a neo-con, opposed in theory to zionism, opposed to budget deficits, for free trade and for liberal immigration
If a Democrat in the tradition of people such as John Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Joseph Lieberman, Harry Truman or Skip Jackson ran, I would switch back to the Democrats.
I don’t support Trump willingly, but he is being fed and housed on my tax dollars.
CTLawyer: Not just him. As the media reported on Friday, his Mar a Lago club was charging the secret service agents who protect him and his mishpacha the bargain rate of $650/night. And don’t cry “fake news”. The DHS itself (in which SS is housed) released photocopies of the actual receipts in response to a FOIA. request. Trumpkopf Jr. had previously insisted that they were only charging the government “their cost”. Azoy.
“let the Russians, Chinese and ISIS have a free-hand”
” lead to a nuclear war in Eretz Yisrael”
“encourage persecution of frum Jews both in America and elsewhere”I must give you credit, your Rabbeim teach you well for what you say is in fact Gog Umagog itself.
Especially when Barack Obama is Gog Himself and was the Democratic President pushing for everything you wrote.Yeshar Koach.
You have to respect his level of trolling.
Recognizing Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Supporting annexation of settlements. Getting tough with the Fakestinians. Appointing conservative judges.
@Avi K
Ever wonder if these policies of his are politically motivated to buy your votes and curry favor with organisations like AIPAC?
Unfortunately, he seems to have a history of making politically motivated foreign policy decisions rather than motivated by national interests.In a similar vein, his presidential pardons show a pattern of political motivation. So whilst historically presidents would avoid pardoning their allies; (Bill Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich, was a massive controversy), Trump has pardoned Conrad Black (Billionaire and author of a book called “Donald J. Trump: A president like no other.”) Dinesh D’Souza, Joe Arpaio, Patrick J. Nolan…
Just look at how many Yidden support Trump simply because he pardoned Rubashkin.
I like this thread – don’t really care who started it or why. I believe people support Trump because:
He doesn’t bash America or Americans – he seems to like the country and care about its citizens and most of his policies and their effects reflect that
His policies up until the big deal have served Israel well
He’s blunt, funny, and although he lies like all politicians, it seems he believes his untruths, unlike politicians who don’t believe their own lies but demand that you believe their every lying utterance
If Democrats can convince Americans that they have better domestic and foreign policies that will benefit them financially, improve the economy even more, provide better trade deals and security – Well, speak up!
As far as character goes, he’s quite a character. Seriously, we look to our clergy, religious texts , and fellow members of our religion for lessons in morality. If you’ve read any of the biographies of past presidents, many if not most, were not very moral in their personal lives. It is a shameful reality.KY
sorry to burst your bubble but you aren’t saying any chidushim, all that has been said over and over for the past 3 years and 4 months or so
you say “Do they care about his personal flaws? Do they even see them???”
Thus my question “If you don’t like Trump’s character, are you disappointed that the party didn’t’ nominate someone else.” doesnt apply to you . You don’t even see his character flaws . So my question doesn’t start .I see reason to support Trump, I for one support him for his support for Israel (the comment “Ever wonder if these policies of his are politically motivated to buy your votes and curry favor with organisations like AIPAC?” is silly, of course it is, but so what?) however I think his negatives far far far outweigh his positives. A debate that frankly doesn’t really interest me . Because I think reasonable people can disagree on that point.
Some might support him for his bullying, they like bullies or his denigrating of those he disagrees with , or any number of reasons or ” he says things like they are” (a strange comment regarding a President who brings lying to whole new levels #alternativefacts)I get all that. That was never my question, why would anyone support Trump.
However there are people, who say they DON’t like those character traits of his (again not you) to THEM I ask are you dissapointed that someone else wasn’t nominated .
Some Like joseph, said yes they would have preferred Pence but are stuck with Trump so will vote for him over any Democrat. Again, I get that. (though it says something about the Republican party if this is their position )Others say well we need Trump because a “nice” Republican wouldn’t win . So these people are a bit confused. Becasue they DO like Trumps’s “despicable mannerism” and they specificly want that in their candidate. Yet claim they are voting in spite of it , this is the stance that puzzles me
because he is currently the duly elected president of the country.
I applaud the government pushing for getting rid of incandescents. For one, it gave us the Shabbos Lamp. Two, I find LEDs so much better and surprisingly cheaper since they don’t need to be changed every other month.
lower, I must like him because he is a duly elected president of the country where Hillary won the popular vote and the Russians might have interfered in three states?
Ky
Not at all.Let’s take this slow.
The premise is: trump is a mean spirited bully.
Nobody here is disputing that point.Some, like you , say I don’t care.
Others like Joseph say I wish the republicans put up someone better.Others say that’s what makes him a good candidate we need a bully to win.
For that last group to say oh but I wish he had better manners. Doesn’t make sense to me
I was the one who used the words “despicable mannerisms” so I’m assuming that you’re at least partially referring to me.
I didn’t vote in the past presidential election because I couldn’t choose who was worse.
For the coming election, I would vote for trump out of hakaras hatov for what he has done for Israel and rubashkin but I would do so holding my nose because he is a jerk. Furthermore, his policies seem more likely to improve my life whereas the Democrats policies are not in my best interests. Also, what kluger said about being PC and the left trying to take away our free speech for the sake of grown up babies, shows that the Democrats are bullying you and me.
There is a very interesting OP-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal. It posits that much of Trump’s behaviour are carefully planned MacGuffins. A Macguffin is a plot device, used often by Alfred Hitchcock, inserted into a movie/play to distract the viewer from what was actually going on.
For example, the day before Trump changed the asylum policy for immigrants, he triggered the media and the Democrats with some ridiculous tweets. They were so busy reacting that the policy change announcement was virtually ignored. They are so busy being triggered that Trump’s appointment of 189 judges and repeal of countless bureaucratic regulations have gone under the radar and unnoticed and unreported.I didn’t appreciate how he reacted to being acquitted. I guess the fight will go on!
Trump should have responded, as indicated on the other thread, I should have been clear in my intentions that I will not be misunderstood, and my letter was not really perfect.
Trump is best President Jews ever had.
musserzoger, zog musser for yourself. Is that why we have more antisemitism in America than ever?
5ish, you should have called yourself ‘ghoti’, gh as rough, o like women, ti as nation together fish. Maybe it should be ‘ghivoti’.
Reb Eli , Trump is president…
He isnt G-d. Trump cant solve anti-semitism.
But he is best President since Reagan. And a friend of Jews.Reb eliezer,
Have you ever heard of Oorah? They have a mascot which is a 5 dollar bill and they call him fiveish (5ish)
Eli, Trump is the legitimate president. Who got more votes is completely irrelevant, and what do you mean by Russians interfering in three states? The only way Russia participated in the election is by releasing TRUE information so the voters were better informed, and by buying a tiny handful of Facebook ads. Neither of these things can possibly affect the result’s legitimacy.
Eli (I refuse to call you “Reb”), the rise in antisemitism is all coming from Trump’s enemies. Because the Democratic Party tolerates antisemitism, while the Republican Party does not. There are no open antisemites in the GOP; any that are discovered are kicked out. But in the Democrats they are honored and powerful, and those who don’t like it are very careful not to offend them. So naturally their supporters feel free to lash out, while pointing figures at a bogeyman called “white supremacy” which just barely exists.
To the original question, Trump is not a good person. If being a good person were a requirement for being president I would have to oppose him. But he has been a good president over all. I didn’t support him in the Republican primary four years ago. My choices were Scott Walker, Bobby Jindal, and Rick Perry. But all three crashed. In November I didn’t vote for either major candidate, and I expected Trump to be just as bad as Clinton would have been. I have been very pleasantly surprised, and I intend to vote for him this year. On the other hand, if something were to happen to him I think Pence would be a much better president; he would have all of Trump’s maalos and none of his chesronos.
Milhouse, someone who had great rebbis can call himself a talmid chacham, talmid mechacham. I think I deserve the title Reb being of age, 72 years old. When people call others on the their first name, they are encouraging the coming of Meshiach who will come when the young have no respect of the old. Trump did not speak out on Charlottsville thereby encouraging antisemitism by giving the white supremacists a springboard for their cause as trump is their advocate. When the chacham in the Haggadah uses a similar expression as the rasha, says the Chasan Sofer, he does that with cleverness as it draws out the rasha to reveal himself by saying to the chacham, you are a rasha, I am also a rasha. The white supremacists are saying to trump, you are one of us.
Trump. The “very stable genius l” who once gave this speech:
“Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us”.
@1- u nailed it! im gonna have to agree w ur answer. stop looking for problems and notice all the good President Trump has done. no one is perfect but at least he’s trying hard and actually accomplishing useful things which make sense.
Trump has never encouraged white supremacists, let alone antisemites. He did very clearly denounce the neo-nazis who were involved in the Charlottesville riot, while making it clear that they were not the only ones there, just as the left-wing thugs who were actually responsible for the violence were not the only ones there. Which is of course nothing but the truth, that edited like you deny.
Most of the white supremacists seem to hate Trump and publicly denounce him as a Jew-lover. But if some claim he is on their side, this does not create any obligation on him to address that absurd claim.
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Now that New York needs aid to fight this epidemic do you think Trump will give it? Sure he will authorize some aid but because he knows he wouldn’t get any electoral votes from NY it will be a low priority. For example the state claims they need 30,000 – 40,000 ventilators and the Fed gave 400. Who is going to advocate for New Yorkers Schumer or Nadler after the impeachment I don’t think they will get a dime from him.
Abba S
do you really have that low an opinion of him?
his job id to be President to ALL Americans even those who didnt vote for him and even the bullies.
do you really think he would use his office to further his own ambition, putting self above country?“The economy is doing well.”
Well that didn’t age well!
“do you really think he would use his office to further his own ambition, putting self above country?”
Yes. There is absolutely no doubt about that, as we see with the COVID-19 pandemic.
That isn’t true. He described some of the people who marched with the Nazis in Charlottesville as “very fine people”. And even earlier he had made the singular accomplishment of uniting David Duke with Louis Farrakhan — both of them supported him during his Presidential campaign!
Have you followed the news at all?
TCJA – penalized democratic states by removing the SALT deduction
He tried to get Ukraine to announce that they are investigating Biden (not actually investigating, just announce they are investigating) and seemingly held up aid to Ukraine to accomplish this.
He denied that there was a serious pandemic facing the US until mid-March. He was comparing it to the flu and saying the US is doing a great job. How can we trust that his lies here did not impact the US’s ability to respond to an epidemic that is killing a lot of people in our community. – I would go further and suggest that deep seated support of Trump in our community resulted in a very partisan view of COVID-19 by many and as a result many were late to the game in recognizing the threat posed here. At the same time “liberals” and the “MSM” were warning about this, yet too many get their news from Brietbart, Fox, and the opinion column in the FJJ.
So yes, I would be very wary that he would put personal ambition over country. Guess what, every Governor is acting this way and they are being very careful in their messaging as they are afraid Trump will be petty and decide to penalize a State and let people die. No one would have been concerned about Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr, Carter, or Reagan being so petty.
While his job maybe President of ALL the people he is running for President and there is a limit to where he can allocate funding so he’s going to spend it in Republican and swing states not in heavily democratic states.
President Trump was just impeached for pressuring Ukraine into investigating Biden and you think he wouldn’t use his office to further his ambition. Are you that naive.why wouldnt i suport trump?????? who wouldnt support a president that has accomplish so much in his first 3 yrs????
lets recap some of his achievements of 2017,2018, and 2019!!!!Almost 4 million jobs created since election.
More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
He has created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since his election.
Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than THREE DECADES.
Economic growth last quarter hit 4.2 percent.
New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.
Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.
Under his Administration, veterans’ unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.
The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans. He is are committed to VOCATIONAL education.
95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future—the highest ever.
Retail sales surged last month, up another 6 percent over last year.
Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion poured back in to the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
As a result of our tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.
Opened ANWR and approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
Record number of regulations eliminated.
Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
Obamacare individual mandate penalty GONE.
The Trump Administration is providing more affordable healthcare options for Americans through association health plans and short-term duration plans.
Last month, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. And thanks to his efforts, many drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases.
He reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
Signed Right-To-Try legislation.
Secured $6 billion in NEW funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
He has reduced high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent during his first year in office.
Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
Increased our coal exports by 60 percent; U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high.
United States is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord.
Cancelled the illegal, anti-coal, so-called Clean Power Plan.
Secured record $700 billion in military funding; $716 billion next year.
NATO allies are spending $69 billion more on defense since 2016.
Process has begun to make the Space Force the 6th branch of the Armed Forces.
Confirmed more circuit court judges than any other new administration.
Confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Deal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem!!!!!!!!!!!!
Protecting Americans from terrorists with the Travel Ban, upheld by Supreme Court.
Issued Executive Order to keep open Guantanamo Bay.
Concluded a historic U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal to replace NAFTA. And negotiations with Canada are underway.
Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
Imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to protect our national security.
Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.
Net exports are on track to increase by $59 billion this year.
Improved vetting and screening for refugees, and switched focus to overseas resettlement.
He has begun BUILDING THE WALL. Republicans want STRONG BORDERS and NO CRIME. Democrats want OPEN BORDERS which equals MASSIVE CRIME.#thank you trump KEEP AMERICA GREAT
abba_s “trump was just impeached for pressuring Ukraine into investigating Biden and you think he wouldn’t use his office to further his ambition”
wow i never realized how oblivious people can be!!! hello wake up trump was acquitted!! impeached means he was accused of something so they hold a trial in congress!!but congress acquitted the charges against trump!!!!
Abba_s wake up ‘cuase i want to sell you a bridgesom1… Take your meds you sound hysterical. Btw, how long did you waste on your list?
Som1 Presidents Trump, Clinton & Johnson were impeached and they were also all acquitted. I assume you have a clear title on the bridge you want to sell me. Otherwise, you are going to jail for fraud.
matisyuahu if thats all you got then obviously you admit im right .
btw it took me aprx. 5 minutes , and i dont call educating unintelligent people for 5 minutes a waste of time
abba_s: oh i got the title lets meat in the alley behind the new york greyhound station
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