Why Trump can't be president

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Why Trump can't be president

CNBC

Julissa Arce 5 hours ago

Tune in to CNBC's " Closing Bell " today at 4:30pm ET. Julissa Arce will be on talking about why she thinks Donald Trump is unqualifed to be president.

A few months ago, a Trump GOP nomination seemed impossible. But now, it seems inevitable.

When Donald Trump announced his campaign, I thought there was no way anyone would support him after the comments he made about Mexican immigrants. When he offended women with his comments about debate moderator Megyn Kelly, I thought his campaign would be over. When he called for a ban of all Muslims, I thought that would be the last straw. But again and again, Trump has gained more support.

We've been telling Trump supporters that he is a racist, a sexist, and a bigot, as reasons for why Trump should not and cannot be the next president of the United States. However, we've failed to realize that supporters of Trump support him because he is the embodiment of their own ideology. Trump's unexpected rise as the GOP front-runner is because there is a large population of Americans who feel displaced, who feel like their country and their way of life is being taken away from them. Trump has offered this population an unashamed and unfiltered rallying cry.

We have been going about this all wrong. There is really only one reason Trump supporters should not support Trump: He is not qualified.

And by that, I mean that he is not qualified to deliver on any of his promises.

One of the major pillars of his campaign is his building of the now infamous "big, beautiful wall" along the Mexican border. The wall got 10 feet taller after ex-Mexican President Vicente Fox said he was "not going to pay for that f--ing wall."

I understand some people are excited about the wall. In their mind, the wall would keep all those "illegals" away from American jobs. While Trump has said repeatedly that Mexico will pay for the wall , how does an American president make another sovereign nation pay for anything? Trump has yet to outline a concrete plan.

The only vague answer we've been able to get from Trump is that he plans to use the trade deficit with Mexico as a way to pressure Mexico to pay for the wall. The U.S. does have a trade deficit with Mexico, but it is also true that Mexico was our third largest trade partner in 2015. In 2015 alone, our total trade of goods with the rest of the globe was $3.7 trillion, of which more than 14 percent ($ 531.1 billion) was with Mexico. He puts that at risk.

Let's assume that Trump can stop all Mexican products from coming into the U.S. ($294.7 billion in 2015) to pressure Mexico to pay for the wall. (Even this is a stretch, as there are trade agreements in place that would have to be suspended with the approval of Congress. But let's assume that for now.)

Let's not forget that Mexico can also refuse to import American products in retaliation for their own products not being allowed into the United States. Products that are made in American factories that employ U.S. citizens. In 2015, we exported $236.4 billion to our neighbors to the south.

A 2011 report by the Wilson Center found that there are 6 million U.S. jobs that depend on trade with Mexico. More than 1 million of those jobs are in two states California and Texas.

And it's not just border states that depend on trade with Mexico. South Dakota, New Hampshire, and Nebraska also send more than 20 percent of their exports to our southern neighbor, according to the Wilson Center.

Mexico is the largest supplier of car parts that are then used to build cars in plants in the U.S. where American citizens are employed. The Wilson Center found that Detroit alone exports $10.9 billion in cars and car parts to Mexico.

How would Trump deal with a potential loss of 6 million jobs or more? Is it worth destroying the economies of Michigan, California, and Texas?

All this over a wall.

Yes, Mexico's economy is certainly going to suffer if Mexican products cannot be imported into the U.S. At this point, net migration from Mexico is near zero, as there are as many Mexicans leaving the U.S. as there are coming in. But what has driven millions of immigrants over the border in previous years? A search for economic opportunity, a better life. If Mexico's economy worsens, we will see a reversal of recent migration patterns. Because, while Trump pressures Mexico by cutting off trade, Mexicans won't be able to find jobs in Mexico, which will send them here.

So while all of us anti-Trump think he should not be president because of his hateful speech and rhetoric, Trump supporters should just ask themselves one simple question: Is he qualified to deliver on his vague promises to you? On any?

Commentary by Julissa Arce, the author of the forthcoming book, "My (Underground) American Dream" (Sept. 13, 2016). Arce made national and international headlines when she revealed that she had achieved the American Dream of wealth and status working her way up to vice president at Goldman Sachs by age 27 while being an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. Follow her on Twitter @julissaarce.

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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/why-trump-cant-president-142924169.html

To sum this up, his plan is, he has no plan.

Edited March 2, 2016 by Janelle2002

[ExPatty 502]

We've been telling Trump supporters that he is a racist, a sexist, and a bigot, as reasons for why Trump should not and cannot be the next president of the United States.

Yep. And a lot of people are @*#&ing sick of being called racist, sexist, and bigoted by the democrats for no reason other than not agreeing with them. That's what the democrats don't get. After a while people start ignoring you if you continually deride their difference of opinion as based in a simple hatred of another for their skin color or genitals. It's so low brow, so predictable, so thoroughly tired and cliche. We're just sick of it.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/the_real_story_of_super_tuesday_gop_turnout_big_and_rising_dem_turnout_small_and_falling.html

The story that most of the media wishes to ignore, the one that could determine the outcome of the November election, is the high level of voting in the GOP contests and the correspondingly low Democrat turnout.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/dont_forget_that_the_other_guys_have_a_diversity_problem_too.html

Many commentators have noticed that blacks constituted a higher percentage of South Carolina Democratic voters this year, 65 percent according to the exit poll, than they did in 2008, 55 percent. But this represents not a surge of blacks into the electorate, but rather the fact that black turnout declined by only 18 percent, whereas white turnout fell nearly in half, by 44 percent.

44% decline! Meanwhile GOP is setting new records.

Dems: keep calling republicans racist. It's working out great for you. Hillary: keep pandering to 13% of the country and blame their ills on 2/3rd of the country. It's going to work out great for you in November.

Edited March 2, 2016 by ExPatty

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Yep. And a lot of people are @*#&ing sick of being called racist, sexist, and bigoted by the democrats for no reason other than not agreeing with them. That's what the democrats don't get. After a while people start ignoring you if you continually deride their difference of opinion as based in a simple hatred of another for their skin color or genitals. It's so low brow, so predictable, so thoroughly tired and cliche. We're just sick of it.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/the_real_story_of_super_tuesday_gop_turnout_big_and_rising_dem_turnout_small_and_falling.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/dont_forget_that_the_other_guys_have_a_diversity_problem_too.html

44% decline! Meanwhile GOP is setting new records.

Dems: keep calling republicans racist. It's working out great for you. Hillary: keep pandering to 13% of the country and blame their ills on 2/3rd of the country. It's going to work out great for you in November.

Um, I think they called him racist for saying Mexico is full of rapists and murderers, making fun of Japanese people, trying to ban Muslims from the country, and literally waiting until his arm was twisted for him to disavow the KKK.

I'll ask, what does it take to be considered racist? Are people needing the full hood and robe outfit and specific racial slurs in order to be deemed racism? Let me know what the standards are.

[OriZ 3,157]

And yet....he's still going to be.

[smilesammich 10,727]

you'll appreciate this post janelle - if you can ignore the language. but i think this piece perfectly breaks down how we got here.

edited quote (for naughty words):

We know this because his followers love him BECAUSE of his bigotry, not in spite of it.

It’s hard to believe this is really my country, right now, in 2016. It’s hard to believe a huge number of Americans think they will “make America great again” by returning to a time the rest of us look back on as the darkest moments in our history.

Make America great for whom?

At this point, supporting Trump unequivocably means support for racism. But this doesn’t bother Trump fans. In fact, I believe his openly white supremacist stance IS THE MAIN ATTRACTION of this circus.

Yesterday I read this tweet by Hend Amry: “If you’re an American confusedly watching the darkest forces of ur nation rally behind a demagogue-maybe u can understand the Mid East now.”

When I read her words I felt a moment of relief, you know, the way writing speaks something you’ve been unable to put into words? That’s what I feel. Confusion at watching dark forces I didn’t fully know existed bring to power a man that represents everything I thought my country was moving AWAY from.

Look, I knew they existed, but I thought they were a small, distant number. I thought they were radicals hiding in the corners, not enough people to elect this “rabid coyote,” as Stephen King calls him. (Undoubtedly I thought that because I am white, and have lived my whole life in California.)

I’ve listened with anxious curiosity to Trump supporters. They say things like “He’s going to keep us safe from terrorists;” “He isn’t reliant on lobbyists because he’s independently wealthy,” “He tells the truth,” “He isn’t a regular politician,” “Our country is being overrun by immigrants.”

The truth thing is wrong. He lies all the damn time and they’re just ignoring that. But the rest? We made that. We made the whole thing. We built this house one brick at a time.

They are afraid. They are fed-up. They are tired. They’re mostly poor and uneducated and overworked. And they live in a country telling them brown people are the reason why. They live in a country breathing racism. It’s in their bones. And now, they’ve found somebody willing to say it. He is voice to their family talks while watching Nascar over dinner. He is their conversation after “church.” He is bar talk with buddies. He’s the mfing knitting circle.

He is them.

And we made it all.

WHY DO THEY THINK IT’S OKAY TO SUPPORT AN OVERT RACIST? No, why are they straight empowered by him? Why do they see his devotion to white supremacy as the solution?

Because this is America. This is how we do.

We do it every time we call brown religious extremists “terrorists” and white ones “mentally disturbed.” White rioters “upset about the hockey game” and brown ones “thugs.” We do it every time we shoot unarmed people of color without recourse while claiming racism was “fixed” during the Civil Rights movement, a story that allows us to return to bootstraps mentalities while ignoring systemic inequalities in healthcare, education, class, and the justice system.

In other words, we blame “them.”

We set this up, one day at a time. Through our media and national rhetoric, we’ve planted images of the “other,” and the fear and power and entitlement wrapped up in those narratives have materialized in a man speaking that which the nation has been whispering under its breath since inception, carrying out with its hands, pitting poor working whites against people of color to justify the exploitation and powerlessness of their own lives.

http://www.renegademothering.com/2016/03/02/nevertrump/

[joevegas 67]

TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT!!!

[Darnell 8,478]

huh . What's the Tea Party have to say about Trump? I note they've been mostly quiet this season.

[Dakine10 5,452]

What is Trumps executive experience? IIRC, it seemed to be a point of contention in recent elections.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

huh . What's the Tea Party have to say about Trump? I note they've been mostly quiet this season.

Nothing. I'd wager they're all in on trump.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

you'll appreciate this post janelle - if you can ignore the language. but i think this piece perfectly breaks down how we got here.

edited quote (for naughty words):

http://www.renegademothering.com/2016/03/02/nevertrump/

Best article! Especially sex with his daughter. Guess some of the incesters love that comment!

Truth is many people aren't voting for him because of his policies. He had none. ...

TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT!!!

YES!YES! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! I hope he doesn't stop with Mexicans or Muslims, but block immigrants to America completely!

[smilesammich 10,727]

What is Trumps executive experience? IIRC, it seemed to be a point of contention in recent elections.

you and your questions. who do you work for? out with it.

[Dakine10 5,452]

you and your questions. who do you work for? out with it.

According to my t-shirt, I work for bacon.

[smilesammich 10,727]

According to my t-shirt, I work for bacon.

and bacon kills you with the cancer. illuminati then. got it.

[ExPatty 502]

Um, I think they called him racist for saying Mexico is full of rapists and murderers, making fun of Japanese people, trying to ban Muslims from the country, and literally waiting until his arm was twisted for him to disavow the KKK.

I'll ask, what does it take to be considered racist? Are people needing the full hood and robe outfit and specific racial slurs in order to be deemed racism? Let me know what the standards are.

Not sure on the japanese part.

He didn't say all mexicans were rapists and murders, even if we allow for mexican being a race and not a nationality.

We also know that muslims are not a race.

So, to be considered racist at the least you need to have issues with people who are part of an actual race.

[Dakine10 5,452]

and bacon kills you with the cancer. illuminati then. got it.

I tried switching to broccoli, but found I could only eat it when it's wrapped with bacon.