.............11. China should be taken to task on a number of issues in order to make trade with the US more equitable. If elected he says he will make China stop undervaluing its currency, and force it to step up its environmental and labour standards. He is also critical of the county's lax attitude towards American intellectual property and hacking.

12. The Black Lives Matter movement is "trouble". Trump mocks former Democratic candidates like Martin O'Malley for apologising to members of the protest movement against police brutality and casts himself as a pro-law enforcement candidate. "I think they're looking for trouble," he once said of the activist group. He also tweeted a controversial graphic purporting to show that African Americans kill whites and blacks at a far higher rates than whites or police officers. However, the graphic cites a fictitious "Crime Statistics Bureau" for its numbers, and has been widely debunked using real FBI data.

13. Current unemployment statistics are wrong. Trump has said repeatedly that unemployment in the US is at 20% - once commenting it may be as high as 42% - despite the fact that the Bureau of Labor Statistics pegs the number at 5.1%. Trump says he doesn't believe that figure is real.

14. His net worth is $10bn. Based on Trump's 92-page personal financial disclosure form, Bloomberg calculated that the real estate mogul is worth about $2.9bn and Forbes put Trump's worth at $4bn. In response, Trump insisted in a press release that he is worth "in excess of TEN BILLION DOLLARS". He is self-funding his campaign and describes his start in the business world as a "small loan of a million dollars" from his father.

15. Veteran healthcare in the US needs a major overhaul. Trump wants to clear out the executive level in the Department of Veterans Affairs, saying that wait times for doctor visits have only increased after previous interventions failed. Thousands of veterans have died while waiting for care, he says. He will invest in the treatment of "invisible wounds" like post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. He would also increase the number of doctors who specialise in women's health to help care for the increasing number of female veterans.

16. Obamacare is a "disaster". Trump says he favours repealing the president's Affordable Care Act, which aims at extending the number of Americans with health insurance, but he believes that "everybody's got to be covered". A spokesman for Trump told Forbes that he will propose "a health plan that will return authority to the states and operate under free market principles".

17. Climate change is just "weather". While Trump believes that maintaining "clean air" and "clean water" is important, he dismissed climate change science as a "hoax" and believes environmental restrictions on businesses makes them less competitive in the global marketplace. "I do not believe that we should imperil the companies within our country," he told CNN on the issue. "It costs so much and nobody knows exactly if it's going to work."

18. The world would be better off if Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddhafi were still in power. Trump told CNN that he believes the situation in both Libya and Iraq is "far worse" than it ever was under the two deceased dictators. While he concedes Saddam was a "horrible guy", he says he did a better job combating terrorists.

19. He would send back Syrian migrants seeking asylum in the US. He says that the Paris attacks prove that even a handful of terrorists posing as migrants could do catastrophic damage, and so he will oppose resettling any Syrians in the US, and deport those who have already been placed here.

20. Kim Davis should get another job. The Kentucky clerk became a conservative cause when she was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licences to gay couples because of her Christian faith. But Trump said: "I'm a very, very strong believer in Christianity and religion, but I will say that this was not the right job for her.".........

if you want to say anything real, please do.

Just because he believes doesn't make it factual or even in some cases plausible.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Aug 10^th, 2016 at 4:26pm:


I don't know what Hilary believes nor do I care, you know you can be against something/one without actually supporting the opposite position?

My opinion is both are the worst possible candidates for the job, one is corrupt & the other phucking batsh!t crazy to put it mildly.

If Trump wins I reckon all out nuclear war within the ME within 2 years

If Hilary wins a few 100 bankers/investors get richer.

Of course someone as spiritual as you likes the option of 10's of 1,000,000's of deaths, works with the whole Cleansing end of days mumbo jumbo.

Terror Supporter

'I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.'

Donald Trump will win the 2016 presidential election.

Not "might" win. Not "could win under the following circumstances." He's going to win as surely as the sun rises in the east, as certainly as high tide follows low.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders bashes Republican rival Donald Trump's rhetoric on minority groups

What am I, clairvoyant? Of course not. Just as it's wise to never say "never" – except maybe Never Trump – it's never a good idea for somebody to make unqualified predictions in print about unknowable future events.

Bold claims had better be backed by solid reasons. Although Trump is running nearly even with Hillary Clinton in national polls, the Vegas bookmakers remain optimistic about Clinton's chances. The online betting site PaddyPower.com currently puts the odds of Clinton winning at 1 in 2, with Trump at 7 to 4. Bernie Sanders is a 20 to 1 long shot.


Would I be willing to put my money where my mouth is? Don't be ridiculous. Gambling is a sin! But I wouldn't bet against a Trump victory.

Here are five reasons why:


His rhetoric resonates (even as it appalls)

Everyone knows that Trump is an outrage machine. What few people appreciate is that Trump is a well-calibrated outrage machine. He has fastened onto issues that other candidates couldn't discuss without sounding like pandering flip-floppers.


Trump has departed from Republican orthodoxy on health care, taxes, free trade and immigration. Often he seems to contradict himself. He has said everything is negotiable – especially the outrageous things he's said.

Will he build a wall on the southern US border and make Mexico pay for it? Maybe, maybe not. But he's opened up the discussion like no one has before.

"Trump's selection of issues is part of his persuasion talents," writes Scott Adams, the creator of "Dilbert" who has been blogging for months about the Trump phenomenon. "He was smart enough to pick the topics with the most emotional power. It was intentional."

"Keep in mind," Adams adds, "that every candidate had the same options that Trump did, but only Trump chose correctly." Adams says that is no accident: "The public just thinks it is."

By the way, Adams thinks Trump will win "in a landslide".

Most Republicans are falling in line

I'm a diehard Never Trump guy, but I know I'm among a minority. Although some prominent Republican leaders have withheld their support, it's clear that the GOP rank-and-file is rallying to the presumptive nominee.

On Thursday, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan ended weeks of speculation and endorsed Trump, saying "the reality is, on the issues that make up our agenda, we have more common ground than disagreement." A unified Republican Party is far more likely now.

Democrats, meantime, are divided among dedicated Clinton supporters and Sanders' cadres of bitter-enders. The Bernie voters tend to be millennials. Clinton may not be able to count on their support in November.

Gotcha journalism doesn't faze Trump

Oh, that Trump is such a thin-skinned baby! Did you see his "epic meltdown" during his press conference at Trump Tower last week? He kept berating the reporters for not doing their jobs. What a buffoon!

At least, that's what The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and the crew on television's Morning Joe said.

What my friends in the media fail to understand is the great mass of would-be readers and viewers really, really don't like us. They certainly don't trust us. And so when Trump calls ABC News reporter Tom Llamas "a sleaze" and Llamas responds with pained indignation, who do suppose wins that confrontation?

"Why am I a sleaze?" Llamas protested.

"You're a sleaze because you know the facts and you know the facts well," Trump replied.

Trump never apologies and never backs down. The media may despise him, but voters despise the media more. That's why he's winning.

Hillary follows his lead – badly

Trump has run a non-traditional campaign and defied all expectations and expert predictions so far. Meantime, Clinton has rebooted her campaign four or five times since April.

Clinton doesn't know how to respond to Trump. The campaign is peddling the catchphrase, "Love Trumps Hate." But as Adams points out, that's a terrible slogan. "Humans put greater cognitive weight on the first part of a sentence than the last part," he writes. "This is a well-understood phenomenon. And the first part literally pairs LOVE and TRUMP."...............