9) Donald Trump is the RISK-TAKING King of Heads-I-Win-Tails-You-Lose.
This would be a good question to put to the 840 people arrested for storming the US Capital building with 185 already receiving criminal sentences and 80 of those with jail time. That is not to say the others have gotten off as they all are awaiting trials or plea deals. There is no need to continue to beat this horse as the point is obvious; the people Trump encouraged to act violently on his behalf are the ones to pay the price.
Donald Trump’s response the the Covid-19 crisis is the epitome of his heads-i-win-tails-you-lose risk taking. Trump had no need to worry having some of the best protection afforded a public official and if that failed, he could rely upon the best medical care in the world at US taxpayers’ expense. His cavalier attitude about the dangers of a viral pandemic was much more costly to the million Americans who died as a result of the out-of-control pandemic. If he was right that it was a big flu about nothing, then he won once again by being right as usual. But who paid if he was wrong?
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9) Donald Trump is the RISK-TAKING King of Heads-I-Win-Tails-You-Lose.
Trump defines himself as a winner, always a winner, despite the four of his companies that filed for bankruptcy. He is very quick to point out that he himself has not filed for bankruptcy, in fact he says that he is “very, very rich.”
Isn’t it ironic that Donald Trump milks the fears of the disenfranchised for votes. As Donald himself says, he did very well with these bankruptcies. And the people who worked with him did not do nearly as well.
Donald Trump made a point of challenging Barack Obama’s birthplace and citizenship. Even presented with a birth certificate he challenged the legitimacy of the document. And Donald Trump insists that only with his leadership can we “Make America Great Again”.
First it is a fact that Barack Obama is an American born in Hawaii. Secondly, Barack Obama has done remarkably well as President given the bus-in-the-ditch Great Recession he was handed by his predecessor. In the last three months of the Bush administration and Obama’s first three months, the American economy lost nearly 4.5 million jobs. The Obama administration has successfully righted the economy with the largest growth in employment since the Clinton presidency, all while implementing the most significant social legislation in decades.
(Bill Clinton: 22.5 million new jobs / 8 years, George Bush: 2 million new jobs / 8 years, Barack Obama: 9.5 million new jobs / 7.5 years, which includes those needed to just break even from the 5 million jobs lost in his first year) For detailed monthly numbers see the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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