He drained no swamp… he brought the swamp.
To say otherwise is brainwashing
I always laugh when I hear people say he was draining the swamp. That was 100% marketing bullshit he didn't even begin to drain the swamp. He made it even worse, filling it with toxic waste and radioactive garbage. Politicians on both sides are corrupt as fuck, slimey, bought-and-paid for assholes. They are bought by corporations and mega-rich people. Trump just removed the middle man and gave the GOP cause to be even worse and Fuck The People even harder for their own personal gain and for the gain of all the ultra wealthy people around.
It is really sad. For 4 years we had a bunch of hard working Americans believe that this egotistical, self-obsessed, megalomaniac billionaire with an extremely fragile ego and a passion for petty bullshit drama would make their lives better. And guess what? He didn't! Yet they continue to believe. He said he would "drain the swamp" and
all he did was put a bunch of other rich billionaires in charge of various offices...
most of whom knew fucking nothing about the subject matter or department they were supposed to be leading! All they did was try to put in place policies to benefit themselves.
We've got:
- Carl Icahn - Adviser to Trupm
- Wilbur Ross - Commerce Secretary
- Stephen Schwarzman - policy adviser
- Stephen Feinber - intel adviser
- Steven Ross - adviser
- Richard LeFrak - adviser
- Steve Mnuchin - Treasury Secretary
Thanks to these rich assholes who are all big investment or bank or real estate people, Trump did a bunch of things to benefit the big banks and investors at the expense of We the People. They've got tons of ties to Big Oil, international companies that work with Russia, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudia Arabia.
- Attempt to roll back the fiduciary rule, which would have been disasterous for people like you and me because those managing our investments and 401ks and such would now be able to put their own personal profits above that of their clients (us), essentially putting our money into investments that provide kickbacks and incentives for THEM even though they know or don't believe the investments will pay as well or at all for US. They basically just get to take our money and use it for their own gain at our expense.
- He wanted to repeal the Dodd-Frank act
- Wanted to roll back the work of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which would allow banks to practice the same predatory lending practices that led us into the crash in 07/08.
Trumps pick for commerce secretary: "Before his confirmation hearing, Ross agreed to divest hundreds millions of dollars in assets, including his piece of the Bank of Cyprus, which the Russian mob has reportedly used for money laundering. He is keeping his stake in a transoceanic tanker giant called Diamond S Shipping Group Inc. The Center for Public Integrity
looked at that company's operations and found its vessels sail under Chinese flags, and one of its ships has traveled to an Iranian port—which Diamond S has said was legal. Ten percent of its business comes from a Swiss company with stakes in Russian national oil giant Rosneft."
How is any of this draining the swamp or helping The People"
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Trump Has Now Moved $2.3 Million Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Private Business;
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How Donald Trump Moved Millions From His Campaign Donors To His Private Business;
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Trump Campaign ‘Laundering’ Campaign Finance Money, Election Watchdog Says;
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JARED KUSHNER REPORTEDLY CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO SECRETLY PAY TRUMP FAMILY MEMBERS AND SPEND HALF THE CAMPAIGN’S CASH.
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Trump's properties have raked in more than $8 million from US taxpayers and the president's supporters since he took office
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We’ve Found $16.1 Million in Political and Taxpayer Spending at Trump Properties
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How Much Has the Government Spent at Trump’s Properties? It Won’t Say. -
"For example, the Secret Service has paid $650 per night to stay at Mar-a-Lago, despite Eric Trump’s statement that his father’s company would provide rooms “for free — meaning, like, cost for housekeeping.”
^^ so he gets free secret service protection on the taxpayers dime, but then charges them money to stay his overpriced hotel, personally enriching himself in the process?
Trump's original tax cut plan was going to give the top 1% of earners a 6.5% cut in taxes, vs a 1.7% cut for middle and lower-income earners. That makes sense, right? He also wanted to remove the alternative minimum tax, which ensures that these mega-rich billionaires can't pay ZERO taxes and that they have to pay SOMETHING.
Personally, I find the idea that MY taxes I pay on my hard earned money were going to line the pockets and pay for vacations for someone who claims to be a multi-billionaire. Meanwhile he wanted to cut social programs and reduce the amount of help people who need it get, because it isn't "fiscally conservative" to "hand out" money (even though that's not what happens at all and aren't we
handing out money directly to him to go on vacation??). The level of
greed and mental illness that you have to have to do the things he did is just astounding.
Not to mention that he spent tens of millions of taxpayer dollars vacationing at HIS OWN RESORTS where he DIRECTLY profited from his stays. Does it get any more corrupt? Directly funneling money from the federal government to your own businesses?
Even now, people are donating THEIR hard earned money to HIM after this mar-a-lago bullshit. The feds were asking for those documents for 16 MONTHS. He did not comply. Obviously they can't just let him keep them, so they went and got them. It wasn't a RAID. They didn't pull up with guns and bust down his door. They knocked, had a subpoena, went inside, got all the top secret documents from insecure locations such as his bathroom and closets, and left. I don't know about you, but to me, it SEEMS LIKE a boy as rich as him should be able to afford his own fucking lawyers and defense in this situation--yet he uses it as a fundraising tactic and begs for money from everyday people--and what's worse is that they're giving it to him! It's insanity.
He is not going to drain any swamp. He IS the swamp. Him and everyone he nominated are even worse than the previous swamp. At least the previous swamp had SOME semblance of allegiance to regular people, however small it was...he has none. It is all about him. "Me me me me me." You can hear it when he talks, you can see it in everything he does. Even the tax cuts he gave with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act mostly benefitted high-income people and big corporations. Corporations paid 22.4% les income tax after that Act than before it. Low income people saw the LEAST benefit. Middle-class was mixed, some saw benefit and others got hit with higher taxes. He also lowered the capital gains tax which directly almost entirely winds up benefitting the ultra rich like himself who get most of their gains from investments. This all expires in 2025 too, so really it was just a show anyway. He didn't permanently reduce taxes. He is letting the ultra rich accumulate even more money while the Act is in place, and then it will expire. Just widening the wealth gap ever more...
Yeah, that's a lot of reading to do.