Guest Post by Mike Krieger
Though not surprising, it’s nevertheless extraordinary to watch Donald Trump publicly and shamelessly morph into a George W. Bush era neocon when it comes to foreign policy, and a CNBC stock market cheerleader when it comes to the economy. Just like Barack Obama before him, Trump talked a good populist game on two issues of monumental importance (foreign policy and the rigged economy), but once elected immediately turned around and prioritized the core interests of oligarchy.
Trump doesn’t even give lip service to big picture populist topics anymore unless they’re somehow related to the culture war, which works out perfectly for the entrenched oligarchy since the culture war primarily serves as a useful distraction to keep the rabble squabbling while apex societal predators loot whatever’s left of this hollowed out neo-feudal economy.
The pivot toward status quo consensus when it comes to two of the most existential issues facing the nation should be deeply concerning to everyone, but particularly to those who thought Donald Trump would be different. When it comes to militarism and empire, Trump’s hypocrisy and bait and switch is one for the record books. Just as it became clear Obama was a fraud once he hired Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner (we later found out his cabinet was apparently chosen by Citibank), Trump placing neocons Mike Pompeo and John Bolton into key positions was a clear sign you could take “Make America Great Again” and flush it down the toilet. This administration is now laser focused on maintaining and even expanding imperial reach.
Like Obama before him, Trump’s abandonment of every important thing he ran on was noticeable early on. Recall that while campaigning, Trump accurately called out the Saudis for their key role in the 9/11 attacks:
“Who blew up the World Trade Center? It wasn’t the Iraqis, it was Saudi — take a look at Saudi Arabia, open the documents,” Trump told the gang at Fox & Friends Wednesday morning…
“It wasn’t the Iraqis that knocked down the World Trade Center,” Trump told a crowd in Bluffton, South Carolina. “It wasn’t the Iraqis. You will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center, ‘cuz they have papers in there that are very secret. You may find it’s the Saudis, okay? But you will find out.”
Shortly after he made those comments, the infamous “28 Pages” were released showing how Saudi elites helped finance the whole operation. Did that stop Trump from making Saudi Arabia his very first state visit after being elected? Don’t be ridiculous.
Donald Trump knows the score when it comes to Saudi Arabia. He knows about their role in 9/11 and he knows they’re the top global proliferators of terrorist ideology on the planet. Nevertheless, Trump is now enthusiastically tied to the hip with the Saudis, thus making him a defender and protector of the status quo. Defend him all you want, but this isn’t the sort of thing he ran on with regard to America’s foreign policy.
Like other presidents who came before him, he campaigned on one foreign policy platform and then supports another once elected. In fact, Trump’s now so far off the deep end he’s widely expected to veto a measure recently passed by both houses of Congress to stop aiding Saudi Arabia in its ongoing genocidal war in Yemen.
Congress passes bill to stop supporting Saudi genocide in Yemen. Trump is expected to veto it.
"Make starvation great again" @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/JgyYJNE43m— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) April 4, 2019
Trump knows better when it comes to foreign policy, but he’s doing this stuff anyway. A similar thing could be said for his economic policy. While on the campaign trail he accurately called what was going on in financial markets a “big, fat, ugly bubble,” but now that he’s in the Oval office, he can’t get enough of it — cheering on the stock market every chance he gets as if it means anything to the masses of people barely getting by.
Pres needles economic advisor Larry Kudlow at meeting. "The market is way up today, Larry. So today, you’re great. When the market goes down — he’s not so great. But it’s been mostly up, I have to say." Kudlow replies, "I’m only as good as my last trade, sir." pic.twitter.com/MQk465mV9z
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) April 4, 2019
Meanwhile, back in 2011 Trump tweeted the following.
The Fed's reckless policies of low interest and flooding the market with dollars needs to be stopped or we will face record inflation.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 29, 2011
Turns out QE led to massive asset price inflation and society-destabilizing wealth inequality which played a key role in Trump’s election, but he’s not concerned about that anymore. In fact, he’s now actively begging for more Federal Reserve money printing.
BREAKING: Trump says "I personally think the Fed should drop rates" because they are slowing down the economy and instead of "quantitative tightening it should actually now be quantitative easing" https://t.co/rlZqcl348z pic.twitter.com/rwxXgE87pg
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) April 5, 2019
I’ll take the other side.
Trump is now publicly calling for more wealth inequality, which is what QE delivers.
— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) April 5, 2019
Many people naively believed Trump meant what he said on the campaign trail. They thought because he was already wealthy and not a career politician he’d get in there and really shake up the status quo on hugely important issues like foreign policy and the rigged, monopoly dominated, surveillance focused, financialized crony-economy. Well it turns out Trump’s just like everybody else. He doesn’t want to be the guy sitting in the White House when the scam economy and unsustainable empire collapses. I guess I can’t blame him, but it doesn’t make the situation any less dire for the rest of us.
While there’s a very high probability that both the U.S. empire and the world financial system fall apart under Trump, it’s important to note that he didn’t create either one of those things. All the dangerous, outdated, corrupt and unsustainable things being desperately stitched together on a daily basis to maintain the status quo have been building up for decades.
The entire global financial system is Enron as far as I’m concerned.
— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) April 8, 2019
It’s become clear no president will ever intentionally dismantle this ticking time bomb, it just has to play out on its own timeline. The important thing is to be honest about what’s really going on so you’re not completely caught off guard when the world changes faster and more dramatically than you could ever imagine in the years ahead.
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They all lick the Talmudic Kazharian boot.
Barbelo-Sophia-Zoe
Once again Krieger lays bare the pure deceit and maliciously calculated deception of this shameless fraud. I guess we’ve all been so worn down by the downward spiraling deceit of politicians that it has lost it’s ability to outrage decent people anymore. We just accept it as the way things are and trudge on accepting our fate, resigned to being taken for fools, lest an even more deceitful bastard gets elected. I don’t doubt for a second that this criticism won’t get any cogent defense from the trump supporters here at TBP. Maybe just a few anonymous thumbs down to assuage their shame. But I have to believe that it feeds a growing number of people who finally say “Fuck this abomination. Stick your democracy up your ass. I quit.
I wish for once some writer would take a shot of what it would be like-really-today under President Clinton II.
Does it matter if the end result is the same?
Thanks for proving my point.
I liked what Trump said during the campaign, but I’ve been burned too many times by the lying SOB’s not following through on what they said once they are in office. Therefore, I didn’t vote for the man.
I suspect that some of the people running for high office actually believe what they say, but then during the first week in office they are reminded of Kennedy’s fate when he started to rock the boat. The fear of an open-air limo ride through Dallas will turn even the most ideological radical into a toe-the-line status quo promoter.
Yes, I think the Zapruder Briefing may have tamed the Donald quite effectively. He did have a lot of us hoping for some real change, after 8 long years of “Hope and Change” from the HNIC.
Another “writer” with TDS….
tell ’em gatsby,stay the course–
Looks like I got 12 of them out of the shadows…
Drumph the joo (aka trump) is a typical joo. lie,cheat, steal. He gets his orders from satanyahoo and all the joos that placed his ass in the slaughterhouse. Edelson et al. Oh!! But it different this time. Y eah,right
LOL, Trump only cares about one thing. (Hint: it’s not the USA)
Drumph is satanyahoos water boy.
And people wonder why socialism looks good.
Trump cares about two things, Israel and the elite pirate class…..fixed it for ya.
I remember when trump was running for president he said if elected he would drain the swamp. To me draining the swamp means exposing the creatures. It sure seems to me he has done just that in the time he has been in office. Forget that he looks like a buffoon and observe the response he is getting from countries around the globe. He came into office with the intent of disrupting the status quo! Has he not done that?
President Trump is right to think about the empire and the stock market.
It will be up to the people where this country is going to go. The status quo is dead. That means “change” many people will not like. Yet, many young people want it.
What ever comes out of Washington DC in the next few months is going to shock many people. The problem with our laws is that once they are made they become obsolete because of the passage of time and changing views of the people. The only way to get past this quagmire of law is executive order. We must remember administrative law is not constitutional law, nor is it higher than the constitution. Administrative law was formed in the mid 20th century under the umbrella of the constitution. People need to become familiar with this law to discover it’s limitations for America; and if can be improved by the addition of natural & universal values in it’s foundation.
Many of our problems are the result of administrative laws that are out of phase with time. This is why we cannot solve our problems at the border.
T-bird, you make good points. Regarding the swamp thing, just how many allies does Trump have helping him with that task?
Versus how many enemies?
No wonder the progress is slow.
Anon,
It is one thing to drain the swamp. It is another thing to subdue the creatures.
The creatures live by “rule of law.” The rule of law is administrative law. This law in place does not allow change.
Want progress? Overturn the law. The president is trying to overturn the law with Executive Orders. The judges are fighting him.
Re-establish constitutional courts and these judges can be dealt with. Constitutional law trumps administrative law.
UPDATE: U.S. Empire and Stock Market Slated to Go Same Route as Hope and Change Did
“empire” =access to raw materials & market share–
if the stock market tanks the economy tanks,thus ending the trump revolution–
so simple a caveman can get it–
I’m in shock.
I feel nauseated.
But the people… the people won’t stand for this.
It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis