Will Trump become President?

WSS said:

Chippycafc said:

Well done Donald..... Great speach too.

Yeah - was great the way he contradicted absolutely everything he said in the campaign. Respect for Clinton and the work she's done for America. Bringing together all races and religions. Finding common ground with other countries.

'Speech' by the way.

See, nothing to worry about. He's acting like a true politician already.

WSS said:

Chippycafc said:

Well done Donald..... Great speach too.

Yeah - was great the way he contradicted absolutely everything he said in the campaign. Respect for Clinton and the work she's done for America. Bringing together all races and religions. Finding common ground with other countries.

'Speech' by the way.

Thanks for correcting my grammar. Your obviously a sore loser. Well done Donald - Enjoy the moment.

JaShea99 said:

Wow. Just when you think Americans can't get any more stupid...

Well you called the election wrong so who's the stupid one?

LuckyReds said:

WSS said:

Chippycafc said:

Well done Donald..... Great speach too.

Yeah - was great the way he contradicted absolutely everything he said in the campaign. Respect for Clinton and the work she's done for America. Bringing together all races and religions. Finding common ground with other countries.

'Speech' by the way.

I really liked it, but.. Yeah. Not what I expected at all.

It was almost as though he was going to stop at any minute and say "Just kidding. She was a criminal, and we will send her to prison! What are we going to build?!".

Great post... Some on here need to man up. Especially making childish remarks about grammar.

And the left needs to take some responsibility for Brexit (and in the US, Trump) because of this.

What on earth do you think happens when the party that's meant to be looking out for a specific part of society decides it doesn't give a crap about them anymore? That part of society gets angry, and they bottle it up.

What on earth do you think happens when people feel afraid to have "difficult discussions" in case they get called a racist bigot? They get angry, and they bottle it up.

Or what about those who don't live in the city, and live in dead end rural areas where there are no jobs, they don't feel particularly looked after by Westminster (or Washington) and feel fed up with voting every year and seeing no change? They look for anyone who is going to make a change, someone to shake things up.

Then what do you think happens when a chap like Farage (or Trump) comes along and says he doesn't care about that crap, he's straight talking and he's telling you that he's going to sort it all out? He doesn't give a lot of substance mind you, but he says everything "is going to be great, real great"! This guy is exactly what you need!

Rather than acting surprised by the presence of a silent majority, perhaps it should be asked why they're silent? Why don't people feel comfortable voicing their views? (I'll give you a tip, if you're going to say "because they're racist" then look in the mirror.)

100% right.

I'll add to that: it's quite clear that 'background' is a non-issue, if we're wondering how the passed-over seem to vote for privately-educated rich men. FWIW Clement Atlee & Tony Blair were not from a mining-background.

People don't like or respect politicians, or the political system in general. So anyone that appears to be more 'ordinary' and less like a career politician is on a roll at the moment. Fortunately the UK system doesn't have primaries and so still favours the insider at the moment (so we have May and not a Farage rabble-rouser). But we also have Corbyn, too -- and he has no chance of connecting with much of blue-collar Britain.

I'd also add that us liberal types can fume all we like about the Mail, Sun, etc - but you can see that this was not a factor in the US at all....

Never liked Clinton but at least she had the good grace to accept she had lost and phone Trump and tell him so. The American people have spoken. Brexit moaners take note.l

Did I want Clinton to win - yes.
Do I think Trump is an idiot -yes

But at the end of the day it is Democracy.
a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

Trump says the government will serve the people.

“Working together, we will begin the urgent task of rebuilding our nation,” he says. “I’ve gotten to know our country so well. Tremendous potential... every single American will have the ability to realize his or her potential...

“We are going to fix our inner cities... we’re gonna rebuild our infrastructure, which will become by the way second to none. And we’re going to put millions of people to work as we rebuild it.

“We will finally take care of our great veterans.”

sounds good to me.

All_Thaid_Up said:

More latinos and african americans voted for Trump than voted for Mitt Romney in the last election

No that can't be right, no way, no way. Smiley *what a surprise* face.

Chippycafc said:

France , Italy and the Germans have elections coming up interesting times coming up.

Indeed say goodbye to the euro

palarsehater said:

Trump says the government will serve the people.

“Working together, we will begin the urgent task of rebuilding our nation,” he says. “I’ve gotten to know our country so well. Tremendous potential... every single American will have the ability to realize his or her potential...

“We are going to fix our inner cities... we’re gonna rebuild our infrastructure, which will become by the way second to none. And we’re going to put millions of people to work as we rebuild it.

“We will finally take care of our great veterans.”

sounds good to me.

As long as he sticks to his words. Not like the spivs we had., Cameron and Osborne who said the same.

The Organiser said:

All_Thaid_Up said:

More latinos and african americans voted for Trump than voted for Mitt Romney in the last election

No that can't be right, no way, no way. Smiley *what a surprise* face.

Is that really a surprise though considering he was up against Obama?