Trump on China's Xi consolidating power: 'Maybe we'll give that a shot some day'

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: CNN

President Donald Trump bemoaned a decision not to investigate Hillary Clinton after the 2016 presidential election, decrying a "rigged system" that still doesn't have the "right people" in place to fix it, during a freewheeling speech to Republican donors in Florida on Saturday.

In the closed-door remarks, a recording of which was obtained by CNN, Trump also praised China's President Xi Jinping for recently consolidating power and extending his potential tenure, musing he wouldn't mind making such a maneuver himself.

"He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great," Trump said. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot some day."

The remarks, delivered inside the ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago estate during a lunch and fundraiser, were upbeat, lengthy, and peppered with jokes and laughter. But Trump's words reflected his deeply felt resentment that his actions during the 2016 campaign remain under scrutiny while those of his former rival, Hillary Clinton, do not. "I'm telling you, it's a rigged system folks," Trump said. "I've been saying that for a long time. It's a rigged system. And we don't have the right people in there yet. We have a lot of great people, but certain things, we don't have the right people."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/politics/trump-maralago-remarks/index.html

[Matthew28]

1. Over my dead body will

that ever happen in America!

[olddad56]

27. might be the case. It is becoming pretty apparent that Putin's assignment for Trump ..

is to destroy our way of life. Wait until the repercussions to the corporate tax cuts play out. SS and Medicare could be gone in a couple of years, the stock market could crash very soon, if Trump keeps being the stupid ass that he is. Trump is owed by Putin and his goal is clearly revenge for the collapse of the former Soviet Union. This isn't some bad movie we are witnessing. This real life. The Russians are miles ahead of us in cyber warfare, and we have been attacked. What they have done is an act of war. And the orange monster is committing treason every day. It isn't just Trump, Putin owes a lot of congress persons and state governors. They entire tea party was bought by Russian money, funneled through the Koch Bros, and organizations like the NRA. they already own the minds of 35% of the voters.
We are on the brink of disaster.

[Locrian]

35. my thoughts *exactly*

And the corporate / wealthy etc continue to go along thinking they can make bank in the chaos.
We are being played like a fiddle - with distractions and circus to hide the extreme damage being done.

The US is being turned into the "softest" of targets. There's practically no government left, corporations are focused on buying back stock and doing nothing else, it's a land of lie - cheat - steal from the middle and lower class. Add in very real dissent, guns, poverty, hopelessness, opiods, failing infrastructure - it's stunning what the reality is.

[flibbitygiblets]

2. because democracy is for cucks.

His drooling supporters won't get it until they're locked inside windowless buildings, working for nothing and given no healthcare and rotting scraps to eat.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Whoa!!!!!!!!!! This better not be true, what a traitor to this country and constitution...nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Mango Mussolini wannabe dictator knows he can't make the cut.

Real dictators work hard and are broadly intelligent (not just about fake TV). Trump fails (doesn't get out of the starting blocks) at being even a tin-pot dictator.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Anna Wintour is a more potent dictator than tRump ever will be. . . . . nt

[dalton99a]

6. Fucking traitor worships dictators and despots.

His respect for democracy and the American system is zero.

[Still In Wisconsin]

7. Well, it's on the Republicans in congress whether or not they want to enable a would-be dictator.

I have zero confidence in them to make the right decision.

[MarcA]

8. It shouldn't be surprising that Corporatism and Communism work together

Both are Authoritarian and work for the ownership of everything by the
one percent.

[Locrian]

36. they're both concentrations of power

Why people don't recognize corporations as that is baffling to me.

Well not really, it's all psychological manipulation - advertising and the billions of $$ in research behind it turns out to be a pretty good way to fool people into giving up their freedom, power, money, etc.

[rurallib]

9. couple years ago, I would have said that wouldn't happen here

Now I am not so sure.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

10. You're 71, Tangeranus.

You have probably less than eight years left with your bloated girth and your Quarter-pounder-a-day diet.

Two if we're lucky.

[Codeine]

18. Tangeranus!!

OMFG!!

That is MAGNIFICENT!!

[denbot]

20. +1

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

21. Thank you.

I totally forgot which political cartoonist drew him with a puckered, pink mouth on that orange hue, but I saw it and the name fit.

[CousinIT]

11. More than one person has predicted that 2016 will be the LAST election

we'll have and that Barack Obama will be our last actual elected POTUS.

Now you know why.

[TranssexualKaren]

24. No apology to my right wing friends....

Who insist that their guns are going to preserve there freedom in a battle with drones. The next American revolution is going to happen when about 150 U.S. billionaires discover that they can’t control 300 million Americans on the day that these Americans simply refuse to cooperate with tyranny.

[vercetti2021]

12. And you would trigger a civil war

[jeffreyi]

13. Life in prison, maybe.

This may not age well.

[Bradical79]

14. He wouldn't make it to a 3rd term anyway

Even if he made it to a 2nd term, by the time a chance at a 3rd comes around, his mind will either be totaly gone or he will have died of a stroke/heart attack.

[Gregory Peccary]

37. Tat's where Donny Jr comes in.........

..........and takes over for his daddy.

[Eugene]

15. Disgusting, but he can wiggle out of this by saying "just kidding."

My only surprise is that he was so brazen about it.

[lordsummerisle]

16. China and Russia

both countries looking at lifelong leaders now. I'm sure Trump would love to be added to the list of autocrats for life...

[OhNo-Really]

17. Hope this gets rec'd alot. expose the president poser.

[Rollo]

19. Done, but we'll need to do more than just rec this thread...

Elect a Dem majority this fall. That is IMPERATIVE.

[TranssexualKaren]

25. I bet Joy Reid is going to do something with it tomorrow.

[Farmer-Rick]

22. Well then maybe he should move to China

If he wants a president for life, he should move to China Or Russia. The US has a constitution that limits a president's reign of terror, I mean term of service.

[Ilsa]

34. Let's just pack him up and ship him there.

He build his slums under Xi's nose, using China steel.

Melania would be closer to home as well.

[roamer65]

23. I will refer to Thomas Jeffersons Tree of Liberty quote.

It can and would be done.

[RDANGELO]

26. The ironic thing about it is he may have been the example that made them give turn away form term

limits. Why give up a good leader if you could end up with one like Trump.

[mr_lebowski]

28. If CNN has a recording of this speech, they ABSOLUTELY should play it on air ...

Well, first let Tangeranus respond with his typical FAKE NEWS FROM FAILING CNN SAD!!! bullshit ... and THEN CNN should play the friggin' recording, since they claim to have it.

But the 'liberal media' never actually 'plays things' that way though, despite what an obviously good ploy it would be ... and it's friggin' infuriating.

Trump'll tweet 'fake news', then CNN won't do SHIT. Thus leaving the knuckle-draggers to (quite logically, I would add) to assume that CNN just made up that story, like they always do.

[duforsure]

29. The orange Julius

Loves to float things like this to piss people off with. He works at making people mad, and dividing them.

[nitpicker]

30. I read Animal Farm- applicability to the "big 3 superpowers"

Where all start off "equal" and then some animals become "more equal than others".

Russia from communism to post-USSR collapse to Putin? Check.

China from post-Mao thru generational change in the Central People's Government to Xi? Check.

America from the Declaration of Independence to Trump's statement?
(let alone the one percent)

[LudwigPastorius]

31. Fuck you, Capigula.

Your administration will be a short-lived shitstain on the American presidency.

With any luck, they'll crown you king of the cellblock while you spend the rest of your days in a federal penitentiary

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

32. I agree. Let's get rid of term limits.

I think Barack Obama's young enough to go another term or two.

[trusty elf]

33. What an ass.