Trump on China's Xi consolidating power: 'Maybe we'll give that a shot some day'
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
(1,796 posts)that ever happen in America!
olddad56
(5,732 posts)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
(4,522 posts)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
(7,220 posts)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
(22,059 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,939 posts)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
(48,939 posts)dalton99a
(81,387 posts)His respect for democracy and the American system is zero.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)I have zero confidence in them to make the right decision.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)Both are Authoritarian and work for the ownership of everything by the
one percent.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)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
(62,373 posts)Now I am not so sure.
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,572 posts)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
(25,586 posts)OMFG!!
That is MAGNIFICENT!!
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,572 posts)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
(9,217 posts)we'll have and that Barack Obama will be our last actual elected POTUS.
Now you know why.
TranssexualKaren
(364 posts)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 cant control 300 million Americans on the day that these Americans simply refuse to cooperate with tyranny.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)jeffreyi
(1,938 posts)This may not age well.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)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
(490 posts)..........and takes over for his daddy.
Eugene
(61,806 posts)My only surprise is that he was so brazen about it.
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)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
(3,985 posts)Rollo
(2,559 posts)Elect a Dem majority this fall. That is IMPERATIVE.
TranssexualKaren
(364 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,134 posts)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
(61,690 posts)He build his slums under Xi's nose, using China steel.
Melania would be closer to home as well.
roamer65
(36,744 posts)It can and would be done.
RDANGELO
(3,432 posts)limits. Why give up a good leader if you could end up with one like Trump.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)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
(11,884 posts)Loves to float things like this to piss people off with. He works at making people mad, and dividing them.
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)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
(9,095 posts)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
(23,315 posts)I think Barack Obama's young enough to go another term or two.