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but, I do know that his supper includes Manitoba beef!

is a sad, SAD day when America has come down to having that repulsive thing as President.

And Bill Clinton didn't have sex with a intern in the office.  
What will people think after 4 years if he drops the unemployment rate to 4%, creates new jobs, and actually protects the USA people.

The disrespectful arrogant bully....subject closed!!!!!

I guess this is going to political, so let's get started.  
Four percent unemployment you say, interesting fact is that in December the unemployment rate stood at the lowest level in nine years at 4.6%, and if one looks at it from where it was, going to 4% isn't to impressive.  
I like famous quotes, and way back in 1992 a fellow named Ross Perot made the quote "that dog won't hunt", today we saw a president of the US that maybe that quote applies to. I didn't watch the inauguration, but when I got home I saw a parade going on where most people had already left and headed home. Now I don't care if your the president of a country or not, but you are responsible to others, there was a schedule for events of the day, but the schedule didn't seem to be important to one person, that person being the President of the United States.  
Going to be an interesting four years, and I imagine a real problem for his own party.

i honestly cant stand the whining and complaining about the guy, he got the vote, to bad so sad now time to deal with it and give him a chance  
 
ps i didnt even care which one won but fact is Trump is the president and now its time to get down to it and let him lead

Trump was elected because the liberals didn't put Bernie forward...... they lost because Hilary is..... well..... honestly, a murderer, and should be on trial..... (read any major media book)...  
 
I like trump... I woulda voted for him

Well, I personally didn't like either option and likely would have gone Sanders.  
 
With Trump I don't like his unpredictability and that he is quick to react to everything negative said about him in such an immature way. It's so unprofessional and childish - it worries me that he might be quick to react that way to larger global issues. His mocking of people with disabilities during the campaign and derogatory comments toward women were disgusting - I don't care how many jobs you create, if that's how you treat people, it will be white middle aged males who will prosper and not females, minorities, and LGBT.  
 
I hope anyone, including myself, who doubts his ability will be proven wrong - but I just can't see how this is going to turn out well over the next four years right now.

FinancialAdvisor said "Trump was elected because the liberals didn't put Bernie forward...... they lost because Hilary is..... well..... honestly, a murderer, and should be on trial..... (read any major media book)...     I like trump... I woulda voted for him "

Really? A murderer? And I suppose you believe that she ran a pedophile ring in the back of a pizza shop too. Let me guess... Harper supporter, Leitch supporter as well?  
 
One of the very first things Trump did as president was to erase the drop in mandatory mortgage insurance premiums enacted by Obama less than 2 weeks ago. This is a president who, in his inaugural speech, said, “January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.” He then proceeds to penalize the middle class financially.  
 
It's going to be an ugly 4 years for the US, because once Trump is impeached, Pence will try implementing the christian version of Sharia law. He's already said he believes the law of the land should be based on biblical values.

I would rather have trump running then Justin. trump wants fix the USA Justin wants to tour to other countries and hand out money. Watched dr oz today trump was on and I thought he was level headed and knows there ways to fix unemployment and health care. even when ppl asked questions he had awesome answers too. I'm all for trump good for him I think 4 years ppl that don't want him in will be pro trump

agree with you completely , we sit in canada and make snide remarks about the new u s pres and forget to consider the disaster that we have elected here.

Nice hair tho! We can thank the eastern provinces who bought into his B.S

Personally I agree they are both bad options but I think trump is the lesser of the 2 evils. Hilary laughed when Benghazi was mentioned... They lost soldiers and she laughs! I really hope trump looks into 9/11 and gets something started on that because it was an inside job and a lot of people know it too...

Half_Mast said "Personally I agree they are both bad options but I think trump is the lesser of the 2 evils. Hilary laughed when Benghazi was mentioned... They lost soldiers and she laughs! I really hope trump looks into 9/11 and gets something started on that because it was an inside job and a lot of people know it too... "

To see you bought into the conspiracy theory of 911. Everymajor death/event the us has ever had was always tied to a conspiracy.  
Answer me this:  
If 911 was a conspiracy and a darn big one at that, then why weren''t Bush and his cronies able to plant WMD''s in Iraq and say "See, told you so, Saddam had hidden WMD''s"? I don''t like Bush, Chenney, Rumsfeld, etc, but my point is that if they didn''t dupe the world about finding WMD''s in Iraq then they certainly weren''t behind 911.  
 
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Half_Mast said "Personally I agree they are both bad options but I think trump is the lesser of the 2 evils. Hilary laughed when Benghazi was mentioned... They lost soldiers and she laughs! I really hope trump looks into 9/11 and gets something started on that because it was an inside job and a lot of people know it too... "

you were making sense until you got to the 9-11 part. Think of the massive # of people needed to be involved in a cover-up yet not one has spoken?!  
As for the U.S. unemployment rate, I think that logical people know that's the # of registered unemployed & doesn't reflect the people who have run out of benefits yet still looking for work.  
We sit up here & criticize all things American. IMHO, Democrats have been the sorest & meanest losers. Let's see what Trump can do before we shoot him down.

how do the twin towers collapse by fire? How did building 7 collapse when it wasn't hit by a plane? How did all 3 buildings "collapse" in under 8 seconds? At free fall speed! How did the "planes" which are built out of flimsy material crash through steel beams and concrete? Where is all the wreckage and bodies from the plane that hit the pentagon and the field in Pennsylvania? If a plane hit the pentagon (the most secure building in the world equipped with anti aircraft weapons) why was the only damage a small whole in the building and only one camera that caught the impact.. And that camera footage didn't show a plane... If you watch the footage of the "planes" hitting the WTC and the collapse, watch it over and over again.. You can see the explosions all the way down.. It's all on YouTube... Also search the woman in the towers.. They say fire weakened the steel which caused it to collapse, well why was there a woman standing where the planes hit the tower? She was fully clothed... I use to believe the initial story too until I really opened my eyes and studied all the videos... Maybe you should too

Half_Mast said "how do the twin towers collapse by fire? How did building 7 collapse when it wasn't hit by a plane? How did all 3 buildings "collapse" in under 8 seconds? At free fall speed! How did the "planes" which are built out of flimsy material crash through steel beams and concrete? Where is all the wreckage and bodies from the plane that hit the pentagon and the field in Pennsylvania? If a plane hit the pentagon (the most secure building in the world equipped with anti aircraft weapons) why was the only damage a small whole in the building and only one camera that caught the impact.. And that camera footage didn't show a plane... If you watch the footage of the "planes" hitting the WTC and the collapse, watch it over and over again.. You can see the explosions all the way down.. It's all on YouTube... Also search the woman in the towers.. They say fire weakened the steel which caused it to collapse, well why was there a woman standing where the planes hit the tower? She was fully clothed... I use to believe the initial story too until I really opened my eyes and studied all the videos... Maybe you should too "

Are off topic, but to answer all your questions.  
It's all fueled propoganda by a fanatic religious group who currently use it to recruit young people to fight their dirty war/terror activities. Sorry to see that you're buying into their propoganda. BTW, younever answerred my question

Several years ago there was a fire at First and Pacific. Following the fire, it was clear that several of steel beams of the building had bent and buckled because of the heat. This was without the assistance of the tons of explosives and accelerants that your conspiracy is dependent upon. How could that have happened in Brandon ? Did the 9/11 conspirators come here also ?  
 
Trump is a travesty. Xenophobic, mysoginistic, racist. He belongs on Honey BooBoo not in the White House. Lets contrast Obama's farewell speech in Chicago with Trump's press conference. That, I believe, is illustrative of the vast difference between the two.

70s guy.. I don't have any answers to your question about WMDs and Iraq, I don't know the motives behind it or any of that..  
 
Standard... I never studied the fire on first and pacific therefore I have no answer to that either.  
 
but both of you answer this one simple question... Let's just say for argument sake that a plane made of aluminum and light metal could cut through steel and concrete like a hot knife through butter, how did all three building collapse in under 8 seconds (or free fall speed). Take into account that many sky scrapers around the world have caught fire and burned for more than 10 hours and they are still standing today.

The answer is simple. Mass and velocity. Then the heat weakened the steel frame, just like in Brandon. At the WTC there was the addition of thousands of pounds of jet fuel to add to the fire.  
 
Trump surrogates are fond of spreading false information. It continued yesterday with some of their comments about crowd size. Obama's unauguration saw crowds that were much much larger. Some of the news video showed nearly empty bleachers along the parade route yesterday.  
 
Remember that some of the 911 truthers, also claim that the school shooting at Newtown also was a fake. Some of these people are Trump supporters.

Half_Mast said "70s guy.. I don't have any answers to your question about WMDs and Iraq, I don't know the motives behind it or any of that..     Standard... I never studied the fire on first and pacific therefore I have no answer to that either.     but both of you answer this one simple question... Let's just say for argument sake that a plane made of aluminum and light metal could cut through steel and concrete like a hot knife through butter, how did all three building collapse in under 8 seconds (or free fall speed). Take into account that many sky scrapers around the world have caught fire and burned for more than 10 hours and they are still standing today. "

I''m not an engineer, but I''ll try my best to make an analagy of why a plane made of aliminium could cut through steel. For example: I can''t poke a hole in my skin with a butter knife, tried but just isn''t sharp enough. However I would bet that if that knife were to fall from 3000 ft above and strike my thigh pointy end first,well it could easily go right throughmy leg. Same with the aluminium plane. May be aluminium, but make it go 550 MPh and load it with people/fuel, etc and it''s not just a piece of aluminium at that point. It''s probably 100,000lbs of material encased in aluminium going 550 MPH. That my friend is how it cut through steel beams. It''s all a conspiracy and the radical terrorists are extatic that you are arguing the conspiracy on their behalf. Don''t join them in the conspiracy theory.  
Now to answer my own question. This is quite simple. Bush and his cronies were just not crooked enough to plant WMD''s in Iraq to prove that Saddam had them. I don''t think Bush and the lot were saints, but not crooked to lie about WMD''s, so certainly not capable of being behind 9-11.  
As for Trump, the world has changed once again. I fear he''s going to isolate the US, which will make for a far more dangerous and less prosperous world. He has painted the US as a disaster economicaly but, when one realizes that the unemployment rate is mid 5%, rates are starting to rose, their dollar is iron strong and the stock markets at alltime highs. If Trump is better than Obama at managing the economy the stock market and dollar will reflect it but, I have my doubts. The US was not as bad off economicaly as Trump portrayed it to be. There are serious issues with race, inner city poverty that will be interesting to see how he tackles those.  
 
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Im still waiting to hear something of substance come out of his mouth. So far nothing.

to drain the swamp so he can add more to it. How many billionaire are being put in top positions? Former EXXON CEO as Secretary of State, really? Government for the people being run by the richest.  
 
I envision nothing will change between Bush Sr., Clinton's, Bush's, Obama's Presidency and Trumps. There might be some variations, but fundamentally, it will stay the same. Big businesses will prevail and rule government. No business better not import anything from outside U.S and all country's must get it's stuff from the U.S. Just watch on Canadian exports, it will be condemned and taxed. But Canada must allow exports from the U.S unimpeded and untaxed.

Part of his speak struck me in particular in when he said,  
" We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.  
 
We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow."  
 
This is a huge switch from which the US has operated in the past. The US has a history of meddling in sll four corners of yhe world in an effort to get international US companies to get a hold of a country's natural resources, therefore expanding both wealth in the US and a global economic foothold. I don't beleive For one second that Trump intends on putting other nations interedt first when dealing with them. What a croc!

70`s guy said "Part of his speak struck me in particular in when he said,   " We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.     We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow."     This is a huge switch from which the US has operated in the past. The US has a history of meddling in sll four corners of yhe world in an effort to get international US companies to get a hold of a country's natural resources, therefore expanding both wealth in the US and a global economic foothold. I don't beleive For one second that Trump intends on putting other nations interedt first when dealing with them. What a croc! "

Trump is a billionaire business man. He's always looked for ways to maximise his profits and will continue to do so. Other U.S big businesses will also want to continue to do the same. So they will want to change NAFTA to maximise U.S business profits and screw outside companies. If Trump ran a business/company where he could maximise profits by using cheaper non-U.S labour that's outside of the U.S, bet your ass he would.  
 
He's not interested in helping the regular resident.

think the thin skinned snowflakes that despise him need to suck it up and give him a chance. Obama failed miserably on a lot of fronts. Way to soft of a president in my opinion.

crownyboy said "think the thin skinned snowflakes that despise him need to suck it up and give him a chance. Obama failed miserably on a lot of fronts. Way to soft of a president in my opinion. "

If Hillary had won, it would be the Trump supporters doing the same exact thing.

I'm not good in politics but Donald trump got elected to rule the us. so as Obama before. And here it is Trudeau, harper before. So what I don't get is why lots of people complaining about the person who got elected? everybody had a chance to vote the person they like, they did not make it so it is. but even when we don't like the elected person, we have to give them a chance and when it is not working out than we vote the next time for a different person. this is not only here in Canada or the states. this is going on every where on the world. example Kenia, they voted for a different ruler in hope it would be better. but it did not worked out as they hoped. Germany is not much better, Merkel is long time the leader and it looks like it will not going to be better, because to say it with other words is why you not helping your own people in your country before spending all to different country's? But what I sad at the beginning I'm not good in politics. My opinion is we have to give all elected ones a chance to make it better and than may vote for a different person the next time. but when the elected one gets reelected than may this one did something good. Sorry just wanted to give my opinion and hope that I got not ripped on here. thanks for reading.