So, I skimmed Trump's TIME-interview.

[DetlefK]

It was a softball interview. The interviewer did not ask relevant follow-up questions and did not fact-check Trump.

As for Trump:
- He was very bullish and determined on some political ideas like cutting taxes, dissolving the Department of Education or being aggressive with foreign countries. He came across as very strong on these topics.
- He was flim-flamy on topics that would actually improve peoples' lives, like grocery-prices or abortion. On topics where he cannot bully people into his position, he seems to not even have a position. He's sort of hoping that things will turn out fine by themselves.



So, yeah. This is what his Presidency will be like:

1. He will bully and strong-arm to make those campaign-promises come true that he can do via fiat, via unilateral political force.

2. And he will do absolutely nothing to fulfill his campaign-promises to actually help people, because that would require actual factual understanding of the economic and sociopolitical landscape and thinking and planning and problem-solving and negotiating and compromising and he has no idea how to do that.

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1. Trump never learned how to run a business, much less a country. He only knows how to run scams.

Before you can say anything "running it into the ground" does not count.

[Wiz Imp]

2. Even with a softball interview, he lied repeatedly

To their credit, Time published a fact check which was several pages

https://time.com/7201574/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump-fact-check/

An example:

What Trump Said: “We had 107,000 when we had the memorial a few weeks later”

The Facts: Trump has repeatedly claimed that over 100,000 people attended his October rally in Butler. Pa., which was held after an assassination attempt on him during a July rally.

Newsweek conducted a fact-check of the claim, using photos from the site, crowd-mapping software, and expert analysis. They found that, if every part of the venue was packed in, the site could still only hold 94,000 people. Photos from the event show tents and seats would have further limited the crowd size. Experts told the publication that the number of attendees was likely closer to 30,000, a figure consistent with an estimate reported by CBS.

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3. It's not that he has no idea how to help ordinary people. It's that he has no interest in doing so.

He doesn't see it as a moral imperative of the told of government or a responsibility of elected officials or anything like that.

He's transactional. He doesn't get anything out of it, so he won't do it. He'd rather help a foreign dictator who might funnel cash to him or something.