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12-07-2016, 01:49 PM
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"I’ll protect your livelihoods, the newly elected president promised factory employees whose jobs were in danger.
I’ll save you money by rejecting a costly overhaul of my own aircraft, he told taxpayers a couple of weeks later.
I’ll spend billions to repair the country’s crumbling roads and bridges, creating jobs in the process, he told Congress.
I’ll sell my agenda by using the bully pulpit, he told the press, holding rallies around the country and shaming corporate greed that comes at the expense of ordinary people. And to do it all, he would set up a new political organization to pressure anyone who refused to play along.
His opponents were horrified, and said he was abusing the power of the Oval Office.
The year was 2009. The new president was Barack Obama.
Trump follows Obama’s political blueprint - POLITICO
REALLY quite interesting.....
"Trump cut a deal with Carrier to keep jobs from going to Mexico, much like Obama asked the CEO of Caterpillar to halt planned layoffs. Trump said a planned upgrade of Air Force One was a waste of money, while Obama said he didn’t need expensive new Marine One helicopters. Trump wants a $1 trillion infrastructure package, while Obama eventually settled for $830 billion. Trump has launched a “thank you tour” of states he won, while Obama stumped for his stimulus bill. And both men believed in the need to set up an external political arm — Obama for America vs. Trump’s reported Unleash the Potential — to keep their grass-roots bases fired up and ready to go."
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