Trump Has No Idea What He'll Actually Do In A Second Term - Other Than Revenge

Donald Trump's comprehensive interview with Time Magazine was published this week, and it contained a glaring omission. While the interview itself has sparked headlines for days, not a single headline was written about any of Trump's policies as he seeks a second term. In fact, Trump couldn't even answer a question about what policies he would enact if he gets reelected. That's because the only plan Trump has is revenge, and that point alone is one that is often overlooked in the electoral horse race. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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So the interview that Donald Trump did with Time Magazine, uh, was published this week, and there have been headlines about it. The interview was published Tuesday, but the headlines about it actually even started on like Monday, and they have continued all throughout the week. But there's only one article that I've actually read analyzing the interview. That to me just stands out as the best analysis of that interview with Donald Trump. And it actually comes from the New Republic, uh, report is called What would Trump Do in a second Term Even? He has no clue because while other folks were kind of hyperfocused on, you know, some of the more radical, and let's face it, insane things that Trump said during the interview, the New Republic pointed out, he didn't lay out any policy like literally zero. He did not point to a single piece of legislation that he would push if he becomes the president of the United States.

Again, there's no policy positions, there's no ideas on how to actually govern the country. And that is something that, I mean, I know I've talked about it. I know a lot of other people have talked about it too, but that's something that continuously gets overlooked in this campaign. We know three things I think that Donald Trump wants to do. First thing, of course, like he promised his billionaire friends at Mar-a-Lago, I'm gonna cut your taxes. So he wants to cut taxes, but that's a given. Every Republican wants tax cuts. Second thing he wants to do, right? Well, he wants to prosecute all of his enemies, including President Biden and Hillary Clinton for some reason. So lot of revenge. Third thing he'll do trade war, 10% tariff on every single thing coming into this country, which, um, analysis of that proposal says would essentially decimate the middle class here in the United States. So those are the three things in addition to, if you wanna include it, because it's carried over from his first campaign, shutting down the borders, except for people from white countries. He says. Um, so that's it.

Those aren't, those aren't actually ideas. Those are just weird, stupid things, not necessarily even legislation. Those are things that he would mostly unilaterally be doing from the executive branch. How would you rule, how would you govern? What legislation would you pass? What are your goals and objectives? And for the record, the New Republic points out, like these were things that Time Magazine was actually trying to get to the bottom of. They were trying to get him to answer questions about what legislatively would you do? And he has no answers because Trump has no platform. But it goes beyond that. It's not just Donald Trump doesn't have a platform. The Republican Party has

No platform. They intentionally didn't run on a platform in the 2022 midterms, right? Like Rick Scott tried to put out a platform saying we're gonna cut all Social Security and Medicare. And then Mitch McConnell was like, Nope, nope. Definitely not. Uh, gonna run on any platform. Nobody say anything. We're just running because we think we're better than Democrats. They're doing the same thing this year. Like the Republicans in the house, Republicans in the Senate. Where is their agenda? Where is their list of goals and things that they will do for the American public? Where is Donald Trump's? It doesn't exist.