Ripped America How to Make America Great Again Book
The end is hither. Chapters 16 and 17
Nosotros're about there. Stay with me.
"A taxation code that works" is the title of chapter sixteen.
The current tax code is no skillful. A Trump tax plan would mean eliminating deduction and loopholes available for the very rich. This actually sounds pretty good.
If yous're unmarried and earning less than $25k, or married and earn less than $50k, you won't pay income taxation. According to Trump this volition remove "near 75m households from the income tax rolls".
Businesses are taxed unfairly, especially small businesses. It won't exercise.
Obligatory Ronald Reagan reference: nether Reagan America had the best corporate tax rate in the earth. Now we've got the worst. Pitiful confront.
The last chapter. It's called "Making America Great Once again" – later on that hat presumably.
Donald Trump bought the Commodore hotel many years ago. It had in one case been groovy, he says. I can sense where this is going. He did the hotel up. Information technology became the Grand Hyatt. He made it great again.
"The challenges ahead are many." Alright Yoda. "But guess what? I accept a vision and I understand the procedure by which we're going to accomplish our goals."
One of the things nosotros demand to do is reinvigorate the American dream.
Washington DC is in gridlock. We have three branches of government, Trump says, simply the trunk of the tree – squeamish – is rotting away.
Trump summarizes his previous capacity. Jobs. Military. Immigration, obvs. Education. Healthcare.
In that location are some plugs for his golf courses and hotels. People come from all over to play on his golf courses, although:
"I don't simply want to bring golfers to America. Nosotros need to bring all kinds of businesses dorsum to America."
Nosotros are at a critical turning point in our history. But America's best days are still to come.
Why? Considering of our people. Together we can Make America Great Once again.
That'south information technology. That's the cease. Together we made it through Crippled America.
Volition it be a best seller? Will information technology propel Trump to the presidency? Will information technology rival the bible equally Trump's favourite book?
Only time volition tell. For now, information technology's time to get dwelling house. Can someone bring me loads of alcohol please? Thank yous. Farewell.
The end is nigh. Chapters 14 and 15
Chapter 14 is called "A new game in town". I like it.
Here are some quotes.
"Opposite to the jokes, I don't think the White House needs whatsoever bright neon signs on the roof." Boo!
"I go on to be what I take always been – the greatest cheerleader for America." Woo!
America is the greatest state that has ever existed on earth, information technology turns out. The national anthem got information technology right: this is the land of the costless and the home of the brave.
"Making America Keen Once more means continuing by our discussion." So that'south what it means.
Many of the lessons Trump has learnt in business "are applicative to our current state of affairs". This is beginning to sound like a ropey job interview.
Making America Great Once again means disarming the smartest and best people to come up to Washington and bring together in putting our state commencement, Trump says. What happened to it being about standing past our word?
Turns out it also means restoring law and order and taking our country back from big coin interests. Oh and Making America Great Again begins at home, any that means.
On to Affiliate 15: "Teaching the media dollars and sense".
I don't know what that means either. Although it sounds similar it could be the championship of a Trump University class. (Think that?)
Trump lists some media organisations that were unfriendly to him when he launched his presidential campaign. Earlier in the book he had said sticks and stones might suspension his bones but names will never hurt him. That's been put to one side.
The media is "sorry" and "often pathetic". Has he been speaking to my dad?
Trump has built a lot of buildings. He lists many of them. Gotta bump up that word count!
Simply 2 chapters left.
We accelerate. Chapters 11 - 13
Come on, let's get this over with.
Chapter 11 is chosen "The correct to acquit artillery".
The second amendment is really important. Donald Trump owns guns and Donald Trump has a concealed-deport permit. Donald Trump thinks concealed-behave permits should exist valid in every land.
We need to go along guns out of the hands of people with mental health bug, though. However background checks are bad, Trump says, and so it'south unclear how he this would happen.
Chapter 12 is titled "Our infrastructure is crumbling".
You lot heard. This country'south infrastructure is falling autonomously. Quite literally. In fact, our infrastructure is terrible "and information technology'southward but getting worse".
That includes the airports, Trump writes. "If yous state at LaGuardia, it feels similar the wheels of the aircraft have come off."
Meanwhile: "The Chinese build new cities in about 12 minutes." Efficient. Over here it'southward a dissimilar story. "Information technology takes united states years to get permits to add a dormer window to our homes."
Affiliate thirteen has a pithy name: "Values".
"The one question I get asked all the time is, 'Mr Trump, how do I get rich?'" They always employ the prefix considering Mr Trump is important and too they want to sound like Oliver Twist request for more than gruel.
Trump knows "the richest people in the world". They're not always the happiest people though and some of their personal lives may leave something to be desired, he says. This is a strangely dark reference.
In that location's an unintentionally heartbreaking moment in this chapter when Trump brags about beingness a "cadet captain" in high school. He was "one of the highest ranking cadets", he says. Possibly I demand to start telling people near the time I was a milk monitor.
Chapter 10. Lucky to be an American
"I know how lucky I am. The twenty-four hour period I was born I had already won the greatest lottery on earth," Trump writes. That's because I was built-in to a father who was fantastically wealthy, he adds. He doesn't really. It's because he was born in the United States.
Trump owns "a big house" in Florida. It is a overnice firm. 1 fourth dimension he raised a big flag exterior the house. Local authorities said the big flag violated zoning regulations. They started fining him. Trump sued them for $25m.
He did not get $25m. The anecdote rather falls downward here.
By the way, the American flag is bully isn't it? It represents courage and sacrifice.
Ivanka Trump, Donald's daughter went to Czechoslovakia in one case. At the time people at that place were proud to take American things. They taped 1 dollar bills to their car windshields. Simply now the Czechs are laughing at us, apparently.
Nosotros learn that you rarely hear the phrase "Made in America" anymore. This is a shame. You lot certainly don't run into information technology on Donald Trump'due south ties because they are made in Mainland china. But permit's ignore that.
Affiliate nine. Nice guys can finish get-go
"I'm a overnice guy. I really am." This is the opening sentence.
"I'thou not afraid to say what I believe." This is truthful. We've already heard Trump'due south beliefs on immigrants and climate change.
Oh y'all know who "really appreciates" this approach? The American people, that's who. (Donald Trump is actually viewed negatively past a majority of the American people.)
When Donald Trump announced he was running he was interested to see which of his "so-called friends" would "remain loyal to me". He appears to have bad judgement in friends because quite a few of them didn't. There follows a list of those who accept wronged him.
Terry Lundgren of Macy'southward.
Steve Burke of Comcast.
NBC'south president Bob Greenblatt.
Paul Telegdy, NBC'southward head of reality television receiver.
Randy Falco, Univision.
Boyfriend Ferrari of Univision.
People attacked Trump'south pilus when he announced he was running for president. It is his ain hair.
Trump hasn't put out specifics for his presidency because there are a lot of different voices that need to be heard when deciding things. Just take his give-and-take for it, it'll be fine.
Fred Trump, Donald'southward male parent, loaned him "a small loan amount of money" when he wanted to build belongings in Manhattan. It was only $1m. The tight git.
More about anchor babies. Coming over here, drinking our milk. They need to become.
Second amendment skillful. Tax organization broken. Iran bad.
Chapter 8. It'southward still the economy, stupid
"I'm rich. I hateful, I'm actually rich." This information is presented with little-to-no context.
When Trump listens to some of his GOP competitors he shakes his head. "I think: 'You wouldn't have even qualified to exist a contestant on The Apprentice.'" I believe this is meant as an insult.
President Obama loves playing golf game merely by gosh he plays with the wrong people. He should be playing with smart people who can help our land, non his loser friends.
Trump, meanwhile, knows how to "piece of work a golf game course".
During the 1990 recession a lot of Trump'south friends went broke. He never went bankrupt, he says. Apart from those four corporate bankruptcies but – oops – we won't mention those here.
In that location is crazy over-regulation by the authorities. "You tin can barely purchase a paper prune without beingness in violation of some governmental policy."
System is broken. National debt. Whatever happened to American dreams?
Trump would not cut social security or medicare.
Trump employs thousands of people.
We have to bring jobs back from places like China, Japan, and Mexico.
Once again: Trump employs thousands of people.
Trump knows how to fix the economic system. It is quite simple. "All it takes is a delivery to winning and making "Made in America" a badge of honour just like it used to be."
Chapter 7. Health care is making us all sick
Donald Trump has hired thousands of employees. We know this considering he repeats it over and once again in this chapter. Plus: health care is rubbish.
Trump is lucky considering he can afford the best wellness intendance in the globe. Only he knows that others can't.
Obamacare is a catastrophe. He calls information technology the "un-Affordable Care Human activity", which is cute.
Yes, Trump once said he believed in a single-payer organisation just that program would have been style better than the united nations-Affordable Care Act. And anyway, he was a "non political leader" at the time. And information technology was a different time. It wouldn't work now.
The solution to sorting out the un-Affordable Care Human activity is to rent the most knowledgeable people in the world and lock them in a room. Like Big Brother except they can't leave until everything is fixed or they eat each other.
Nobody understands business better than Trump, obviously, so he can sort this mess out. We'll do information technology past telling the federal government to eff off and allowing insurance companies to "compete for your business".
There might be a problem with this because insurance companies are currently ripping us all off and making a fortune. Simply this contradiction is not addressed.
In determination: "If nosotros follow my logic, our healthcare system, and our economic system, will be well again very soon."
Affiliate six. The free energy contend: a lot of hot air
Climate change does non exist. Or if it does it is not man made. No evidence is given for this, simply it is fact.
There is oil in America and natural gas and we should use that. It will last united states until next century and by then we'll all be dead anyway.
The Keystone Twoscore pipeline should be allowed to go alee. Nosotros should drill everywhere oil is attainable.
Windpower is the worst. Information technology ruins the view from golf game courses.
That'southward almost information technology.
Chapter v. Pedagogy: a failing grade
The Department of Didactics needs to be gotten rid of.
Donald Trump went to a military school, which was a tough, tough place. He learned how to neatly fold his clothing so it could be stacked. This is non a skill "that has had much application in my life". But it taught bailiwick.
He was taught not to lie, cheat or steal, or tolerate those who practise.
"This may be why I never became a politician," he quips.
By the way do you know what makes a child feel good? Winning.
Meanwhile, in many schools grading has been eliminated entirely. Someone should factcheck this. I'd do it but I've got my nose in a really good volume.
Teacher unions: bad. Schools competing for children? Skilful. Teachers aren't paid enough. We need greater discipline, although nosotros should not go dorsum to the days when teachers "would get physical with students".
College tuition is too much and loans suck. We should do something about it just, from this volume at to the lowest degree, it is non clear what.
Chapter iv. Foreign policy: fighting for peace
Some people say Donald Trump has no experience in foreign policy. They're right, he doesn't, but it doesn't matter because he would expand the war machine and that would sort everything out.
Teddy Roosevelt believed America should speak softly and carry a large stick.
And "Mike Tyson, the famous fighter, in one case explained his philosophy, saying, 'Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the oral cavity.'"
Mike Tyson is famous for something else that Trump has spoken nearly a lot in this book, but we won't dwell on that.
Edifice up the military is "buying peace". It is also smart business considering people take to build all those planes and ships.
The US is defending Deutschland, Japan and South Korea, but we're not being paid a dime for information technology. "It is time the rest of the world paid their fair share, and if I take anything to say about information technology, they volition!"
Go Squad Mercenaries!
The entire Isis forcefulness probably wouldn't even fill Yankee Stadium. Obama's Iran deal totally sucked.
China is the biggest problem though. They destroyed our industries. Although they are very savvy businesspeople. In fact, Trump has had several of his Trump-brand products fabricated there.
Our politicians are too stupid or too foolish, or both, to sympathize that nosotros need to be tough with China. Carl Icahn understands it, and if he were representing America things would be ameliorate.
In decision: we should stand up to China, whatever that means, and we demand to get-go sending a bill to "the Saudi Arabians, the Southward Koreans, the Germans, the Japanese and the British" for the costs of the United states military machine.
"We're protecting them, after all."
Chapter three. Clearing: good walls make skilful neighbours
We hear more about this big wall that Mexico is going to pay for. Oh and guess what? Illegal immigration is killing this state. Don't get him incorrect, Donald Trump loves immigration. ("I can shut my optics and imagine what my relatives must accept been thinking when they sailed by the Statue of Liberty into New York.")
What he does non like is illegal immigration. There's more nearly this: floods of illegal immigrants, dangerous problems, borders, immigrants as a source of criminal offence.
He has tremendous respect for United mexican states, he says, which volition come as a surprise to the people of Mexico. And to the Mexican government: which has, co-ordinate to Trump's pen, "published pamphlets explaining how to illegally emigrate to the U.s.a.".
Some of the illegal immigrants are rapists, we hear. Again.
Luckily, "nobody can build a wall like me". The wall volition save u.s. from these crusading immigrants, he says. Nosotros really need a wall. China built a big wall and that was ages ago. The Israelis take a wall and that has been a great success that hasn't caused whatsoever issues any.
At that place'southward more on the wall (is he candidature for a job at Abode Depot?): it will have a large, beautiful door, only similar Mordor has in the Lord of the Rings. Just this one will be keeping out immigrants, non orcs, although maybe they're the same affair.
Wall wall wall. We need to triple the number of immigration officers we have until the wall is built. We need to enforce visa regulations and so people can't stay here after they elapse. We need to stop birthright citizenship, "or anchor babies". Kicking them out.
While those anchor babies can bugger off back to where they came from – the womb, I guess – the US should permit foreigners to stay if they accept master'due south degrees and are smart, he says.
Interlude
I've only nipped upwardly the route to Trump Belfry to witness Donald giving a press briefing nigh his volume.
It is a skillful volume, he says. "We did this rapidly and we think we did it effectively. It's been a groovy experience."
"America is crippled," according to Trump.
There were about seven or eight Trump staffers applauding off to the side when the concern mogul/writer stepped up to his podium. And about 50 members of the public standing up to a higher place, taking photos from the ballustrades.
Trump says there are a lot of people lining upwardly outside to have their books signed. (I'd say there were virtually 100.)
"Some have been in line now for 12-14 hours!" he says. This may or may not exist true.
I ask Trump why he doesn't believe in climate change. He writes this in Crippled America but doesn't explain it. He doesn't explicate it hither either.
"OK, what else," he says, and turns briskly to another announcer. Oh well.
Affiliate two. Our 'unbiased' political media
Megyn Kelly, of the famously Republican-hating Fox News, takes a diggings right from the off.
She "was conspicuously out to get me" at the first GOP argue, Trump whines. It'south interesting he should bring up Kelly considering surely it will remind a lot of people nearly when he said she was existence mean to him because she was on her period.
Moving on: Donald Trump doesn't wait to hear what a pollster has to say because he doesn't employ pollsters.
This is almost every bit rich as Donald Trump claims he is. His main campaign strategy has been telling people how well he is doing in the polls.
What else? Oh, Trump doesn't speak from a script considering he is a "very successful businessman". Megyn Kelly is mentioned again. We lose to Red china, United mexican states, Russia and Iran, he says.
Trump learned a long fourth dimension ago that if you say outrageous things the media "dearest you". Despite that he says the media are abusive to him. Some journalists "are horrible human beings, they are dishonest". I know a lot of journalists and this is true enough.
There's more virtually his golf courses. Oh and well-nigh NBC giving him the Apprentice gig. That ended well.
I like this bit a lot:
I have a wonderful and beautiful wife. I've got billions of dollars.
Because of this, he says, criticism doesn't carp him, and it tin can't hurt him. I judge that's why he has devoted Affiliate 2 of Bedridden America to criticism of him.
There's a reference to his campaign launch. You know, the i where he said Mexico was sending drug dealers and rapists to the US.
It turns out the media misquoted him. What he said was "that amidst all the illegal immigrants coming from Mexico were some pretty bad people, some of them are rapists, some of them are drug dealers".
This is non what he said. What he said was:
They [United mexican states] are sending us non the right people. The US has get a dumping ground for everyone else'southward problems.
They're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing their issues. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing offense, they're rapists, and some I presume are good people merely I speak to border guards and they tell the states what we are getting.
But, you know. Hispanics love him, as it turns out. "Simply that'southward not what the media reported".
He recalls being asked in an interview whether he knew the names of the world's most prominent terrorists. (He didn't.) It was "a ridiculous question" he says. Subsequently all: "We're non playing Fiddling Pursuit."
More on Trump's golf courses. Megyn Kelly is mentioned over again. And despite that stuff earlier on almost the media loving him because of those outrageous comments, it turns out they actually detest Trump: "Because they know I don't need them."
Affiliate 1. Winning again
The chapter championship brings to mind something Charlie Sheen might tweet beneath a picture of him with an arm circular a Playboy model. Good start.
Nosotros have a president who tries to get tough but isn't. We make concessions to other countries. That's not winning!
"If I ran my business that manner," I'd fire myself, Trump says, which inappreciably sounds like a proficient way to run a business.
At that place's some stuff about Iran. The Iranians tin't be trusted. We need a authorities that is "committed to winning and has experience in winning", you lot see. The word winning appears six times in this chapter.
Real extract:
Donald Trump builds businesses. Donald Trump builds buildings. Donald Trump develops magnificent golf game courses. Donald Trump makes investments that create jobs. And Donald Trump creates jobs for legal immigrants and all Americans.
Preface
There are 169 pages in Crippled America. Information technology takes one folio before Donald Trump raises the subject area of illegal immigrants.
They are amidst a listing of the "relentless and incompetent naysayers of the status quo" that Trump says knew would line upwards against him.
The others include: members of the media ("no concept of the difference between 'fact' and 'opinion'"). Congress ("deadlocked for years"). Politicians ("play similar total losers when they really endeavour to govern").
Trump reminds us, unnecessarily, that he has promised to build "a major wall that would be very loftier".
He so admits to being surprised by the reaction – the positive reaction – to his campaign.
"I know I'm a smashing builder," he says – what is this, Architecture Weekly? – "but I hadn't fully exposed my political thoughts and ideas to restore America'southward greatness." True dat.
He also says, in a tone reminiscent of a famous U.k. Ferrero Rocher advertizing, that he "knew that the Trump make is one of the world's great icons of quality and excellence".
As Trump rose in the GOP polls, "the media, the politicians, and the then-called leaders of our country reacted in horror", he says, which is accurate enough.
Towards the end of the preface Trump set out his vision for America: "We demand to outline commonsense policies and and then knock some heads together if necessary to make them work."
Amen brother ...
Donald Trump's latest book – Crippled America: How to make America Peachy Again – is released today.
It sets out Trump'southward vision for America, as well as giving us more information about his past. The revelations include that his father, Fred Trump, gave him a "small loan" of $1m when Trump wanted to invest in Manhattan.
The book as well expands farther Trump'south views on immigrants – across his stance that Mexico is sending "rapists and drug dealers" to America. Mexico, according to Trump, has too "published pamphlets explaining how to illegally emigrate to the United states of america".
Trump will be signing copies of the book in New York Urban center later on, and I volition be reporting from the upshot.
I will as well be live-reading Crippled America. Then you don't have to. Follow it here.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2015/nov/03/donald-trump-new-book-crippled-america-live-read
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