Subj : Re: Chinese Scientists Cr
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mike Powell
Date : Wed Mar 05 2025 10:36:00

> MP>Politically speaking, they are different, but they do have similarities if
>   >you look for them.  Both promised (Trump the first time) to be "different"
>   >than other politicians, both knew very well how to work an audience, how
o
>   >use social media to their advantage, and both had campaigns that knew
bout
>   >branding.  Obama was the first President where I noticed a marked amount
f
>   >things -- beyond campaign wear -- with his stylized "O" on them... hats,
>   >t-shirts (post election), etc.  Trump's MAGA hats seem even more
revalent,
>   >but are basically the same thing.

> Sounds like it's more about personal popularity than what they intend
> to do politically,

"Popularity" would be part of it, but I think it is more to do with
cultivating that popularity.  They both had a charismatic way of doing that.

> The tariffs started today and apparently has already cost the USA
> 3 Trillion dollars in stock drops, and Trump is suddenly suggesting
> that he may have another look at things in a few weeks and maybe
> make some adjustments.

The Dow is down over 1300 points this week, as of the close on Tuesday.

> Trudeau, usually pretty polite to everyone, said today that for
> such a smart man he was doing a really stupid thing..

He is not wrong there.

> In Congress today apparently most of what he said was Boo'd by
> at least all the Democrats and he had to have the Congressman
> from Texas physically removed from the floor when he was heckling
> Trump during his speach and someone else started suggesting voting
> for Trump's impeachment..

I don't know that they all booed him for sure.  A lot of them held up signs
that said things like "FALSE," "LIAR," and other more specific messages.
The Democrat who heckled him apparently did so over the claim that he won
with a "mandate."

Overall he most certainly did not win with a mandate.  However, if one
looks at it by the states that actually decided the election... the swing
states... I guess he sort of did.  While it was a foregone conclusion that
states like California were going to be "blue" and states like Kentucky
would be "red," Trump did manage to carry every single state that was
actually in play.

That said, I agree with the Texas Congressman... nationwide, there was no
mandate.

> MP>The Trump administration is now spinning this as "Zelenskyy was escorted
>   >out by us and the presser was cancelled by us," which was not the original
>   >story.

> No, nothing that makes Trump look bad is ever true, and that 'truth'
> can change day by day as required..

Indeed.


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