1. He said he wouldn’t bomb Syria. You bought it. Then he bombed
Syria.
2. He said he’d build a wall along the border with Mexico. You
bought it. Now his secretary of homeland security says “It’s unlikely that we
will build a wall.”
3. He said he’d clean the Washington swamp. You bought it. Then
he brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street
moguls than in any administration in history, to make laws that will enrich
their businesses.
4. He said he’d repeal Obamacare and replace it with something
“wonderful.” You bought it. Then he didn’t.
5. He said he’d use his business experience to whip the White
House into shape. You bought it. Then he created the most chaotic,
dysfunctional, back-stabbing White House in modern history, in which no one is
in charge.
6. He said he’d release his tax returns, eventually. You bought
it. He hasn’t, and says he never will.
8. He said Clinton was in the pockets of Goldman Sachs, and
would do whatever they said. You bought it. Then he put half a dozen Goldman
Sachs executives in positions of power in his administration.
9. He said he’d surround himself with all the best and smartest
people. You bought it. Then he put Betsy DeVos, opponent of public education,
in charge of education; Jeff Sessions, opponent of the Voting Rights Act, in
charge of voting rights; Ben Carson, opponent of the Fair Housing Act, in
charge of fair housing; Scott Pruitt, climate change denier, in charge of the
Environmental Protection Agency; and Russian quisling Rex Tillerson as
Secretary of State.
10. He said he’d faithfully execute the law. You bought it. Then
he said his predecessor, Barack Obama, spied on him, without any evidence of
Obama ever doing so, in order to divert attention from the FBI’s investigation
into collusion between his campaign and Russian operatives to win the election.
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12. He called Barack Obama “the vacationer-in-Chief” and accused
him of playing more rounds of golf than Tiger Woods. He promised to never be
the kind of president who took cushy vacations on the taxpayer’s dime, not when
there was so much important work to be done. You bought it. He has by now spent
more taxpayer money on vacations than Obama did in the first 3 years of his
presidency. Not to mention all the money taxpayers are spending protecting his
family, including his two sons who travel all over the world on Trump business.
13. He called CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times
“fake news” and said they were his enemy. You bought it. Now he gets his
information from Fox News, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, and InfoWars.
More to come.
ROBERT B. REICH is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at
the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center
for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton
administration, for which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective
cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written fourteen books,
including the best sellers "Aftershock", "The Work of
Nations," and "Beyond Outrage," and, his most recent,
"Saving Capitalism." He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect
magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary, INEQUALITY FOR
ALL.
