The trouble with Trump

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump knew there would be repercussions over his plan to ban foreign Muslims from entering the U.S., even though it is to be a temporary ban. 

"I knew there would be a storm," he told "Fox News Sunday" in a taped interview, but argued that extreme members of the religion who support terrorism are "sick people" who pose a risk to the country.

The religion he was referring to is Islam. The "sick people" he was referring to are not "sick," they are religious and take Islam, as the Koran delineates it, literally. Kind of like "Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them," and all.

So even the politically incorrect Trump carefully walks the fine line of PC and not PC, but many people love him because he is saying the things out loud that they are thinking.

The Donald made the ban proposal after the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernadino, where the terrorists had apparent connections to ISIS and al Qaeda.

Tashfeen Malik, the semi-ugly Pakistani Muslima with 'Mohamed Atta eyes' tried to contact the terror groups, before coming to the U.S. They didn't answer her call, or the line was busy, but after the attack, ISIS congratulated her on her jihad.

Malik and her husband, Syed Farook, killed 14 and wounded 21 in the San Bernadino attack. They were killed in a shootout with police (Black Lives Matter was not available for comment) and more information is being discovered every day.

For example, Malik had no difficulty entering the US from Pakistan on a fiancee visa in spite of having publicly stating her desire to commit jihad here. The reason this slip-up occurred was due to the fact that the government has the oversight on our security and, like Barack Hussein Obama, is incompetent beyond collecting taxes and instituting useless corporate regulations.

"They're sick people," Trump said of the terrorists, not the government, but he could have.

His plan to restrict Muslims from entering the United States was hugely (to use a Trump word) criticized by both parties, including the fresh-out-of-the-box GOP House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan, who said Trump's proposal is un-American.

Tell that to the Americans.

Not one to allow a criticism of him to go unnoticed, Trump criticized Ryan's thinking and said "He's big on amnesty. That's not the kind of thinking we need. We need strong leaders."

As it currently stands, the Donald has increased his poll numbers, according to a Monmouth University survey last week, to 35% of the vote between the GOP candidates. That's a tremendous difference.

Trump's big numbers seem to be a reflection on how the voters feel about the BS factor that exists in modern politics (see, for example, Hillary Clinton on Benghazi, emails, women's rights and credibility regarding rape and Bill Clinton).

The trouble with Trump is he often shoots from the hip and misses the target, then has to tweak his statements a bit. 

The voting public doesn't seem to care, however. They want Trump to say to Obama "You're fired!"

And 2017 can't come soon enough.


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