Trump Once Considered Himself a Democrat ??

"In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat," Trump told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in a 2004 interview. "It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't be that way. But if you go back, I mean it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats. ...But certainly we had some very good economies under Democrats, as well as Republicans. But we've had some pretty bad disaster under the Republicans." Trump still attacks plenty of Republicans today, but the comments praising Democrats are in stark contrast to the fiery rhetoric he deploys against them on the campaign trail, including President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton

Trump is NOT stupid. The media doesn’t know what to do with him. Give Donald time and he will make America great again.

Why are the relations between Donald Trump and the press so bad? There are two reasons. One is that Trump is a Republican, and the press consists overwhelmingly of Democrats. But the other reason is that Trump likes it this way, because when the press is constantly attacking him over trivialities, it strengthens his position and weakens the press. Trump’s “outrageous” statements and tweets aren’t the product of impulsiveness, but part of a carefully maintained strategy that the press is too impulsive to resist.

There are several different measures. The stock market, money markets and value of the dollar, reported unemployment, real unemployment, etc, etc.

We can pick and choose which measures favor our agenda.

Then there are the anticipation and implementation effect.

In October the Pension funds and institutional investors thought that Hillary would win and invested in that anticipation. When Trump won, investors went on anticipation of what Trump would do months before he would do it..or even take office.

Reagan’s worst statistics are in the years before his tax cuts were passed in Congress ...which was before they were actually implemented.

Just as Reagan’s defeat of Communism didn’t actually come til after he was out of office, so Reaganomics had its biggest effect in the 12 years after he left office.

Was it Tip O’Neils big domestic spending and Reagan’s big defense spending and running deficits that boosted the economy? Or Reagan’s tax cut?

I submit that Bill Gates invention of a capitalist marketing system did more to boost the economy than all the positive efforts of government.

I dare anyone to “prove” anything Post-WWII in the macro sense. The place has way too many moving parts only partially influenced by each other.

In the micro-sense we can “prove” that the excise tax on boats had only negative and no positive impacts.

In the macro sense we can estimate a probability of the impact of events. But even then we are not accurate. Some people looked at the Fannie/Freddie mess in 2000-2006 and accurately predicted the ensuing financial problems. But among those prophets, some predicted (including me) that we would quickly adjust and bounce back. Well, not so much.

My house in a red part of Blue Illinois went underwater. Rather than quickly bounce back, it was worth less than my mortgage balance from 2008-2017, even as my mortgage balance went down with each monthly payment. That “quick bounce back” didn’t happen til 2017 when, between January and April 2017 it gained $20,000 in bank appraisal value per multiple appraisals from multiple banks and appraisers. Last week I sold it to break even with my mortgage balance.

Other accurate prophets of the mortgage trigger event predicted the total collapse of the economy and total collapse of society. They also were wrong. Well maybe half-right and half-wrong.

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