Predictions for the next four years

[Minimalist]

The idiot will get hundreds if not that then thousands killed with his arrogance and outright stupidity. The fact he thinks he's too smart for intelligence briefings is very scary. The fact he's busy tweeting about SNL instead on trying to improve the nation is very scary. The fact is we elected a 5 year old in office with very thin skin and will become the most corrupt person in the world. And his supporters are too dumb to even know they're being scammed.

His supporters are idiots.  No news there.

[vorlon13]

might be some good news on the horizon;

a 30% tariff on (mainland) Chinese goods would put WalMart out of business and end their paying starvation wages to their workers

[Autumnlicious]

Doubtful on if it's a good result.

If this presidency will shape up like Hoover's, we'll see a few insufficient construction projects and a recession prompted by protectionism, trade wars and soaring debt.

Sure that'll take out Walmart. And everyone else.

[GUBU]

@Joko, Trump'll go very quiet on Iran very quickly. Iran is currently Russia's best buddy so Putin will wave the dirt he has on Trump in his face and Trump will cave.

Anything he's said about protecting or increasing workers' rights is a lie, look at how he treats his own staff. So paid family leave won't come within 100 miles of becoming law. And on immigration, he'll make a big show of deporting unemloyed Latinos and muslim looking people early on (and will probably kick out a number of fifth generation citizens "by mistake"; "sure they were brown. How were we to know they were citizens. Proper Americans are white") but little will actually change, as his businesses will collapse without using undocumented below minimum wage immigrant workers.

He'll attack someone all right, someone small and weak. I'm guessing he'll send in the fifth fleet to occupy the radioactive remains of Reunion, who he ordered nuked because the local council refused him planning permission for golf club and monstrously ugly hotel. And while he's distracted Russia'll invade Poland, bringing about the coalescence of the EU into a state.

[TaraJo]

So far, a trade war with China isn't unlikely. He's done a great job of pissing them off less than a month after the election. I know Trump is full of bravado and narcissism, but I'm hoping he'll actually try to avoid trade war with China because that will be EXTREMELY ugly for us. As in, get ready for great recession part 2.

He's also been packing his cabinet with corporate CEO's. Seriously, what makes America think profit driven corporations are trustworthy? In a strange way, though, they may actually stop him from pissing off China since a lot of them own companies that will lose a lot of money if Trump pisses off China. I suppose if their greed can help, it isn't entirely bad.

I'm hoping that we can salvage some good out of this, though: reform within the democratic party. The democrats were big starting around WWII. The New Deal was so wildly popular that Harry Truman and Lyndon B Johnson both tried to emulate it with similar programs and even republicans were afraid to touch it (Eisenhower has been quoted on that). Because of these wildly popular programs and the extremely healthy economy that lasted from the 40's until the 80's, the democrats had a stranglehold on both houses of congress and they won most of the presidential elections, too. They passed legislation to help the people, not corporate donors, and I'd like to see someone start doing that again. Bernie Sanders was on the right track here and if the democrats start following his lead and they continue listening to voices like Elizabeth Warren, maybe we can get that old democratic party back.

[Autumnlicious]

Hoover's presidency was filled with business leaders as well.

People who elected the fuck did so under the impression that he could bring jobs back by virtue of being pro-business.

He ran the country into the ground.

Mr. Trump is packing his cabinet with a pro-business outlook as well and has already demonstrated souring relations with China. I have little interest in seeing the next act of this god forsaken opera.

[Amarok]

Summed up really

[CapnAwesome]

Trump scares me.  Not just Trump, really, but politics in general.  Truth is, the electorate has a terrible memory.

Know why I don't vote Republican?  I remember what happened last time the voters listened to voices like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter: we elected Bush, a president that was such a failure that even his own party has been going out of their way to distance themselves from him.  I remember what happened with the last two democratic candidates: recessions were turned around and the economy improved.  

But here's what REALLY scared me: The white house, both houses of congress and the supreme court are all Republican.  Does anyone remember the last time that happened?  I do.  It was right after Bush won re-election in 2004.  The result was that gas prices skyrocketed, New Orleans was washed away and the Iraq war (which Bush and the entire Republican party campaigned on) drug on with no end in sight.  

Before that?  Before that, we had that kind of a majority in 2001, just prior to 9/11 happening.  

And before that?  Before that was a long time ago; 1928.  Who rememers what happened in 1929?

I guess the only potential good news is that the Republicans, back in the 20's, caused enough of a complete disaster that we actually got a president who pushed through reforms and laws and programs that helped middle and lower classes.  I just wish it didn't take such extreme disasters for us to realize how butt-fuckingly terrible everything gets with Republicans in charge.

In 1928 the Republican party was extremely different then today, also to blame them for a worldwide economic collapse that affected every nation in the west......uhhh, not really sure what to say. There is normally a lag in economic cycles anyway, so it's not like a congress in 1928 can cause an economic collapse the next year. Decisions made by today's congress will take years to affect the economy.

I also didn't know Hurrican Katrina was a Republican, but I guess. Not sure a Democratic president would have made any difference there.

I agree with everything else you wrote though.

[Mister Agenda]

The lag in economics is mainly a lag in good policies taking effect. Bad policies often have swift results. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, for instance.

[downbeatplumb]

I predict prosperity for those who are proactive and seek jobs that are going to start being created. Those who desire self determination and don't live in a reactive state of dependency will thrive. You will see the taboo of being proud to be American dwindle as the voices of those trying to ideologically subvert the nation by bashing the US as an oppressive state slowly fade away as they wake up and leave the plantation of victim hood and join the rest of us in common culture. The self loathing lazy socialists will soon jump off their sinking ship and swim to shore and see what happens when capitalism shows them how to be productive and make something for themselves.

As infrastructure projects begin employing US citizens, the money from wages will be spent in the inner cities supporting the local economies creating more jobs for low skilled retail workers. Less money will be transferred over seas. The trade deficit will start to reverse as companies start to market the made in America brand in line with the new nationalist populist movement takes hold. The stock market will continue to go up past the record level 20,000 DJI creating more optimism and more willingness to invest for further profits.

Unfortunately word is there is a plan to start a war between Turkey and Syria, but not by Trump. This may throw a wrench in things but hopefully only temporarily.

I predict that he will screw up so badly that the USA and much of the world will take beyond my lifetime to fully recover if it ever does.
He is already talking of increasing the nuclear arsenal and I think he'll use it.

I envy you your delusion, but this man will at best be a global disaster and at worst end all higher life forms.