20 thoughts on “Trump’s DC Policy Shop”

  1. How is it a bad thing to not pay people in DC?

    I think Trump should have noted that as the rest of America’s real estate markets crashed, the Washington area market boomed. Trump should pledge that the measure of his success will be the crash of the DC real estate market because it moves inversely with the real estate in real America. If Washington is a tumor then having the cancer get bigger while the body wastes away isn’t a sign of health.

  3. The campaign never discussed how much the pay would be. It was never in writing,

    These were volunteers imagining they were paid consultants.

  4. “But after Dearborn worked his staff overtime to get the recommendations, the campaign leadership decided to go in a different direction. “The New York office realized that their candidate would not be receptive to that level of intense preparation,” one former adviser said.”

    Ya Trump thought it was more important to have debate prep focus on “zingers” rather than actual policy.

    1. Meanwhile Vlad, who has been the policy candidate? Hint: it isn’t even close although you wouldn’t know it from the lack of media coverage.

      1. I can’t wait for Trump’s next book:

        “The Art of the Zinger in American political campaigns”

        1. Trump doesn’t do zingers. We wish he did. He does characterization which is an entirely different things.

    1. Damned conman keeps saying all the things I want to hear. I’m so deplorable.

      I don’t know how we get to Armageddon, but it is certain. Perhaps the neverTrump movement is part of that purpose? But if Hillary wins, the neverTrump people will be responsible.

      1. Well, he’s not quite saying what I want to hear. He’s about halfway there with increasing public/private partnerships and refocusing NASA on exploration rather than the trip to and from LEO. He’s still looking at it as a jobs program, though. He needs to read Rand’s book, soon.

          1. You don’t know that and neither do I. He does have staff.

            You wrote that book for a reason – to influence policy. Here’s a guy who may be in a position to change policy soon. If you get the book to his staff, what’s the worst possible outcome? What’s the best outcome?

          3. You could try Jennifer Locetta,
            https://ballotpedia.org/Jennifer_Locetta

            I think this is important, Rand. Do you know what Wernher von Braun thought of Kennedy? Me either.

            This is a golden opportunity. If Trump wins (the possibility does exist), then this is one area of policy that we know needs changing, and more importantly, how. He’s making noises about big things in space, and won’t take much convincing to agree that infrastructure like propellant depots are better for America than one-shot isolated missions to wherever.

            One candidate is the Change candidate, the other is the Status Quo. If the Change candidate wins, and he’s got the rationale for wholesale change in the way America approaches space laid out in front of him beforehand, we’re all better off.

        2. …and yet, you continue to not specify my gullibility.

          The best you can do is compare my gullibility to yours.

          People don’t always mean what they say (can you imagine any politician actually lying? It’s unheard of.)

          But they do go on record as Trump has.

          1. Trump just opened a hotel a year ahead of schedule and under budget. The media labeled this a bad thing. Would you claim this is not a Trump accomplishment?

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