People voted for Trump because he was going to get loads of money from foreigners, using tariffs.
He had it put on the sides of the buses.
You have to work out what trump means. Much of what he says is lies. See his book "Art of the deal" - he'll often ask for far more than is reasonable to get his opponent to concede more, early on. Whatever his motives, he operates in any corrupt way he can get away with.
Yes USA did better than anywhere after covid. Biden spent a ton of money the USA doesn't have. They can do that, it's part of "exceptionalism".
We'll see how much Trump reigns in the expenditure.
So many things that he says are going to happen, need money or squidgy resources he doesn't have. Again, he goes much further in his pronouncements than he expects. Like the tariffs which are already cut back and delayed. He'll get a chunk of what he wants without imposing much. Government by bullying.
No, rich people do not have to give their money away even if they don't need it, despite what notchy, JD etc might think. Whinge all you like, that's not how the world works. There are so few mega rich people, you might think it would be easy to democratically support a wealth tax. We all know why it mostly wouldn't work.
No you do not let people get away with breaking immigration laws just because they've been there a long time.
But if it's a long time, you share the blame, what did you do to mitigate the damage they're doing?????. Saying "Don't come" (Harris) isn't good enough.
You cannot just send them all back, for the reasons eveyone gives. So you regularise them to YOUR advantage, and try hard to stop the siuation of illegal immigration persisting. Something like, deport the ones without jobs. Make it unattractive to try to cheat the system. Trump's style is to say they'll
all be deported, so he can get some more practical measures brought in which would have seemed outrageous for someone like Biden.
Similary, he said prices would go down. Now we can see them going up, and he's saying yes they'll go up further but they'll come down later. Ah that one, jam tomorrow.. Everyone who was bright enough and honest. could see that, - he was lying. Trump is allowed and expected now to speak shyte, like Boris was allowed buffoonery. It has become the normal m.o. .
Trump can, just like all the miscreants he has it in for, get away with it. He uses any legitimate, underhand, or illegal way he can get away with. He might have learned that from his Mafia associations (see Wikipedia).
He and every other American can misquote a version of the truth, and use it to their advantage:
No man ever went broke by under-estimating the intelligence of the American public.
Oh and
- a lot of us know about kulaks
- I lied about the buses.