He vows to shut down the southern border, pardon Jan. 6 felons, end foreign wars, slash taxes, ban transgender women from playing in girls’ sports, eliminate the Education Department, fire “woke” generals from the military and impose vast tariffs.
He wants to eliminate regulations, impose the death penalty on migrants, re-evaluate the use of some vaccines, get rid of windmills and end financial incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles.
Source New York Times 1-19-25
In other words impose a far right agenda. Whether it will all come about and the effects on us if it does, remains to be seen.
History tells us that extreme agendas don’t end well, especially those that don’t support the general population.
Where are the goals for dealing with deficits, making Social Security and Medicare solvent, addressing health care – issues critical to all Americans? He promised a great new health plan in 2016 and we heard nothing more.
Tariffs, tax cuts and deportation are all inflationary. Who will accept the blame?
Regulations can be annoying, even add cost in some areas, but they protect us as well. Who will measure the impact of less oversight?
What message are we sending if those who sought to disrupt our Constitutional process are pardoned?
This agenda is essentially anti-federal government. Do the American people understand what that means in practice?
Quite likely fewer services and safety nets and more responsibility and costs on the states. That was the thinking in the 18th century. Will it work in the 21st?
My opinion is that by a tiny margin the American voters have made a serious error after falling for a brilliant propaganda campaign designed to play on fears and bring out the worst in some people.
QUINNSCOMMENTARY 
I Think Prince Harry get his Visa Application under the Trump administration
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I Think Donald Trump Is Protection Prince Harry
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I Think Donald Trump & Melania Trump are performed occult ritual at Mar-a-Lago Club
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I Think Donald Trump Is a Insufferable Bully
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Your comments have become fat too left for me. My understanding when I first started reading your blogs was that they were to guide people like me who may be less educated on how to make good decisions for retirement both before and after. Your comments have become way too political. I have no interest in your political views. I have my beliefs and you have yours. Please help me with good money decisions, health care decisions and insurance options. I believe this is your area of expertise. Don’t push your questionable beliefs on me. I’m too old to change now and I feel comfortable in what I believe. As you can tell. I’m a little more conservative than you.
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This is Mr. Quinn’s blog, not yours. And he does it for free. You don’t have to read it.
Go subscribe to WSJ. I think you’ll enjoy their editorials.
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Sounds like you have drank the Quinn koolaide. Sorry if I offended you or Mr Quinn. Over the past few years Mr Quinn has gave very good advice on money matters and his advice has helped me greatly. However his political views I disagree with. Sorry lefty. But I do agree that he is entitled to his opinion and I wish him well and respect his views.
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Al Lindquist
A “far right agenda”–so was much of what he wants to “eliminate” is far left? Do you have a definition for far right–what would far left be–I hear conservative politicians like Ted Cruz described as “far right” on our vast left-wing media but never someone as “far left”. Is Bernie Sanders far left–he is a self-proclaimed socialist–what about Liz Warren?
What was the inflation rate when Trump left office–this after tax cuts and tariffs (which the corpse kept)–as usual no evidence from you that tariffs and taxes are inflationary–just repeating something you heard. Remember–too much $ chasing too few goods is inflation–high prices is a symptom. If the M2 money supply goes crazy you will get inflation as it did when they had to finance the money give away under the corpse. Go to your your Google machine and find Lawrence Summers Obama’s chief economist and what he warned at that time–he and many others. And yes other countries did the same with the same results.
Deportation is inflationary? Really! Never heard that before–what has the Fed got to do with deportation? Ever ask yourself why Argentina has an inflation rate that hit 300% not too many years ago? Want to bet it has something to do with printing money? Read about why it is down to about 3% monthly–progress is being made. Use your Google machine.
Eliminate regulations? You mean forcing us all to buy electric vehicles–allowing your granddaughter to compete against only females in her sports program–eliminating DEI in all federal agencies. We the voter will measure the impact–that’s how democracies work. You saw that in November. A big middle finger to all the loons on the left.
The loons overplayed their hand–defending the crashing of border to the south to the tune of 8-10 million illegals–I never understood why normal, logical, clear thinking folks accepted an open border–many think to turn red states purple and then blue. Yes, the corpse did the executive order in 2024 that has helped considerably. Same one he could have issued in January 2021. Wonder why he waited???
Forgiving college debt which adds to the deficit and does little or nothing for truck drivers–first responders–waitstaff, cooks and bartenders. I guess buying votes was that important. Talk about overplaying your hand.
“Brilliant propaganda” say you which really means folks were too stupid, as you told us Thanksgiving day, to know what they were doing. You know–the low IQ voters you told us about in those red states– Of course you, family, and certain friends were too smart to fall for it.
But then you voted for the corpse–believed no doubt the border was secure–inflation transitory–the corpse was not demented–Hunter’s laptop was really Russian disinformation–Putin gave us high gas prices–and Afghanistan was a rousing success and the dossier was real and not paid for by the Clinton 2016 campaign. Wasn’t her campaign fined for that dossier ? Google machine.
Trump is not my cup of tea–but the loons on the left are far more dangerous. Just think you can now disagree with covid mandates without losing your job–walk on college campuses if Jewish knowing young Democrats now have some fear of attacking you–you can even say you know the difference between a man and a woman without being labeled a bigot.
The recent MIT study about the election shows cultural issues a major determinant of the election–inflation and immigration the big issues–but start imposing DEI and–tax-payer pays for sex changes for imprisoned illegals and legal folks, as an example, leads to hot button issues that the loons were on the other side of–per usual.
Rep. Moulton of MA is a great example–he said he wants no trans men playing field hockey against his girls–did the loons on the left go crazy!!!–music to my ears. Get out that Google machine.
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No extreme is good, left or right. You are parroting the rhetoric. There was no mandate for electric cars. Inflation was caused primarily by the pandemic, then by tax cuts and helped by unnecessary stimulus.
The border was never open if by that anyone can just walk in.
I don’t make this stuff up, I research. Tariffs are not paid by foreign governments- even as Trump claimed yesterday. They are inflationary. Tax cuts don’t pay for themselves, they add to the deficit and stimulate the economy, hence inflationary not to mention add to the deficit. Deporting millions of illegal immigrants as stated is the goal will have an adverse impact on the economy. If they can be replaced in key industries also inflationary.
I don’t agree with many ideas of liberals, but as a look at what they do propose I find little tat actual ends in harm to our country or people. The cry of socialism is unwarranted and that is not what is suggested. Socialism is the ownership of industry the state.
Medicare is not that, Medicare for all is not that, trying to deal with the environment is not socialism. I look at the Scandinavian countries with a blend of socialism of sorts and democracy and I think, are they worse off than we are? It doesn’t appear so. Yeah, much higher taxes, but far less worry over many things Americans struggle with every day. We have a crisis in spending, health care, retirement, debt, child care for many, college costs for many, even adequate work force. Crying socialism, ranting against government and the deep state isn’t going to solve the problems. I’m open to positive, practical ideas fully funded from the start. What about you?
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Yikes–the emperor really has no clothes–no mandate for electric cars–gee, I thought by 2035 cars sold in California and a number of other lefty states have to be electric–you can keep your gas powered car but these states will find some way to rid themselves of gas stations no doubt .
Under the Biden folks 67% of new light duty vehicles and 46% of medium duty vehicles by 2032 need to be electric. April of last year EPA issued rules for semis and they also will need to be electric–In California you, in a few years, you cannot drive the big semis into the state no matter how small your load. A Journal article highlighted a driver who spent time and money trying for recharge–cost is passed on to the consumer.
“Stimulating the economy is inflationary”–did you really say that?? With all those programs the corpse introduced you now tell us it was inflationary–where were you Quinn when those programs were passed? But, remember it was financing those programs with funny $ that caused the inflation–too much $ chasing too few goods—it ain’t rocket science.
“the border was never open if by that anyone could just walk in”–Quinn are you serious or is the Trump derangement syndrome clouding your eyesight–how do you think they got here? bus–train–Uber? I will say I saw a group of Chinese dropped off at the border by a vehicle (Uber?) and roll their suitcases into the country–now that was funny and sad.
Quinn–those who didn’t walk might have swum across a river, but the border was for all intensive purposes– OPEN–I know lefties tell you not to believe your lying eyes but you’re a grown thinking person–maybe you were watching the lefty stations where they telling you it was Faux News just making it all up–it just was not happening–no caravans–no folks crossing in Eagle Pass–and what the hell they work cheap and pay SS.
Quinn–Socialism is when the state does own the industry–Scandinavian countries are not partially socialist–they are welfare states–they have stock markets–you can buy shares of some companies here in the States–but they have high taxes to support the welfare state.
deporting folks who are here illegally is just common sense–if Quinn walks into Ireland is he allowed to stay? If you go there to live–get all your papers–pay the fees–maybe you become a citizen or a long-time guest worker–obey the law.
tariffs are inflationary??? you mean they raise prices–you can’t have inflation if the money supply is stable–if imported wine is more pricey you stop buying and buy something else–if you print $ then you have inflation–I do not like tariffs because they are a tax–using your logic though raising taxes is inflationary as it increases prices–tax the widget producer and he/she passes it on to you and me–are you sure, using your logic, you want to raise taxes–it would not necessarily be inflationary–only if the printing presses roll.
You seem to have a hard time with that concept–why do folks buy gold? because you cannot print it up–why does a Picasso hold its value ?because they are scarce–why does paper money lose value? because it is easy to print up.
tax cuts don’t pay for themselves–the feds have never taken in so much money and you tell us they don’t pay for themselves–of course no proof–
in Ireland companies pay at 12.5%–most folks at 20% of income–VAT tax also–a number of tax credits helps with the personal tax–I think the Journal just had an article about the government sending out checks as they had more $ than expenses–Irish are worried that if corp. taxes are lowered in USA many U.S. companies will come home. Inflation in Ireland for December was 1.4%–what are they doing that we are not??
here in this country we are not interested in cradle to grave nanny state programs–there is a reason our economy is the strongest in the world–we don’t want a bunch of lefties or those on the right telling how to live–folks want a gas powered car–a gas stove and the freedom to keep as much as their labor produces–with your high taxes in NJ you must be drawing people in like flies to honey–I guess I should not believe those stories of low-tax red states attracting folks from high-tax blue states.
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How many trans athletes were going to be on the hockey team, exactly?
https://www.thestreet.com/retirement-daily/social-security-medicare/trump-rescinds-medicare-drug-executive-order
Hmm… how does this lower prices? But I’m sure this will help my pharmaceutical stocks go up…
And the Q-Anon shaman is going to buy himself some guns. All of the Jan 6 prisoners can buy guns now! And they owe their loyalty to Trump!
But sex changes for prisoners. That’s the real threat.
I just keep reminding myself that this is what America wanted. Yay.
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Wanted to point out that the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) changes only apply to Medicare beneficiary Rx. So, the Rx manufacturers, Pharmacy Benefit Managers and others simply charge everyone else more – those who do not benefit from government price fixing.
If two Americans, one age 64 and 11 months and the other age 65 and 1 month (yes, born two months apart), go to the same hospital, on the same day, with all the same procedures and all the same medical personnel, where they are in the same semi-private room, the younger person will be charged between 250 and 350% more – regardless of outcome!
That isn’t a price reduction. That is cost shifting.
And, that is what the IRA changes were/are – shifting costs old and disabled people incur to younger and not-disabled workers who do not benefit from government price fixing – all as a means to buy votes.
Same with Health Reform. Health Reform did not lower the cost of coverage for lower income Americans who gained access to Medicaid or to public exchange coverage, but instead shifted that cost to taxpayers, today or tomorrow (in the form of deficits and national debt) – all to buy votes.
I could never vote for Trump, however, I could never vote for Clinton, Biden or Harris either – they are all very poor presidential candidates. But, Trump, Biden, Trump is your president and mine.
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Al Lindquist
the sex changes that tax payers would be on the hook for are just an example of how crazy some on the left have become–in some locations a child birth certificate can read TBD when filling in gender–“to be determined”–there is no end to the foolishness.
trans athletes on the hockey team–would one or two bother you? men transitioning should use ladies restrooms?–according to reports 0.3% of the population transitions–let’s double it to 0.6%–a lot of noise made for a tiny minority, but they make quite a few demands.
Yes, the Jan 6 folks are out and more violent than the the Biden crime family–most have had their lives ruined–the violent ones should be behind bars.
Yes, they wanted the corpse 4-years ago and now Trump–too bad the lefties screwed things up so much, but when you overreach this happens–could well happen in ’26.
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The far left had no answer to any of the problems you cite and spent time in pushing people in directions they didn’t want to go. The pendulum swung back farther than it should have perhaps but that is what happens. There simply was no strong centrist candidate to take over.
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the Democrats are the ones who made a serious error. Not listening and promoting crap that no one cares about. Look at the bright side: you have job security for the next four years.
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