In a leaked Mar-a-Lago video, Donald Trump’s bold promise showed his true political colors. “I know plenty of you, and you’re rich as hell,” Trump told a laughing crowd. “We’re going to give you tax cuts; we’re going to pay off our debt.”
The Bulwark claims Trump’s promise to throw money at the über wealthy makes him “vulnerable” as it hardly fits with his supposed “drain the swamp” bring down the elite populist candidate mandate. They hypothesized it would alienate his red-hatted blue-collar supporters in the Rust Belt. However, this is the man who told cheering supporters at an Iowa campaign rally in 2016 that he “could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” He also has a gold-plated toilet and flies into rallies on a private jet, so that ship seems to have sailed.
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Meanwhile, Trump continued to echo fascist ideals later in the video with a comment that could have been ripped straight from the “Mein Kampf” playbook. “They’re calling me a dictator,” he said. “‘Trump wants to be a dictator. Trump wants to be!’ And you know how it started? [I was asked] a question. ‘Tell me you don’t want to be a dictator.’ No, I won’t say that.” Since he was addressing the crowd during a Mark Robinson fundraiser, Trump was definitely playing to the audience. The gubernatorial candidate gives 45 a run for his money in the extreme far-right stakes.
