JAMIE DIMON SAYS TRUMP WAS JUST KIDDING ABOUT KICKING 11 MILLION ILLEGALS OUT
JAMIE DIMON SAYS TRUMP WAS JUST KIDDING ABOUT KICKING 11 MILLION IMMIGRANTS OUT OF THE COUNTRY
Oh, you took Trump at his word?
BY BESS LEVIN
DECEMBER 22, 2016 1:47 PM
Since Donald Trump was elected president in November, many people have noticed that a lot of things he said on the campaign trail do not appear to be a top priority anymore.
Taking a hard line on Wall Street has become a mandate to hire everyone from Goldman Sachs.
“Draining the swamp,” we’re now informed, was just a cute campaign slogan.
Of course, everyone running for office, at one time or another, makes promises they don’t always keep, but the extent to which Trump has said one thing prior to November 8 and done another post November 8 is enough to make a person feel like they’re taking crazy pills.
So far, his transition team and supporters have explained the changes of heart by chiding people for taking a man who’s going to be president “literally.” (As opposed to what?) To that end, should 11 million immigrants be worried Trump is going to throw them out of the country upon taking office?
According to Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan C.E.O. and chairman of the Business Roundtable, which is advising Trump on business policy the answer is no, don’t be silly.
“Look, we’re not going to kick 11 million people out.
President-elect Trump is different from candidate Trump. He’s now said that if you break the law, we’re going to deport you. Of the 11 million undocumented, only 800,000 are estimated to have broken the law. By the way, that is the current policy of the United States.
President Obama deported 2.8 million people for breaking the law. The BRT supports immigration. It is a pro-jobs argument.”
Get it? Trump the candidate, who we were not supposed to take literally, was one person, and Trump the president-elect is a totally different one, who we’re now supposed to trust when words exit his mouth.
Of course, on the matter of immigration, the news that the hateful rhetoric he spewed on the campaign trail was just an act not meant to be taken at face-value should be a good thing (unless you voted for him specifically because you want to kick millions of people out of the U.S.).
But despite how various people try to project and rationalize what the hell he actually plans to do on January 20, we really have no idea (even his buddy Newt seems confused).
Instead of trying to guess, we should probably just all go to a Zen place and let it wash over us.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/...ump-immigrants