Summary of Newt Gingrich's Understanding Trump

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Trump’s candidacy was unlike anything America has ever seen before. He was a political outsider who did not care about political correctness, and he was going to enforce the law and keep Americans safe.
#2 Ignore the media and political establishment when it comes to Trump. Start with his background, which is different from normal politicians.
#3 Trump’s origin is important to understand how he was able to connect so successfully with the blue-collar workers who made up his electoral base. He grew up in a small, modest house in Queens, and his family was extremely close.
#4 Trump’s familiarity and comfort with working-class Americans allows him to intuitively understand what they care about and want. The rallies he held as president were important for him to see how much support he had, and he continued holding them after the election because of it.

Sujets

• Executive Branch
• American Government
• Political Science
• Federal government of the United States
• Executive (government)

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822501829
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Newt Gingrich's Understanding Trump
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Trump’s candidacy was unlike anything America has ever seen before. He was a political outsider who did not care about political correctness, and he was going to enforce the law and keep Americans safe.

#2

Ignore the media and political establishment when it comes to Trump. Start with his background, which is different from normal politicians.

#3

Trump’s origin is important to understand how he was able to connect so successfully with the blue-collar workers who made up his electoral base. He grew up in a small, modest house in Queens, and his family was extremely close.

#4

Trump’s familiarity and comfort with working-class Americans allows him to intuitively understand what they care about and want. The rallies he held as president were important for him to see how much support he had, and he continued holding them after the election because of it.

#5

Trump is an entrepreneur, not a scholar. He views knowledge as a tool to get something done, not as a source of value in and of itself. In contrast to the Washington intelligentsia, this is how most Americans learn: when they are motivated out of a need to accomplish something.

#6

Trump can learn quickly, but he will resist being taught anything. He will accept information only if it is presented to him casually. He will try things out, and if they do not succeed or are poorly received, he will switch things up.

#7

President Trump was able to save American taxpayers half a billion dollars on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program after only a few days in office. He is a builder, not a financier, which explains his practical ability to cut costs.

#8

Trump is a pragmatist who wants to know what’s really going on. He is a person who gets up every day and wants to know what’s practical. The American system was originally based on facts and pragmatism, and it has worked well for nearly 250 years.

#9

Trump’s approach is similar to the factual, trial-and-error, learn-by-doing, pragmatic method Tocqueville described. Trump is a businessman who is willing to focus his energy on finding ways to accomplish his goals.

#10

Trump’s children, all of whom are extremely intelligent and accomplished, are grateful to their father for his attention, guidance, and confidence in them.

#11

President Trump will be guided by his morals and work ethic, and he will promote success and charity in equal measure. He will treat America with unwavering support and care.

#12

Trump learned from his experience with the media in 1980 when he was demolishing the Bonwit Teller building to construct Trump Tower. He understood that good publicity is preferable to bad, but that bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all.

#13

Despite apparently low odds, Trump has a strong will to win. In mid-October 2016, all the polls were bad. Trump told me that he would win by election day, and he did.

#14

Trump believes in aiming high, and he has achieved many impossible goals throughout his adult life. I am confident that America, with Trump as president, can achieve all those things and more.

#15

Trump’s philosophy does not fit into the conservative-liberal divide that has characterized American politics for the last twenty years. He takes anti-Left, anti-stupid, and anti-political correctness positions, no matter what.

#16

Trump’s worldview is not just political, but also anti-Left in nature. He has made it his life’s goal to spread an anti-Left worldview that being rich is good, and that anyone who works hard enough can be wealthy.

#17

Trump’s anti-Left positioning is also demonstrated by his promise to drain the swamp, which is a common trait of all left-wing movements to empower an enlightened ruling class to make decisions on behalf of the people for their own good.

#18

Trump’s presidency has been focused on the anti-Left policies he promised during his campaign. He has appointed Betsy DeVos as education secretary, who has spent her life advocating for school choice and other programs that offer children better opportunities to learn. He has also vowed to eliminate the so-called Johnson Amendment, which prohibits tax-exempt religious institutions from endorsing political candidates.

#19

Trump’s anti-stupidity stance is also directed at the left-wing ruling class. He punctures the ruling class’s justification for power by accusing it of being stupid, and he uses this anti-stupidity stance on both offense and defense to parry attacks against him.

#20

Trump was also correct in highlighting the unnecessary bureaucracy and cruelty of US drug policy, as it can take years for the FDA to approve drugs that are already safe and effective for other countries.

#21

Trump said that Megan’s story is about the unbounded power of a father’s love for a daughter. But the slow and burdensome approval process at the Food and Drug Administration prevents many advances from reaching those in need.

#22

The term political correctness was first used in the late 1980s and early 1990s to describe the liberal academic elite’s indoctrination of a generation of young adults with left-wing ideals.

#23

Americans don’t like being told what they are allowed to say, think, and do. This is why we have seen a rise in political correctness in America, which has led to a rise in frustration among the public.

#24

The way we have handled ISIS is a perfect example of how we have failed to tackle global radical Islamic terrorism. We have been fighting terrorists one front at a time, and the result is a game of Whac-A-Mole that has done nothing to end global radical Islamic terrorism or stabilize the Middle East.

#25

The president must be a lion. Lions cannot hunt chipmunks, because even if they catch them the lions will starve to death. Instead, lions must hunt antelopes - big animals - to survive.

#26

Trump’s America-first approach to foreign polic