Trump: Fake Nationalist?

There's no doubt that Trump's nationalistic, Make-America-Great-Again rhetoric and  his insistence on border security gave him the election-winning edge with traditionally Democrat-voting, blue-collar Americans. But in politics it has been said, "believe nothing until it has been denied" or conversely, therefore, disbelieve nothing until it has been warmly embraced: Remember FDR in 1939:

Boston on October 30, 1939: "I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." The same thought was expressed in a speech at Brooklyn on November 1: "I am fighting to keep our people out of foreign wars. And I will keep on fighting." The President told his audience at Rochester, New York, on November 2: "Your national government ... is equally a government of peace -- a government that intends to retain peace for the American people." On the same day the voters of Buffalo were assured: "Your President says this country is not going to war." And he declared at Cleveland on November 3: "The first purpose of our foreign policy is to keep our country out of war."

So is Trump truly a nationalist, or merely an opportunists ready to say anything to get elected. Despite the greatly reduced unemployment numbers, not everyone is convinced he's the former. Ann Coulter, for example, formerly a staunch Trump supporter. And from the Irish Savant this:

If the analysis (by Ann Coulter and Pat Buchanan among others) of the latest Bill that Trump signed is accurate then indeed we can finally put the last nail in the coffin of the Trump Revolution. Because that Bill appears to expressly forbid the building of The Wall, contains a de facto amnesty and opens the door to massive future immigration abuse through 'family reunion', 'legal immigration' and other such loopholes. Nothing has been done about the H1B visa scam which is devastating the employment prospects of American STEM graduates and changing forever the demographic profile of the country. Read more