Remember Trump’s first term? He would float all kinds of crazy shit that the press would report. “Trump considering…” And the media would fall for it every time. And then a lot of the destructive shit he’d do quietly after 5 o’clock on a Friday with no fanfare.
I’m with Sawbonz that Trump isn’t likely to privatize the USPS. I think it’s more of the same kind of bullshit that he floats in order to generate outrage and distract from other destructive bullshit. He’s a fucking troll and the best way to respond to trolls is to ignore them. Unfortunately he’s also about to hold the most powerful office in the world again so we’re forced to pay attention to his bullshit because some of it he’s going to actually do. It fucking sucks that we have to go through this again because our fellow Americans have such short memories.
Fortunately Trump is a lazy, incompetent moron and privatizing the USPS would require attention and effort to which he’s disinclined, and it would have negative repercussions with his rural base so he’s not likely to go through with it.I doubt he really cares that much and the Republicans in Congress probably aren’t in to it. But if it grabs a headline, he loves that.
All part of that firehose of bullshit he loves to spew in order to desensitize us. He’ll destroy a lot of shit but he’ll talk about destroying even more. And remember, the first thing he wants to do is cut his own taxes further, use the DOJ to attack his enemies, and start deporting brown people. He’ll privatize the USPS as surely as he’ll build a wall and replace Obamacare.