There is something very wrong with Donald Trump

[aligncare]

Not one person here sounds like they know one actual true thing about Donald Trump. But, that's partisan politics for you, comes with the territory.

But just as Ronald Reagan was attacked as a demagogue, a buffoon, Donald Trump is just getting the ol' smear treatment himself now that he's in polly ticks.

[catfish1957]

Not one person here sounds like they know one actual true thing about Donald Trump. But, that's partisan politics for you, comes with the territory.

But just as Ronald Reagan was attacked as a demagogue, a buffoon, Donald Trump is just getting the ol' smear treatment himself now that he's in polly ticks.

Based on what Trump has said and done in the past few months?   You already have shown a lack of credibility, but now you want to commit political blasphemy.

Trump has rapidly put together a resume of being the biggest buffoon in US political history, and your laughable comparisons to RWR, only taints your standing here.

Honestly, I feel sorry for you Trump supporters having to defend the undefendable day in day out..  I'd probably be getting cranky too at this point,  In any case, you might want to pass word to the Freeper Mother Ship that making outrageous comparisons to Reagan does not pass the red faced test here.

[ScottinVA]

We warned the Trumpettes of this impending disaster.  There's a reason Trump has been a political "outsider" for all these years:  no sane person wants him around them.  He's a poisonous, narcissistic charlatan whose first, foremost and only objective is self-aggrandizement.

The saddest part of all this was the fact 2016 offered a window of opportunity to win the White House and slow the march to progressive oblivion.  Of all those 17 candidates, voters (albeit with the "help" of millions of temporary "crossovers") chose the worst possible option -- the one who has absolutely no chance - and quite possibly, no intent - of winning in November.

[ScottinVA]

Not one person here sounds like they know one actual true thing about Donald Trump. But, that's partisan politics for you, comes with the territory.

But just as Ronald Reagan was attacked as a demagogue, a buffoon, Donald Trump is just getting the ol' smear treatment himself now that he's in polly ticks.

Your comparisons of Trump to Reagan are laughable.  Reagan came into 1980 with experience of having successfully guided the fortunes of the most populous state in the union.  What you and the rest of the Trump backers fail to understand are three basic facts:

1) Trump's business background has no correlation to the concept of national governance.  While he can hire and fire at will in his corporate fiefdoms, as President, he would have no such capability vs those who oppose him -- and those who oppose him are legion. 

2) Trump wouldn't know national service if it slapped him upside his orange topside.  The comparison of whatever "sacrifices" he's made to those of a gold-star parent are a gross embarrassment.  Reagan would've simply saluted the lost soldier's service, accepted the fact his parents have a right to speak out, and moved on.  By contrast, little thin-skinned Donnie still hasn't even gotten over Ted Cruz.  He'll be blathering on about the Khans for years.

3)  And finally - and most important - Trump is no Reagan.. not mentally, nor in terms of sanity or ability to lead a nation.  The mere mention of the two in the same paragraph should evoke nothing more than derisive laughter.

[libertybele]

Not one person here sounds like they know one actual true thing about Donald Trump. But, that's partisan politics for you, comes with the territory.

But just as Ronald Reagan was attacked as a demagogue, a buffoon, Donald Trump is just getting the ol' smear treatment himself now that he's in polly ticks.

Many more people are starting to realize the truth about Trump. He is a delusional, paranoid, narcissistic, psychopathic demagogue.  In addition, he IS a bombastic, buffoon who continuously makes outlandish statements.  He says absolutely nothing of substance and has yet  been able to speak in depth on any issue because he simply lacks the knowledge.  He continues to flip flop on many issues. He is unfit to be our Commander in Chief.  I am still waiting for anyone to give me one good valid, solid, positive reason why anyone should vote for him. 

You would think that after the Convention he would have switched gears a little bit; act like a leader, go after the left, try to unite the party and say something of substance rather than run his mouth and spew his ugly filth. Instead he continues to go after members of his own party even threatening those who refused to endorse him. He continues to insult groups of people; women, blacks, Hispanics, military, etc.

I think the odds of Trump winning the general (that was never his intent anyways) is slim to none. He is once again making excuses for his obvious shortcomings -- he is now stating that the debate schedule is not to his liking and that the election is rigged.  In the beginning of his presidential bid, he threatened to run 3rd party if he wasn't treated fairly and then he whined that the primaries were rigged and other candidates were cheating and taking delegates.  Trump right now is making excuses not to debate Hillary -- he knows that if he debates her, it will show him to be the complete azz and fool that he is. Yes, millions of us see the truth about Trump and he is already laying the groundwork with excuses for losing the general election.

[ScottinVA]

It's unfortunate to see Gov. Pence -- who was expected to come aboard and smooth out the many rough edges of Trump's candidacy -- go down in this epic shipwreck.

Every down-ticket GOP candidate had better emphatically put a light year of distance between him/herself and anything pertaining to Trump, or they're going down with him.

[livius]

He is stupid; has ADHD and has lived well off corruption his whole life....

Success feeds on itself, but the other tendency is for a stupid man's reach to exceed his grasp.  And that is why we are where we are.

Excellent post and I'm glad to see somebody looking at what Trump really was before and has been all his life.  I've never understood why the GOP completely ignored his past. Most of what he has done has been borderline or fully fraudulent and all has been, shall we say, real bottom feeding. His choice of associates - including his porn-star wives - is appalling, and we would have really jumped on a Dem candidate for association with any of these people - but nobody in the GOP seemed to care when it came to Trump.  Without his inherited money and the inherited real estate (run by someone else - he has no involvement) he'd probably be in jail by now.

[ScottinVA]

The Trump School for People Who Can't Read Good:

Is there truth to the rumor Trump University contracted THIS for part of its curriculum?


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xKP06aWPQhg

[Texas Yellow Rose]

Your comparisons of Trump to Reagan are laughable.  Reagan came into 1980 with experience of having successfully guided the fortunes of the most populous state in the union.  What you and the rest of the Trump backers fail to understand are three basic facts:

1) Trump's business background has no correlation to the concept of national governance.  While he can hire and fire at will in his corporate fiefdoms, as President, he would have no such capability vs those who oppose him -- and those who oppose him are legion. 

2) Trump wouldn't know national service if it slapped him upside his orange topside.  The comparison of whatever "sacrifices" he's made to those of a gold-star parent are a gross embarrassment.  Reagan would've simply saluted the lost soldier's service, accepted the fact his parents have a right to speak out, and moved on.  By contrast, little thin-skinned Donnie still hasn't even gotten over Ted Cruz.  He'll be blathering on about the Khans for years.

3)  And finally - and most important - Trump is no Reagan.. not mentally, nor in terms of sanity or ability to lead a nation.  The mere mention of the two in the same paragraph should evoke nothing more than derisive laughter.

[Jazzhead]

Bret Stephens lays it on the line in this morning's WSJ:

  There's a saying that in politics there no permanent victories - and no permanent defeats. . . . [But that] doesn't mean there is no permanent dishonor.  Huey Long, Charles Coughlin, Alger Hiss, Joe McCarthy and Bull Connor are the foul names of America's 20th century, and always will be. And those who supported and excused them will always be tainted by associations.

This is where Republicans now find themselves with their presidential nominee. Of all of Donald Trump's vile irruptions . . . his casual smear of Ghazala Khan is perhaps the vilest. . . . What makes Mr. Trump's remarks so foul is their undisguised sadism. . . . He degraded her . . .

It will not do for Republicans to say they denounce Mr. Trump's personal slanders; his nativism and protectionism and isolationism; his mendacity and meanness and crassness; his disdain for Constitutional protections - and still campaign for his election.  There is no redemption in saying you went along with it, but only halfway;  the with Mr. Trump you maintained technical virginity:  To lie down with him is to wake up with him.  It's as simple as that. . . .

Politics is mostly the business of maintaining popularity in the here and now.  Not always.  Come January, Mrs. Clinton will likely be President.  Whether there is still a GOP that can still lay a claim to moral and political respectability is another question.  Mr. Ryan and other go-along Republicans should treat the Khan episode as their last best hope to preserve political reputations they have worked so hard to build. 

Trump must be pressured to step down, for the sake of conservatism and the nation.  Let Pence run in his place -  perhaps he can unite the clans.   

[libertybele]

Bret Stephens lays it on the line in this morning's WSJ:


Trump must be pressured to step down, for the sake of conservatism and the nation.  Let Pence run in his place -  perhaps he can unite the clans.

You have to remember Trump's ultimate goal ... to hand Hillary the White House.  Because he is now saying that the debate schedule is unacceptable and that the election is rigged, it is becoming apparent that he is going to step down.  However, in the grand scheme of things, its much to early.  IMHO he will drop out days before the general election pounding the last nail on the GOP's coffin.

[guitar4jesus]

You have to remember Trump's ultimate goal ... to hand Hillary the White House.  Because he is now saying that the debate schedule is unacceptable and that the election is rigged, it is becoming apparent that he is going to step down.  However, in the grand scheme of things, its much to early.  IMHO he will drop out days before the general election pounding the last nail on the GOP's coffin.

...and blame it on us.

[Polly Ticks]

But just as Ronald Reagan was attacked as a demagogue, a buffoon, Donald Trump is just getting the ol' smear treatment himself now that he's in polly ticks.

I beg your pardon.

[Jazzhead]

You have to remember Trump's ultimate goal ... to hand Hillary the White House.  Because he is now saying that the debate schedule is unacceptable and that the election is rigged, it is becoming apparent that he is going to step down.  However, in the grand scheme of things, its much to early.  IMHO he will drop out days before the general election pounding the last nail on the GOP's coffin.

That's why NOW is the time for GOP leaders to call for Trump to step down.   The combination of his pointless, narcissistic war with the Khan family and the Russian connections to his businesses presents the rationale for insisting on his resignation, and the presence of Pence on the ticket solves the dilemma of the NeverTrumps prior to the convention -  that there was no one to rally around as a replacement.

With three months before the election,  Pence needs all the time he can get.  Trump is morally unfit for the office he seeks, and there is no better time to ram that point home than right now.     

[Wingnut]

But just as Ronald Reagan was attacked as a demagogue, a buffoon, Donald Trump is just getting the ol' smear treatment himself now that he's in polly ticks.

I beg your pardon.

He couldn't handle you Polly.  Not in a million years!

[Polly Ticks]

1) Trump's business background has no correlation to the concept of national governance.  While he can hire and fire at will in his corporate fiefdoms, as President, he would have no such capability vs those who oppose him -- and those who oppose him are legion. 

Shades of Rick Pitino.  He's a fantastic college basketball coach, but put him in the NBA where he's working with adults who don't have to listen to him and it is a different story. 

His NBA coaching experience often demonstrated a deep frustration with the dynamics of the league, especially in Boston, where he amassed a 102–146 record from 1997 to 2001.
[...]
Pitino struggled in his roles with the Celtics, and statistics like 1999's 19–31 record made him little better in the eyes of many Boston fans than his inexperienced predecessor ...

[Polly Ticks]

He couldn't handle you Polly.  Not in a million years!

 

[aligncare]

I beg your pardon.

Whoops! My apologies. Many new members come over recently. Please forgive, no slight intended.

[Polly Ticks]

Whoops! My apologies. Many new members come over recently. Please forgive, no slight intended.

None taken.  I was just yanking your chain a bit!

[musiclady]

Yeah,   that's quite the effect.   I remember the first time I saw it.   Yeah,  it's really freaky deaky.   


Startling people out of their complacency is entirely the point.

Then why did you post it here?

No one here is complacent.

Your post was totally irrelevant.

[ArneFufkin]

I have to admit this article title made me chuckle.

[XenaLee]

See this yet?

Trump is good at one thing, aside from lying out of his orange-tanned @ss.  He's good at projecting.  And he's projecting here, since he, himself, made a deal with the Devil when he donated to and supported Hillary and the Clinton Foundation.

There's that glaringly obvious lack of discernment and lack of judgment again.

[musiclady]

Bret Stephens lays it on the line in this morning's WSJ:


Trump must be pressured to step down, for the sake of conservatism and the nation.  Let Pence run in his place -  perhaps he can unite the clans.

That's the best possibility for the disaster we're now facing, but IMO, it's unrealistic.

When the GOPe and Trump joined hands at the convention, any hope of rationality in this election ceased.    There is too much pride in these people to admit the gravity of their error.  And it is clear that their only 'value' is power, so they are not looking at things as honest people look at them.

There will be no pressure to make Trump step down, even when it becomes clear to all of them that Trump is capsizing what's left of the Republican ship, and Pence will go down with the ship because of his stupidity in accepting Trump's offer.

There is no good outcome here.  Trump's goal is to put a Democrat in the WH, and that goal will be achieved whether he steps down or not.

[sinkspur]

This is disqualifying:



Who the hell eats fried chicken with a knife and fork?

[Cripplecreek]

This is disqualifying:



Who the hell eats fried chicken with a knife and fork?

The extre extra creepy colonel