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Has Trump ever admitted to being wrong? (1 Viewer)

trouble13 said:
I know some of you are very eager to declare Trump wrong but it's too soon to make that judgement. It will take 6 months to a year to see if his strategy is effective or not.
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Deflection. This post does not address the question at all.
 
Parker_Chess said:
Serious question, is Trump on the record admitting to be wrong about anything? He very frequently flaunts his high IQ. And instead of admitting his announced tariffs were too high he backtracks and acts as if this was a win. Why can't he just admit he is wrong? His billionaire friends don't like it and normal Americans don't either.
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More importantly, has he ever apologized to anyone he mistakenly (or on purpose) hurt?

Never. Not to my knowledge. Donald has never sincerely apologized to anyone. He was never taught to as a child. He certainly has not matured at all after becoming an adult.
 
Here is Donald being wrong. He was caught lying about being a reader of books. He pretends to have read books and then steps right into it when he is asked what he is reading. You can see his eyes go up to the side as he figures out how to try to extricate himself from the lie.

Naturally, magas never wanted to pay any attention to what an idiot they voted for.



No admission of being wrong, having made a mistake. No apology. Of course. Apologies are beneath Donald.
 
Airyaman said:
Lol.

No it won't. We'll be in a full blown recession soon if Trump doesn't change course. Not that he and his oligarchs care, this is what they want. Things they want become cheaper in a downturn.
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Why would he want a recession. How would that benefit him?
 
Yeah, Trump rarely apologizes, and then it usually in a back-handed way. However, hardly a week goes by that he doesn't demand an apology from someone else.
 
Donald was totally wrong about the "Central Park 5" who after being wrongly convicted were exonerated by DNA evidence.

Donald jumped to the conclusion that they were guilty. He paid for a full page ad in the New York Times berating the accused before the trial, probably tainting the trial, and calling for the death penalty.

After they were exonerated and released from prison, Donald was asked if he was ready to admit that he was wrong and offer an apology to them.

Donald refused.

He would have had to admit fault and that is something Donald can never do.

Donald wants to pretend he is perfect and never makes mistakes.

Donald never learned the power of admitting fault and learning from mistakes to become a better person.

That's one of the reasons why Donald is not a very good person.
 
lynnwinslow said:
He was contrite after the p word tape came out. I don’t remember if he actually apologized.
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He did some back pedaling to try to get elected. And at the same time, he was paying off porn start Stormy Daniels for her to keep quiet about his affair with her while Melania was with child.
 
lynnwinslow said:
He did dance around an actual apology for a few days trying to deflect to Bill Clinton and saying non apologies. But then released a more sincere (sounding) one.

I've always wondered who persuaded him

“I never said I’m a perfect person,” Trump said in a Facebook video released after midnight Saturday. “Nor pretended to be someone that I’m not. I’ve said and done things I regret and the words released today on this more than a decade old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am. I said it. I was wrong and I apologize.”

www.cbsnews.com

"I never said I'm a perfect person," Trump says about lewd comments

“Grab them by the p****,” Trump said on a hot mike, referring to beautiful women. “You can do anything”
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
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Wow. There's once. When he believed that if he didn't his chances of being elected were going down the tubes. And it struck me as so insincere that I completely forgot about it. It did not appear to be a sincere apology at all. He said the words he felt he had to say, acted the part he thought his followers needed to hear. I don't believe he really meant it.

His tone of voice always sounds like a con man.
 
trouble13 said:
Why would he want a recession. How would that benefit him?
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Because billionaires always increase their wealth during a recession. They buy up everything at pennies on the dollar. Also, a recession makes the electorate less powerful. It will feed into his authoritarian tendencies. Reducing the size of government, taking over colleges and universities, destroying the legal profession, and diminishing the power of the judiciary. All these things are part of any dictator 101s playbook.

He's already turned the congressional GOP into spineless Jello. The only really surprising thing about all this is the speed in which he's doing it. We all warned of this. No one ever thought it could happen so fast. Project 2025 seems to be quite the instruction manual.
 
trouble13 said:
Why would he want a recession. How would that benefit him?
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Billionaires can benefit from a recession because it won't hurt their ability to buy things such as property and stocks at a heavily discounted price, then wait until the market rebounds and resell for a huge profit. Particularly if they know it's coming because their own actions caused it.
 
Stealers Wheel said:
Yeah, Trump rarely apologizes, and then it usually in a back-handed way. However, hardly a week goes by that he doesn't demand an apology from someone else.
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Got that right!
 
trouble13 said:
The premise of the question falsely assumes Trump is wrong.
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More deflection. The OP doesn't state that at all. Instead it poses a question that wonders how Donald handles it when he is wrong. Does he admit it? Everyone is wrong sometimes. It's not about whether or not Donald is ever wrong. It is about whether or not he is honest with himself and the world when he is. By trying to make it about whether or not he is wrong, you are attempting to derail the conversation. It's thread-jacking. It's a form of baiting and it's a violation of site rule #3:

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Parker_Chess said:
Serious question, is Trump on the record admitting to be wrong about anything? He very frequently flaunts his high IQ. And instead of admitting his announced tariffs were too high he backtracks and acts as if this was a win. Why can't he just admit he is wrong? His billionaire friends don't like it and normal Americans don't either.
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This is now malignant narcissists operate.
 
trouble13 said:
The premise of the question falsely assumes Trump is wrong.
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I do not believe your statement is correct.
The question is pretty simple yes or no question.
Some Trump supporters struggle to answer such questions.

With what I know about Trump, I would have to say he has never admitted being wrong. That does not mean he has not admitted being wrong in private.
 
Malignantly
Narcissistic
Psychopath.

Come on, people. I'm not telling you shit that you don't know.
 
trouble13 said:
Why would he want a recession. How would that benefit him?
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If you have adequate assets during a downturn you can capitalize on others having to sell cheap out of desperation.
 
trouble13 said:
I know some of you are very eager to declare Trump wrong but it's too soon to make that judgement. It will take 6 months to a year to see if his strategy is effective or not.
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As if Trump has never been wrong in the past.

He was wrong when he called legal Haitian immigrants in Ohio “illegals”. Did he admit he was wrong?

Hell, he won’t even admit he was wrong for calling for the deaths of 5 innocent black men.
 
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