Skeptic Bob
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Yes, that also figured into my thoughts.
He is so covetous of good approval numbers, and at any point in his presidency he could have seen a large jump in approval numbers if he would just have controlled his tongue and twitter fingers for a whole week. But he can't do it. He digs his hole and then gets embarrassed and upset that he's in the whole and so he digs it deeper. I did not expect that from ... well, from anyone who had any sort of stature in the business world.
So, though he still stews about not getting approval from more people, he seems mostly to have given up on even making the simplest adjustments to try to earn it, and instead he has doubled down on the giant dog-whistle laden pity party he throws with his loyal supporters.
Even the media has given him a shot from time to time -- like after his first address to a joint session of Congress. Happened on a Tuesday. He was getting great press. But he couldn't even ride that triumphal train until Sunday. He had to step all over his good press on Saturday with a garbled version of a conspiracy theory about Obama. So of course that became the topic of the Sunday talk shows and Trump was outraged again about how negative the press coverage was. He could have had good coverage. He HAD good coverage. But he just couldn't shut up and enjoy it. Couldn't build on it. Couldn't let the growing economy help him broaden his appeal. He just doubles down on what it is that he thinks will fire up those loyal few who won't turn their backs on him even if his trade wars put them in the unemployment line.
I can't remember the first time Trump entered my conscience... maybe the late 1970s. It didn't take long for me to consider him an attention whore. I never considered him worthy of POTUS.
One time I watched him get really annoyed when an interviewer asked him if he had ever changed a diaper. He said no.... that other people take care of things like that, and that no one (as in people who might watch the interview) had any interest in him answering that kind of question.
I certainly had an interest in his answer! I predict and hope Chump does not finish his term. Chump talks like a dimwit, lies compulsively and lacks integrity. I voted NO in the poll.
Thanks for the long thoughtful post. Isn’t impeaching without conviction a recipe for disaster? Theater that ends badly, imo.
Sorry but not voting does not give you a "clean conscience". You have abdicated on your most important duty as an American. All of us were given plenty of warnings from both sides about who Trump was and how dangerous he would be as President. Ignoring them was not the answer.
Now ain't that the truth. :applaudI don't know that I even believe Hawkeye. He likes to say provocative unspecific things for the purpose of inciting aimless argy-barby.
Voting for either is nothing more than welcoming what we have going on right now.
Let me ask you about this... we were talking about what he might to in another thread. Some were saying, that Trump could go to Russia or the Russian Embassy, and act like Snowden and try to get some kind refugee. This is usually sound totally insane, but it's Trump, and he is really good at shocking decision making.
I had this horrible thought enter my mind. I thought, what if, he is sitting there and sees no way out. He knows his legacy will be tarnished and he will be exposed. His enemies (media personalities) will be on TV reporting it all. He can't handle that, but he would still really want to control the message in some way... even control his legacy... so how likely would it be, he kills himself. This thought really came into my mind.
I love true crime. I read about all kinds of weird stuff, and some people do kill themselves as a means of control. Some of them also, like Jim Jones, they are victims in their deaths. They are always the victim and the martyr.
I am not hoping that such a thing happens, but the thought entered my mind.
And if that were to happen, I think his loyal supporters would see him a victim, witch hunt out of control, etc. etc.
In any case, I hope who he really is gets exposed, and I hope we get answers about his campaign activity.
Trump is not the ideal person you watch on TV. However, he is someone who keeps his promise and gets things done even under very difficult circumstances. The left prefers pretentious people who make promise they don't intend to keep as, long as they look good doing it.
If that argument prevails in the courts, it would render unconstitutional Obamacare provisions that ban insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions — arguably the most popular component of the 2010 health care law.
Yes. Although during the 2016 campaign, I made numerous posts about Trump being an arrogant, ignorant, thin-skinned, impulsive, not very bright, narcissistic man-child, once he was elected, I tried to deal with it as maybe he won't be so bad. As he was running, I thought he is a bit of an opportunist, that coupled with his business background, might have him govern more from the middle, playing Dems against Reps, but in the end governing from a centrist position. That was my operating fantasy that got me through the post election blues. I even posted something to that effect here on DP in the weeks after the election.
My bubble burst, however, when he started making cabinet selections, many of whom seemed corrupt, vindictive and sorely unqualified in their own right. The selection of Scott Pruitt at the EPA (I am a stanch environmentalist) pierced my bubble of naivete followed by Trumps impulsive EO's, many of whom seemed vindictive and petty in their own right, often just to undo what Obama had done, killed any chance of the Don and I being in a good relationship.
In the end, I realized what I said about him during the campaign was incorrect because I was not dire enough in my description of how unfit the man actually was to be POTUS.
Trump is not the ideal person you watch on TV. However, he is someone who keeps his promise and gets things done even under very difficult circumstances. The left prefers pretentious people who make promise they don't intend to keep as, long as they look good doing it. The difference between the two is the Trump supporter prefers a man's man, while the left prefers a woman's man.
A man's man is not about looks or image. It is about being strong and able to function successfully even under hardship. A woman's man is about a handsome superficial appearance and a choreographed message that tells woman what they want to hear. Go to a bar and you can see woman's men. Go to war and you can see the man's man.
Trump supporters look at Trump as a man's man and don't mind if he is rough around the edges and unkept, as long as he gets the job done and meets the promises he made. The left is more about image and maintaining pretty little lies.
The left wing tactic has been to make Trump look like the worse the pickup artist, so he does not appeal to their base. He is not rehearsed enough but talks of the cuff which is not the way pickup artists works. Trump voters are not fooled by pickup artists. So this left wing countering strategy does not change their view. They still want a man's man, who is like a good father and husband, who does not have to be perfect, but who pushes the family forward even under adversity. He may not always be pretty, but he has their back and their best interests at heart.
As an example of this contrast, President Trump and Bill Clinton both have a history of chasing skirts. The main difference was after the affairs, the Clintons would try to destroy the women that Bill conned or raped; bimbo eruption squad. Trump, on the other hand, would give them a generous gift of money so they do not feel used or abused. That is one difference between a man's man and a woman's man. A man's man will try to make amends while the woman's man can be heartless and egotistic, due to being the product of a spoiling mother.
Even your last paragraph is utter bull****. Trump is far worse than Clinton when it comes to covering up for his "chasing skirts" indiscretions. In fact, he threatened to sue any and all women who "badmouthed" him after the election. Pretty sure Clinton didn't do that.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/11/politics/donald-trump-women-allegations/index.html
One of his claimed "witnesses" wasn't even present at the event that he allegedly went into the dressing room but still said "As far as the rumors surrounding him coming backstage and things like that, dressing rooms -- absolutely not,". But she wasn't there. He even admitted to going back into the dressing room on another show before he decided to run.
So please tell us all again how honorably he handles the accusations about sexual harassment and assault and just plain cheating.
Trump is AWESOME!
I am going to miss him when he is gone.
I don't hold against him that he didn't attenuate or alter his character. I hold against him his character, for it's incorrigible. To wit, that he has no shame is what it is. That he has no shame while having plenty to be ashamed of is the problem, and that is among the things I hold against him.
The Character of future Biff in Back to the Future II was based on Donald Trump.
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