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Poll: Pres Trump's "so-called judge" tweet

What do you think about President Trump's Tweet?

  • I support President Trump. I have no problem with this Tweet.

    Votes: 6 25.0%

  • I don't support President Trump. I have no problem with his Tweet.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I support President Trump. I have a problem with his Tweet.

    Votes: 4 16.7%

  • I don't support President Trump. I have a problem with his Tweet.

    Votes: 11 45.8%

  • Other.

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • Total voters
    24
  • Poll closed .

MaggieD

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Most posters know I am a fairly staunch supporter of President Trump. And there are many of us here. How does everyone feel about his Tweet calling a U.S. district Judge a so-called judge?

I think it's small-minded and disrespectful. You?

I already know how No President Trumpers feel, but I didn't want you to feel excluded. But I'm most interested in his supporters.

Thanks.

The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!,” the president tweeted.
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It looks pretty immature like so many of his other tweets. I'm pleased overall with the job Trump's doing, but it wouldn't hurt him to have a little more class.
 
Pretty much how he rolls -- rude and immature.
 
I would love to express my opinion, but you guys already know what it would be.

But I'm taking a great interest in seeing what his supporters think of these Tweets!

In fact, I wish this poll was limited to his supporters only.
 
It was pretty bad, which is made even worse considering there are legitimate legal arguments to be made against the EO.
 
More of the same from the "so-called" President of the United States.
 
I expect the leader of the free world to act with more class and dignity than Trump is currently doing. He's acting very child like and immature.
 
other : i can't believe that we have a president who is conducting US domestic and foreign policy via Twitter. glad that he didn't pick this message board to do it on, because it would result in a ton of traffic, and after he destroys net neutrality, we wouldn't be able to afford preferential data treatment.
 
Chomsky said:
I would love to express my opinion, but you guys already know what it would be.

But I'm taking a great interest in seeing what his supporters think of these Tweets!

In fact, I wish this poll was limited to his supporters only.
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I thought about doing that, but I figured people probably would complain. Yes, we all now those who don't support Trump would give only one answer.
 

I did not want Donald Trump to be the nominee. But he was, and over the course of the campaign--maybe because I was long ago trained as a reporter to shove my personal opinions and feelings out of the way and analyze everything from an entirely objective point of view, and have also done enough legal work that requires the same analytical ability, I was able to see a method to his madness. IMO some of it was Trump just being Trump, thinking out loud, working things out as he went along.

And some of it was well thought out, had a firm objective, and was entirely deliberate by putting provocative statements out there knowing the MSM, social media, etc. would take the bait and run with it, thereby crowding all his opposition off the front pages. And his strategy seemed to work. Against my wishes, he was the nominee. And I did ultimately vote for him to be President with a clear conscience believing him to be the best choice. I had even decided that perhaps it was providence that he was elected instead of one of the establishment status quo Republicans. The Bible is full of very flawed individuals that God chose to do extraordinary things.

But I digress.

I was bothered by his address at the prayer breakfast this weekend. I thought his comments about "The Apprentice" and Arnold Schwarzeneggar were uncalled for and totally out of place in that (or any other) setting. And he got off on a couple of other topics that I thought inappropriate for that setting. He did not do himself any favors. In fact I was so disappointed I didn't watch the whole thing.

As for this 'so-called judge' comment, I do wish he would not do things like that. Say the judge was wrong. Say he disagreed with the judge. That would be perfectly okay. Yes he was just Trump being Trump expressing his displeasure or objection in his usual Trumpian way. And he will probably continue to do that. Like you, I wish he wouldn't.
 
If a judge is a judge then they are not a, "so called judge" as President Trump states.
President Trump's refusal to portray himself in a Presidential decorum was the reason for this thread http://www.debatepolitics.com/general-political-discussion/277918-am-embarrassed-american.html
As the OP stated = small minded, disrespectful = this is the current reality of the office of POTUS.
The Office of POTUS demands a person that can at least feign respect for others; Trump is obviously above this concept.
Trump being President has nothing to do with making America great again; it is all about Trump's ego.
 

If it makes you feel any better, Mark Burnett, the producer of "The Apprentice" and a Christian who also produced a popular series on Jesus a couple of years ago, introduced him at the breakfast, so I think Trump was trying to have fun. Even then though it was still a little cringe worthy, maybe because Trump imo is such a poor public speaker.
 

What's the old saying? Any publicity is good publicity? And since Trump is one of the Exec Producers of this show, there is no doubt he had input into cast selection. I think you may be right all 'round with this post.
 
The tweet is standard operating procedure for Trump: lash out strongly and emotionally against his critics and rivals in an attempt to discredit them and sway people towards his side.

It has worked pretty well for him so far, and may continue to work well, but there could also eventually be enough backlash that he fails to get his way, and fails overall as a POTUS. He's rolling the dice and going all in as classic Trump, and no one really knows how it's all going to work out.

As they say in investing, past success doesn't guarantee future success. It would all be interesting if the stakes weren't high enough to also make it scary.
 

He is a poor speaker to those of us who grew up in the Toastmaster's International tradition of how a good speech is structured and delivered not to mention what our grammar teachers taught us about subject and predicate and complete sentences. He is usually a brilliant speaker in his ability to connect with his audience. He was not elected for his oratory. He was elected for his ability to make that connection with what his audience considered most important.

And he has maintained above 50% approval ratings with that audience and America in general by proving that he was not just all talk to get their vote and no action once safely elected.

I don't know if he was just tired that morning or didn't have time to prepare. I usually pick up on his intended humor--you know that the left mostly doesn't get--but I did honestly miss the probability that the Apprentice comment was a friendly dig at Burnett. But I started watching after the introduction too. I think I still might have missed it though. It was indeed cringeworthy.

But the fact is our President is nowhere near a perfect individual. None of them have ever been. And he is probably going to keep saying these things we so much wish he wouldn't say or would say differently. But if he keeps delivering on his campaign promises, we'll probably keep forgiving him.
 
Trump is a so called president.

Anyone who thought he was going to be different after he was elected president...eat crow.
 

Toastmaster's alum here, too. Great minds...

Loved it!
 
I think a better poll would have been

Is the tweet disrespectful and is anyone surprised by it.

If Trump would be more respectful I expect his time in office would be much easier. In 6 months or so I expect he will anger all but about 20% of the US population. Making any policies he supports and wants passed much harder to achieve
 
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I don't know if you've ever read Steve Jobs bio by Isaacson, but Trump reminds me a little of Jobs and his "Reality Distortion Field". I feel like some super successful people have their eye on a goal and bulldoze everything in their way.
 
MaggieD said:
What's the old saying? Any publicity is good publicity? And since Trump is one of the Exec Producers of this show, there is no doubt he had input into cast selection. I think you may be right all 'round with this post.
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Yes I completely missed the connection with Burnett. And certainly Trump was instrumental in choosing Arnold. In fact I have held open the possibility that he is deliberately trying to raise Arnold's ratings by panning him--reverse psychology and all that.

But the remark still came across as cringe-worthy and inappropriate for that particular setting in any case. As did his tweet about the judge.
 
JC Callender said:
I don't know if you've ever read Steve Jobs bio by Isaacson, but Trump reminds me a little of Jobs and his "Reality Distortion Field". I feel like some super successful people have their eye on a goal and bulldoze everything in their way.
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Yup, I've read it and agree with your conclusion.
 
I think it just shows how petty and how unfit Trump is to be president. He throws a tantrum every time he does not get his way.
 

I don't think he does it to sway people to his side. I think he sometimes does it just because that is the way he talks--he thinks out loud a lot. And often I think he does it to generate the predictable angry MSM and social media feeding frenzy that so blows things out of proportion, the public goes to his side because of the hateful excess and ridiculous piling on.
 

It is not such a good idea to have Constitutional Organs belittle each other.
 
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