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canetoad

(17,172 posts)
Sun Feb 11, 2018, 08:34 PM Feb 2018

Practically the same

Trump loves Churchill. Perhaps he sees himself as a great statesman. If it wasn't for the dates and locations, I bet no one could tell who made each statement.

March 1, 1955; House of Commons
"The day may dawn when fair play, love for one’s fellow-men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.”

July 21, 2015: Sun City, South Carolina.
"Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it's true!—but when you're a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it's four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us."

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Practically the same (Original Post) canetoad Feb 2018 OP
sigh trof Feb 2018 #1
What the actual f-! Blue_playwright Feb 2018 #2
FFS dweller Feb 2018 #3
I miss Obama ... Ohiogal Feb 2018 #4

Blue_playwright

(1,568 posts)
2. What the actual f-!
Sun Feb 11, 2018, 09:11 PM
Feb 2018

Did he ever make a point? And I’m still in shock that people genuinely think he’s intelligent.

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