Trump is incapable of accepting that most Americans don't like him

[DonViejo]

By Philip Bump
July 2 at 9:21 AM

One of the interesting aspects of the Trump era is that those who cover him are generally hard-pressed to guess what they might end up writing about on any given day. Perhaps it will be the policy issue his administration is advancing. Or, more often, it will be a thing he saw on TV and about which he decided to offer his thoughts.

And so Tuesday morning dawned, and President Trump decided, for some reason, to relitigate the 2016 presidential debates.

“As most people are aware, according to the Polls, I won EVERY debate, including the three with Crooked Hillary Clinton,” Trump said on Twitter, “despite the fact that in the first debate, they modulated the sound on me, and got caught.”

The mention of “modulated sound” is a dip into the archive of Trump classics. As soon as Trump came off stage after his first debate against Hillary Clinton, he complained of audio issues that weren’t apparent to people watching on television. The commission that organizes the debates later acknowledged that there was an issue with his microphone that “affected the sound level in the debate hall,” whatever that means, but there is as usual no suggestion that anything intentionally nefarious -- or particularly damaging -- took place.

More important is the insistence that precedes that conspiratorial claim. Trump insists, here in the year of our Lord 2019, that he won all three debates “according to the Polls.” According to the Polls, Trump lost all three debates, by varying margins. According to CNN, Clinton won the three debatess, according to 62 percent, 57 percent and 52 percent of those polled, respectively. NBC News polling had Clinton winning with 52 percent, 44 percent and 46 percent of support from respondents (polls that included about a fifth of respondents each time who said neither candidate won).

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[democratisphere]

1. The entire extended drumpf family lives in an alternative reality

that has nothing to do with the reality of most Americans.
Additionally the MFs lie about EVERYTHING!

[JHB]

2. The whole "modulation" thing was to pretend he wasn't sniffing loudly and constantly

We've heard him be Sniffy McSniffnose dozens of times by now, and had done it previously, but it was so noticeable at that debate it caught everyone's attention, so he blamed it on the sound system.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Where did I hear that people like Trump do not feel superior, but actually...

feel extreme inferiority. So extreme that they have blocked it out and start to believe their own bullshit.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Once again, Orwell shows his prescience...

O'Brien:
What are your feelings towards Big Brother?

Winston Smith:
I hate him.

O'Brien:
You must love him. It is not enough to obey him. You must love him.

-1984

[beachbum bob]

5. to tell you the truth what makes anyone think he gives a damn? No way he cares

one bit

[GusBob]

6. Have you noticed how testy and thin-skinned the Trump supporters are getting?

Invariably, in the outdoors forums ( sports, fishing, photography, etc) in which I participate politics comes up. For example, in a Boundary Waters Wilderness Canoe forum, (pretty innocuous right?) The subject of Trump came up peripherally in a discussion of mining. Holy shit did the Trumpers hit the wall in knee-jerk reactivity.

I get the impression they are tired of 3 things: 1. How foolish, stupid and dickish Trump looks everyday. 2. Having to hear about it everyday 3. Having to defend the idiot asshole everyday

Its a different version of Trump fatigue. Even his supporters are burnt out

[Thomas Hurt]

7. malignant narcissism