No, we can't just ignore Trump now.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

I've heard it said multiple times recently here. People thinking that because Trump craves attention--which he does--if we simply ignore him and don't talk about him whenever he acts out, that will somehow help the problem.

I get it. I really do.

But it won't work.

That ship has sailed.

The time to ignore Trump was June 16, 2015, when he descended the escalator at Trump Tower and made his presidential announcement speech all about broadbrushing immigrants to this country as rapists and murders.

We should have ignored him then, relegated him to the single digit joke candidacy status he should have gotten.

But instead we got a little greedy. We thought that if somehow Trump got nominated, it would backfire on the GOP and ruin them as a party. So we fed into him, thinking the more outrageous he got, the easier things would be come November 2016.

And unfortunately, we all saw how that turned out in the end. We did not consider at that point the forces that were backing this man and expecting him to be promoted like the way he ended up being promoted.

And now, he is our problem. We are Americans, and this man currently occupies our White House. And he has already created great damage to us and our democracy and has the potential to create a whole hell of a lot more than just that.

Playing ostrich won't save us now. Thinking he'll just go away for lack of attention won't work.

He's a bad man doing bad things surrounded by other bad men telling him to do those bad things. (E.g. Stephen Miller.) They will continue to do these bad things even if we decide to collective close our eyes.

That won't just stop on its own.

The answer here is not to ignore him. The answer here is to pay even more attention than we have ever before.

Because he is our American problem, and only we as Americans can solve that problem.

[StarfishSaver]

1. We don't ignore him. But we need to talk about him in a different way

For example, instead of the MSM saying "Trump made this comment today. Democrats say it's racist. Now let's discuss for the next two hours whether what he said is racist or just Trump being Trump and whether the Democrats are overplaying their hand by accusing him of racism," they need to say, "The president made another racist comment today, further evidence of his obvious racism. Now let's spend the next couple of segments talking about what it means to have a racist president, how his racism affects all of us and whether American voters will reelect a racist - but first, and let's ask Senator Republican Trumpbuttsniffer, why he not only refuses to acknowledge Trump's undeniable racism but still supports him."

[DemocracyMouse]

4. Those are good talking points.

We also need to say Trump is reasserting his well-documented racism IN ORDER TO distract us from his well-documented sins, crimes and destructive policies (and, yes, use "sins" and make a pseudo-Christian pay attention):

1) His many rape accusations,
2) His treasonous collusion with Russia,
3) His money laundering and illegal use of his office to make money for himself.
4) His GIVING AWAY YOUR FUTURE to provide tax breaks for his wealthy "friends" and DESTROYING our economy through a trade war.
5) His DESTROYING our planet through trashing the Kyoto protocols,
6) His TORTURING CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS in Texas as they escape real threats.
7) He's promoting the nuclearization of Iran by breaking Obama's multilateral agreement with that country.

[dalton99a]

2. Start impeachment hearings.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. I'm sorry but there are several ways of ignoring rump and I'm going to continue to ignore ...

him and not feed any energy into the whole Narcissism/sicknesses that rump has. Always.

I don't read his tweets (which I see posted on DU all of the time...which seems wrong to me, but I gross over and don't even look at the tweets or his pics)...he fully deserves to be ignored.

Perhaps you're talking about the idiotic legislation that he and his GOP cronies have passed and/or trying to pass but we showed them how much we are watching (not ignoring them).

By winning control of the House in 2018, we showed the GOP House members and rump that they can't pass anything now, and all rump can do is write his feeble minded executive orders and the idiots he's been getting confirmed in the Senate.

We're on a roll for the Nov. 2020 elections. I'd prefer to concentrate and watch these, far more than rump.