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shockey80

(4,379 posts) Mon Apr 6, 2020, 01:47 PM Apr 2020

Is Trump a Nihilist?

A person who does not believe in any morals or values, check. Morality does not exist. A complete rejection of the established order, check.

Rejects all religious principles. Trump fakes being religious. He plays the religion card in order to get votes. I don't think Trump believes in religion at all, check.

Trump lives for one purpose, to have the world see him as the greatest, of all things. Without that Trump would see life as completely worthless.

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Is Trump a Nihilist? (Original Post) shockey80 Apr 2020 OP

No he is edhopper Apr 2020 #1

Yes, I believe he is completely amoral, a sociopath, or in christian terms an antichrist. Thomas Hurt Apr 2020 #2

I don't think Trump has enough depth to be a nihilist. Girard442 Apr 2020 #3

That's a perfect response. smirkymonkey Apr 2020 #5

+1 uponit7771 Apr 2020 #7

agreed JDC Apr 2020 #8

Nope. He's just a sociopath. GoCubsGo Apr 2020 #4

+1 n/t Laelth Apr 2020 #6

Being a nihilist requires more thought and reflection than he's ever put into anything... JHB Apr 2020 #9

Nope, he's a narcissist and a tool. JustABozoOnThisBus Apr 2020 #10

edhopper

(33,650 posts)

1. No he is

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2020, 01:49 PM

Apr 2020

a numbnuts

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)

2. Yes, I believe he is completely amoral, a sociopath, or in christian terms an antichrist.

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2020, 01:53 PM

Apr 2020

Girard442

(6,087 posts)

3. I don't think Trump has enough depth to be a nihilist.

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2020, 01:58 PM

Apr 2020

I think he's basically a disturbed little kid that likes to pull the wings off flies.

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

5. That's a perfect response.

Reply to Girard442 (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 6, 2020, 02:18 PM

Apr 2020

Along the lines of what I was going to say. He has never thought deeply enough about anything to actively embrace nihilism.

uponit7771

(90,370 posts)

7. +1

Reply to Girard442 (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 6, 2020, 02:21 PM

Apr 2020

JDC

(10,137 posts)

8. agreed

Reply to Girard442 (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 6, 2020, 05:57 PM

Apr 2020

GoCubsGo

(32,099 posts)

4. Nope. He's just a sociopath.

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2020, 02:00 PM

Apr 2020

Nihilists believe that life has no meaning. Trump, OTOH, believes that their actually is a meaning to life. That meaning is "Donald Trump is the Center of the Universe." Everything revolves around him.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)

6. +1 n/t

Reply to GoCubsGo (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 6, 2020, 02:20 PM

Apr 2020

-Laelth

JHB

(37,163 posts)

9. Being a nihilist requires more thought and reflection than he's ever put into anything...

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2020, 06:02 PM

Apr 2020

...except money, swindling, revenge, seeking adulation, and getting laid.

It's what he does. It's all he does. He might be a de facto nihilist, but that's only because he didn't have to put any effort into it.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,375 posts)

10. Nope, he's a narcissist and a tool.

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2020, 06:12 PM

Apr 2020

He has no moral compass, will take the view of the last person to flatter him.

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