You know Don the Con is not merely a racist bully and a cruel man

[malaise]

He's fucking mean - his entire Foundation is an unregistered fraud. He makes Scrooge look generous.
How does someone aspiring for the top position in a country cheat the government for decades.

Don the Con is a taker on heroin.

[napkinz]

1. mocks the disabled, mocks the sick

a cruel deplorable human being

[malaise]

2. The lowest of the lowest

a nasty cruel, mean, racist despicable character who thinks he's the greatest and adores himself.

As Marley would say - always '...playing smart but not being clever...'

[napkinz]

12. ...

[Siwsan]

3. Sure looks like he ignores sage advice and makes his own business decisions, based on his 'gut'

After all, it is a fantastic 'gut'. Believe me. Everybody says so. Some even say it is tremendous.

But to the point, I am beginning to wonder if we are dealing with yet another Oedipus Complex Candidate, who feels the demented need to outdo his father, even to his own detriment. You saw it with GW Bush and even McCain.

[malaise]

4. Biggest gut ever

Gutting everyone in sight.

How did he pull this off for so long? He's so fucking stupid that he didn't expect all of this to become public?

[Siwsan]

6. I worked with a pathological narcissist. NOBODY wanted to deal with her

She got away with an unbelievable and inexcusable amount of things because nobody could deal with her. Trying to pin her down on anything was like swatting at a fruit fly with a tennis racquet. They spew word salad, accusations, lies at a rate that is impossible to track. Eventually people just give up.

And that is made even worse when you are dealing with a rich, litigious narcissist.

But I live with the belief that, in the end, nobody really gets away with anything. Payback and retribution are patient.

[sorefeet]

5. Trump is his own

worst enemy. He will take himself down.

[bigtree]

7. amazing to me, malaise

...is how many people are lined up to willingly get grifted by him, even with all of the revelations. Not to mention the senior elected officials in the republican party still propping him up.

What is it about thoroughly reprehensible that attracts conservatives? I guess that question really answers itself.

[mnhtnbb]

8. The Republicans are attracted to authoritarians.

Trump is the ultimate authoritarian. He alone can fix everything, right?

[malaise]

14. He sure marketed his BS very well

You know there are lots of folks who are impressed with the 'rich and famous'. Of course they are usually gullible and not particularly well informed about anything.

[Greybnk48]

9. I think he will have to go into exile to avoid prison

for several things, not just taxes.

[Hekate]

13. Who knows? He certainly has no loyalty for or identification with America's core ideals

He's strictly an International Businessman/International Conman, with loyalty to no one and nothing but himself and his businesses.

See: Putin

[Rose Siding]

10. He recently bragged about how nasty he can be like it's a good thing.

wanker

[csziggy]

11. He seems to have come by it naturally - I'm reading up on his father, Fred Trump

1927 Klan riot arrest

On Memorial Day in 1927, a riot erupted between supporters of Benito Mussolini's Italian Fascism and the Ku Klux Klan; the Klan's stated purpose to march was that "Native-born Protestant Americans" were being "assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City."[3] In NYC's Queens borough, Fred Trump was one of seven men who were arrested on the day "on a charge of refusing to disperse from a parade when ordered to do so."[3] One article on the riot, written in the Long Island Daily Press, stated that all seven arrestees were wearing Klan attire, leading some to speculate that Fred may have been a member of the KKK.[4]

Fred's son Donald denied all allegations of the arrest when asked by the New York Times in 2016, disputing the residency of his father claimed in the original report (175-24 Devonshire Road, Jamaica). It has, however, been established by the U.S. Census that Fred did reside at that address at the time of his arrest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump#1927_Klan_riot_arrest

{Fred} Trump was investigated by a U.S. Senate committee in 1954 for profiteering from public contracts, including overstating his Beach Haven building charges by US$3.7 million.[7] In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee in 1954, William F. McKenna, appointed to investigate "scandals" within the FHA, cited Fred C. Trump and his partner William Tomasello as examples of how profits were made by builders using the FHA. McKenna said the two paid $34,200 for a piece of land which they then rented to their corporation for over $60,000 per year in a 99-year lease, so that if the apartment they built on it ever defaulted, the FHA would owe $1.5 million on it. McKenna said that Trump and Tomasello then obtained loans for $3.5 million more than the apartments cost.[8] Trump testified before the Senate Banking Committee the following month as it investigated "windfall profits." He said that builders would not have built apartments under an expired post-war loan insurance program if regulations had set inflexible limits on loans issued by the FHA.[9] In September 1954, following Trump's testimony, 2,500 tenants of the Beachhaven apartments sued Trump and the FHA, claiming the builder made windfall profits and that the builder had received loans for $4 million more than the construction actually cost, and that rents were consequently inappropriately inflated.

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Folk icon Woody Guthrie, who from 1950 was a tenant in one of Fred Trump's apartment complexes in Brooklyn, criticized Trump as a landlord, penning lyrics which accused him of stirring up racial hate "in the bloodpot of human hearts".[12]

In 1973, the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division filed a civil rights suit against the Trump organization charging that it refused to rent to black people. The Urban League had sent black and white testers to apply for apartments in Trump-owned complexes; the whites got the apartments, the blacks did not. According to court records, four superintendents or rental agents reported that applications sent to the central office for acceptance or rejection were coded by race. A 1979 Village Voice article quoted a rental agent who said Trump instructed him not to rent to black people and to encourage existing black tenants to leave. In 1975, a consent decree described by the head of DOJ’s housing division as "one of the most far-reaching ever negotiated," required Trump to advertise vacancies in minority papers and list vacancies with the Urban League. The Justice Department subsequently complained that continuing "racially discriminatory conduct by Trump agents has occurred with such frequency that it has created a substantial impediment to the full enjoyment of equal opportunity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump#Business_career

Woody Guthrie Wrote of His Contempt for His Landlord, Donald Trump’s Father

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In December 1950, Mr. Guthrie signed a lease at the Beach Haven apartment complex, Mr. Kaufman wrote in his piece. Soon, Mr. Guthrie was “lamenting the bigotry that pervaded his new, lily-white neighborhood,” he wrote, with words like these:

I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
he stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project

Mr. Guthrie even reworked his song “I Ain’t Got No Home” into a critique of Fred Trump, according to Mr. Kaufman:

Beach Haven ain’t my home!
I just can’t pay this rent!
My money’s down the drain!
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven looks like heaven
Where no black ones come to roam!
No, no, no! Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain’t my home!

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/25/woody-guthrie-sang-of-his-contempt-for-his-landlord-donald-trumps-father/

[malaise]

15. We need a cover for this song

Looks like generations of racist, self-serving scumbags. They represent the 'ugliest Americans' at home and abroad.