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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor once, I'd like someone who just met with Trump would come down to the awaiting press....
...and describe him as being the shallow, narcissistic, deranged lunatic we all know him to be and as someone who has absolutely no intention on following whatever advice they attempted to impart on him.
Over the past few weeks, there's been a litany of notable people--some of whom could be described as respectable or principled or professional or dignified--who have been received by the Madman in his golden palace atop Trump Tower, and they've managed to dance around the issue and attempt to paint Trump as receptive to their ideas or express a desire that he has our collective best interests in mind. I'm thinking of people like Al Gore, or Bill Gates, or Jim Brown or Ray Lewis, or even Mitt Romney to some extent.
I understand they might not want to admit to the fact that we're dealing with a President-Elect who is not right in the head and is not guided by our best interests as a country but rather to whatever means of self-enrichment and self-empowerment he can squeeze out of us. That's not something that is comforting. But it is the truth.
And the truth needs to be told.
oldtime dfl_er
(6,930 posts)Or is he just handing out checks for a million dollars as they leave?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)You see a very large swath of the American electorate find those to be endearing qualities.
jonno99
(2,620 posts)midichlorian count?
Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)Those are actually his scariest qualities.
matt819
(10,749 posts)What is it with these people?
Did Trump spend the meeting laying out blackmail info?
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)contradicting lunatic that we love to hate. He is such a two faced bastard. Also I really think people are going to be scared to take him on...he will have all the Fed Agencies (or what's left of them when his cabinet gets through) at his disposal.
There is only one agency that knows the full scope of Trashpot's conflicts and that is the IRS.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,145 posts)His deeds and actions that he broadcasts to the world speak more to him than any empty gesture behind closed doors.
Take, for example, meeting with Al Gore, and then promptly appointing an EPA hating climate change denier to head the EPA.
He's a psychopath.
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)the worst kind. He's a frikkin manipulator and a bad one at that.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)In a Monday editorial, the Global Times said of Trump: "He is ignorant as a child in terms of foreign policy," and the editorial ruled out negotiations on the "one China" issue.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/12/politics/china-trump-one-china-reaction/index.html
humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)zonkers
(5,865 posts)seaglass
(8,171 posts)world wide wally
(21,734 posts)But now, he's just the picture of a fat, rich, pasty, soft white man with a lot of money. No way I could work for him even if I wanted to"