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These "Victory Tours" are disturbing (Original Post) SHRED Dec 2016 OP
He's keeping his lunatics fired up as a warning to electors who might be tempted to change votes CanonRay Dec 2016 #1
He keeps lying at these also SHRED Dec 2016 #4
He's really setting himself up for a fall. He can't keep taking about the election forever bettyellen Dec 2016 #2
Good MFM008 Dec 2016 #30
His hunger for adulation is a bottomless pit. he's very vulnerable to manipulation because of this SharonAnn Dec 2016 #35
Nothing like it since the Nuremburg rallies. kentuck Dec 2016 #3
Nuremburg '34 in particular. DemoTex Dec 2016 #37
Red Caps enid602 Dec 2016 #39
This. And the "tormenting" of Mittens. Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2016 #5
Nixon was disciplined enough to keep that dark side of himself mostly under wraps. Arneoker Dec 2016 #7
Maybe it's better in the open. NYC Liberal Dec 2016 #18
The Nuremberg Rally was an annual event. baldguy Dec 2016 #6
True kentuck Dec 2016 #10
Just building a wall for Mexicans and expelling Muslims. baldguy Dec 2016 #15
Didn't Hitler start awoke_in_2003 Dec 2016 #46
Just give them a chance. baldguy Dec 2016 #47
He hasn't reached day one yet world wide wally Dec 2016 #33
These affairs will have to be held more often than annually. Buns_of_Fire Dec 2016 #19
Shades of Manuel Noryega. TonyPDX Dec 2016 #8
Is it surprising that a person who apparently prefers to live in the spotlight guillaumeb Dec 2016 #9
He's campaigning for 2020. He's asking for their votes for 2020 SammyWinstonJack Dec 2016 #11
everything trump is disturbing. spanone Dec 2016 #12
I call it 2naSalit Dec 2016 #13
His tiny hands flailing in the air SHRED Dec 2016 #14
Yikes 2naSalit Dec 2016 #16
What an incredible waste of money. smirkymonkey Dec 2016 #17
I don't even want to know. cwydro Dec 2016 #25
He wants to keep his troops ready, sallivating & hungry! Plus it makes him feel good, which Madam45for2923 Dec 2016 #20
What will he do when he runs out of excuses for "victory" rallies? The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2016 #21
He's rubbing his opponents noses in the mud rather than celebrating hollowdweller Dec 2016 #22
Strictly to rub it in MFM008 Dec 2016 #23
And we pay for them SHRED Dec 2016 #24
It's unpresidented underpants Dec 2016 #26
Everything the orange hemorrhoid does is designed to say to the anti dRumpf public Mc Mike Dec 2016 #27
I keep saying he's not in it for the greater good of the country. Initech Dec 2016 #28
You are right. BigDemVoter Dec 2016 #29
Front page of Yahoo News just now Trump rails against the war on Christmas, doc03 Dec 2016 #31
The "Tabloid President" SHRED Dec 2016 #32
He's keeping the "stupid" going... I mean momentum world wide wally Dec 2016 #34
Dear Donald.... Jacob Boehme Dec 2016 #36
Well geez you can't do victory laps, Mendocino Dec 2016 #38
He won ... Drifter Dec 2016 #40
it's something a narcissistic, insecure little bully would do Skittles Dec 2016 #41
Seriously, they demonstrate so much of what is wrong with Trump. Dark n Stormy Knight Dec 2016 #42
Yep SHRED Dec 2016 #43
I just don't fucking believe how so many people are so clearly willingly to be bullwinkle428 Dec 2016 #44
The stupid is thick SHRED Dec 2016 #45

CanonRay

(14,094 posts)
1. He's keeping his lunatics fired up as a warning to electors who might be tempted to change votes
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 11:57 AM
Dec 2016

at least that's my theory. Hey electors, I still have all these vicious nasty people with me...

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
2. He's really setting himself up for a fall. He can't keep taking about the election forever
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 11:58 AM
Dec 2016

And that is basically all he is doing.

DemoTex

(25,392 posts)
37. Nuremburg '34 in particular.
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 02:43 PM
Dec 2016

Wonder if DT has a Leni Reifenstahl documenting his rise to power. He certainly has the Nuremburg-ish motto, Make America Great Again. I think the Nuremburg '34 propaganda slogan was GrosserDeutchland (Greater Germany), bolstered by the annexation on Austria.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,319 posts)
5. This. And the "tormenting" of Mittens.
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 12:02 PM
Dec 2016

I know it's an understatement, but there is something seriously wrong with this guy.

At least Nixon waited until he was in office to get even with political enemies.

Arneoker

(375 posts)
7. Nixon was disciplined enough to keep that dark side of himself mostly under wraps.
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 12:10 PM
Dec 2016

Of course it got out for all to see. But Nixon could restrain himself, as every President since I was born (Eisenhower) has been able to do. Not this little boy.

kentuck

(111,069 posts)
10. True
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 12:25 PM
Dec 2016

Donald is worse than Hitler in the number of rallies. But he hasn't yet asked for the extermination of Jews and homosexuals.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,173 posts)
19. These affairs will have to be held more often than annually.
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 12:53 PM
Dec 2016

He'll go into Adoration Withdrawal if he doesn't get a daily fix of butt smoochies. I'm sure his cabinet is being instructed to always use ChapStick and avoid leaving hickeys on the Royal Rump.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
9. Is it surprising that a person who apparently prefers to live in the spotlight
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 12:21 PM
Dec 2016

of reality television would prefer to appear before his adoring supporters rather than actually perform his duties?

Following the example of Reagan, another GOP figurehead who had no interest in the job.

2naSalit

(86,502 posts)
13. I call it
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 12:41 PM
Dec 2016

the weenie-waving tour. And it is relative to the actions of the most recent despots in history.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
17. What an incredible waste of money.
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 12:50 PM
Dec 2016

Who is paying for these tours? We, the taxpayers? It's disgusting.

 

Madam45for2923

(7,178 posts)
20. He wants to keep his troops ready, sallivating & hungry! Plus it makes him feel good, which
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 12:56 PM
Dec 2016

for him is equally important.

Makes him feel like a super-model and a rock-star.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,658 posts)
21. What will he do when he runs out of excuses for "victory" rallies?
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 01:21 PM
Dec 2016

Even Hitler had those Nuremburg rallies only once a year. I don't think Trump can go that long without his fix of public adoration.

 

hollowdweller

(4,229 posts)
22. He's rubbing his opponents noses in the mud rather than celebrating
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 01:24 PM
Dec 2016

Bush made me worried how he was able to convince about WMD and rush the country to war when it was obvious the facts were elsewhere. Trump worries me even more because he's really like a dictator and he's got a crew of people who discipline opponents.

Really a scarey time in the US.

Mc Mike

(9,111 posts)
27. Everything the orange hemorrhoid does is designed to say to the anti dRumpf public
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 02:12 PM
Dec 2016

'stick it in your &**'.

He's a cross between Mussolini and a Survivor contestant.

He's only scary in his mind, though. I remember when he ran away, after he stuck his turkey neck too far out, in Chicago.

Initech

(100,054 posts)
28. I keep saying he's not in it for the greater good of the country.
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 02:15 PM
Dec 2016

He's in it for the greater good of his ego and his business interests.

doc03

(35,321 posts)
31. Front page of Yahoo News just now Trump rails against the war on Christmas,
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 02:22 PM
Dec 2016

now he has religion.

Jacob Boehme

(789 posts)
36. Dear Donald....
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 02:39 PM
Dec 2016

Could we kind of.. you know... file for an "information divorce" from the never-ending onslaught of Trump antics?

Call it irreconcilable differences, call it incompatibility, it doesn't really matter. But it hurts the old cerebellum every time I see more absurd news form ‘Planet Trump’.

Could you go for an indefinite "Information Blackout" and give us all a break?

Thanks, The Public

Mendocino

(7,484 posts)
38. Well geez you can't do victory laps,
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 02:44 PM
Dec 2016

run a TV show and attend intelligence briefings too !!!?? Guess what has to go.

Drifter

(4,751 posts)
40. He won ...
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 03:33 PM
Dec 2016

He believes the hard part is over.
More proof that he does not understand what it takes to be President.

Cheers
Drifter

Skittles

(153,138 posts)
41. it's something a narcissistic, insecure little bully would do
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 06:54 PM
Dec 2016

and FUCK the people who eat this shit up, just like fans of Hitler did

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
42. Seriously, they demonstrate so much of what is wrong with Trump.
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 07:08 PM
Dec 2016

A bigoted, narcissistic megalomaniac is not suited to be president of a democratic nation.

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
44. I just don't fucking believe how so many people are so clearly willingly to be
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 08:11 PM
Dec 2016

conned like this. He's repeating all of the same bullshit campaign themes that he's walked back on multiple issues since actually "winning" back in November.

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