I truly hate to say this about a President. It bothers me to type it.

[NCTraveler]

In under a month Trump has become the world leader of terrorism. He is using his office as a tool to stoke fear here at home and abroad. It matters little as to who the group. If you are not a white Christian male you are on his target list. What will happen when white Christian males figure out that they aren't safe from him either? That the terror he is spreading across the globe is harming them as well. Their children will not be safe from the holy war he is fomenting.

I do not think this is hyperbole.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. He is simply doing what 40 - 50 million Americans want.

They want a holy war on Islam.

Few if any of them are actually willing to fight it themselves or have their family fight it, that is for "others", but they want a war on Islam.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. It's not just Islam......

it's anybody who carries a rational thought or concern for his fellow man without concern for personal gain.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. yep

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Shit. They want to watch it on TV. They want fireworks and drama, Shock and Awe in full color.

They DON'T want to fight the war themselves. They might get their pants dirty and my God, they could get shot at or blown up! That's not how Trumpies see themselves. They see Trumpy leading the charge on top of a tank with XE taking (it) up the rear, while THEY sit at home and watch the show on their 60 inch flat screens.

[maryellen99]

8. They also want to watch the mayhem that will occur when Nuclear War is imminent

Like that scene in The Day After when they are panic buying at the grocery store.

[bettyellen]

24. They really want to use those guns and have their greatest fears justified.

[kimbutgar]

26. Red Dawn is their favorite movie

Except this time it is not Russia who is the enemy. Russia didn't even have to use guns or tanks they just put in their puppet to complete their coup.

We are only in week 3 and things are getting worst and worst for this country. And red neck goober is cheering for the destruction of our country and government.

[NCTraveler]

5. Most of those forty to fifty million are on the middle to lower economic rungs.

Their children will be part of the cannon fodder.

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. Draft is necessary if these idiots are ever going to learn a damn thing about

dictators.

[n2doc]

23. It's worse than that

It is what a few thousand at most really want. The folks like Michael Savage Wiener and Rush Limbaugh, and their masters Rupert Murdoch and the like. And the fanatical xtian leaders. The rest are brainwashed by TV, Radio and the pulpit into believing that war is a good thing. I think they would do anything the voices tell them to do, so long as it was couched in the right language.

[byronius]

30. +10000

The Programmers.

[2naSalit]

28. Orders from pooty.

[DownriverDem]

33. And

I want an all out war on the repubs. How long is this going to go on?

[niyad]

6. please get the time accurately--less than three weeks.

[NCTraveler]

11. Changed. Feels like much longer.

Then again, I could have included his hate filled primary campaign.

[niyad]

14. you are correct--feels like an eternity.

[NCTraveler]

16. Seems I could have used a bit of help on my spelling as well.

I always appreciate the corrections.

[fleur-de-lisa]

9. I don't think Hair Fuhrer gives a shit about male Christians either.

He needs them and they find him a useful idiot to push through their Christo-Sharia agenda.

I don't think Cheeto has a religious bone in his body. The same could be said of most republicans, but at least some of them can fake it. Donny Dipshit can't even do that.

[NCTraveler]

12. "I don't think Cheeto has a religious bone in his body."

I completely agree with that.

[Alice11111]

10. They definitely hate smart people...

prefer people they can dupe. Of course, they also like mean people and bigots, because they don't have to dupe them...birds of a feather.

[bigtree]

13. I agree

...he's a clear and present danger to the country and the world.

[Iggo]

15. Relevant excerpt from the Bob Rumson speech from the movie The American President.

Stupid Americans (Trump voters) keep telling me he's a great businessman, and that's why they voted for him. And I keep telling them that he's not a businessman, he's a salesman. And when I say that, I'm thinking of this part from my favorite movie speech of all time:

"...Bob's problem isn't that he doesn't get it. Bob's problem is that he can't sell it!

We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it..."

It's happening right in front of our faces, folks.

[niyad]

17. that scene has been playing in my head every day since his campaign.

[Hekate]

35. Wowser. I never saw that movie -- obviously need to remedy that oversight.

[Orrex]

18. I'll call him President when he acts like the President, and not before

You owe nothing to the "Office of the President," and you don't owe Trump himself shit.

You absolutely are not obligated to respect Trump simply for having fooled less than half the voting populace. Most of all HE must demonstrate that he respects the office, and certainly hasn't done so.


You are entirely correct in your assessment of his status as a terrorist, as reflected by change to the Doomsday Clock in the wake of Trump's tantrums.

[no_hypocrisy]

19. Here's my fear.

Trump's trying to ratchet up fear and mindless panic. But it's not working well. His followers feel nervous but not panicked. The rest of us are going "Meh!"

And I'm afraid Trump will either create another 9-11 or allow it to happen. Then he'll have the leverage he's looking for.

[murielm99]

36. I am not sure he will have that leverage.

Enough people are angry with him that they may not buy into it, if there is an attack.

The Yemen raid backfired on him. He wanted to beat his chest and brag about it. People were skeptical when it did not come off the way he wanted, when a Seal and too many other people died. It didn't work to try to pin it on Obama, either.

Too many of us know that he is warmongering and ramping up fear. A terror attack, too, could backfire. People will blame his incompetence. He is losing ground daily.

[world wide wally]

20. Personally, I just fucking refuse to live n constant fear of terrorism

You should too.

[NCTraveler]

25. I don't live in fear outside of the fear for my fellow humans that will suffer under Trump.

Me personally, I'll survive just fine. Not only just fine, I will most likely become more wealthy under Trump.

[world wide wally]

27. That was strictly meant as the generic "you"

I didn't think you (personal) thought that way from the OP

[NCTraveler]

29. Thanks for following up.

I wasn't sure.

[lpbk2713]

21. I hope he doesn't last four years.

Either he will be removed by some Constitutional means or his health
won't hold out. Right now he is the biggest disaster to ever hit the USA.

[byronius]

31. 'Biggest disaster to ever hit the human species.' Not hyperbole. Just the fact.

Tough times.

[spiderpig]

22. Everything about him makes my skin crawl.

Especially when he lowers his voice confidentally and hisses out another hateful soundbite.

I wish I could autotune "so", "veryvery", "disaster" and "believe me" out of my TV.

[DownriverDem]

34. My Way

I have chosen to not listen to or watch trump at all. I can only stand to read about the damage he and the repubs are inflicting on us on left leaning sites like DU.

[Initech]

32. The Terrorist-In-Chief

And his deplorable cabinet, and the assholes in Congress and the Senate are going to plunge the world into a new dark age, and this is only the beginning. Like I said I think war may be the only solution to get this asshole out of office. I hope it doesn't come to it, but we have traitors at all the highest levels of government now. The terrorists won the war on terror.

[bucolic_frolic]

37. Holy War

Just out

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-apocalypse_us_5898f02ee4b040613138a951

[NurseJackie]

38. Trump is like Kim Jong-un, except he has working nukes.

[Inkfreak]

39. Words have meaning. This is pure hyperbole.

He's embarrassing
He's obnoxious
He's a bully
He's narcissistic
He's orange
He's got small hands

What you've posted isn't based on reality or factual. And you most certainly enjoyed typing it.

[NCTraveler]

41. I strongly disagree.

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He has separated people from their families and stopped any hope of many to leave war torn regions to find a better life. Persecuted people. He will soon have his racist AG who would like to see the NAACP out of business. One of his top advisors is a white nationalist. His pick for ed supports using schools as the place to start a theocracy and she isn't competent enough to even be a principal, much less heading up the department. He is rapidly turning our allies into enemies. He wants to cut healthcare to millions. He is putting someone on the court who believes women are second class citizens.

Some of his more deplorable actions of hate have already been deemed unlawful. Meet the definition of terrorism.

The list things that are generating fear are real. Doesn't feel good to type at all as you suggest. I won't respond in kind with the aggressive and divisive rhetoric you have.

[Inkfreak]

42. That what you deem I post is "aggressive and decisive rhetoric"

helps me understand why you believe what you've posted in the OP.

Thanks!

[NCTraveler]

43. You are very welcome. nt.

[coco22]

40. It's not just him its..

Pence,Ryan McConnell,Sessions,Manchin and on and on..

[CrispyQ]

44. He's horribly compromised in so many ways.

He represents the republican party perfectly. He is them without the filter.

[Progressive dog]

45. The psychopath in the White House

deserves to be treated as what he is. The psychopath in chief is a conman and a lying braggart. He disgusts and frightens me.
Hopefully our system of government will survive.