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NO American President has EVER comported themselves like this. Endless self pity , Dishonest assertions and scapegoating
madaboutharry
(40,208 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)Steve hardly ever tweets...
lindysalsagal
(20,670 posts)nolabear
(41,959 posts)FarPoint
(12,336 posts)Campaign jargon.....Full of manipulation and lies as well...
nolabear
(41,959 posts)tavalon
(27,985 posts)And don't try and tell me Crazy Tweets doesn't do blow. Sniff, sniff.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)think about it. They understand everything he says and we don't.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)to the raging fire
Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)Over the last year especially he has shown me that he is a man with personal integrity and honest convictions. He's made mistakes, we all have. I will not always agree with him in the future, like I haven't always in the past. But yes, he has my respect. I only wish most Republicans were more like him, people with whom I can have principled disagreements at times with mutual sincerity intact.
His voice is important right now. I wonder how many of those who voted for Trump can hear it.
Chevy
(1,063 posts)Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)So is Nicole Wallace.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)That's a lot to live down, but they both seemed to learn a lesson from that complete disaster. Many folks in politics enter into denial instead.
...Schmidt is reasonable. If he smells bullshit he will call it bullshit. Pre-Reagan, Republicans used to be like this, at least some of them. I still don't like Schmidt's politics, never will, but I can at least listen to what he has to say.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)He has been living in a world constructed around him and his success that dismisses failures and paints himself as cleverly using bankrupcty.
He put himself on a national stage beginning with bragging in biographies about how he is a genius at building wealth. And then he gets even more with his reality TV show which if measured by longevity and viewership can be reasonably understood as success.
This is a guy who is overconfident because he has no reason not to be.
He is probably a president we deserve in a nation that worships wealth and has enabled the success of reality tv. Why wouldn't lies go unchallenged when stage managed entertainment of people being ridiculed is presented as reality. He represents the worst of the US' loud and visible presense.
Zoider
(12 posts)unfortunately.
calimary
(81,220 posts)How'd you like the falsehood-fest today? Lies du Jour. Have Lies, Will Travel.
This jerk has lied so frequently, so publicly, so consistently, and so egregiously that I'm surprised his first name isn't Pinocchio.
ashredux
(2,604 posts)God help us
Cosmocat
(14,563 posts)It's why he is POTUS, and assholes party of Trump have full power at all levels.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)are responsible for the rabid followers of the Republican brand! They have created the hyper-partisanship we currently suffer from. When we get in power we need to remake the FCC and restrict what the Constitution allows. They must not be allowed to lie in their reporting!
Cosmocat
(14,563 posts)The Internet ...
hay rick
(7,605 posts)calimary
(81,220 posts)And people are actually kicking that idea around, now. I've seen multiple articles on this - where his mental "stability" is seriously in question.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)Said there was never a presser like this. That he wanted to mix it up to give the appropriate ammo to his supporters.
There is no way to normalize this mess (but they will try)
malaise
(268,930 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 16, 2017, 05:09 PM - Edit history (1)
this weekend.
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)mobeau69
(11,141 posts)The pressure is too much. He's completely lost it. I've never seen any president act and talk like what I just witnessed. Unfuckingbelievable.
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)He's up to his ass in debt to the Russians. It's the only plausible explanation.
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)lark
(23,091 posts)Those are pure and planned lies to attack others and promote himself and Russia.
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)He doesn't allow himself to be hoodwinked
Friend or Foe
(195 posts)ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)Of course I'm comparing him to your "average" repuke, who is crazy as a loon...
3catwoman3
(23,973 posts)I do find his commentaries interesting.
It is hard to forget his involvement with trying to get McCain-Palin elected, particularly the Palin part. I have the same feelings about Nicolle Wallace.
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,733 posts)he sounded more presidential than this.
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)Whoever thought we'd be saying such a thing
BigDemVoter
(4,149 posts)I must admit it STILL is a bit shocking to see a US President (even an illegitimate one) behaving like this!
Texin
(2,594 posts)I guess he was too young at the time to remember much about him; however, I'll say that the thing tRump has got one up on Nixon is the fact that he's managed to emerge as even more round-the-bend unwrapped in a mere short month in office than it took Nixon in more than four+ years.
That was the most bizarre public display of behavior(s) from a world leader I've seen since Nikita Khrushchev and his ignominious banging the podium with his shoe before The United Nations - or wherever it was. That was like watching a elderly man with advanced dementia-induced paranoia having a temper tantrum.
I guess he's safe with his so-called base, but the rest of the world has got to either be quaking in their boots or laughing uproariously at this embarrassing display of juvenile shit-throwing.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Trump sits atop the heap for whining self pitying blame everyone else Presidents.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)And "I am not a crook" came way later in his term than this joker.
Alternative facts. Alternative reality! Nothing his fault. Everything blamed on the Dems, the Media, or whoever he can think of at the time.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)he was generally coherent. Trump is a babbling idiot and his whole world is centered around himself.
livetohike
(22,138 posts)moderate compared to this idiot.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)manicraven
(901 posts)that with trump. They're always blaming somebody else and almost never accept responsibility for bad decisions. They usually lie a lot and actually think others don't detect the lies.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)Cha
(297,154 posts)Steven Shmidt
Thank you, HipChick
HipChick
(25,485 posts)moondust
(19,972 posts)Recommended viewing.
Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)mgardener
(1,816 posts)He is acting like an deranged person, a self pitying, lying, bully.
If he wasn't POTUS and rich, he would be avoided like the plague!