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TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 08:52 PM Oct 2016

WTF is wrong with Trump?

He holds a rally in Gettysburg today, supposedly to lay out his plan for the first 100 days * snicker*cough* in office.

Before he's done, he goes back to the stupid "Mexico will pay for the wall" red meat hype, then wades back into the GropeGate swamp and how he will sue everyone in sight. Whatever "worthwhile" message he had is completely lost in the crazy talk.

I swear, he doesn't want to win, he really can't be serious.........

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WTF is wrong with Trump? (Original Post) TheCowsCameHome Oct 2016 OP
Trump is a BIG lesson for America! We ought to always remember this man's idiocy! Madam45for2923 Oct 2016 #1
You're thinking like someone who can control his impulses. pointsoflight Oct 2016 #2
Excellent synopsis... WiffenPoof Oct 2016 #11
exactly...as Steve Schmidt so aptly and succinctly stated, T has Gabi Hayes Oct 2016 #25
yep-- he's a prime exhibit of a spoiled rich kid who never grew up emotionally Fast Walker 52 Oct 2016 #26
Can I leave this here? Madam45for2923 Oct 2016 #3
Considering how much he looks down on women, losing to her must just KILL him! Chemisse Oct 2016 #15
Ya think? JTFrog Oct 2016 #21
Where should I start? greatauntoftriplets Oct 2016 #4
He has Cliven Bundy Disorder: lazy thought processes leading to randomized blathering. randome Oct 2016 #5
He actually changed it to the US will pay for the wall (and Mexico will reimburse) oberliner Oct 2016 #6
brilliant! Fast Walker 52 Oct 2016 #27
There wasn't much applause for that flip flop. MoonRiver Oct 2016 #32
History Professor Gingrich Says Trump's Gettysburg Address Was Best Reform Speech Since Reagan’s dalton99 Oct 2016 #7
Newt needs to go back to sleep SHRED Oct 2016 #23
Newt has his head up his ass Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2016 #24
I think he's exhausted. He's an old man and it's showing. Shrike47 Oct 2016 #8
Probably easier to list what's not wrong with him. Island Blue Oct 2016 #9
Trump isn't the one who moonscape Oct 2016 #10
What's he going to do.... WiffenPoof Oct 2016 #12
Start a Trump TV network elmac Oct 2016 #17
While I know that's the speculation, and his son-in-law moonscape Oct 2016 #22
Trump TV is a loser fantasy. Frank Cannon Oct 2016 #31
He's a raging egomaniac who thought running for President PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #14
Why Gettysburg? Bear Creek Oct 2016 #16
I've been asking that ever since primaries started. LisaL Oct 2016 #18
The only answer I have come up with is that it's representative of the division of this country that Pachamama Oct 2016 #33
his Mexico wall thing was what got him the nomination Skittles Oct 2016 #19
The Republicans will learn nothing from this. Mr.Bill Oct 2016 #20
#TrumpGettysburgAddress -- trending LOL Coyotl Oct 2016 #28
Trump really is the opposite of Lincoln! Madam45for2923 Oct 2016 #29
Lincoln has been dead 150 years, but his quotes still bury Trump. Coyotl Oct 2016 #30
 

Madam45for2923

(7,178 posts)
1. Trump is a BIG lesson for America! We ought to always remember this man's idiocy!
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 09:02 PM
Oct 2016

Will make it easier to fully recognize when it shows up again...

pointsoflight

(1,372 posts)
2. You're thinking like someone who can control his impulses.
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 09:02 PM
Oct 2016

He can't. Everyone keeps advising him to control himself, and he tries, but before long, he simply can't help it. He's an entitled, emotionally immature bully with the cognitive control of a toddler. I really don't think he's capable of suppressing his impulses the way most of us can. Something is seriously wrong with the guy, either because of the way he's wired and/or a because of a 70 year lifetime of behavior and experiences that has created this monster we now see. To me, this is the biggest reason why we have to fight tooth and nail to make sure this guy isn't president. He would be truly dangerous, given his lack of control..

WiffenPoof

(2,404 posts)
11. Excellent synopsis...
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 10:35 PM
Oct 2016

You are exactly correct... He cannot control his impulses. Some of it is due to the way he was raised.

 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
25. exactly...as Steve Schmidt so aptly and succinctly stated, T has
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 08:13 AM
Oct 2016

"political Tourette's"

it's really that simple

no control whatsoever, and this childish churlishness is what, without doubt, what did him in

Chemisse

(30,811 posts)
15. Considering how much he looks down on women, losing to her must just KILL him!
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 11:21 PM
Oct 2016

It couldn't happen to a more deserving person.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
5. He has Cliven Bundy Disorder: lazy thought processes leading to randomized blathering.
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 09:09 PM
Oct 2016

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
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Island Blue

(5,816 posts)
9. Probably easier to list what's not wrong with him.
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 10:15 PM
Oct 2016

I can't come up with anything at the moment, but if someone can, it will be a short list.

moonscape

(4,673 posts)
10. Trump isn't the one who
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 10:18 PM
Oct 2016

cared about the first 100 days ... others around him did and sent him out with a paper to read them. Trump doesn't even care about it if he wins, Pence and Bannon do, because they're the ones who would be running things <shiver>.

Trump just cares about adoring crowds, flying around in a better jet than he has, and other amenities.

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
17. Start a Trump TV network
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 11:25 PM
Oct 2016

that is what all this is building up to, just using the election to build his own hype channel/s & there's a lot of dummies out there who will pay to watch it. I',m sure he will have lots of nutjobs on it inciting violence, sedition, secession.

moonscape

(4,673 posts)
22. While I know that's the speculation, and his son-in-law
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 11:55 PM
Oct 2016

was shopping the idea around, and there are media guys around him ... I'm still wondering if this will really fly.

Oh, I don't doubt they'll attempt it, but it seems to me his average supporter might not be nearly as interested in him after all this dies down, and ... doesn't live in an area where they have ready fast internet and technical interest to plug in. A traditional cable outlet would be too costly and I can't imagine Comcast, et al picking it up anyway.

TrumpTV might not be a SlamDunk!

Frank Cannon

(7,570 posts)
31. Trump TV is a loser fantasy.
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 10:38 AM
Oct 2016

As I've said a million times, if the KKK could have started their own cable channel, they would have done so a long time ago.

When Trump gets humiliated in this election, you will be hard pressed to find people who will openly admit to having voted for him. No one wants to be associated with a huge loser. And the rest of us don't want to see his ugly mug or listen to his whining ever again. I doubt very much that TV sponsors will want to bank on that. Not even Putin wants to throw good money after bad.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,857 posts)
14. He's a raging egomaniac who thought running for President
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 11:18 PM
Oct 2016

would just be another reality show. One that he could control completely, including the outcome.

Like a lot of people who are successful in one field, he assumed he would be successful in everything he would do. Of course, just how successful he really has been is open to a lot of question and asterisks. Nonetheless, he simply hasn't a clue how politics really works.

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
33. The only answer I have come up with is that it's representative of the division of this country that
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 11:37 AM
Oct 2016

.... Existed and that he is appealing to the people who "lost" and feel the civil war lost was when America stopped being great.

And that just like he threw out the red meat at the 3rd debate to the Pro-life folks, being in Gettysburg is red meat for the confederate loving racist supporters out there. That is scary.

Skittles

(153,160 posts)
19. his Mexico wall thing was what got him the nomination
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 11:39 PM
Oct 2016

he thinks the same garbage will get him the presidency

he is as stupid as his supporters

Mr.Bill

(24,292 posts)
20. The Republicans will learn nothing from this.
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 11:40 PM
Oct 2016

I swear in four years they will nominate Ted Nugent to run against Hillary. He will hold outdoor rallys and will stand at the podium and shoot guns into the air.

I'm totally serious.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
28. #TrumpGettysburgAddress -- trending LOL
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 08:28 AM
Oct 2016

The Internet handed him his arse for that, and here's the humor part: #TrumpGettysburgAddress -- trending LOL

This morning #TrumpNavyShipNames is trending with USS Wrong leading the fleet. LOL x 20K tweets





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