Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP

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Why do people que up for hours to listen to that rubbish?

They Say kids are lost in their phones all day but here you have grown adults wiling to travel and stand for hours to listen to that demented rubbish.

And we only see the clips. He drones on for 90 minutes usually. 90 minutes of incoherent, disconnected and childish nonsense.

Add to that, they also have to sit through the support acts, which invariably are pound shop tribute acts to the main act.

That migrant league business is profoundly weird. The audience seemed to be laughing more than cheering him though, as though they thought he was joking throughout. No doubt he would claim he was joking if challenged about it, but if that reduces all his speeches to jokes then where are his policies and proposals for a future 'reign'. The UN laughed at him, its the response of people who can't believe what they are hearing.

More wounds than I suspect any President ever?

Even the ones who were assassinated?

This guys narcissism is truly god tier.

It's an event. Of course there is an element of the crowd who believes everything he says, but it may be closer to this 30 percent figure people keep throwing out for who of the Republican base is hardcore MAGA. I think a lot of them just like that he says things which píss people off.

Steve Bannon laid the strategy out clearly some years ago. It's signal/noise. The media and many of Trump's opponents are still being bamboozled by the noise. It would appear that Bannon was and is so confident in the strategy that he can outline it in clear detail without it being foiled, such is the media's thirst for ratings and such is the general public's hunger for the latest tidbit.

"Oh, my god, did you hear what stupid thing Trump said last night?"

It shouldn't even be a story, it happens so often, yet so many people fall for it every time. Meanwhile, behind that smokescreen, Trump's backers are plotting to concentrate power in the presidency to an extent that if he gets in, he will be able to do a lot more than the first time.

Whether Trump is stupid is kind of irrelevant at this point because the people like Stephen Miller who are advising him most certainly are not.

Could be. But that doesn't explain how he gets names wrong, how he gets facts wrong so often, how he gets lost during interviews.

And how does it explain his recent sharks and electrocution madness?

I dont think so. The text size on teleprompter is adjustable can be 50+ point size. Even I could Iread it without my glasses.

You have to change X to twitter in the link for it to display the tweet.

Is it in comic sans?

Yeah, but that makes no difference if you can't see it because you've got a black cloud in your vision. If you watch several clips, you'll see he nearly always short-circuits when he's reading a polysyllabic word after he's read the first syllable on the teleprompter. Something is stopping him from seeing the rest of it, so he makes a guess, switches to the teleprompter on the other side, realises he's guessed wrong and goes into recovery mode.

Some of these wacky tangents might be a sign that he's struggling to read both teleprompters now, so he has to fall back on one of his hobby-horse topics for a moment while things settle down (obviously trumpian moment = an eternity in normal human time).

Wingdings

Doesn't explain his acceleration of gaffs when not reading off the teleprompter

Why all this talk about teleprompters? The man himself said this,

“I’ve always said, if you run for president, you shouldn’t be allowed to use teleprompters,” Trump said in October. “Because you don’t even know if the guy is smart.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-teleprompter-224039

You're not telling me Trump would backtrack on something like that? How would we know if he's smart or not?

/sarc

True, but increasing the font size will not make a huge amount of difference with cataracts - it makes a bit of difference, agreed. Also I didn't mention reading glasses. He could have glasses for a distance of 10ft (or whatever), but vanity will not have him wearing glasses.

I can't see it happening. Not at this late stage. It would show weakness and he never does that.

That said, Im very surprised he agreed to the debate format as it stands.

Any other presidential candidate in the past 100 years what you have described would be ludicrous, but as it DJT, that does actually sound plausible now that you have said it.

Aw have some sympathy folks. The poor craethur

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/politics/eric-trump-says-democrats-torturing-his-father/ar-BB1oMbOi

Or else,

"We heard Crooked Joe Bi-den was going to talk about the corrupt judge and the corrupt trial in New York. But I can't talk about that because I'm under an unjust, highly illegal, gag order, where I can't talk about the trial at all. We asked the Bi-den Crime team to state that they wouldn't talk about the trial as I can't talk about it and they refused. They refused! They have nothing else. Nothing. No policies. No answer to inflation. No answer to crime. No answer to the border. Not like me. You know I know what to do

And they want no audience there. No witnesses. No witnesses to the "debate". Can you imagine that? No Americans there. Imagine that. This old, crooked man wants to be president, but doesn't want any patriots to hear what he has to say. Why is that Joe? What kind of President does that? This man, proven to lie and cheat again and again and again wants to debate me with no witnesses! You know why, don't you? He's scared. Ol' Sleepy Joe, afraid of catching 20 winks at the debate. That's why he wants no witnesses.

Look, if they want to play fair, we'll play. I'm not scared of Sleepy, Crooked Joe, but they won't play by the rules, so we're not gonna play their games.

We'll keep talking to all you patriots on the campaign trial, but we're not gonna give Crooked Joe Bi-den and his crime family our time. Or waste your time having to hear him dribble.

God bless you all and God bless America."

I think the debates will be crucial. If Biden comes across well it'll be the death nail for Trump. I'm just hoping Biden does

And a nightmare when he announces that he won't pay you either

I'm no expert obviously but I think it's more to do with a mild dyslexia - ie. reading 'ramparts' as 'airports' - mixed with a lack of comprehension so he doesn't realise that he has said something ridiculous and add to that his vanity which will not allow him to correct the error when he does realise it. I can't find the clip now but I seem to rememeber a campaign speech back in 2016 where he used the word 'untie' where he obviously should have used the word 'unite'. It didn't make sense but he continued to use 'untie' for the entire speech and got cheered at the end, so for him, no harm done.

We know that Trump doesn’t have any of those conditions. He has told us himself that he has been given a clean bill of health. Trump has told us that he will be the healthiest president ever. Trump wouldn’t lie would he.

Did they accuse him of not being born in the US?

Although it’s completely in character for his brand of BS; the lie that he was the «Healthiest Canditate for President ever» from his doctor was the stupidest over-exaggeration Trump could have pushed for in that situation.

All he needed was for the doctor to say “He’s a clean bill of health! Good to go for office!” That would likely also be a lie, but a believable one.

He had to insist on being called the “Healthiest ever” which just telegraphed how much of a lie that was. Damn….even then I was pretty sure he couldn’t spend the whole 4 years of the Presidency lying about silly nonsense….God I was wrong there….