The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump
www.ontheissues.org
    • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Republicans are demonstrably very stupid. That’s how they cannot see through it: They do not think past, “he said something I like behind the podium!”.

      Same way they view religion. There are no moral axioms (that withstand logical analysis, anyways), only in-groups and out-groups.

  • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    that’s the magic of having no consistency, you can find anything and its opposite in 40+ years of uncontrolled rambling, scheming, lying and cheating.

        • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Yeah, I’m not certain he would be able to come up with ways to insult people that aren’t just projecting the insults that hurt him. He doesn’t even usually know what they mean at first. He’ll just project onto them a random negative thing people have said about him and then either deny it if it didn’t stick, or lean into it if it did.

          He’s not creative enough to come up with insults actually about them on the spot. Those have to be pre-planned or handed to him.

      • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Seems like he just wants to be a contrarian asshole, especially if you look from the Clinton years onward.

  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    3 months ago

    Trump would support the holocaust if he thought it would make more people like him.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    There was a Trump interview from the 90s where he said that if he ever ran for office he would go Republican because they were stupid, gullible and easily manipulated. Sadly I cannot find that interview anymore.

  • Waldowal@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m somewhat ashamed to admit it, but back before he did “The Apprentice”, I’ll admit I was somewhat fascinated by Trump as a business “mogul”. I read at least 5 of his books starting with “Art of the Deal”. Here are some highlights I remember:

    • He constantly bragged about deals in which he completely fucked someone over. Not once did he acknowledge it - at all. It’s like it never entered his mind. Or, that the more he fucked someone over, the more proud he was.

    • He bragged about never preparing for speeches. He likes to completely wing it every time - which I guess is obvious.

    • He claimed to never eat lunch. Too busy “making deals” he said.

    • He used to be very good friends with the Clintons. Went to their parties often. Spoke very highly of them.

    • Didn’t mention Jeffrey Epstein at all. You know, like all those pictures of them together might have been a secret?

    • Talked about times when he was flat broke or in the hole and how he needed to fake that he was rich to keep up appearances so people would want to do deals with him. I remember one paragraph where he was walking into a building in NY with Ivanka and pointed out a homeless person and told her “See that man. He has more money than me.”

    Long before he entered politics, based on those books, I knew Donald Trump was a despicable piece of shit.

    • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      During his presidency I heard people say he thinks there’s no such thing as a win-win deal. According to him, one party has to be a loser, and the more they lose the more you win. Your first point seems to point to that as well.