Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Part of my problem is that I have to do a lot of things myself. It takes so much time. Julio Iglesias is coming to Mar-a-Lago, but I have to call Julio, I have to have lunch with Julio. I have Pavarotti coming. Pavarotti doesn’t perform for anybody. He’s the highest-paid performer in the world. A million dollars a performance. The hardest guy to get. If I call him, he’ll do it—for a huge amount less. Why? Because they like me, they respect me, I don’t know.

I think you might need to look into a thing called history if you think this is the most violent nation ever.

idk Native American genocide plus slavery plus nuclear bomb-dropping... surely we're in the running

probably a million people killed by u.s. in vietnam/laos/cambodia. nobody will ever know how many. not pol pot numbers, but still...

mao would be the world champ though.

it's sobering to realize that Trump is probably the most famous person in human history now

this is a ridiculous statement

Man, if only Trump would tweet that he's bigger than Jesus...

well he's certainly fatter

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDBB4IMWAAAO6sN.jpg:large

stahp posting this I cant handle it

The relatively-youthful US has certainly done what it could to catch up with the accrued violence of much older nations, I'll grant you that. Maybe Donnie will get us there.

My god, it's made of scrote.

I feel badly for his clothes.

trump wearing a shirt with "trump" on it is like that thing where ppl wear band t-shirts to the same band's concert only 1000x worse

If you blow the image up to its full size (not that I'm recommending you do so) the swollen, boiled-looking bullfrog neck is almost Lovecraftian.

dainty watch worn to make hands look bigger.

Is he going to be remembered as the worst thing ever? Would be deeply ironic if he just got forgotten but then people wouldn't learn from history.
JUst hope his wrongness doesn't get outdone shortly after he dies painfully,choking to death on a shagpile carpet would be fitting, though too redolent of Elvis.
But fingers crossed he doesn't act as a harbinger of things to come.

Just would be so funny if he went to all this bother and wasn't remembered in 20 years time.

"Sorry no parliamentary email access today - we're under cyber attack from Kim Jong Un, (Vladimir) Putin or a kid in his mom's basement or something..."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDF8ptxVYAQxha7.jpg

very few things gross me out as much as donald trump's watch band pic.twitter.com/mWOA8sQKi7

— joe mande (@JoeMande) June 25, 2017

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/06/frank-rich-nixon-trump-and-how-a-presidency-ends.html

Jesus, how has he not lost his hand yet?

"Look, having nuclear - my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart - you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world - it's true! - but when you're a conservative Republican they try - oh, do they do a number - that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune - you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged - but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me - it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are - nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? - but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners - now it used to be three, now it's four - but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years - but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us."

^ shows nearly doc casino level aptitude

"To the career men & women at DOJ/FBI: your actions and integrity will be unfairly questioned. Be prepared, be strong. Duty. Honor. Country."

saw a beer called alternative facts with a reference to it being the bigliest of IPAs :-/

http://redcollar.ca/impeachment-and-alternative-facts-cans-join-the-red-collar-line-up/

xxxp reggie's quote, if that was a mathematical function it's be piecewise continuous but nowhere differentiable

Gentlemen, what you pansies are are a bunch of starving artistes who live off the kindness of the American government or mommy and daddy. You are angry at your own failings and struggle for survival, mock the GOP and ridicule its members, but when Republicans do it to the Democrats and you, you call out racism and class warfare.

You all yammer on like you do, but let me tell you this here message board is one kooky place with as many double standards as the Grand Old Party, which is why I voted TRUMP!

Someone's gotten into the sock drawer again.

He voted Trump because of ilxor.com??

anger at your own failings is the first step to personal responsibility, my friend

This new poster seems extremely not mad. In fact, I'd venture to suggest he's actually laughing.

Gentlemen, what you pansies are are a bunch of starving artistes who live off the kindness of the American government

Bitch i am ballin' atm.

watch out guys it's a trick, you say 'but i'm doing ok' and then it's like aaaahhhh so ur an elite then and ur like curses curses damn damn damn not again

O snap good lookin out.

pew pew sniped ya

^ best Nas song

source your quotes, sniper

https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate

1/ About that “interview” he gave to three Times reporters I have not stopped thinking. A thread to explain why. https://t.co/dCDqxnQcUT

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) July 23, 2017

That's such a great thread.

a fun reminder

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article127231799.html

Did the whole interview ever come out, actually?

that jay rosen thread is like watching a duckling wake up to realize mr fox isn't going to be his good buddy after all

Not really. It's stating the obvious but the obvious continues to bear when swathes of Americans still back Trump.

You'd get better, more informed and coherent answers interviewing a monkey. But it goes to show again and again that it does not matter. Trump might as well be an actual monkey, or answer every question with a loud fart: 80+ percent of Republicans still back him.

Good luck USA etc

*to bear repeating

i dunno, he's like "THEY are supposed to be the grownup experts, and WE are the stenographer muses, provoking them to be their best selves! what in the world are we to do once that illusion falls apart and it becomes plain that we are only useful insofar as we further their interests?" like man - that's how it's always been

"THEY are supposed to be the grownup experts

I didn't read it so much this way as "THEY are supposed to have some rudimentary grasp of the subjects that are absolutely central to doing their job and some definable thoughts in their heads, even if they are paper thin, and it is rather shocking that the POTUS's head is full of nothing but mush and putrid garbage."

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-its-like-to-get-laid-off-at-the-carrier-plant-trump-said-hed-save

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/the-best-quotes-from-trumps-embarrassing-wsj-interview.html

poll

He’s a big Shakespeare fan apparently

(Exit, pursued by bear)

Trump dying isn't going to change a thing. Still, would be a great birthday gift to the country. He should consider it.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, July 4, 2025 7:31 AM bookmarkflaglink

It wouldn't make fascism outright dissolve overnight or give the Republican party any scruples, but don't underestimate how much of MAGA enthusiasm is tied to him and only him. Think of how formerly beloved characters in the MAGAverse have become pariah overnight due to one Tweet.

R politicians who are afraid of bucking him are afraid because he can basically singlehandedly Tweet them out of a job or goad his followers to show up at their homes.

Nobody else in the party has that effect, not even his kids. A lot would still need to be done to dismantle fascism but it'd be like playing Xbox Live against someone whose internet was starting to fail

Yep. Whatever weird psychological hold Trump has on the MAGA folk isn't transferable to JD or Elon. The techbro/incel element will slither to the next ALPHA! in line, but Ma and Pa Arkansas should start doubting politicians in general again.

And we should remember Trump attracts a lot of people who don’t otherwise vote at all.

G.H. W. Bush tried as hard as he knew how to walk in Reagan's footsteps and by the time 1992 rolled around he was losing millions of votes to that paragon of charisma, H. Ross Perot.

lol at that Onion article