Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Dud

good luck donald trump

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Ten-year-old nabisco offTM:

Here's something funny: when I was ten years old I had a vague admiration for Donald Trump and Lee Iacocca (both very feted at the time) and a downright intense love of Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties, who I didn't understand to be something of a joke. As such, despite having really liked Mondale -- having a woman as a running mate impressed me, probably because of the mother/father dynamic of it -- I was convinced that I wanted to be a Republican and a businessman or lawyer of some sort. In fact, I started a "company" with my friends Brian and Jeff -- we made board games, and hired Tony, the best breakdancer I have ever known, to do the art -- and I was constantly attempting to read the law and economics books in my father's library. Everyone seemed to think this was "cute," though I sort of wish someone had just explained politics to me. In either case, I got over it quickly and went back to wanting to be a writer.

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― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, June 14, 2003 1:28 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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i suppose 'classic' in that he's all a lot of people can think about or talk about and his brain dmamage is so powerful it's infected the world

p bad president and person tho

takes balls to rock that combover day in and out

I can see the blood from the man-flesh on his teeth!

What you lookin' at?
You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be?
You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say,
"That's the bad guy.
" So... what that make you? Good? You're not good.
You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
So say good night to the bad guy!
Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you.
Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!

You certainly don't, pal, 'cause the good news is - you're fired. The bad news is - you've got, all of you've got just one week to regain your jobs starting with tonight. Starting with tonight's sit. Oh? Have I got your attention now? Good. 'Cause we're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. Get the picture? You laughing now? You got leads. Mitch and Murray paid good money, get their names to sell them; you can't close the leads you're given, you can't close shit. You ARE shit! Hit the bricks, pal, and beat it 'cause you are going OUT!

Search: "move on her like a bitch"

Destroy: everything else

"Trump never said he had tapes, he just inferred that he did. And it is not intimidating a witness since Comey is telling the truth and knew that any tapes would prove his version of events."

everyone is classic but not everyone should be president

President Don once had a dream
The world held his hand, gave their pledge
So he told them his scheme for a savior machine

Trump lingered last in line for brains
And the one he got was sorta rotten and insane
Small hands (so sad!), a rust-hued clown
Is Trump fast asleep or rockin' out with Three Doors Down?

Murricuns electing Donald Trump: Classic or dud?

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haven't thought about this guy for a while. i think he was popular in the 80s?

Overrated

I think he'd make really great hog slurry. You can really tell a lot about a man by the way his pureed corpus fills a trough.

red means 'run, son. numbers add up to nothin'
. . .
shelter me from the putin and the banker
i bankrupted casinos. who the fuck does that?

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#daddy

#dilfsinjocks

wasting his finite reserves of energy there

Cronenbergian

Like a hastily-assembled meat collage.

hard to tell who is more obsessed with him the right or the left.

also the media love/hate thing is so cute. get a room you two.

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“I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.”

He is only as wicked and hellspawned as the hatred and resentment simmering in the heartland of the most violent nation ever

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

you suggest Panama?

the 1997 NYer profile of Trump is start-to-finish amazing but if I had to pick a favorite part it's this https://t.co/reqFZ79eZd pic.twitter.com/Qnwnuiyxqh

— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) June 23, 2017

hard to tell who is more obsessed with him the right or the left.

libs/"centrists" for sure

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

*not adjusted for population inflation

indicative of a deep flaw in our universe

truly he is king of the narcissist personality disorder sufferers

i think jesus still beats him out unless we're only counting contemporaneous fame

Michael Jackson sold a hundred million records

contemporaneous fame. MJ is up there but there are twice as many people on Earth now than there were in 1984.

Donlad Turmp sold a hundred million and one. Sad!

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

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can a mod temp lock a thread? we have the politics thread already dealing with this rancid chap.

XP Department of War, Gulf of America etc.

This thread should stay open as a sidebar discussion spot for the silly Trump stuff, like Crypto scams, gold phones, and Rush Hour 4.

this asshole is speaking somewhere right now and he sound utterly insane!!! WTF? we are so fucked and the fact that the party in power thinks this is ok is so god damn pathetic

its not just evil its utterly embarrassing. the man is still going on and on about how he "aced" his cognitive exams, even claiming they get "pretty hard". the hardest question on those things is what, draw a clock face? name 10 words that start with "H" in a minute? how can I possibly feel a modicum of respect for anyone who voted for this??

I think they are banking on the fact that most people are not very plugged in and never actually hear him speak or follow any of the details of the daily crime spree

the party in power thinks this is ok

i think they sense they have no real opposition, not a political party, at least

the whole "quietly supporting genocide in gaza" thing has steadily deflated any moral persusasion value the democrats might have had left

the democrats, at minimum, looked the other way, and other times actively voted for tens of thousands of children to die in gaza, because they weren't christian children

its not just evil its utterly embarrassing. the man is still going on and on about how he "aced" his cognitive exams, even claiming they get "pretty hard". the hardest question on those things is what, draw a clock face? name 10 words that start with "H" in a minute? how can I possibly feel a modicum of respect for anyone who voted for this??

I do wonder what would happen if he actually invaded Greenland, which would mean invading an EU territory. Are people going to, post-facto, talk about it as if it is not insane? Because has happened with every insane thing he has done so far including this Maduro caper.

“While I disagree with the manner this was done, Greenland’s mineral reserves were underdeveloped and not protected posing blah blah blah blah.” - washington post editorial board, next week

Efficiency, efficiency they say

they are laying the ground right now with this idea of giving every Greenlander a million dollars

Should play well with the America First crowd.

Are people going to, post-facto, talk about it as if it is not insane?

yes

it would clearly be about resources, rare earth minerals, parts for iphones.

many people would be horrified by how brazen the theft is. many more people will be like "wow we have obtained an enormous pile of untapped resources, this will be good for the economy"

all the fascists have to do is find two people in greenland who are happy about the idea, put them on state media and then just reference them on podcasts as "many people in greenland are saying" until the next controversy arrives

Do we expect the Greenlanders to take to the icebergs and carry on a guerrilla war?

Tempting to think "the EU would never allow it" but I remember Russia bullying Estonia 18 years ago, they did jack shit then and are considerably less united now

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Should play well with the America First crowd.

Jon Stewart made this point last night... after a brief montage of talking heads asking 'how will this play with the maga base?'.. he explained (too) loudly that they're fine with it! The maga base has proven again and again that they're completely fine with everything, and are happy to move the goal posts again whenever they're told to

I guess the new tack is that nation building and regime change are just fine as long as they're for OUR benefit... which Iraq and Afghanistan were not, apparently

America First means 'whatever America wants, first'

if America wants to annex Greenland...America first, sorry your vote doesn't count, Greenland! if America wants to steal oil, then America first! sorry about your oil Venezuela, not your call!

I was just thinking that Denmark should totally double down and say to the US, "See that military base you have that's vitally important to your security? Well, we want it off our territory now and we'll throw you out bodily if you resist".

they are laying the ground right now with this idea of giving every Greenlander a million dollars

i’m still waiting for my tariff rebate check. Anyway, once they find out the inhabitants are Inuit they’ll drop that quick.

its amazing that after 10+ years people still hold onto the fantasy that he could do anything to upset his base (short of pulling a Bud Dwyer maybe)

one million dollars in Trump Bucks, good for redemption at Steak 'n Shake, McDonald's, and TruthSocial

i’m still waiting for my tariff rebate check

apparently a lot of the 'self-deporters' were stiffed on the $1500 bonus or whatever it was

Keeping up with three Trump-related threads exhausts me.

xxxpost but people keep conflating his 'base' with 'people who voted for him'. the people who propelled him across the finish line in 2016 and 2024 weren't his base, they were independent voters who have largely already turned on him en masse.

even his Congress is full maybe of 1/3rd full-throated enthusiasm, 1/3rd passive acceptance, 1/3rd "I'm scared of this guy and am too chickenshit to wind up in his crosshairs". I mean let's be real, Republicans are an 'ends justify the means' party and so legality isn't a dealbreaker for even the most Never Trumper, but you can tell from the weasel words some of the GOP use when asked to comment on some of the most heinous shit he's done on the record that they're just huge cowards who are afraid of a MAGA mob showing up at their house.

I don't see that part changing anytime soon because until the arrows fire inward at them, the GOP Congress would rather have soft autocracy that still allows them to have a big house than to get death threats daily. they do not at all think about what life will be like for them after this administration is gone.

. the people who propelled him across the finish line in 2016 and 2024 weren't his base, they were independent voters who have largely already turned on him en masse.

bears repeating

his base appears to be bigger than it was in 2016, but I think that has more to do with the tax reform he passed in his first term. if that had never happened, rich donors would wonder what the point of a useful idiot who isn't actually useful is.

that was the point where his approval rating stopped cratering in term 1 and his floor more or less permanently sat at 40%

It also appears bigger b/c the base is louder than ever.

also true. people have made entire social media monetized platforms off of it which behooves them to shit out their mouths as loudly as possible

the people who propelled him to victory were hoping for a slightly milder form of racism

I don't see that part changing anytime soon because until the arrows fire inward at them, the GOP Congress would rather have soft autocracy that still allows them to have a big house than to get death threats daily. they do not at all think about what life will be like for them after this administration is gone.

The Congress is preparing to override his two recent vetoes. Could be an indication of his hold slipping.

i ain’t reading all that
im happy for u tho
or sorry that happened pic.twitter.com/kzxZFX0yk0

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 6, 2026

Not a Massie fan but good to see some trolling over there

look i still blame the brain dead “independent voters” for pushing him over the top

maybe even more

Keeping up with three Trump-related threads exhausts me.

try living inside the beltway!

xp yes the Dems ran a messy shitty campaign but a charismatic sea lion should have beat trump

thing is, even repubs with some fragment of a spine remaining like Massie are still racist cunts

I mean independent voters are often the same as 'undecided voters' so my feelings towards them aren't exactly warm

they are people who feel slightly more shame about their retrograde views than the average MAGA

even repubs with some fragment of a spine remaining like Massie are still racist cunts

yes Massie was the one who just introduced a bill for the U.S. to leave NATO

Trump endorsing Massie's opponent:

Ed, who also happens to be central casting...

Once more, Trump has no mental filters whatsoever. He is exactly as insane as he sounds.

most GOP foils wind up being about as defiant as Chief Wiggum complaining that Sideshow Bob called him "Chief Piggum"

Meanwhile, at the White House Air Sex Championship:

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(I think the actual context for this is a story of Melania not liking him dancing at rallies?)

gary johnson vibes

I know part of the timing was to distract from the latest Epstein deadline. Is there anyone reporting on what has or hasn't happened this week with that? I'm not seeing much at all, so he was successful in at least that respect.