Oh, please; he notoriously can’t handle even mild criticism without having a tantrum.
He’s an incompetent fool who would be in prison or homeless if he hadn’t inherited wealth; not the clever manipulator you claim he is. He didn’t win because he manipulated people, he won because he’s stupid, bigoted scum and stupid, bigoted scum is what millions of people wanted.
He inherited a million and turned it into a billion. Despite not being handsome or charming, he was a top rated TV star for a decade. Despite never having run for office before, he just won the presidency. That sounds like a pretty smart guy to me. Maybe even someone to learn from.
OTOH, you’re an impotent, hate-filled little man raging at the world through his keyboard, so maybe I should take your opinions seriously instead.
Well, duh, but America is a large country, it has so many doofuses… Ideally, an advanced nation would keeps its reactionary subculture in check, but this time the doofuses lucked out. Of course, this was after years of careful feeding of their delusions, topped by a dessert of *Benghazi a la e-mail.
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I admit some gladness that the demagogue that ultimately captured their imaginations wasn’t an overtly religious figure or (more of) an overtly racist one. Trump’s most likely avenue of harming America is likely in service to own greed rather than delusions of hastening the Rapture or purifying the nation. You’ve got a crass Crassus on your hands, or maybe a Boss Twit, only with an even less-developed instinct for public service.
And so he can manipulate the masses. That doesn’t speak to his brilliance - it just speaks to their stupidity.
He’s an angry cunt, in a country that’s pissed off. Trump blundered into the presidency. He didn’t win because he was brilliant, he won because Clinton got 4 million fewer votes than Obama. Trump got the same as Romney.
If he truly spent that much time studying marketing and sales, many of his business ventures such as Trump steaks, Trump wine, and Trump University wouldn’t be failures or tarnished with fraud allegations. His most successful ventures have been real estate, which were primarily helped by his having a lot of starting capital, being able to get lots of loans due to his starting capital and family name, and the real estate market going mostly steadily upwards throughout his business career.
Far from mirroring and other neuro-linguistic programming techniques, Trump’s main skill is his almost unfailing confidence, which he has turned into branding. This is a form of marketing, but is one built primarily on his narcissism and ego. He can speak in soundbytes well enough, sometimes, but hearing him talk uninterrupted for a significant length of time shows that he is no master salesperson who can close a skeptical would-be buyer.
Without seeing his taxes or his books, we’ll never know his actual net worth. But Trump, again due to his confidence and his near-lack of any open self-doubt, has his own kind of charm and charisma. His secret weapon in TV was also his secret weapon in the campaign that seemed to have attracted a lot of voters - he has no shame. Whereas other conventional candidates would have run and hide after the initial John McCain POW comments or any number of other outrageous remarks, Trump never let any pressure or criticism actually get to him and cause him to apologize (minus the forced, stilted Billy Bush tape apology) or self-reflect. That was something different that a lot of people hadn’t seen before.
Notoriously, he did worse than if he’d just stuck the money in safe investments. He’s ruined essentially everything he’s taken a hand in, which is why he restricts himself to “branding” and scams; he can’t do anything else.
You say that now, but wait till they come around to cut your doors in half! And how do we really know that this “tapatalk” thing isn’t another wooden-shoed step towards world domination?
I agree that this is the way Trump is using the medium. Basically its bar talk. The sort to things you say in a bar after a few drinks. I doubt that Trump put any more thought into his tweet than dasmoocher did with this post.
The problem is that the president isn’t allowed to engage in bar talk. As Spiderman knows “with great power there must also come, great responsibility.” Saying in a bar “all Muslims are terrorists and we ought to nuke Mecca”. is not going to raise an eyebrow, but the president saying it in public is quite another thing.
Also Trump’s ego means that once he says something he won’t back away from it. If I confronted dasmoocher, about his post he would probably admit that it was just a joke and he doesn’t really think that Trump will strip search everyone. But now that he tweeted it Trump will never admit that the revoking of citizenship is not the proper penalty for flag burning. To do so would be to admit that not everything that comes out of his mouth is the truth direct from god.