No, but if he finds out you don’t think he’s the greatest (Sad!) he’s going to Tweet about you, and then you’ll be internet famous for a few days and nobody needs that.
I went with ‘pathological liar’ but really it’s even beyond that. The man simply doesn’t care what’s true and what’s not. If he’s heard it somewhere and he wants it to be true, then it is, as far as he’s concerned.
I picked “fact check” but I’m already regretting not picking “pathological liar.” I was vacillating between the two.
A friend of mine is a psychologist. I saw her today and thinking of this thread I asked her “Do you think Trump suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder?” She said “Yes I do”. She added “Though to explain the paranoia on top of the grandiosity that Delusional Disorder might be more appropriate.” She did warn though that of course he diagnosis is based solely on observation of behaviour online and in public and she had never meet him in a clinical setting.
“Just remember: It’s not a lie, if you believe it.” (George Costanza)
Is the reason you made this a public poll just to create a database of Trump supporters/sympathizers? You have to realize you’re not getting honest results that way.
Could you share a link to this? I’ve been trying to look up old Tweets of his.
Hell to the naw.
I think I’m a pretty empathetic guy.
But I honestly believe that people who don’t realize Trump is a pathological liar aren’t paying close attention to politics. And, you know, bully for them. But trust those of us following the day-to-day: the guy is nuts.
According to some, it’s more likely to be the opposite.
You know who else doesn’t seem to have anyone on his side in here?
Trump is a pathological liar, true, but it’s not good to assume every single thing he says is a lie. That just allows him to use the truth as a lie. Or to weave some truth in a lie, which you then assume is fake and then get your ass handed to you.
So I went with option 2, which I 100% agree with. It’s also what journalists are learning–the stuff that comes out of the White House now has to be treated as propaganda.
That’s one favor Spicer did. He made it clear that Trump can’t be trusted. If things aren’t the way he wants, he will just lie about it. So everyone knows not to trust him.
Of course he doesn’t have any support. There is no rational way to support him. That’s why you’re falling back on tu quoque arguments, pretending that everyone else is the same as if that would excuse Trump.
Of course a psychopath doesn’t have support. To support him would be like supporting a murderer or rapist.
We don’t need any devil’s advocates. Stirring shit up has no purpose but to piss people off.
He knows, but he thinks that, if he argues with reality long enough, it changes things. That’s how his entire business has been run.
If he thought he was telling the truth, he would have no reason to get angry. The guy actually learned that you can lie enough that things become “true.”
It’s pretty close to stuff like The Secret or “Name it and claim it” theology.
The Republicans and right wingers in general are all about the “Triumph of the Will”; they think that by sheer will they can make reality whatever they want it to be. Facts don’t matter, logic doesn’t matter; if you* believe* something is true hard enough, have enough *faith *that it’s true, then it is true.