# Donald Trump: positives? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 19, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327 "2016-07-19T16:11:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/1 "2016-07-19T16:11:12Z")
The whole Trump campaign spectacle is such a drunken, insane circus that we’ve all become inured to new revelations and gaffes that, individually, would have sunk almost any prior candidate. The accusations and revelations, very few of which seem to be invented, inflated or taken out of context, are past shocking and into numbing. So Let’s Play… \*\*Good Qualities, Abilities and Accomplishments of Donald J. Trump. \*\*(I’d start with an example, but I can’t think of one.) ---
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/2 "2016-07-19T16:13:07Z")
Well, he’s entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/3 "2016-07-19T16:14:56Z")
He’s 70, so it’s statistically likely he won’t be around long. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/4 "2016-07-19T16:15:40Z")
He is an excellent self-promoter. He represents a life-style to which many aspire to. In his way, he _is_ successful at business - he uses other people’s money to generate a stream of personal cash flow that is quite envious\*. He has become an election away from joining a exclusive club of 45 people, some of whom represent the titanic figures in our nation’s history. \*You wanted the positive take, so no qualifiers… though I SO wanted to add a few. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/5 "2016-07-19T16:17:17Z")
He almost makes Ted Cruz look Presidential. Almost. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/6 "2016-07-19T16:25:31Z")
He does an adequate job of converting atmospheric oxygen and processed nutrients into energy sufficient for the biological requirements of a roughly 100 kg mammalian biped. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/7 "2016-07-19T16:34:41Z")
It’s likely that at least _some_ of us would survive the global nuclear cataclysm he’ll initiate when he decides that Russia is being “unfair” to him. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/8 "2016-07-19T16:40:41Z")
He managed to convince an extremely attractive woman, 24 years his junior, to marry him. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/9 "2016-07-19T16:41:59Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > He managed to convince an extremely attractive woman, 24 years his junior, to marry him. As he mentioned in the debate, he has a yuge…bank account. ---
**Author:** ![davey77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@davey77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davey77)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/10 "2016-07-19T16:43:18Z")
!. He owns his own suits. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/11 "2016-07-19T16:58:38Z")
He is boundlessly self-confident. He is not afraid to appear in public with ridiculous hair and an unnatural skin tone. He has a good appetite. He is a U.S. citizen. He kept Ted Cruz and Chris Christie (at least for now) from becoming President. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/12 "2016-07-19T17:02:03Z")
He has given job security to thousands of comedy writers. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/13 "2016-07-19T17:06:22Z")
He has a hot daughter.\* - which it is in no way creepy that he wants to bang her. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/14 "2016-07-19T17:38:12Z")
Orange is the new white. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/15 "2016-07-19T17:46:33Z")
He is not an identical twin. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/16 "2016-07-19T17:48:24Z")
He could end the GOP. It could be his legacy! ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/17 "2016-07-19T17:50:12Z")
He’s never _actually_ stood in the middle of 5th Avenue and shot anybody. So far. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/18 "2016-07-19T17:51:06Z")
He provides the short-fingered vulgarians of the world with a role model He shows America is still a land of opportunity where anyone can run for President, regardless of qualifications He was ranked #1 in the ‘SPY 100’ – more than once!\* (\*It sounds positive as long as you don’t mention that it was SPY magazine’s annual ranking of the “100 most annoying, appalling and alarming” people and things of the year.) ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/19 "2016-07-19T17:53:50Z")
His hands are useful for reaching into small spaces. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/20 "2016-07-19T18:00:51Z")
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