# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/21 "2016-07-19T19:23:41Z")
He’ll have Melania redecorate the WH in Louis XIV style. You can never have too many gilded flourishes on any given light fixture! ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/22 "2016-07-19T19:36:31Z")
He hasn’t been convicted of throwing kittens into a wood chipper. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/23 "2016-07-19T20:07:47Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > He hasn’t been convicted of throwing kittens into a wood chipper. Yet. No, no. He’s got people for that. I’m trying to think of any actual positive. He’s very VERY good at branding. Perhaps he could use that knowledge to polish up the American brand, so to speak. Some folks are a little cranky with the US right now. Maybe Trump can help persuade the world that the US is as awesome as he is. Or something. It would be nice to see his power used for good instead of chaotic evil. ---
**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/24 "2016-07-19T20:40:01Z")
My coworker thinks that the Melania’s-speech-plagiarism kerfuffle could’ve been planned by Trump. After all, any media attention is positive for him, and any media attacks can be used to rile up his supporters. Etc. it’s a possibility, I guess, but it seems likelier to me that it’s another sign of political incompetence now that the primaries are over. Still, DJT has a pretty decent shot at the presidency compared to most of us, so even if he’s incompetent-but-lucky, that’s gotta be a plus, right? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/25 "2016-07-19T22:12:39Z")
He is able to transform various foodstuffs into A-1 fertilizer, utilizing only his personal digestive system. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/26 "2016-07-19T22:24:37Z")
Seriously, other than the tautologies, and a handful of negative positives – “Because of Trump, the Republican majority in the House and Senate will be slightly less than what they might have been had a true unifying candidate been nominated” – none. The guy is a loser, pure and simple. There is nothing to be admired in him other than that he absorbs neutrons and could be of benefit in containing the radioactive spill in Fukushima. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/27 "2016-07-19T23:03:42Z")
You couldn’t even make Soylent Green-- it would have to be Soylent Orange. ---
**Author:** ![hermitcrab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@hermitcrab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hermitcrab)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/28 "2016-07-19T23:25:54Z")
he may make things so bad that we might _welcome_ our inevitable robot overlords! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/29 "2016-07-19T23:30:06Z")
His wife’s speech writers exercise our sense of dejà vu. > [@kayaker](#): > > He’s 70, so it’s statistically likely he won’t be around long. That’s offensive to us non-Trump 70-year-olds. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/30 "2016-07-19T23:32:39Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > He’ll have Melania redecorate the WH in Louis XIV style. You can never have too many gilded flourishes on any given light fixture! This will make the ormolu manufacturers of America (all 3 of 'em) very happy. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/31 "2016-07-19T23:33:53Z")
I no longer waste time wondering if Republicans hate the Democrats enough to do _anything_ to win. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/32 "2016-07-20T00:23:52Z")
I don’t think it’s just a matter of hating the Democrats. They hate modern America and everyone in it outside of their particular monkey group (and they hate most of them, too, but that’s just, you know … _family_). Anything that damages modern America is a-ok with them, because only they, themselves, are REAL America. The rest of us are all outsiders. We’re not real. We don’t count. ---
**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 20, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/33 "2016-07-20T00:38:13Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > That’s offensive to us non-Trump 70-year-olds. Sorry. He looks like a walking advertisement for hypertension, and is under increasing levels of stress, which he doesn’t appear to be handling well. Seriously, no ageism intended, just Trumpism. Shake? ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/34 "2016-07-20T00:39:22Z")
Oh - sorry. I forgot I was in the Donald J. Trump Positive Accomplishmnets Thread. Uh … he’s given Gary Trudeau lots of material over the years. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/35 "2016-07-20T00:39:52Z")
He wants to restore Glass-Steagal, I support that. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/36 "2016-07-20T01:46:16Z")
He keeps lawyers in billable hours regularly. He has divorced twice, married a third time, and doesn’t look broke. He smirks like he means it; no cheesy deceptive Deborah Norville smirks for him. He doubles down in the face of insurmountable odds and facts. He gives hope to the hundreds of other short-fingered vulgarians in the world that they too can grow up to run for president. He proves the old adage “If you’re so smart, why ain’t ya rich”, just not the way it was meant. He doesn’t drink. (More for the rest of us! “His idiot son is about to speak… Social!”) He LOVES to fire people publicly while he’s in the spotlight, and he’s now surrounded by both the spotlight and all the high ranking GOP. What’s Not To Like??? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/37 "2016-07-20T03:38:43Z")
He has lived to 70 years (or whatever) old 100% of the time he has tried. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/38 "2016-07-20T04:02:48Z")
Thru his statesman like conduct and eloquently given speeches, he is able to remind us of everything we loathe in a human being, by personifying every single trait that we most detest. He reminds me that I actually passed 9th grade civics, and he clearly is confused by the cartoon ‘I’m just a bill’ or any of the basic schoolhouse videos. He reminds me that everything I took an oath to preserve when I joined the USAF, he stands against. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/39 "2016-07-20T04:39:12Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > I’m trying to think of any actual positive. He’s very VERY good at branding. Questionable. If you took a survey of favorable / unfavorable opinions of famous brands then I’m pretty sure Trump would have been pretty low on the favorable list even before he ran for President. Brands like Apple, Google, Tesla come up extremely high on favorable ratings. That’s good branding. There are highly paid branding marketing managers who try to manage everything about a brands market perception, and they would regard Trump as a rank amateur. Trump is very very good at publicity, eg getting attention, which is not the same thing as Branding. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327/40 "2016-07-20T04:54:55Z")
I didn’t say that Trump’s branding was tied to favorable impressions, although the Republican nomination would seem to indicate that he’s impressing some people. Think about it though - who doesn’t know who he is now? It’s a small number. Virtually everyone in the world with access to the Internet knows what he looks like, sounds like, dresses like, how he acts, and what his wife looks like. That’s branding. Would he be in this position if he hadn’t had The Apprentice tv shows? He built a brand - his public persona - of being a straight shooter with no tolerance for bullshit. That persona is what people are buying into. They want someone to save them from everything that is Wrong with America. I think he’s a raving lunatic with a spray on tan and acrylic hair, but I have to give him props for how well he has marketed himself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-positives/760327.md?page=3)