# Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 4, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901 "2016-05-04T02:37:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 108
**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 1, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2142 "2016-07-01T18:20:32Z")
Anybody care to clue me in why Donald Trump responds to fake Twitter accounts? He just did it again and it’s pretty weird… Trump’s original tweet: “”@Gengm7: @jakeda @realDonaldTrump As of April this year, Hillary had spent $264,000,000 on her campaign Mr.Trump $55,000,000. self funding"" > To which Jakeda responds: “@realDonaldTrump why in the hell did you include me in your tweet now I am getting a bunch of spam ! Thanks a lot. You sir are a moron!” [https://twitter.com/jakeda/status/748351146834595840](https://twitter.com/jakeda/status/748351146834595840) Here is @Jakeda’s account: [https://twitter.com/jakeda](https://twitter.com/jakeda) Does this guy look like an active Twitter user? His last tweet was April 2015. Regardless… this is so bizarre, it’s unexplainable. ---
**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 1, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2143 "2016-07-01T18:22:14Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Anybody care to clue me in why Donald Trump responds to fake Twitter accounts? He just did it again and it’s pretty weird… I wonder if it has something to do with his habit of referring to himself as “Mr. Trump” whenever he’s “quoting” someone else. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2144 "2016-07-01T18:29:21Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Anybody care to clue me in why Donald Trump responds to fake Twitter accounts? He just did it again and it’s pretty weird… His Twitter behavior is strange. Not like Kanye West or Cher strange, where they just tweet weird things, often in caps, but strange in that he does seem to make up tweets. [A Cracked writer just wrote about it](http://www.cracked.com/blog/trump-having-twitter-conversations-with-fake-accounts/): > [@](#): > > For the past few weeks I’ve been running a small Twitter project called @DebunkTrump that’s focused on picking apart the stuff he says because I was sick of doing that on my own Twitter account but couldn’t stop the actual research part because I’m obsessive and broken please help. Only a few days in, I’ve already learned something more interesting than any individual lie I could debunk: the Trump Twitter account is making up supporters out of thin air. > > …Look, if you search through Trump’s twitter history, you’ll find that it’s not at all uncommon for Trump to quote accounts that are not only not real, but obviously not real. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2145 "2016-07-01T18:53:31Z")
Last week, the Trump campaign, in response to the FEC filings which showed that 10% of all campaign payments went to Trump companies and individuals, said that The Donald was going to forgive $50 million in money that he had given the campaign, turning it from a loan into a donation. [NBC News says that as of their report today, that had still not happened, and nobody knows if and when it ever will](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/after-saying-he-forgave-loans-campaign-trump-won-t-release-n601596). ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2146 "2016-07-01T18:58:56Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > His Twitter behavior is strange. Not like Kanye West or Cher strange, where they just tweet weird things, often in caps, but strange in that he does seem to make up tweets. [A Cracked writer just wrote about it](http://www.cracked.com/blog/trump-having-twitter-conversations-with-fake-accounts/): The first comment there: > [@](#): > > Donald Trump is what a Youtube comments section would look like if it ran for President. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crybaby\_Boobie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crybaby_boobie/32/545_2.png) [@Crybaby\_Boobie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crybaby_Boobie)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2147 "2016-07-01T19:18:20Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > **Merneith** , > > “Joe Schlobotnik … he’s a drug-dealer, a rapist and a murderer who says what I want to say but can’t … maybe I’ll vote for him … oh he claimed a charitable donation he wasn’t entitled to? Well in _that_ case …” How dare you impugn the good name of Mr. Schlobotnik, sir! ---
**Author:** ![Old\_Time\_Hockey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9adbd/32.png) [@Old\_Time\_Hockey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Time_Hockey)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2148 "2016-07-01T20:04:16Z")
> [@Crybaby\_Boobie](#): > > How dare you impugn the good name of Mr. Schlobotnik, sir! I think it’s a joke, sir… like, uh, ‘Sillius Soddus’ or… ‘Biggus Dickus’, sir. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2149 "2016-07-01T20:18:19Z")
> [@Crybaby\_Boobie](#): > > How dare you impugn the good name of Mr. Schlobotnik, sir! [He has loyal fans anyway.](http://peanuts.wikia.com/wiki/Joe_Shlabotnik) (Although I did misspell. How rude of me!) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2150 "2016-07-02T01:10:39Z")
[Trump is back, tell a friend](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/donald-trump-western-conservative-summit-225041)… > [@](#): > > Donald Trump began July looking to turn the page on a June swoon that dulled his post-primary momentum and hurt his ability to unify a fractured Republican coalition. > > He did so by talking mostly about his surprising victory in the GOP primary that ended in May. > > [snip] > > Arriving 30 minutes late, Trump eschewed the teleprompters he’s been relying on more in recent weeks and ad-libbed his way through 50 minutes of remarks, promising to repeal “job killing regulations,” to “protect the Second Amendment,” to appoint conservative Supreme Court justices, to back away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other trade agreements and to build a border wall to prevent illegal immigration. > > “We’re going to build the wall, Mexico’s going to pay for the wall,” Trump said in a state where Latinos account for 20 percent of the population and could make up more than 15 percent of the electorate in November. > > In all, it was a performance reminiscent of “the old Trump,” the version many said was due in large part to the influence of now-fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. The center of attention, and he might be back for the duration. He wants everybody to discuss him, so he must be disgusting, and go back to his old shit to fling, 'cause his campaign’s just empty without the old Trump. He doesn’t have anything else. His substance is tied up in his image and his image is tied up in his racist, sexist assaults on decency and basic logic. If he takes the pledge, he tanks in the polls. He knows what to do when you tank in the polls, and that’s to revert to form to get back in the public eye. He might be convinced to take the pledge again, but this is ultimately homeostasis, a dynamic equilibrium which will prevent him from ever running a straight campaign. He can’t even keep a straight face, let alone walk the straight and narrow, so he will continue to be the straight man for every two-bit comedian in the world. He’s going to take a pounding from Clinton in November. More details: > [@](#): > > “June was a missed opportunity with regard to unifying the party and building out the financial and organizational infrastructure that’s needed to get to November,” said Kevin Madden, a GOP communications consultant based in Washington. “That just makes July that much more important and it makes a good convention that much more of a necessity. Time is a valuable commodity in campaigns and time is quickly running out.” > > July began with reports that more of the operatives he’d hired less than two weeks ago to help professionalize and stabilize his campaign had abruptly resigned. Maybe those advisers were secretly in the Mexican Air Force. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2151 "2016-07-02T01:36:47Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > I would have thought that it was self-evident that exposing a major Presidential candidate’s shady charity activities was relevant to that candidate’s campaign efforts. It is, I believe, both a symptom and a disease that anyone would just shrug it off. > > No, I don’t expect Trump’s supporters to care - but I don’t think that the rest of us should be complacent about it. I think we should, in fact, be outraged at Donald Trump’s blatant attempt to subvert our democratic process in order to increase his personal fame and fortune. I think Trump’s candidacy, along with Republican games with congress and the supreme court, is an actual threat to our democratic institutes and, as such, a threat to the entire American government which is the backbone of the whole American experiment. > > Turning a blind eye to Donald’s shady behavior is how he came to win the Republican nomination in the first. The Washington Post and every other organization which wants to be considered a serious news operations should have run this expose a year ago. He should have been facing unpleasant questions about his finances from the beginning. Instead he played footsie with tv personalities who gave him weeks of favorable free air time - provided they didn’t make him angry. Well, it’s time to stop carrying water for him in the name of “fair” and “balanced” “access”. > > Donald Trump’s shady charity problems should be center stage on the nightly news. Instead, everyone’s grabbing their pearls because Bill Clinton talked to Lorretta Lynch at an airport. Instead, we’re hearing, “Oh, well, his supporters won’t care so why bother talking about it.” > > The rest of us are entitled to be furious about Donald Trump’s blatant attempt to use our Democratic institutions for his own enrichment. If Donald’s media whoring is now turning up unpleasant facts about him, we’re entitled to enjoy that. > > Donald’s shady financial schemes _ought_ to affect the election. If they don’t, the rest of us are entitled to take umbrage about it. Cosigned. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2152 "2016-07-02T01:38:38Z")
Heh. My impression was that by using the teleprompter and not being an idiot at tweeting that he was sounding “normal” and was finally pivoting. (Not my impression, but what the narrative was among many in the media.) It would explain why he was lifting a bit in some polls, but thing is Trump really tanked in March when he attacked the Trump University judge as having Mexican heritage and other things like when Trump stumbled with abortion. Then when he got enough votes to be the presumptive nominee it looked like if all Republicans, like zombies, were joining together to support Trump so he got closer to Clinton in May. Did not last as the Republicans showed that they are not really uniting, but trying to contain the damage. A return to old Trump will work only for a good number of the Republicans, but it will remind most Americans why he should not be president. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2153 "2016-07-02T02:00:35Z")
[Local Psychology Professor Asks, What Makes Donald Trump Tick?](http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2016/06/21/local-psychology-professor-asks-what-makes-donald-trump-tick) ---
**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 2, 2016, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2154 "2016-07-02T08:31:12Z")
Trump delegates plan to [bring their guns to the convention. [Trump Delegates: We’re Bringing Guns to Cleveland – Mother Jones](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/pennsylvania-gop-delegates-plan-bring-guns-cleveland)]([Trump Delegates: We’re Bringing Guns to Cleveland – Mother Jones](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/pennsylvania-gop-delegates-plan-bring-guns-cleveland) via @motherjones) via @motherjones > [@](#): > > As the Republican convention in Cleveland approaches, several delegates from Pennsylvania who support Donald Trump say they are planning on bringing their guns with them to the GOP gathering. Why? They say they are worried about possible violent protest and even an attack from ISIS. > [@](#): > > Khare expects to receive his concealed carry permit in a few days. Then he plans to obtain training from the local sheriff’s department before buying a gun. > [@](#): > > “I think this is going to be the most riotous political convention since 1968, and maybe even more so,” he predicts. “In addition to just your average political protester, you’re going to get serious people here who want to do harm and want to create mayhem.” Oh yeah, this is going to end well. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2155 "2016-07-02T13:24:18Z")
I don’t want anyone hurt, but wouldn’t it be entertaining to see night after night of news footage showing Trump delegates being thrown to the ground as their guns were being forcibly confiscated by security goons? Well, maybe we could have just one shot ring out in the convention hall (I’d buy someone firecrackers; that might do the trick) so that we have video of everyone hitting the deck. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2156 "2016-07-02T14:50:29Z")
That middle quote is odd in timing: Khare expects to receive his concealed carry permit in a few days. Then he plans to obtain training from the local sheriff’s department before buying a gun. I know it varies by state, but in mine you have your gun and go through training before you can even apply for cc. In order to apply, you have to prove you have been through an approved training program. It seems dangerous to be able to get the concealed carry permit before you get any training at all. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2157 "2016-07-02T15:18:14Z")
[Republican women organize to support Clinton](http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/02/politics/republican-women-organize-to-support-clinton/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2158 "2016-07-02T16:07:39Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > [Republican women organize to support Clinton](http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/02/politics/republican-women-organize-to-support-clinton/index.html) [Republicans for Hillary](http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/31/politics/hillary-clinton-republican-supporters/) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2159 "2016-07-02T17:15:54Z")
Okay, this says it all. It’s hilarious. (It’s safe for work) [https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/6MZLZ3ebM1nydxQWWLFebTcWU8QeX6EHxDYI8aGH-9Bv17EgOb-8aUvqQZnSxbOjyGboDQzdLg=s800-no](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/6MZLZ3ebM1nydxQWWLFebTcWU8QeX6EHxDYI8aGH-9Bv17EgOb-8aUvqQZnSxbOjyGboDQzdLg=s800-no) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2160 "2016-07-02T17:28:20Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > [Republicans for Hillary](http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/31/politics/hillary-clinton-republican-supporters/) Trump: Oh, they must have blood coming out of their whatever! ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2161 "2016-07-02T17:49:38Z")
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