# 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:** 186
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3703 "2016-08-05T11:23:08Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > So, basically Trump University them, right? Right. This is far from the first time Trump has run a scam like this, and the Trump University fiasco was exactly as low and cheap and scummy as this nonsense. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3704 "2016-08-05T12:07:15Z")
Early this morning, the Donald posted this on Twitter: > [@](#): > > The plane I saw on television was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million in cash going to Iran! So, er, what? Yes, that is factual, but what is he saying? He doesn’t say" I was wrong, I’m sorry, I misinterpreted". He seems to be acting like he is clearing up OUR confusion. Like he has been misquoted or something. Never mind all the detail he had in his speeches yesterday about watching pallets of cash being wheeled off, about the tape being provided by Iranian TV specifically to embarrass Obama. I guess we just all misunderstood poor little Donald. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3705 "2016-08-05T12:19:08Z")
538’s Nowcast is at 91.5 to 8.5. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3706 "2016-08-05T12:23:19Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > 538’s Nowcast is at 91.5 to 8.5. Still not good enough ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3707 "2016-08-05T12:29:53Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Still not good enough Damn right. I want 115 to -15. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3708 "2016-08-05T12:30:50Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Damn right. I want 115 to -15. The day is young. 😃 ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3709 "2016-08-05T12:34:18Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Still not good enough Indeed not. I consider it bizarre that his numbers now are no lower than they were in late June. I happened upon [this tweet](https://twitter.com/bizlender/status/761238682959360001) by chance, when I was searching for someone else with the same name, and I thought it was kind of funny given what we were talking about regarding turning off repeat donations: > [@](#): > > #trump I would like to have my donations returned. I was of the impression you really wanted to win…NOT. You don’t even try fella… ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3710 "2016-08-05T13:54:00Z")
Donald’s in trouble now, the [USA Freedom Grownups](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/usa-freedom-grown-ups-trump_us_57a45e6ae4b021fd98783adc?section=&) have his number. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3711 "2016-08-05T14:09:42Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Donald’s in trouble now, the [USA Freedom Grownups](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/usa-freedom-grown-ups-trump_us_57a45e6ae4b021fd98783adc?section=&) have his number. I like how it contains the inverse of a minced oath: > [@](#): > > “Don’t be such a douche, pay your I-O-Youche,” That is, they modified the pronunciation of the inoffensive word (“I-O-Us”) to make it rhyme with the offensive one (“douche”) instead of mangling the offensive word into something facially inoffensive but suggestive. [Oh, and a Republican consultant called Trump a “loud-mouthed dick” on CNN.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-loud-mouthed-dick_us_57a37067e4b0104052a1984e?) This election is just a _goldmine_ of linguistic niceties. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3712 "2016-08-05T14:24:05Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > The point is, you have to treat the Trump Campaign like a petty, two-bit chiseler breast-enlargement scam operation to get them to stop billing you. They’re acting like a common scam or semi-scam outfit, the kind of thing you’d see advertised in late-night TV commercials and flyers in the bad part of town. It’s a _pars pro toto_ for the whole Donald Trump Experience: Superficially glossy and classy, but underneath a rotten, grasping little con-job with no higher aspirations than separating the marks from their money. The funny thing is that the lack of being able to cancel could be a purposeful scam, or just plain incompetence, or arrogance in thinking no one would ever want to cancel payments, and any of those explanations would make sense from the Trump campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3713 "2016-08-05T15:30:23Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Donald’s in trouble now, the [USA Freedom Grownups](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/usa-freedom-grown-ups-trump_us_57a45e6ae4b021fd98783adc?section=&) have his number. I can’t express how much I’m enjoying this election year so far. Totally makes up for Bush-Kerry. What a snooze-fest that was. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3714 "2016-08-05T15:33:35Z")
I am enjoying as well, droll chuckles interspersed with chihuahua barks of sheer terror. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3715 "2016-08-05T16:10:38Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Still not good enough OK, how about 92.9% to 7.1%? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3716 "2016-08-05T16:22:43Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > OK, how about 92.9% to 7.1%? Getting there… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3717 "2016-08-05T16:29:29Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > So, er, what? Yes, that is factual, but what is he saying? He doesn’t say" I was wrong, I’m sorry, I misinterpreted". He seems to be acting like he is clearing up OUR confusion. Like he has been misquoted or something. Never mind all the detail he had in his speeches yesterday about watching pallets of cash being wheeled off, about the tape being provided by Iranian TV specifically to embarrass Obama. I want his Twitter feed to become half-assed factual takebacks until Election Day. “The NFL sent me a letter asking if I wanted to buy box seats!” “President Obama’s father wasn’t born in Hawaii!” “John Miller is an alias used by John Barron!” ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3718 "2016-08-05T17:59:16Z")
I’m actually feeling a bit irritated because there haven’t been any reports today of any new Trump f-ups. Come on, Donald, give me something new to laugh at. ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3719 "2016-08-05T18:03:07Z")
i’m enjoying the spectacle as well… but only because it doesn’t look like he can actually WIN now. If the polls were reversed I would be in sack cloth gashing my face… ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3720 "2016-08-05T18:14:12Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > I’m actually feeling a bit irritated because there haven’t been any reports today of any new Trump f-ups. Come on, Donald, give me something new to laugh at. I’m not worried. He can’t control himself for long. Or his staff has him bound and gagged. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3721 "2016-08-05T18:14:44Z")
> [@Dob](#): > > i’m enjoying the spectacle as well… but only because it doesn’t look like he can actually WIN now. Well, yes, he can. The LOW estimate is he’s got about a 20% chance. That’s worse odds than Russian Roulette. The world isn’t safe from him yet. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3722 "2016-08-05T18:40:38Z")
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