# 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:** 187
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3723 "2016-08-05T18:45:01Z")
> [@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. The Repubs had their big smackdown/intervention Weds or Thursday, so he will be quiet for a few days. But they can’t keep him away from the cameras and his cell phone forever. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3724 "2016-08-05T19:11:02Z")
I saw a new poll which said that Trump was getting 1% of the black support. The poll said “plus or minus 10 per cent”. Does that mean that negative nine percent of black people might be supporting him? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3725 "2016-08-05T19:19:58Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > [David Brooks dismantles Republican Trump supporters.](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/opinion/trumps-enablers-will-finally-have-to-take-a-stand.html) Tellin’ it like it is. Well done, Mr. Brooks! ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3726 "2016-08-05T19:23:19Z")
[Crazy Carl Paladino, Trump’s New York co-chair, still thinks Obama is a Moozlihm.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-obama-muslim_us_57a49d2ae4b03ba6801204e2?section=politics) ---
**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, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3727 "2016-08-05T19:25:50Z")
Mrs. Brooks’ son Davey. Purveyor of the bleeding obvious as revelation, born-again centrist. He recognizes the disease, but isn’t really willing to tell them what the cure is. The cure is losing. Losing big, losing massively. Not a Republican party that awakens in a pool of vomit and empty bottles of cheap vodka with crack pipe burns on the fingers and says, well, maybe I gotta tone this down a little. Get a little exercise, ride my bike when I go to score my heroin. Its too late for reform and moderation. Gotta lose, and lose big. Split the Party? No way round that, yes. From where I stand, can’t really tell who’s got the biggest chunk. The moderate and sensible conservatives who are ready to confront climate change as soon as they can offload their investments in fossil fuels at a profit? Or the batshit baboons, who swear its all a gigantic hoax by so-called “scientists”. Moderate conservatives who are willing to move towards socialized medicine just as soon as they figure out how to keep the health insurance industry profitable? Or the BB’s, who figure that if you don’t have enough money for medicine, drag your dying ass to work and get some! They have to lose, lose big, and reform themselves into the Loyal Opposition. No more bargaining with the hateful screechers. It will be good for them, suffering builds character. Leastwise, that’s what they’ve been telling us. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3728 "2016-08-05T19:35:38Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > [David Brooks dismantles Republican Trump supporters.](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/opinion/trumps-enablers-will-finally-have-to-take-a-stand.html) He must have read [the thread I started a couple of days ago](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=800226). ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3729 "2016-08-05T20:05:03Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I’m baffled as to why Trump was talking about video money deliveries, at all. The Obama administration isn’t disputing that $400M was delivered to Iran – would video of money being unloaded from a plane prove something? > [@Junior\_Spaceman](#): > > For the same reason he says that he saw footage of Muslims in America celebrating 9/11 - because it creates a fake visual memory in the minds of people listening to him. > ETA: This article describes some of what he’s trying to do: [Implanting False Memory - NeuroLogica Blog](http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/implanting-false-memory/) Another useful recent article about Trump’s supporters appeared last night on the _Washington Post_ site. A bit of it: > [@](#): > > When critics challenge false assertions — say, Trump’s claim that thousands of Muslims cheered in New Jersey when the twin towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001 — their refutations can threaten people, rather than convince them. Graves noted that if people feel attacked, they resist the facts all the more. > … Bottom line: Vilifying Trump voters — or, alternatively, parents who don’t want to have their children vaccinated — won’t convince them they’re wrong. Probably it will have the opposite effect. > The final point that emerged from Graves’s survey is that people will resist abandoning a false belief unless they have a compelling alternative explanation. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-facts-dont-matter-to-trumps-supporters/2016/08/04/924ece4a-5a78-11e6-831d-0324760ca856\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-facts-dont-matter-to-trumps-supporters/2016/08/04/924ece4a-5a78-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html) The article contains a number of references to solid research studies. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3730 "2016-08-05T20:17:46Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > 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. And he still put a damn exclamation point at the end of it, as though he could do a mic drop after admitting to being a liar :smack: ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3731 "2016-08-05T20:57:07Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Even after his own campaign staff admitted that the video Trump is claiming showed pallets of money landing in Iran was false, Trump repeated the claim today.](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/donald-trump-iran-money-video-226682?cmpid=sf) > > Re-reading that several times, the grammar in my post seems really bad, but I really don’t know how to rewrite it. 🙂 I think it’s a very elegant sentence: no less than six clauses (or seven if you count _two_ gerund clauses) linked together for a clear meaning. Nitpick: “False,” I think, should be “nonexistent” or some other word. The claim was false, not the video. Diagramming the sentence would be sheer joy, for those into such things. “after” is a preposition serving as a subordinating conjunction, but how is “Even” classified? It is an adverb modifying “after”? ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3732 "2016-08-05T21:06:44Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > I like how it contains the inverse of a minced oath: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. I’m collecting new names for Donald Trump. So far my favorites are: \*wiggy slice \*cinnamon Hitler \*tangerine Caligula \*toupéed fucktrumpet \*weapons-grade plum ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3733 "2016-08-05T21:18:30Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > [David Brooks dismantles Republican Trump supporters.](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/opinion/trumps-enablers-will-finally-have-to-take-a-stand.html) This was my favourite bit, by David Brooks: > [@](#): > > …He cannot be contained because he is psychologically off the chain. With each passing week he displays the classic symptoms of medium-grade mania in more disturbing forms: inflated self-esteem, sleeplessness, impulsivity, aggression and a compulsion to offer advice on subjects he knows nothing about. > > … > > Advisers can’t control Trump’s brain because Trump can’t control it himself. The bit about Trump offering advice about thing he knows nothing about struck me in particular when during the [interview with Washington Post’s Philip Rucker](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-transcript-the-republican-nominee-in-his-own-words/2016/08/02/77e9fa68-58eb-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html), he commented on the structural integrity of an airplane on fire on TV: > [@](#): > > RUCKER: Would you want her to follow the path that Gretchen Carlson did? > > TRUMP: I’d want her to do what makes her happy. I’d want her to do, Phil, what makes her happy. [Trump looks at a nearby television, which was tuned to Fox News.] Oh, did they have another one of these things go down? It’s terrible that crash. Never liked that plane, structurally. I never thought that plane could — ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3734 "2016-08-05T21:22:43Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > The bit about Trump offering advice about thing he knows nothing about struck me in particular when during the [interview with Washington Post’s Philip Rucker](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-transcript-the-republican-nominee-in-his-own-words/2016/08/02/77e9fa68-58eb-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html), he commented on the structural integrity of an airplane on fire on TV: I noticed that bit as well, and thought it was an under commented upon bit of buffoonery - Oh, you’re an aeronautical engineer now too? It’s all part of the show - can’t let one thing go that you’re not the expert on. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3735 "2016-08-05T21:37:31Z")
> [@Raygun99](#): > > I noticed that bit as well, and thought it was an under commented upon bit of buffoonery - Oh, you’re an aeronautical engineer now too? It’s all part of the show - can’t let one thing go that you’re not the expert on. That should be the orange buffoon’s brand moto - \*\*Trump: Consistently wrong but never in doubt. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3736 "2016-08-05T22:32:25Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > I’m collecting new names for Donald Trump. So far my favorites are: > > \*wiggy slice > \*cinnamon Hitler > \*tangerine Caligula > \*toupéed fucktrumpet > \*weapons-grade plum A friend on Facebook had one yesterday that I hadn’t seen before: the Mango Mussolini. NOTE: Apparently the Nightly Show has been using it. ---
**Author:** ![zwede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ac91a4/32.png) [@zwede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zwede)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3737 "2016-08-05T22:39:02Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > I’m collecting new names for Donald Trump. So far my favorites are: > > \*wiggy slice > \*cinnamon Hitler > \*tangerine Caligula > \*toupéed fucktrumpet > \*weapons-grade plum I’m partial to **Trumpster fire** myself. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3738 "2016-08-05T22:49:21Z")
One of my facebook friends today used the expression “Dumb as a box of Trump”. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3739 "2016-08-05T22:55:05Z")
I’m still keen on “Ferret-Wearing Shitgibbon”. ---
**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, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3740 "2016-08-05T22:56:07Z")
The Sentient Cheeto. ---
**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, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3741 "2016-08-05T22:59:05Z")
I’ve been partial to Fat Don myself. It hits him in his narcissism, it has a mild mafia whiff to it, it mirrors the adjective-name style of nicknames that Fat Don’s partial to, while being short and punchy. ---
**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, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3742 "2016-08-05T23:02:57Z")
I just went over to Yahoo, and the top headline was “Trump drops in polls after brutal week,” with a picture of Fat Don looking downward. My brain just saw the words “Trump drops…brutal week,” and I thought the sumbitch actually pulled the plug. I actually felt my stomach drop two inches inside me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=186) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=188)