# 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:** 222
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4423 "2016-08-17T02:30:06Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > Ugh, I’m watching Orange is the New Dumbass give his Wisconsin Law & Order speech. > > He has got to be the least smooth person in the history of teleprompters. He just stares at one and reads until he finishes an entire paragraph, then he pivots directly to the other prompter. Rinse, repeat. > > He seems tepid, and crowd does too, He was an hour late starting, and word is it is extremely hot in the venue. I think he is going to go off script at some point if the crowd doesn’t start showing some reaction. He can’t resist the temptation to entertain his crowd. That’s why I think he’s going to be so gloriously, excruciatingly bad at the debates. With no audience to feed off of, he doesn’t know how to relate to a quiet crowd. He’s not quick enough on his feet to come up with the snappy comebacks, which is why he repeats his “good” lines over and over and over, even when he’s ad libbing. And he’ll never be able to keep all the facts and figures straight to provide any meaningful push back to Hillary’s points. She’s going to clean his clock. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4424 "2016-08-17T02:35:38Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > This is something I’ve been telling people who support him. When is he going to care about his supporters? He simply doesn’t. He riles up the emotions of the ignorant. He wants to change things the way HE LIKES them to be, not the way his supporters NEED them to be, so he won’t be talking to or working for his supporters. For the supporters I’ve told this to, some have said that “he’s rich, so he’s better than us.” Not kidding. His fans obviously don’t care that he won’t mingle with them. They seem to be happy enough to be in the same ballroom/arena with him. Yeah, his handlers don’t want him to be in a normal campaign situation. He would be a ticking time bomb. It’s just so strange to watch this bizarre thing happening. He’s tapping into their fears, but otherwise he is not doing a single thing to show that he gives a shit about them. And yet they are eating it up. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4425 "2016-08-17T02:41:13Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > His fans obviously don’t care that he won’t mingle with them. They seem to be happy enough to be in the same ballroom/arena with him. Yeah, his handlers don’t want him to be in a normal campaign situation. He would be a ticking time bomb. It’s just so strange to watch this bizarre thing happening. He’s tapping into their fears, but otherwise he is not doing a single thing to show that he gives a shit about them. And yet they are eating it up. To use one of his Best Words™, Sad™… ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4426 "2016-08-17T02:44:56Z")
Believe me™… ---
**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 17, 2016, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4427 "2016-08-17T02:46:49Z")
Well, he just wrapped up. Wow, that was so…tepid. Seriously. He was actually saying that the African-American community was going to be turning to him soon. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4428 "2016-08-17T03:05:02Z")
I don’t know how many white people are truly deep-dish racists. What, five percent, ten? No idea. But lets use that for spitball. Good guess that a bunch of them see Trump as their kind of guy, so whatever that demographic portion may be, they are not likely to be pleased hearing even this sort of empty rhetoric of sympathy. Is it even possible for him to think that this word salad he delivered will affect the black vote? “Yeah, right, fuck the Democrats, taking advantage of me, I’m voting for Trump, because he’s gonna…do stuff! Lots of it! Yeah!”. Were they even listening? So, seems to me this empty exercise would likely lose him a few white votes and gain him nothing from communities of color. So, this is what would have happened if General Jubilation T. Cornpone had run for public office? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4429 "2016-08-17T03:36:14Z")
It’s getting hard. Just not fun anymore. He doesn’t need this shit. I think he’s engineering his exit from the race now, flipping the bird to as many rank and file Republicans as he can on his way out the door. Why else Milwaukee? Or Connecticut? He’s even scheduled to come here to Oregon in a couple of weeks. We’re not flippable. He’s gotta know this. He’s going to force them to dump him, but he wants out. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4430 "2016-08-17T03:51:33Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Is it even possible for him to think that this word salad he delivered will affect the black vote? “Yeah, right, fuck the Democrats, taking advantage of me, I’m voting for Trump, because he’s gonna…do stuff! Lots of it! Yeah!”. Were they even listening? This is the stock GOP rhetoric each election cycle (well, all the time but now is when you hear it most): Democrats have failed you and are keeping you down for their own political purposes. We’re the only ones actually interested in seeing you succeed. Then it’s followed by North Carolina asking the Supreme Court to allow the voting laws deemed as nakedly discriminatory to still apply, the mysterious “Vote Wednesday, Nov 9th” fliers that appear in black communities each election, Trump telling his supporters they’ll need to police “certain areas” to prevent voter fraud, all the “Why isn’t it ‘ALL Lives Matter??’” nonsense, conservative media reports about how this or that police shooting victim was dressed ‘like a thug’, a Congressman asking what the “other subgroups” have ever done for western civilization, so on and so forth. Then the crushing loss in the African-American community followed by “But… but… we’re the Party of Lincoln! Why won’t they vote for us?” ---
**Author:** ![john\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@john\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_L)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4431 "2016-08-17T04:09:38Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > Ugh, I’m watching Orange is the New Dumbass give his Wisconsin Law & Order speech. > > He has got to be the least smooth person in the history of teleprompters. He just stares at one and reads until he finishes an entire paragraph, then he pivots directly to the other prompter. Rinse, repeat. > > He seems tepid, and crowd does too, He was an hour late starting, and word is it is extremely hot in the venue. I think he is going to go off script at some point if the crowd doesn’t start showing some reaction. He can’t resist the temptation to entertain his crowd. good content in speech though. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4432 "2016-08-17T04:12:14Z")
> [@john\_L](#): > > good content in speech though. Examples, please. I tuned in for 6 seconds to hear that Rudy Giulliani cut crime in the State of New York by 76%. It was a good laugh, but the weather channel had better, more factual content. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4433 "2016-08-17T04:16:06Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Is it even possible for him to think that this word salad he delivered will affect the black vote? “Yeah, right, fuck the Democrats, taking advantage of me, I’m voting for Trump, because he’s gonna…do stuff! Lots of it! Yeah!”. Were they even listening? Maybe it is because the hip-hop singers are mentioning him so much. > (Billy West quoting Trump as Zap Branigan) [Trump]“And did you know my name is in more black songs than any other name in hip-hop?.. Like five of them lately.”[/Trump] [Keef] :Sigh: uuuuugh! [/keef] ---
**Author:** ![john\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@john\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_L)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4434 "2016-08-17T04:19:00Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Examples, please. I tuned in for 6 seconds to hear that Rudy Giulliani cut crime in the State of New York by 76%. It was a good laugh, but the weather channel had better, more factual content. replay on CNN right now. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4435 "2016-08-17T04:28:12Z")
> [@john\_L](#): > > replay on CNN right now. He just said Hillary Clinton is ready to write free passes to immigrants who will come and take everybody’s jobs, including low-income African Americans. That’s not content, that’s just a person who’s never read a newspaper, unless it mentioned him. 😃 Yep, both sentences are riddled with Alzheimer’s. Not tuning in for a third one. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4436 "2016-08-17T04:39:16Z")
Just a thought to keep in mind to rest well tonight: Right now Clinton leads Trump in Florida by more than Trump leads Clinton in Texas. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4437 "2016-08-17T04:39:23Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > …[Trump’s] just a person who’s never read a newspaper, unless it mentioned him. 😃 Yep, both sentences are riddled with Alzheimer’s. Not tuning in for a third one. Oh, c’mon! The next one’s bound to be better… ---
**Author:** ![john\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@john\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_L)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4438 "2016-08-17T04:42:32Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > He just said Hillary Clinton is ready to write free passes to immigrants who will come and take everybody’s jobs, including low-income African Americans. > > That’s not content, that’s just a person who’s never read a newspaper, unless it mentioned him. 😃 Yep, both sentences are riddled with Alzheimer’s. Not tuning in for a third one. speech replay over … now CNN’s Lemon / panel does excellent job of bashing speech. don’t miss it. ---
**Author:** ![john\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@john\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_L)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4439 "2016-08-17T04:50:40Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Just a thought to keep in mind to rest well tonight: Right now Clinton leads Trump in Florida by more than Trump leads Clinton in Texas. Zogby poll only has Hillary up by 2 nationwide. polls not important now. will be in a month. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2016, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4440 "2016-08-17T04:57:42Z")
> [@john\_L](#): > > Zogby poll only has Hillary up by 2 nationwide. > > polls not important now. > will be in a month. [Zogby is one of the worst pollsters.](http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/) [And the polls usually become important just about now.](http://www.vox.com/2016/8/11/12426346/trump-polls-today) Most Poll watchers and poll aggregators report right now that Clinton is up by about 7 nationwide. Nighty Nights… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![john\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@john\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_L)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4441 "2016-08-17T05:15:47Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > [[URL=“http://www.vox.com/2016/8/11/12426346/trump-polls-today”]And the polls usually become important just about now.](http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/) > > . 🙂 no 100 plus days after convention on their graphs. ?? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4442 "2016-08-17T05:28:12Z")
> [@john\_L](#): > > good content in speech though. Wish I was smoking what you are. I just finished watching a replay of that speech there were two things I kept thinking: [ol] [li]Good god this guy does a shitty job of reading off a teleprompter.[/li][li]Nothing he is saying makes any sense. This speech is just a bunch of Trumpy soundbites strung together in a pathetically non-sensical way. [/li][/ol] The lackluster response of the crowd to his speechifying just confirms my impression. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=221) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=223)