# Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901
**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
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5363 "2016-08-29T15:24:32Z")
“trump twitter” isn’t that hard to reach without a link, but here:
[https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump?lang=en](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump?lang=en)
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5364 "2016-08-29T15:31:00Z")
It feels less dirty if I don’t actually google it.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5365 "2016-08-29T15:32:30Z")
Really? I feel like there’s a middleman I can always blame - “I didn’t mean to go to Breitbart, Google just lead me there! Bad Google! Bad!” 😉
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5366 "2016-08-29T15:32:42Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> Link?..
Google this —\> @realdonaldtrump
Has anyone come up with a good reason Trump “re-tweets” things from non-existent people? @patrici “hasn’t tweeted anything yet” but he quotes them. I don’t really use twitter so is there some simple dumb mistake he’s making? Not like there isn’t a million actual Trump supporters he could use.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5367 "2016-08-29T15:38:24Z")
No, it’s completely bizarre as to why he does this.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5368 "2016-08-29T15:39:01Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> It feels less dirty if I don’t actually google it.
> [@JohnT](#):
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> Really? I feel like there’s a middleman I can always blame - “I didn’t mean to go to Breitbart, Google just lead me there! Bad Google! Bad!” 😉
Here’s a nice summary at stodgy old Business Insider:
[Donald Trump goes on extended early-morning Twitter tirade](http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-monday-tweets-2016-8)
You can tell yourself you were just trying to find out about some stock you’re interested in and just stumbled over Trump, if that makes you feel better. 😛
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5369 "2016-08-29T15:44:27Z")
Naw, I swim in the fetid swamp that is Twitter. No problem here! 😉
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5370 "2016-08-29T15:58:08Z")
> [@Voyager](#):
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> It was someone from NBC doing the interview. I don’t know if is just me, but the doctor looked stoned out of his gourd.
> Something else I haven’t seen an answer to - why get a gastroenterologist to give a general report on health?
When I saw him on television I thought “So THAT’S what Doctor Jacoby has been doing since Twin Peaks.”
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5371 "2016-08-29T16:10:22Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> When I saw him on television I thought “So THAT’S what Doctor Jacoby has been doing since Twin Peaks.”
I posted this somewhere else, but [this is exactly how I pictured Dr. Bornstein being brought to the limo to write Trump’s medical letter.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPYz6AWxjGk)
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5372 "2016-08-29T16:35:53Z")
I’ve not heard a peep out of Trump’s Gekko wannabe sons, [Thing 1 and Thing 2](http://www.salon.com/2016/03/03/american_psycho_for_prez_donald_trumps_sons_epitomize_the_80s_style_yuppie_villainy_of_his_campaign/), every since they left on their hunting trip to the Yukon. What ever has happened to them? I hope it’s nothing trivial.
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### Author:  [@dofe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dofe)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5373 "2016-08-29T16:44:04Z")
NPR had an interesting piece this morning interviewing some of his supporters.
[For Some Trump Loyalists, It’s Personality Over Policy](http://www.npr.org/2016/08/29/491737744/for-some-trump-loyalists-it-s-personality-over-policy)
One person they interviewed demonstrates just why Trump’s lack of real policy positions just doesn’t matter:
> [@](#):
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> Inside, Judy Callahan, 69, says she’s preparing to retire from her job as a hospice cook — and devote her free time to volunteering for the Trump campaign. . . .
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> “I just love him — I love every second of him,” she says.
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> Callahan says she opposes amnesty and wants Trump to be “strong” on immigration, but it doesn’t bother her that his policy positions can sometimes seem unclear.
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> “I listen to half of what Trump says,” Callahan explains. “And then I move on because you have to get people’s attention.”
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### Author:  [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5374 "2016-08-29T16:44:24Z")
> [@Voyager](#):
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> I don’t know if is just me, but the doctor looked stoned out of his gourd.
I knew I recognized him. Before he changed his name from [Fassbender](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkLj7aJmeaI),
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5375 "2016-08-29T16:48:11Z")
> [@dofe](#):
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> NPR had an interesting piece this morning interviewing some of his supporters.
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> [For Some Trump Loyalists, It’s Personality Over Policy](http://www.npr.org/2016/08/29/491737744/for-some-trump-loyalists-it-s-personality-over-policy)
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> One person they interviewed demonstrates just why Trump’s lack of real policy positions just doesn’t matter:
Trump loyalist are common folk, people of the land, the common clave… [you know, morons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg).
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### Author:  [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5376 "2016-08-29T16:57:15Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
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> “trump twitter” isn’t that hard to reach without a link, but here:
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> [x.com](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump?lang=en)
Tsk. He mis-spelled “judgment”. That’s the last straw…I cannot support this man.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5377 "2016-08-29T16:59:03Z")
Washington, Lincoln, Le Petomane… Trump!
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5378 "2016-08-29T17:15:15Z")
I recognize that third name, a French fellow who played the Trumpet.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5379 "2016-08-29T17:25:51Z")
“I didn’t get a Harrumph outta that guy.”
“Give the President a Harrumph!”
“Harrumph!”
“You watch your ass…”
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5380 "2016-08-29T17:39:44Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
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> “trump twitter” isn’t that hard to reach without a link, but here:
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> [x.com](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump?lang=en)
Scrolling down to his tweets from yesterday, he’s got one tweet where he flaunts his lead in _Arizona_ - all of 2.6%, per Huffpost Pollster’s average, which is what he cites.
Yeah, a 50.6 - 48.0 Trump lead in Arizona, which hasn’t gone Democrat since 1948. Feel the Trumpmentum!!
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### Author:  [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5381 "2016-08-29T17:49:16Z")
My question is, will the Donald J. Trump Casino for the Mentally Insane go bankrupt too?
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### Author:  [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5382 "2016-08-29T17:56:10Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#):
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> My question is, will the Donald J. Trump Casino for the Mentally Insane go bankrupt too?
Odds are, yes.
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