# 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:** 360
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7183 "2016-09-24T03:55:57Z")
**Bridget Burke** @ #7158:_…Sincere sympathy to your daughter._ Ooooooooo, sincere sympathy to HIM. Hell hath no fury like a small daughter embarrassed before her friends and her friends’ parents. And a teenage daughter is even worse. Dude, cut it out. Stop talking up Trump at your kid’s school. She will CUT YOUR THROAT IN THE NIGHT, believe me. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7184 "2016-09-24T07:55:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I’m sure there _must_ be a good explanation for that! Uh… Hillary’s just as bad! I have very solid coincidences and very good, sound rumors which make her out to be a total monster. Plus, I’ve been saying mean things about her for decades. _Decades._ That _must_ mean she’s utterly unfit to be President. And you can’t prove Trump’s racist. I mean, you _can_, to any reasonable level of certainty, but I’ll put my fingers in my ears and insist you haven’t, so there’s still a debate, which means you lose. I can keep spreading innuendo and outright lies for months. That means there’s something to my position beyond barely-concealed sexism, right? Right? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7185 "2016-09-24T08:17:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > When Cruz said he wasn’t going to endorse Trump back after the debates, didn’t Trump say he wouldn’t take Cruz’s endorsement? And pass up the opportunity to listen to someone saying nice things about him? Impossible. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7186 "2016-09-24T10:24:01Z")
Meanwhile, here’s Trump [praising yet another dictator.](https://thinkprogress.org/trump-sisi-chemistry-ffd3560567a5#.609znzmdm) > [@](#): > > “I thought it was very productive,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News on Wednesday, after being asked about his meeting with Sisi in New York on Monday, on the sidelines of the U.N. Summit for Refugees and Migrants. “He’s a fantastic guy. He took control of Egypt, and he really took control of it, and I thought it was a great meeting. We met for a long time, actually. We had a long meeting, and got along. There was a good chemistry there.” > > Trump went on to praise Sisi as someone who took control of the “tremendous problem” of terrorists in Egypt. > > “I’ll tell you, he took control of the country, he has gotten the terrorists out and wiped them out, and we talked about that,” he said. “He took a very tough approach, much different than our approach, I can tell you. And he really did pretty much wipe ’em out.” ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7187 "2016-09-24T12:10:49Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > That, too, but 30-45 days ago, when Trump was sputtering and everyone writing him off, where was Cruz? Probably assuming that everyone would see what a mistake that they had made by electing Donald Trump as their nominee and laughing his ass off. He’s not laughing now, because Trump is actually a good debate or a few fortuitous news cycles away from winning the presidency. But if he had continued to be the clown that he was in early August before his intervention, Cruz wouldn’t have done anything but sit on the sidelines and giggle at Trump’s misfortune. And someone from POLITICO actually agrees, almost word for word, with what I wrote. [http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/ted-cruz-donald-trump-backstory-228609](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/ted-cruz-donald-trump-backstory-228609) > [@](#): > > At the time of his convention speech, there was compelling political logic for the ambitious firebrand to steer clear of Trump. Cruz appears likely to run for president again, and Trump, at the time, looked like was headed toward a blowout loss. Not to mention, Trump had essentially called Cruz’s wife unattractive and erroneously linked his father to JFK’s assassination. > > Cruz’s allies believed if he played it right, he could emerge from the election as one of the last principled conservatives — the final bulwark against a candidate who violated many of the values conservatives hold dear. > > But with Trump approaching Hillary Clinton in the polls, Cruz’s diss had become more of a liability: A narrow Trump loss might have been pinned on Cruz for keeping conservatives home on Election Day because they were following his lead. I think I actually wrote this before POLITICO did. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7188 "2016-09-24T13:24:19Z")
> [@pathrunner](#): > > Trump is not backed by the Rockefellers, Trump is not the very government we want to abolish. Seeing as everyone else has rudely shoved the rest of this manure back where it came from, let me just focus on this. You want to abolish the United States government? And you think Trump is going to do it? And do it in a way that is acceptable and generally good? All three of those ideas are laughable in the extreme. Care to go into any more detail, or was this just a driveby? > [@](#): > > I will proudly vote Trump and I will continue to educate and convert the parents in my daughter’s school, one at a time. As many others have detailed above, you don’t seem to know _anything_ about Trump, yet you are willing to “educate” people on him? Doesn’t education typically require _knowing_ something? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7189 "2016-09-24T15:28:21Z")
Once again, I feel the need to quote GQ’s Drew Magary: “How are you gonna change the system if you elect some corrupt idiot who has no clue how to DO IT, huh? Can’t you see this? Haven’t you heard this asshole talk? THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?” ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7190 "2016-09-24T17:31:29Z")
Man, in the past hour Mark Cuban just made Trump completely lose his shit on Twitter, resulting in the Trump campaign _actually deleting The Donald’s tweets_, a first I believe. I am unsure if Trump can keep his cool if he sharing a stage with a constantly needling Hillary Clinton while looking at Mark Cuban sitting in the front row. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7191 "2016-09-24T17:41:24Z")
Trump said that he would seat Gennifer Flowers, former Bill Clinton accuser, in the front row. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7192 "2016-09-24T17:49:02Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Man, in the past hour Mark Cuban just made Trump completely lose his shit on Twitter, resulting in the Trump campaign _actually deleting The Donald’s tweets_, a first I believe. > > I am unsure if Trump can keep his cool if he sharing a stage with a constantly needling Hillary Clinton while looking at Mark Cuban sitting in the front row. Frankly I think it was a mistake to announce Cuban beforehand. They should’ve just had him show up on Monday and sit there with a big shit-eating grin as Donald walks out. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7193 "2016-09-24T18:16:27Z")
Stench of hoax is in the air. I will await further confirmation before busting a gut laughing, ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7194 "2016-09-24T18:22:52Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Stench of hoax is in the air. I will await further confirmation before busting a gut laughing, You need to be clearer about which ridiculous thing you suspect to be a hoax. ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7195 "2016-09-24T18:39:40Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Man, in the past hour Mark Cuban just made Trump completely lose his shit on Twitter, resulting in the Trump campaign _actually deleting The Donald’s tweets_, a first I believe. > > I am unsure if Trump can keep his cool if he sharing a stage with a constantly needling Hillary Clinton while looking at Mark Cuban sitting in the front row. Surely someone took screen caps before the tweets were deleted? One does not simply _delete_ from twitter. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7196 "2016-09-24T18:42:32Z")
> [@](#): > > You need to be clearer about which ridiculous thing you suspect to be a hoax. Who decides who sits where? Who says that decision is made by one of the participants? Why would that be the case? I think Cuban maybe has a ticket, and he’s just yanking Trump’s chain. Starting to think its all a hoax, Cuban’s a hoax, Trump, I’m a hoax, your Mom is a hoax…Sane and sober just ain’t gonna work. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7197 "2016-09-24T18:47:28Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Man, in the past hour Mark Cuban just made Trump completely lose his shit on Twitter, resulting in the Trump campaign _actually deleting The Donald’s tweets_, a first I believe. > > I am unsure if Trump can keep his cool if he sharing a stage with a constantly needling Hillary Clinton while looking at Mark Cuban sitting in the front row. I don’t use Twitter; can you link to the exchange or to an article about it? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7198 "2016-09-24T18:49:07Z")
> **[Campaign 2016 updates: Donald Trump touts school choice as a 'new civil...](https://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-09242016-htmlstory.html#in-twitter-spat-with-mark-cuban-trump-jabs-at-bill-clinton-sex-scandal)** > > Donald Trump travels to Virginia for a rally as Hillary Clinton continues to prep ahead of Monday's debate. Ted Cruz endorsed Trump despite their bitter primary battleIn Twitter spat with Mark Cuban,Trump jabs at Bill Clinton sex scandalTrump insists... To hear is to obey! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7199 "2016-09-24T18:53:13Z")
It appears the initial removal of the tweet was because he misspelled “Gennifer” as “Jennifer”. Then he reposted the corrected childish threat. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7200 "2016-09-24T19:11:05Z")
That one tweet is Trump completely losing his shit? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7201 "2016-09-24T19:11:32Z")
I get the impression from [her website](http://www.genniferflowers.com/) that she doesn’t do anything without getting paid. I hope she gets it up front from Donald. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7202 "2016-09-24T19:13:52Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I get the impression from [her website](http://www.genniferflowers.com/) that she doesn’t do anything without getting paid. I hope she gets it up front from Donald. Isn’t that what his “charitable” foundation is for? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=359) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=361)