# 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:** 372
**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:** [September 29, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7423 "2016-09-29T02:44:35Z")
Ha! You committed a classic blunder. Never enter into a debate microphone argument with a Sicilian. I can’t use the mic that is in front of me, that’s exactly what you would expect me to do. Then again, you know I am intelligent, and would not dare use the mc in front of me, so you would place the bad mic in front of yourself, knowing I would ask to switch. But since I know you know Sicilians are of a naturally skeptical nature, and the fact that I would see through your ruse, you would know that clearly… So on and so on. ---
**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 29, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7424 "2016-09-29T02:49:18Z")
Issue is that this is a clear violation of law, and seven months after this happened, Trump spoke to a group of Cuban Americans and came down hard on his support for the embargo. This news is big trouble for Cuban American support for Trump. You may not care about the embargo, but a lot of Cuban-born FL voters do and the footage of Trump playing them like chumps in 1999, 2000 will not sit well. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7425 "2016-09-29T02:51:14Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > It’s not like there are any Republicans in any swing states who care about the Cuba embargo, right? > [@JohnT](#): > > You may not care about the embargo, but a lot of FL vpters do. I’m a little unclear on protocol. Should I wait for someone else to say “Whoosh!” or should I say it myself? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7426 "2016-09-29T02:52:23Z")
Trump will not spend his time trying to learn the facts he doesn’t know and deliver them in a manner he doesn’t understand. Even if he learns to behave, he will have to internalize _Republican_ facts, which demand skillful rationalization. He will spend his time at rallies, basking in admiration and approval, and be even more convinced that things are going swimmingly, because everybody loves him. ---
**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 29, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7427 "2016-09-29T02:55:02Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I’m a little unclear on protocol. Should I wait for someone else to say “Whoosh!” or should I say it myself? Eh, he made the statement, I responded. Satire goes over poorly on the internet, so what can I say? I tend to play the straight man in real life as well. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7428 "2016-09-29T03:01:52Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Eh, he made the statement, I responded. Satire goes over poorly on the internet, so what can I say? I tend to play the straight man in real life as well. That wasn’t satire, but it was me :). ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7429 "2016-09-29T03:14:31Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [CNN goes to a Trump rally.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNZ3rNZvRU4) The mind boggles. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7430 "2016-09-29T03:16:26Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > Ha! You committed a classic blunder. Never enter into a debate microphone argument with a Sicilian. I can’t use the mic that is in front of me, that’s exactly what you would expect me to do. Then again, you know I am intelligent, and would not dare use the mc in front of me, so you would place the bad mic in front of yourself, knowing I would ask to switch. But since I know you know Sicilians are of a naturally skeptical nature, and the fact that I would see through your ruse, you would know that clearly… So on and so on. Inconceivable! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**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:** [September 29, 2016, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7431 "2016-09-29T03:21:06Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > “I’m so proud of my dad for suppressing his usual instinct to be a scumbag. I’ll never forget that moment.” LOL. When you’re Trumpspawn seeking a reason, any reason, to be proud of your papa, you take what you can get. > [@running\_coach](#): > > “I felt like I was watching the political Titanic hit the iceberg, back up, and hit it again. Just for fun.” > David French-National Review > > :D:D:D Best line of the day. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7432 "2016-09-29T03:25:06Z")
Shady illegal dealings between Trump and Castro? Geez, I’d thought better of Fidel’s standards. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7433 "2016-09-29T03:31:24Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Trump playing them like chumps News of Trump playing a specific group like chumps reminds of of this line: [QUOTE=Londo Mollari] The council – the council can go to hell! And the emergency session can go to hell! And _you_… you can go to hell, too. I wouldn’t want you to feel left out. [/QUOTE] ---
**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:** [September 29, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7434 "2016-09-29T03:51:07Z")
Post-debate, Trump proves yet again that denial ain’t just a river in Egypt: [http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/politics/donald-trump-debate-reaction/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/politics/donald-trump-debate-reaction/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7435 "2016-09-29T04:19:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Post-debate, Trump proves yet again that denial ain’t just a river in Egypt: [http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/politics/donald-trump-debate-reaction/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/politics/donald-trump-debate-reaction/index.html) More info, with claims that Trump wasn’t able to focus on debate prep, grew bored and changed the topic (to himself of course): [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/us/politics/donald-trump-debate.html?\_r=1&referer=](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/us/politics/donald-trump-debate.html?_r=1&referer=) Yeah they say he’s going to do more prep for the next one, somehow I don’t think that will happen. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7436 "2016-09-29T04:57:29Z")
> [@coremelt](#): > > More info, with claims that Trump wasn’t able to focus on debate prep, grew bored and changed the topic (to himself of course): > > [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/us/politics/donald-trump-debate.html?\_r=1&referer=](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/us/politics/donald-trump-debate.html?_r=1&referer=) > > Yeah they say he’s going to do more prep for the next one, somehow I don’t think that will happen. He is not capable of preparing, because that would involve reading and considering views other than his own. He is a narcissist through and through and will not change. And he is definitely not good for the country. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7437 "2016-09-29T06:02:29Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I wonder what would happen if Trump lost this year and then ran against Hillary again in 2020. He could turn into a modern-day Clarence Darrow. > [@jsgoddess](#): > > I think, if he loses, all his cachet for the alt-right creeps will disappear. I dunno. He seems to me like a bad case of herpes, just won’t go away. There is a Trump Tower here in Waikiki. I walked past it this evening. A tourist couple was there, the husband taking the wife’s photo next to the Trump Tower sign. Her pose involved flipping a big ol’ bird at Trump’s name. People including myself applauded and voiced support for her. I started wondering if there has ever in the history of American politics been a nominee of any party so despised as Donald J Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7438 "2016-09-29T07:54:43Z")
So what will the further publicizing of the Cuba accusations do to Trump in Florida, I wonder? ---
**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 29, 2016, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7439 "2016-09-29T08:15:27Z")
Trump asks non-Christians to [identify themselves](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-non-christians-raise-hand_us_57ec9600e4b024a52d2ce788?section=): > [@](#): > > “Raise your hand if you’re not a Christian conservative. I want to see this, right? Oh there’s a a couple people, that’s all right,” Trump said as he dismissively waved a hand. “I think we’ll keep them, right? Should we keep them in the room, yes? I think so.” ---
**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 29, 2016, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7440 "2016-09-29T08:32:22Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Trump asks non-Christians to [identify themselves](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-non-christians-raise-hand_us_57ec9600e4b024a52d2ce788?section=): _There’s one in the spotlight, he don’t look right to me Get him up against the wall!_ ---
**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:** [September 29, 2016, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7441 "2016-09-29T10:15:14Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > \ > > The biggest danger for the next debate is if he realizes he got played, and changes up his approach–refusing to rise to bait, preparing to talk like a rational human being, not interrupting. These sham online polls give him all the cover he needs to think this approach works. > \ Trump not rising to bait? Acting like a rational human being? Allowing a :eek:\*\*\*woman \*\*\*:eek: to complete a sentence? Thanks, I needed that laugh this morning. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7442 "2016-09-29T10:31:22Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > He is not capable of preparing, because that would involve reading and considering views other than his own. He is a narcissist through and through and will not change. And he is definitely not good for the country. His ghost writer also says he has an attention problem. He couldn’t even sit still long enough for him to interview him, so he followed him around instead. I seriously think he lacked the ability to sit still long enough for proper preparations. That’s why they had to try so many atypical strategies. And then claim he didn’t prepare at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=371) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=373)