I remember those days, back when we thought no candidate could possibly be worse than Ted Cruz.
All the people that speculate what Trump is planning. Don’t you get it. There is no plan. None. Trump decides to say whatever it is the person he’s with seems to want to hear. The only policy he has is that if an action appears to benefit himself, he’s going to pick it. He makes decisions that affect the entire nation, and even the historical record of the performance of democracy itself, based on whatever half truths and distorted data filters in from cable TV.
There is no long term plan. None of the things he’s doing are going to come together to shape some amazing masterpiece. More like a 5 year old who is bad at art.
I debated registering as a Republican just to vote against Trump in the primary but by the time Florida rolled around all the sane candidates had dropped out. In retrospect, maybe I should have anyway because I knew he was insane and incompetent but I didn’t know the depths of both. But at the time it would have been worth it to make the effort if Jeb! had still been in the race, but not just to replace Trump with Cruz, even though Cruz would have been marginally better to me at the time.
That just might work! :). Worth a try.
There you go 
Possibly. But you have to remember that he lives in a cocoon. The only news he gets is Fox & Friends plus his Twitter feed. According to them, he can do no wrong. He may be vaguely aware that there is unflattering press about him, but in his cocoon it is all just an unwarranted vendetta against him.
A point worth reiterating. He was elected to do these things.
Interesting take. If some of his actions weren’t plain infantile and/or spiteful it would have more credence.
Oh, he’s plenty more than vaguely aware; heck, he just tweeted about it: “So much fake news being put in dying magazines and newspapers. Only place worse may be @NBCNews, @CBSNews, @ABC and @CNN. Fiction writers!”
I like to imagine that list growing, Expects-The-Spanish-Inquisition style, each time he tweets something along those lines again…
A very disappointing article. It has things backwards. Trump has always been at the core a lying, delusional narcissist. The NVP “Positive Thinking” stuff was merely a window dressing adopted by the Trumps to hide behind. It is of no real significance at all. If Trump had never read Peale, he’d be the same person.
Wow! That article really pinpoints the problem with President Trump.
The article was interesting but I agree that they got cause and effect switched around. Trump was always a narcissist & sociopath, thus he gravitated towards a twisted philosophy that condoned and rewarded his pathology.
Septimus, from your OP I was going to suggest that I have a bridge I would like to sell you. But you seem to have sobered up.
He knew he was in over his head eight months ago. Problem is, he thinks he knows best about everything and asking for help is beneath him.
Things that a normal human being is able to do:
- Acknowledge that he is not the best and smartest in every field and topic.
- Seek and accept assistance when he realizes that he cannot do something.
- Recognize when he has made a mistake, particularly one that has caused harm to another person, and apologize for it.
Trump has proven repeatedly that all of the above is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for him.
I thought Trump was going to “open up our [federal] libel laws” so that he could sue the “fake news” organizations for writing “purposely negative and horrible and false articles” and “sue them and win lots of money.”
Trump knows that things aren’t going well but like the almost textbook borderline/narcissist personality disorder that his displayed behavior indicates, he firmly believes it is everyone elses’ fault, even that of the supporters who have tried to help him or further his agenda at expense to their own reputations, including Chris Christie, Jeff Sessions, Mitch McConnell, Sean Spicer, Rex Tillerson, et cetera. Like the emotional toddler that he is, his response to being told that his ideas are ill-informed or unworkable is to throw a temper tantrum evidenced in spastic tweets, refusal to acknowledge or assaulting visiting dignitaries and heads of state, and making threatening pronouncements and undermining treaties with adversaries in an apparent effort to invoke reason for war to glorify himself. I look forward to the day that Angela Merkel finally loses her cool and puts him in an armbar at a summit meeting. I would accept Tracey Ullman doing the same in lieu of.
Stranger
Some British comedians seem to agree with OP: — “Help, I’m trapped inside this body. I’m a 20-year old woman from Wisconsin.”
How could he have done that, when Obamacare was already a complete disaster?
Sorry, my friend, but he’s not in over his head. Never has been. Yeah, there’s a part of me that wished he’d cut back on the tweets, but there’s another part that likes hearing him directly without passing through the political filter of the media.
I’m still waiting for him to just give us that wonderful health plan he promised back in January. Everyone covered, lower premiums, already drafted and just waiting for Ryan to bring it to the floor of Congress. You don’t think he was, you know, lying about that do you?
I just saw a DJT sponsored facebook ad and at the very bottom it asks… well, demands we DONATE NOW! Donate BIG today. I only saw it because I noticed 2 of the young girls on my friend list had liked it. Considering I have read “fuck trump” on both of their walls I kinda think facebook plays more than zynga games on us advertising subjects.
Polling suggests otherwise pretty strongly. That could change I suppose, but in the absence of the GOP actually managing to pass anything on health care, they are likely to be blamed if the current system collapses.