Trump supporter : “He’s hurting the wrong people”.
I agree. Charisma? Huh? Obama had charisma. JFK had charisma. Trump is just a turd in the punch bowl.
Just because he lies constantly and gets idiots to support him doesn’t qualify as charisma.
He’s a bullshitter. That requires a bit more charisma than average. I’m not saying he’s Obama. I’m saying, that say, Mnuchin saying the same words as Trump would get absolutely nowhere.
He’s obviously a buffoon, but people some people do like his unearned smug confidence.
That said, his [limited] charisma isn’t why he’s where he is. It’s the fact that the GOP base is as stupid, delusional, angry, and generally evil as he is.
No. A bullshit artist is just that, an artist. A bullshit artist practices their craft knowingly and with an end in mine, an end the artist knows their bullshit will lead to. Trump, on the other hand, is not a bullshitter although every single thing that comes out of his mouth is either bullshit (when he’s speaking) or is a greenhouse gas (when he’s simply exhaling). Trump’s bullshit is simply lies because he is pathologically incapable of telling the truth. Being a pathogen does not equate to being an artist of any kind, not even to being a bullshit artist.
Trump doesn’t need any skill to fool people. He just latched onto a population of people who by training and inclination are predisposed to believe anything as long as it’s hateful right wing bigotry. He’s a parasite who latched onto a Republican hate machine that was built by other people.
I disagree that a bullshit artist needs to practice their craft knowingly. The bullshiters I’ve known have just talked, and said shit to win in the singular moment they’re talking. It’s not an art, it’s a skill learned through repetition and not having any consequences.
Trump can tell the truth. The reason he doesn’t is that he constantly has to bullshit to mask some terrible mistake, ignorance, or failure.
He’s weak. And instead of accepting a negative outcome he lies that it’s actually not negative at all to preserve his self image. He’s utter worthless trash, but as I said, Mnuchin saying the same words would have gotten exactly zero votes.
What is the difference between Trump speaking and Mnuchin reading Trump’s words if not a tiny bit of charisma?
True. He’s stupid, ignorant, lazy, and angry at liberals because of RW media. The garbage GOP voters are just like him.
Facts not in evidence.
Looks pretty similar, but he had a different hue…
Too bad he didn’t also make a bad roll in Constitution.
Why, that’s just the jaundice! If someone eats shit enough whether it be from FOX News, Alex Jones, Laura Ingram, Mark Levin, Steven Miller, or some lesser evil like Satan, they can catch jaundice…
If anything, his constitution must be impressive. Dude is elderly, obese, doesn’t exercise, eats like shit, and hasn’t stroked out.
Trump Stats:
STR 11 (for the handshake yank)
DEX 8 (physically inept, confounded by umbrellas)
CON 12 (zero effort at maintaining health)
INT 8 (general GOP stupidity)
WIS 6 (I bet huffing bleach would work!)
CHA 12 (he’s evil, stupid and lazy, but did have a personality driven TV show for years)
Y’know, I happen to hold him to be a bigoted dumbass sleaze and fool who’s just out to get whatever he can take.
But he’s not incapacitated, he’s not in a coma, and he’s been getting away with grift and base assholery for 6 decades. I fail to understand the insistence on proclaiming that we MUST deny him even the capacity to be consciously criminal.
I don’t know if its charisma, but he’s got whatever quality it is that allows alpha bullies to collect a posse of sub-bullies.
He is incapable of handling any job. Flunkies and fall guys have covered his stupid lazy ass for decades.
You can’t discount the damage done by Comey and the FBI either. No way it was “accidental”.
Consciously? Don’t think he has that type of introspection. BUT, as you said he’s been doing it for 60 years. This is SOP. He thinks it’s normal to cheat and steal and screw over anyone because, well, that’s ALL HE HAS EVER KNOWN HOW TO DO.
Screw the other person is his entire personal and business life.
They had ample time and chances to say something, to do something, to testify, to quit and tell why, anything. They chose not to.
I hope none of them sell even a single copy of any book. I hope they never get a single cent for even one interview or TV appearance or magazine article. They deserve to be broke and ruined, and some (many?) deserve to be locked up.
I think that’s the G-rated version. The one I saw from some MAGA-oid is:
“He’s not hurting the people he needs to be”. Far more odious IMO.
This. And it’s a quality with which a large part of the US has long been enamored. FWIW, we’re not alone in this regard.