I do NOT want to see Trump riding a horse barechested.
Unless there’s a strong wind.
That is even better:D
He’s in it for the press. That’s why he behaves like a clueless nitwit. Bad press is publicity, and his ego feeds on the attention.
^ Exactly so. Who cares what he is or why he is. As long as he is agitating and pwning the GOP establishment and their collective silliness keeps showing how unfit any of them are to lead, I will keep enjoying the show.
I have the same theory as The Great Sun Jester - he’s a hired hack and the GOP is taking it all hook, line, and sinker.
I don’t think the Republicans learned anything from the last election - a wide-open field of idiots saying anything to out-conservative each other with the survivor of the primaries so wounded by the time he faces the Democratic nominee - they are making it harder on themselves than needed. Someone needs to cut-out the fat here, and Trump thinks it’s his job.
With any luck, he’ll have an experienced politician as his running mate who can step in and take over if he chooses to abdicate.
Palin, for example.
From way back when, the vibe I got from the Trumps was that there was an underlying resentment that neither the old-school moneyed establishment nor the cultural intelligentsia trendsetters gave them the kind of respect or social standing that at least Fred Trump could claim to have worked for. They were always the “short-fingered vulgarians”; tolerated at the museum gala or past the club’s velvet rope because they were filthy rich but not embraced for being really classy or hip.
So the reaction was to rub it in their faces that Trump *can *and *will *do his thing and get what he wants and make headlines and be a household name and f&^%$ them who would look down upon him. Hence the flashy branding of the name, the big, bold, crass, tawdry TRUMP on anything and everything including obviously doomed projects (but not with his own skin in the game in most cases), the exaggerated persona of The Apprentice. And in the process, Trump has realized that there is a large mass of people out there for whom it’s more of an *emotional *matter of wanting to put BOTH the moneyed establishment and the cultural eggheads in their place and not owing either of those groups anything.
As a contrast, compate the Trumps with the Kochs, who avoid making a celeb-reality spectacle of themselves, invest mostly in real productive industries, fund huge philantropic projects(*)… and have a lot of both real and perceived (by friend and foe) juice in the political establishment.
(* something the Trumps are definitely not known for)
Politicians are a whorish lot by nature. Citizens United turned every GOP politician, and half the Democrats, into obvious, full-blown whores. A guy like Trump stands out because he isn’t a whore, he is the guy who pays the whores. He is their boss, he is who the GOP represents, he is the ghost animating all those other hollow suits. The other GOP candidates ought to just shut up and get out of his way, as he is their master. Obviously competing billionaires won’t stop betting on their respective hired horses in this race, but there ya go.
Not to say he isn’t also a narcissist/egomaniac, there is just a little more to it than that.
I’m too wiped out at the moment to decide whether or not I agree with this, but it sure as hell is poetic. We can sell that. Brilliant work. 
Except that Obama’s not being fired. He’s retiring - undefeated.
He doesn’t have a show. He was a paid employee of The Apprentice and has no ownership in the show. He got fired for saying stupid shit. They won’t take him back this year. Hell, if the show is set for an October premiere, it’s probably either already filming or about to start.
He’s a bloviating megalomaniac.
Now THAT would be great reality TV. Putin, shirtless and yelling in Russian, tears off Trump’s toupee and stuffs it in his (Trump’s) mouth, then pummels him with martial arts moves. Trump is left on the floor, moaning quietly behind the toupee in his mouth.
After the bruises heal or can be covered with makeup, Trump goes on TV to explain how it didn’t really happen that way. Then he says something about Polish sausages and screams at an intern.
Thank you, thankyouverymush!
Am I the only one who feels sorry for him? It feels like he doesnt have any friends, and he is outraged anytime someone insults him, which is constantly.
He is sort of humorous, since he says a lot of things that are clueless in an interesting way. But also he will have a major impact on who is going to be the next president, and his views are hateful and nationalistic. All those money for his campaign couldve saved many, many lives. I have somewhat of a hard time being as lighthearted by it all I guess.
Is there ever anything in the society pages about Trump hanging with friends? Does he have any?
Whoever made that hairpiece is not his friend.
When you’re a billionaire how can you have any actual friends? You’re surrounded by leeches and hanger’s on constantly who agree with everything you say. Maybe you can be genuine friends with other billionaires but in Trump’s case, that seems unlikely.
Come and see!
And I looked, and I beheld a former “mogul”, and the crew that hung on his words was called the Southern-Strategy Populist Bloc, and Death followed after them.
Power had once been given unto them over a fourth part of the Continental US, by land mass, roughly, but it’s splintering. Too many of that Bloc believe, deep in their hearts, things which the rest of us cannot stomach, cannot, in a deep sense, even comprehend. We hear anger over simple things, like basic human rights for gays and Hispanics and basic access to health care being expanded and not contracted, and we laugh with incomprehension. It’s like someone seriously, angrily defending the Divine Right of Kings, or slavery, and then being enraged when the rest of the country doesn’t automatically fall in line behind their ideals.
Trump speaks directly to them in a way that has been politically impossible since Nixon was in office. Trump dispenses with dog whistles. He gives it to them straight, a strong brew, but one they’re gulping with their buddies as they watch Fox News and listen to AM radio and wondering why Glenn Beck isn’t considered a latter-day prophet in this end times of revelations and grim portents.
Trump is the avatar, the Word Made Flesh, of every evil, xenophobic, sexist, and racist impulse the GOP has ever used to court those people, and he’s utter electoral poison to the majority of voters, even as he embodies the ideas of a voting bloc they still want to court. He’s the vampire they invited in. He’s the robot they can’t shut down. He’s the turd in the swimming pool they feel unable to swim away from.
Well, we know what happens to people like that. He’ll be back to belaboring half-wits in TV studios before too long, but any crosses of gold he’ll be associated with will be far too literal for good taste.
The GOP will survive this a changed party. It will move on. It will have a Cleansing Moment of Clarity and take the pledge convincingly enough to get Hispanics to join in. This will be a section of a chapter in history books, but not a hugely long one; after all, the main story will have been inter-woven into the fabric of the narrative going back decades earlier.
So: As a man, Trump is a garden-variety narcissist with his parents’ money and his own hair for which he overpaid. As an idea, he’s the end of an era.
Diamonds. I made it diamonds. Hearts was led. It’s your turn.
The Trump that can be described is not the true Trump.
Has Trump ever become rich? I think he was born to wealth and has made a hash of it for the most part. He may just be that dumb.
One can only ask “Does Trump imitate life, or does life imitate Trump?”.