Re the italicized part: this is textbook narcissism. The narcissist assumes everything is about him/her. I mean, seriously, examine that statement: “She really thought I did not care…” Donald is making this *personal *between him and the mother. That is nuts, people. :rolleyes: I’m surprised Donald didn’t accuse the mother of attacking him by letting her baby cry and [in essence] steal the spotlight from him.
I would target Trump supporters. Somehow get him to say something bad about his supporters. Maybe trick him with some half-praise like tweeting “I support Trump, but yeah, he has really tiny hands” or “I’m going to vote for that orange Cheeto with the bad hair”. If he can attack his own supporters for not sufficiently supporting him, that would be the final nail in the coffin
Trump saying he could go out in the street and shoot someone randomly, and his fans would still vote for him – is that NOT an insult?
In the words of the Bard:
[QUOTE=William Shakespeare, “King John”]
Therefore, to be possess’d with double pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
[/QUOTE]
I think, if I was the Paul Manafort or Roger Stone counterpart in the Democratic party structure, I’d try and engineer some way to get Trump to say something hostile toward religion or church or Jesus.
Not sure how I’d do that exactly, but that would be a nail in his coffin, I think.
Great plan. Trick him into insulting Jesus. Easy peezy.
I can’t really get on board with the “we’re gonna be winners and he is gonna be a loser” name calling either. First, saying “we’re going to win” is fine at a rally but sounds cocky and arrogant to the undecideds. And tricking him into being mad by calling him a loser just isn’t going to move anyone. Nobody, most especially not his fans, is going to find it outrageous that someone gets mad at a direct insult.
How do we make sure all the debate moderators are women? That would cause him to stroke out onstage.
Hillary just needs to practice a cool smile so when he starts to pop off, she can have a “Please…proceed, governor” moment while he has enough rope to hang himself.
That’s the thing, all of his supporters imagine him shooting someone who deserves it, someone else other than them. Trump has to specifically attack someone who supports him, and not a politician like Christie, but a regular guy, or a group of regular guys, preferably a stadium of them, who support him but also think his tiny baby hands is funny has hell. Maybe seed the next Trump rally with those people with the foam “We’re #1!” fingers, but make them really small and orange
[Trump] I like people who AREN’T crucified.[/Trump]
The difference might be is that Smith was there to work up the audience, while the Khans were there for the audience and as one of the shots at making Trump go crazy.
When I was in grad school there was an AI program at Stanford called Parry which was a simulation of a paranoid person. We could connect to it on the ARPANet. We competed to see how few sentences we could use to get it to hang up on us, since it had fears built in. (Yes, we were awful.) Trump reminds me of Parry quite a bit, except he lashes out, not hangs up.
So I don’t know the DNC was hoping for the reaction they got, but it is at least possible.
“Mr. Trump, this morning in a joint interview, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama expressed their views that Jesus Christ was an overall pretty good guy. Do you have any comment?”
You could use that on pretty much anybody in the GOP at this point, and they would pretty much reflexively have to come out against Jesus (or puppies, or ice cream for that matter).
Wolf Blitzer: Mr Trump, @Mark1238 just tweeted to you “Beware of the real estate moguls, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation”. How do you respond?
Hillary surrogates need to start poking at his so-called billionaire status. Not on social media, but on TV (he watches an inordinate amount of TV news, and reacts to it by going on TV).
Example - Meet The Press:
Trump will come unhinged. You want to send Trump over the edge? Question his purported wealth, and do it often. On TV.
A week ago, I’d have said that it was ridiculous to think he’d insult the parents of a dead war hero, but I was wrong on that count.
It’s not much of a stretch to think that he wouldn’t have scruples about insulting a religion or religious organization that stood up to him and insulted or challenged him publicly.
Meg Whitman is the latest billionaire to come out and endorse Hillary. I wonder if Trump dares to tangle with Meg. If he does, if he decides to pick a fight with Whitman and if Whitman decides to fight back, it’s absolutely over.
Trump: Loser Meg supports Hillary. Couldn’t win governor’s race in CA. What a loser! Sad!
Meg: Oh yeah, show me your tax returns! “Billionaire” LOL
In case you missed it, he already called the pope “disgraceful” way back in Feb.
He’d really make himself look bad if he did that, considering that he’s figuratively hiding from Mark Cuban and Warren Buffett. I can see the sexist spin already…
Actually given how much damage Trumps doing to himself…
I’d love to see Hillary run a very gentlemanly campaign to try to move politics away from internecine warfare towards more bipartisan ship …even if the republicans are still arses; make a move to reject that behaviour.
Put him in front of a camera and let him talk.
Cory Lewandowski is helping. It seems he has brought up the old Obama Harvard Transcript thing again. Which will remind people of Trump’s birther crap. Why are they attacking Obama again?