# Which of Trump's political sins disqualifies him most? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 27, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066 "2016-07-27T22:35:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/81 "2016-07-29T20:34:17Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I’m a recent grandparent – go on, ask me about my grandchild. I dare you. 🙂 Yeah, that’s my point. I thought everybody knew that, at least for some people, if you get them talking about the grandkids you better have an exit strategy or a comfortable chair. Donald Trump is not only not one of these people, he also is entirely unfamiliar with the concept. Is he from the moon or something? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/82 "2016-07-29T20:52:34Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > Yeah, that’s my point. I thought everybody knew that, at least for some people, if you get them talking about the grandkids you better have an exit strategy or a comfortable chair. > > Donald Trump is not only not one of these people, he also is entirely unfamiliar with the concept. Is he from the moon or something? What have his grandchildren ever done for him? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/83 "2016-07-29T22:37:30Z")
I doubt he speaks of any of his offspring, outside of a situation where he thinks mentioning them will give him leverage of some kind. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/84 "2016-07-29T22:59:08Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > Ah, it’s Trump trying to cast doubt that the conversation between Loretta Lynch and Bill was innocent. I.e. they couldn’t possibly have spent all that time discussing their grandchildren. Yes, that was his real point but as usual he phrased it in a way that sounds just awful. Even if it were that for the last 30 years he has not engaged with someone outside his immediate family in a conversation where one or both parties did not have ulterior motives, why say it \*about himself? \*He could say “I’ve never had a conversation with Clinton where he did not want something, if he speaks to me more than a few seconds I start bracing for it”, and it would work. That mind works in unusual ways. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/85 "2016-07-30T02:36:16Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > …Donald Trump was dubious that any grandparent could talk about their grandkids for more than a minute. > > What the fuck is that about? If his grandkids aren’t going to ask him, “What is it that makes you so wonderful, Grandpa?”, why should he waste his breath on them? He’s got an election to win, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/86 "2016-07-30T15:03:27Z")
I wanted to say all of them, but I kept my list to 5 to include: Ditching treaty obligations, being positive about dictators, lying and saying he didn’t, inviting Russia to hack emails And I’ll bet you that he will actually threaten to jail Clinton. He’s already making noises that he just might start agreeing with his supporters who yell to lock her up. Just watch ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/87 "2016-07-30T18:40:53Z")
“No More Mr. Nice Guy”: [in a recent speech](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-idUSKCN10A00N), he says he’s “starting to agree” with his chanting crowd about locking Hillary up. In bottom picture of that article, he looks like he’s sucking out that poor baby’s brains. Kissing babies is the bread and butter of a candidate’s campaign activities, I know, but somehow that picture is more distressing than average. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/88 "2016-07-30T18:51:50Z")
At least it doesn’t show his ovipositor. ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/89 "2016-07-30T18:53:43Z")
I think it would hurt Trump a lot if he were to come right out and say he’ll jail Clinton the minute he gets in office. Of course, he could skirt it by saying he thinks she should be jailed rather than saying he’ll actually do it. But if he does cross that line, there’s a strong chance he would lose more Republican party support, hopefully including Ryan and McConnell. I mean, it would kill any other candidate’s chances, but with Trump being made of a strange Teflon, it would just wound him a lot ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/90 "2016-07-30T19:06:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > At least it doesn’t show his ovipositor. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/91 "2016-07-30T21:04:07Z")
I don’t have a vote, but if I did, I’d select ‘All the Above’. It truly amazes me that Americans are so disgusted by their elites that Trump can get nominated. (And on the other side, Sanders wasn’t that far off.) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/92 "2016-07-31T00:26:05Z")
" Donald Trump rejected a Muslim lawyer’s assertion on the Democratic convention stage that the Republican nominee has “sacrificed nothing and no one.” “Who wrote that? Did Hillary’s script writers write it?” Trump said in an interview with with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that will air Sunday. “I think I’ve made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard.” " [Details here.](http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/30/politics/donald-trump-khizr-kahn-response/) This is the first thing he’s done that actually made me want to kick his ass. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/93 "2016-07-31T04:20:49Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#): > > …This is the first thing he’s done that actually made me want to kick his ass. You have a remarkably high threshold for wanting to kick Trump’s ass. I got over mine in like, jeez, mid-December. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/94 "2016-07-31T10:07:13Z")
The kickability of Trump’a ass, as well as the punchability of his face, has been accumulating since the 1980s at least. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/95 "2016-07-31T12:28:09Z")
He’s a Republican. Can’t understand how that didn’t make the list. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/96 "2016-07-31T14:20:26Z")
Also, I’m another person who sees “what’s the MOST disqualifying factor?” and thinks he only gets to choose one. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/97 "2016-07-31T14:32:40Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#): > > " > Donald Trump rejected a Muslim lawyer’s assertion on the Democratic convention stage that the Republican nominee has “sacrificed nothing and no one.” > “Who wrote that? Did Hillary’s script writers write it?” Trump said in an interview with with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that will air Sunday. “I think I’ve made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard.” > " > > [Details here.](http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/30/politics/donald-trump-khizr-kahn-response/) > > This is the first thing he’s done that actually made me want to kick his ass. His reaction to these grieving parents was disgraceful. The man is a full-on sociopath. He’s sacrificed? What, was the sommalier unable to find the '46 Bordeaux you wanted? What a piece of shit he is. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/98 "2016-07-31T15:38:55Z")
How dare you denigrate the term piece of shit" by associating it with Trump!! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/99 "2016-07-31T16:13:00Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > How dare you denigrate the term piece of shit" by associating it with Trump!! I apologize to pieces of shit everywhere for my faux pas. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066/100 "2016-08-02T01:50:08Z")
One of Trump’s former attorneys [has a list not to dissimilar from mine](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-hired-me-as-an-attorneyplease-dont_us_579e52dee4b00e7e269fb30f). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-trumps-political-sins-disqualifies-him-most/761066.md?page=6)