Your best description of Trump

I love it.

Leftists calling DJT, a billionaire president of the most powerful nation in the history of the world, an idiot while posting on an obscure internet political forum from their mommy's basement. ROTFL

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Near perfection in all aspects.
He stands for us and a positive person. The right choice to lead our country...eace

Narcissistic A-Hole to such a level that it would be considered to be mental illness to anyone with the slightest bit of common sense. Unfit to hold the Office of President and will leave an ugly stain on the reputation of this Great Nation that may never be erased.

DamnYankee said:

I love it.

Leftists calling DJT, a billionaire president of the most powerful nation in the history of the world, an idiot while posting on an obscure internet political forum from their mommy's basement. ROTFL

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It's not just Leftists saying it.

Perotista said:

Stunted. Not a bad word. It's so much Trump's policies that I have had a problem with, it is his persona. Some would call it his character. I think he is an egotistical, thin skinned oafish individual. Personality wise anyway. His name calling reminds me of a four year old whose parents failed to teach him any manners. His need to attack, create a feud with anyone who mutters something bad about him via a temper tantrum on twitter are the antics of a five year old.

Trump's foreign policy hasn't bothered me. We've tried to placate and bribe North Korea since the end of the Korean War to no avail. Why not try something new? We know what we tried hasn't worked. Peeving off Europe, perhaps Europe needed peeving off in order for them to take more responsibility for their own defense.

After all the hoopla during the campaign about replacing Obamacare with something better, great. He blew it with the AHCA which was totally worst. Only Trump could make the ACA popular after 7 years of having 50% or more of all Americans opposing it. I suppose the bottom line isn't so much Trump's policies I oppose or have a problem with. I like some, dislike others about the same with Obama.

It's his dog gone dang personality. I can't stand the man. One expects a president to at least act presidential. Not like he is still hosting a reality TV program. Perhaps it is time for him to learn he is the president. To act like it.

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The latest rift with Pakistan is a classic case in point. Yes, we needed to do something about their country harboring Taliban. But, Trump's recent public humiliation of them wasn't really the right approach. Things like this are delicate. Trump doesn't do delicate.

Hawkeye10 said:

I love love love how Trump talks to people like we are not stupid, like we dont need to be talked to like we are 5 year olds who need every last detail explained to us. Trump has faith in people and in America, but sadly people and America very often let him down.

Re The Owl:

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The problem is that he is speaking to you as if you were a five-year old. Do you honestly believe Trump-speak is aimed at thinking adults? :lol:

BlackMatters said:

After a black POTUS and a social retard, I believe we're getting to see equal opportunity at work.

Also, the guy preventing the downward spiral/collapse of US that Clinton would have caused.

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Sounds racist

grip said:

I hear so many descriptions lately from the left and right Media of Trump and his attributes. Besides being overly biased and hyperbolic about his character, I think they get it one sided. To me the truth is more mundane and down the middle.

Here's my personal analysis or opinion of President Trump, what is yours?

"I think Trump is exactly what we all believe he appears to be. He's shrewd in his simplicity and technically smart enough to have made billions. He switches from 'like to dislike' of people on a whim, which makes him mercurial. He goes whichever way the wind blows, without a firm set of moralistic ideas or intrinsic values but is aware enough not to cross into extremes. He's a product of a privileged life but that doesn't necessarily mean he's happy or idle at peace. His emotional maturity and self image seems somewhat stunted, though he manages to sell himself deftly. I believe his worse Presidential trait maybe his foreign policy agenda but in some ways it's also a strength. So, like most people, he's a complex individual who's got some positive and negative qualities."

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Well done for putting Trump in the best possible light. I would amend your analysis this way: Trump is impulsive and does cross into extremes, he did as a businessman winding up in multiple in bankruptcies, he did again as a candidate in courting Russia, he did in firing Comey. He sells himself deftly to suckers, i.e., a minority of the American people. You failed to mention his selfishness, at the top of the scale. And you failed to mention his utter lack of intellectual curiosity which keeps him from reading books or even listening at any length to those he might learn from.

calamity said:

The latest rift with Pakistan is a classic case in point. Yes, we needed to do something about their country harboring Taliban. But, Trump's recent public humiliation of them wasn't really the right approach. Things like this are delicate. Trump doesn't do delicate.

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LOL, yeah, I noticed. Pakistan is unique in that for the most part the government of Pakistan has been willing to help us or do as much as they could. It has been the Pakistani intelligence service, the ISI which harbors, protects and helps the Taliban. The government and the military has been unwilling to cross them. Fear of them perhaps? The ISI could cause countrywide unrest and possibly an overthrow of the Pakistani government. They're that powerful.

Yes, delicate is not in Trump's vocabulary.

Perotista said:

LOL, yeah, I noticed. Pakistan is unique in that for the most part the government of Pakistan has been willing to help us or do as much as they could. It has been the Pakistani intelligence service, the ISI which harbors, protects and helps the Taliban. The government and the military has been unwilling to cross them. Fear of them perhaps? The ISI could cause countrywide unrest and possibly an overthrow of the Pakistani government. They're that powerful.

Yes, delicate is not in Trump's vocabulary.

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Exactly. Pakistan's government is teetering between outright rebellion and stability. And, then here comes trump, hurling rocks at the guys who are actually on our side. :doh

grip said:

I hear so many descriptions lately from the left and right Media of Trump and his attributes. Besides being overly biased and hyperbolic about his character, I think they get it one sided. To me the truth is more mundane and down the middle.

Here's my personal analysis or opinion of President Trump, what is yours?

"I think Trump is exactly what we all believe he appears to be. He's shrewd in his simplicity and technically smart enough to have made billions. He switches from 'like to dislike' of people on a whim, which makes him mercurial. He goes whichever way the wind blows, without a firm set of moralistic ideas or intrinsic values but is aware enough not to cross into extremes. He's a product of a privileged life but that doesn't necessarily mean he's happy or idle at peace. His emotional maturity and self image seems somewhat stunted, though he manages to sell himself deftly. I believe his worse Presidential trait maybe his foreign policy agenda but in some ways it's also a strength. So, like most people, he's a complex individual who's got some positive and negative qualities."

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To me he is like a male version of Sarah Palin, Although not as well read.

calamity said:

Exactly. Pakistan's government is teetering between outright rebellion and stability. And, then here comes trump, hurling rocks at the guys who are actually on our side. :doh

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This in a way reminds me of some Trump supporters on this site who wants any senator replaced who ever cast a vote contrary to what Trump wanted. Flake, McCain, Collins, Murkowski comes to mind. They immediately want them replaced. It doesn't enter their minds these senators voted with Trump 90-95% of the time. Replacing them with a Democrat who will vote against Trump 100% is somehow better.

One can't get 100% of everything every time. Sometimes one must settle for the best possible. Once you have the best possible, one isn't going to be able to improve on that. Shooting for the impossible is shooting yourself in your own foot and perhaps worst.

calamity said:

The latest rift with Pakistan is a classic case in point. Yes, we needed to do something about their country harboring Taliban. But, Trump's recent public humiliation of them wasn't really the right approach. Things like this are delicate. Trump doesn't do delicate.

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Well 'delicate' hasn't worked really well so far has it. So yes, President Trump is not at all politically correct, and he was elected because he was perceived as somebody who wouldn't just maintain a status quo that wasn't getting us anywhere we wanted to be. He was perceived as somebody who would try for what works. He will make mistakes, get it wrong, and screw up from time to time as ALL successful people do from time to time, but so far he has gotten it right more often than he has gotten it wrong. And when he realizes he is on the wrong path, he adjusts and reconfigures the game plan.

We don't know yet what the results are with Pakistan but so much of his other foreign policy has not been the disaster the left insisted was or would be the case. Despite him not being perfect in any respect, I am happy that so many have the courage to share his vision and are willing to take some risks to get something significant accomplished.

All the status quo promised us was a continued slow erosion, deterioration, and decline.

AlbqOwl said:

Well 'delicate' hasn't worked really well so far has it. So yes, President Trump is not at all politically correct, and he was elected because he was perceived as somebody who wouldn't just maintain a status quo that wasn't getting us anywhere we wanted to be, but is somebody who would try for what works. He will make mistakes, get it wrong, and screw up from time to time as ALL successful people do from time to time, but so far he has gotten it right more often than he has gotten us wrong. And when he realizes he is on the wrong path, he adjusts and reconfigures the game plan.

We don't know yet what the results are with Pakistan but so much of his other foreign policy has not been the disaster the left insisted was or would be the case. Despite him not being perfect in any respect, I am happy that so many have the courage to share his vision and are willing to take some risks to get something significant accomplished.

All the status quo promised us was a continued slow erosion, deterioration, and decline.

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Actually delicate has worked....you know, since Pakistan is not in open revolt nor our enemy just yet. But, give Trump time. I'm sure that day is drawing near.

President Trump is the triumph of image over substance in American politics. He is the victory of deceit over reality. He is the champion of greed which has vanquished altruism and commonwealth in American public life. He is a hollow, larger-than-life charicature with a deeply flawed little-man rattling around inside the enormous illusory shell. Reality is foreign territory to him and his own biases, convictions and illusions/delusions have fully eclipsed the real world in his mind's-eye. His mercurial nature and penchant for pugilistic bombast and vindictive reprisal is profoundly dangerous for himself, his family and his fellow country-persons, all of whom will suffer for his ascension to power. He is a modern-day King Lear in a very real-world, contemporary tragedy unfolding around him. This King lacks three daughters but his ascent will likely destroy or damage his children and some of their spouses.

He was accidentally thrust into power by a dying demographic of the American electorate which was desperate to turn the clock of history back to a time when they were more relevant and politically potent. Whether a last and forlorn hope for a by-gone time that never really was or a political Molotov-cocktail angrily tossed by a desperate and despairing demographic in decline for self-destructive spite, he is profoundly dangerous and (perhaps unintentionally) destructive. His actions are polarizing and unraveling an already frayed American society. He is alienating nations and peoples around the globe and thus isolating America. He is threatening a precarious international system which has avoided total war between great powers for more than seven decades. He is a tragic and absurd victim as well as the tool of victimisation all rolled into one contradictory and self-destructive ball.

Cheers?
Evilroddy.

calamity said:

Actually delicate has worked....you know, since Pakistan is not in open revolt nor our enemy just yet. But, give Trump time. I'm sure that day is drawing near.

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Yes just like so many of the predictions about the disasters Trump is creating have come true so far. Not.

AlbqOwl said:

Yes just like so many of the predictions about the disasters Trump is creating have come true so far. Not.

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lol...actually they have. You are just in the denial I mentioned in the op.

calamity said:

lol...actually they have. You are just in the denial I mentioned in the op.

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No, they haven't. In his major mistakes--example the first Muslim country ban--he quickly regroups and fixes it. I expect he will continue to do that. But all I see are positive things coming from his less-than-delicate approach to countries who are dependent on us but who have been taking advantage of us for decades.

Hard line but reasonable line with NATO? Has yielded some very good things.
Hard line but reasonable line with Mexico? They remain an ally and trading partner.
Hard line but reasonable line with China? Nothing detrimental has come from that and long term results are still pending. We are still quite amicable with their leadership.
Hard line but reasonable line with North Korea? We aren't at war and they are going to the table to work it out with South Korea at least in the short term.
Hard line but reasonable line with Pakistan? Too early to tell but I'm pretty sure that won't go south either.