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It's not about Trump lying about firing Bolton or using a Sharpie. It's about why he's insecure

Carleen said:
A totally insecure president is not really a good thing. He is more concerned about what people say about him than he is about running the country and it shows.
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I don't think that's the whole truth about Trump. Consider that he made his bones with his base by being combative with the press. That's an image that, once established, he has to constantly re-affirm in order to keep that base.

Now, it may or may not be true that he's combative in the first place because he's insecure about one thing or another. In fact, I remember some celebrity on an interview show opined that back in the nineties, he'd hung out with Trump a fair bit, and the celebrity claimed that the one thing you couldn't kid with the Donald about was his wealth. More than a few anti-Trumpers have claimed that the real reason he's concealed his tax returns is because he doesn't want it known that he isn't nearly as rich as he advertises.

All that, however, does not change the fact that Trump's followers like the fact that he doesn't just passively accept the abuse of the press-- and I think it was abusive even before he started yelling "fake news"-- and so he constantly jabs back at the press in ways that few Presidents have done. I'm not claiming that he picks his fights wisely, but it's not coming ONLY from insecurity.
 
HumblePi said:
If you think Trump is so smart then ask yourself, is Maduro still in power in Venezuela? Is Russia still in annexed Crimea? Is Kim Jong-un still firing off missiles into the Sea of Japan? Is China still building islands in the middle of the South Pacific? Has NATO been weakened? Is the UK in shambles? Is Iran free now to develop nuclear weapons? Do the 'five eyes' still trust the United States enough to share intelligence? And now he's going to 'aid' Israel and Netanyahu to annex more of Palestine on the West Bank along the Jordan Valley. WTF?

What has Trump accomplished by way of foreign policy except to aid Israel by recognizing Jerusalem as their capital or overlooked the fact that Mohammad bin Salman murdered a journalist that was a resident of the U.S? WTF?

What has he done to make the United States safer? He has already stated that he doesn't think the CIA and other US intelligence agencies should be spying and that it "won't happen under my auspices" (his own words). WTF? He's an idiot and a Russian asset 100%.
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Re: Iran-- in what REAL way would the Iran treaty have kept the country from developing nukes?
 
Irwin Corey said:
Uh - un. SharpieGate is on tRump. All he had to do, not even admit he was wrong, is say yep, "looks like Doren is gonna miss Alabama; case closed. But NOOOooooo he breaks out a sharpie, re-draws the NOAA map and … the rest is history.

I'll give you two scoops, but is anyone doing that anymore? OLD news.
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sharpieGate will be old news soon enough ...just like all the rest
 
Rexedgar said:
That’s some ignorance on parade there!
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Wars and war crimes tend to have prior roots; the meaning was clear.

But liberals do love revisionist history, so carry on.

:donkeyfla
 
3leftsdoo said:
Liberals/Democrats?

Let's see...

FDR - Check

Truman - Check

LBJ - Check

Checked, double-checked and triple-checked.

:shrug:
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Every President since FDR would be a convicted war criminal, if the standards of Nuremberg were fairly applied to everyone. Regardless, the liberal base is usually much less supportive of war.
 
ataraxia said:
I have a feeling his dad was a tough guy, and tough to please. Little Donald may be doing all this just to please his dad still after all these years...
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Yes but lots of people have hard parents. How many people do you know that go to the lengths that this guy goes to to prove that he's never wrong in any situation ever? There's something much deeper wrong with him and we probably won't find out until he's gone.
 
Trump said:
sharpieGate will be old news soon enough ...just like all the rest
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And now, that he's stealing money from the military, his wall is coming along splendidly.

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Ouroboros said:
I don't think that's the whole truth about Trump. Consider that he made his bones with his base by being combative with the press. That's an image that, once established, he has to constantly re-affirm in order to keep that base.

Now, it may or may not be true that he's combative in the first place because he's insecure about one thing or another. In fact, I remember some celebrity on an interview show opined that back in the nineties, he'd hung out with Trump a fair bit, and the celebrity claimed that the one thing you couldn't kid with the Donald about was his wealth. More than a few anti-Trumpers have claimed that the real reason he's concealed his tax returns is because he doesn't want it known that he isn't nearly as rich as he advertises.

All that, however, does not change the fact that Trump's followers like the fact that he doesn't just passively accept the abuse of the press-- and I think it was abusive even before he started yelling "fake news"-- and so he constantly jabs back at the press in ways that few Presidents have done. I'm not claiming that he picks his fights wisely, but it's not coming ONLY from insecurity.
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What he is obsessed with is criticism and crowd size. Do you really think that are attributes a president should have? I might add the abuse from the press you refer to are reaction to his tweets that are lies and exaggeration.
 
Irwin Corey said:
Uh - un. SharpieGate is on tRump. All he had to do, not even admit he was wrong, is say yep, "looks like Doren is gonna miss Alabama; case closed. But NOOOooooo he breaks out a sharpie, re-draws the NOAA map and … the rest is history.

I'll give you two scoops, but is anyone doing that anymore? OLD news.
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And that's really my question. What makes a grown man so insecure that they can't brush stuff off. What makes him constantly have to be right in every situation every time? What scarred this man?
 
Acadia said:
SharpieGate had a decent run. Time to move on.

Sorry the CNN Russia asset story went to ****.
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On the contrary, the CIA asset is now residing here in the US. Snug as a bug in a rug.

What a dumbass Trump is, revealing top secret Israeli info to the Russians and then exclaiming ... "As President, I have the authority to de-classify anything I want."

The problem now is, Trump is a FSB asset.
 
CaughtInThe said:
Something in Donald Trump's past causes him to constantly lie, constantly belittle people and never be proven wrong about anything ever.

A sign of maturity is when one can except their own mistakes and faults. Something happened to Donald Trump that scarred him for life. I don't know if it's a mommy and daddy thing or if it's a ex-girlfriend who laughed at his wee wee but something damaged him. This is not a normal person. This is not a normal mature person.

And I think many of his supporters realize it. They realize that he is actually less mature than their own children. So they have to go on the offensive or try to laugh it off. We see that here every day. We see it all over Republican media and the Internet every day. The enablers don't have many options left.
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I don't agree with all of your analysis, but even so -- I like the results.

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Maybe when Trump is gone those closest to him will tell us what the real story is. Maybe it's simply a Daddy Dearest kind of situation. Maybe he never felt as good as the other rich kids. Maybe some woman laughed at him when he pulled his pants down.

This dude is damaged and we won't know why for a while.
 
Jetboogieman said:
It should be embarrassing to support such a man child.

But Trump supporters have abandoned all standards, they can excuse or rationalize just about every one of his childish antics.

Things they would never accept and would blow up about, if Obama or a Democrat had said or done, is waved away with “TDS” or “globalist hater” regardless of who it comes from, even those who were close to him and had direct access.

Trumps behavior isn’t really the issue, it’s his supporters that continue to excuse it that is the real issue.
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The democrats should have picked a nominee. Will they do that this time? Not looking real great. They'd have better luck bringing Hillary in from the bench.
 
Jetboogieman said:
It should be embarrassing to support such a man child.

But Trump supporters have abandoned all standards, they can excuse or rationalize just about every one of his childish antics.

Things they would never accept and would blow up about, if Obama or a Democrat had said or done, is waved away with “TDS” or “globalist hater” regardless of who it comes from, even those who were close to him and had direct access.

Trumps behavior isn’t really the issue, it’s his supporters that continue to excuse it that is the real issue.
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Thanks to Trump supporters, "No lies matter", "No actions are immoral" and "No ethics required".
 
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