The Trump Presidency (Act V - The One Where Everybody Dies)

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It’s clearly a strategy - never admit error and never apologize.

Example: Trump saying the murder rate was the highest in 45-something years. Wrong - it’s near record lows. He misunderstood a recent rise in the rate for the rate itself. But never a correction, clarification or apology.

Goes exactly against what I was taught as responsible adult behavior: to own one’s mistakes and move on. Every mistake is a learning opportunity, but Trump had zero interest in learning, just winning.

I find Trump aggravating on myriad levels, but for me this is by far the most aggravating.
 
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Fast Eddie B said:
It’s clearly a strategy - never admit error and never apologize.

Example: Trump saying the murder rate was the highest in 45-something years. Wrong - it’s near record lows. He misunderstood a recent rise in the rate for the rate itself. But never a correction, clarification or apology.

Goes exactly against what I was taught as responsible adult behavior: to own one’s mistakes and move on. Every mistake is a learning opportunity, but Trump had zero interest in learning, just winning.

I find Trump aggravating on myriad levels, but for me this is by far the most aggravating.
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I get it, though... they're not correcting themselves, because to a large segment of the population, there's no objective reality to say they're actually mistaken.

For probably 40% of the population, when the president says the murder rate is the highest it's been in 45 years, that's the baseline fact against which one can identify contradictory claimants as liars.

DOJ statistics say it's not true? Proof of the Deep State!
 
rustypouch said:
As the government is on the verge of a shutdown, Trump's in Mar-a-Lago, hosting a celebration of his inauguration. At $50k a plate. How is this acceptable, in any way, shape, or form? There's dereliction of duty, corruption, profiting from the office, the huge waste of tax money...

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...-marking-anniversary-of-inauguration-at-mar-a
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Fast Eddie B said:
I think it’s being reported he’s canceled, or at least postponed, the trip.
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I'm looking for a link about if the trip is cancelled or not...Can't find anything supporting a cancellation .
 
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“Right now, in a number of states, the laws allow a baby to be born from his or her mother’s womb in the ninth month. It is wrong. It has to change.” President Donald J. Trump

I actually heard this live today and thought I had heard it wrong. Apparently not.
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Is there tape of that?
 
Fast Eddie B said:
It’s clearly a strategy - never admit error and never apologize.

Example: Trump saying the murder rate was the highest in 45-something years. Wrong - it’s near record lows. He misunderstood a recent rise in the rate for the rate itself. But never a correction, clarification or apology.

Goes exactly against what I was taught as responsible adult behavior: to own one’s mistakes and move on. Every mistake is a learning opportunity, but Trump had zero interest in learning, just winning.

I find Trump aggravating on myriad levels, but for me this is by far the most aggravating.
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Trump is a classic example of what I call the CEO Syndrome, where some guy who's managed to become rich and powerful, usually through no effort of his own, decides he's never made a mistake in his whole life. GW Bush held a spectacular press conference one time at which reporters asked if he'd ever made a mistake and he couldn't think of any.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
It’s clearly a strategy - never admit error and never apologize....
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No, not a strategy, clearly one symptom in a cluster of symptoms of pathologic narcissism.


Edited to distinguish between something like GW's inability to recall any mistakes he'd made and Trump's pathology because this kind of pathology is not diagnosed on a single symptom.
 
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It was a mistake on Trump's part. Even as much as I detest the man, it's obvious that he simply said "born" for "torn". It's funny but irrelevant. But what is relevant is that, even if he had said "born", what he said was just a plain lie. Fetuses are never "torn" from their mother's womb in the ninth month as he claimed, with the insinuation that the mother just wanted to get rid of an inconvenient pregnancy. Pregnancy termination at that late date are overwhelmingly due to fetal abnormalities inconsistent with supporting life as in the baby has no brain. And they are almost exclusively done by induction of labor. Trump's intent is to spread misinformation in an attempt to stir up his audience so they'll give him what he so craves: applause, cheering and adulation. He is one sick SOB.

Read this from a gynecologist who explains why these late terminations occur:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...h-month-abortions_us_5808dfa2e4b0dd54ce389b61
 
Stacyhs said:
It was a mistake on Trump's part. Even as much as I detest the man, it's obvious that he simply said "born" for "torn".
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The thing is he was reading from a teleprompter, and not only misread the word but didn't immediately realize that the thought was nonsense. It's not the first time he has appeared to be reading words without any understanding. (Some patriot should insert "I hereby resign" into the feed.)
 
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Bob001 said:
The thing is he was reading from a teleprompter, and not only misread the word but didn't immediately realize that the thought was nonsense. It's not the first time he has appeared to be reading words without any understanding. (Some patriot should insert "I hereby resign" into the feed.)
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Are you sure someone didn't do that with "Beetlejuice" (3x) already? It would explain a lot of the chaos.
 
Stacko said:
You should start counting how many times you've said this. The frequency is an issue.
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It merits saying when the loyal opposition (libs, dems, progs) harp on slip-ups as often as we do. Trump has enough actual reprehensible opinions and actions that the momentary little dance over a slip-up is really superfluous.

That speech was not so much reprehensible but incomprehensible, even when you mentally edit to repair the language. He's the first president to ever address these people. And where's Ivanka? Weren't we told that the bestest friend evah for women and LBGTQ people was going to be Donald Trump, because his little snoogie woogie daughter was going to keep him on a pro-humanist agenda?

Yeah, sure!
 
Foolmewunz said:
It merits saying when the loyal opposition (libs, dems, progs) harp on slip-ups as often as we do. Trump has enough actual reprehensible opinions and actions that the momentary little dance over a slip-up is really superfluous.
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Sure, but when the "Obama screws up, too" response to Trump's 74th slipup is always the same Obama slipup, that "defense" wears a bit thin. As if to say that the person who just committed their 10th murder is no worse than the person who committed only 1.
 
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Sure, but when the "Obama screws up, too" response to Trump's 74th slipup is always the same Obama slipup, that "defense" wears a bit thin.
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It's not a defense, it's a statement of fact. He slipped up. The Obama slip-up is used as the best-known example in the public dialogue. It's the one in most-recent memory. Prior to that it was Ford's debate flub, although there are still people who will try to sell you that he wasn't just confused but actually believed that.

It's a non-issue but while we argue about it, no one's paying attention to where he was, why he was there and what this says.
 
Bob001 said:
The thing is he was reading from a teleprompter, and not only misread the word but didn't immediately realize that the thought was nonsense. It's not the first time he has appeared to be reading words without any understanding. (Some patriot should insert "I hereby resign" into the feed.)
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Well, I've never claimed he was like, really smart. But was it a sign of cognitive problems? Nah. He's just an idiot.
 
Foolmewunz said:
It's not a defense, it's a statement of fact. He slipped up. The Obama slip-up is used as the best-known example in the public dialogue. It's the one in most-recent memory. Prior to that it was Ford's debate flub, although there are still people who will try to sell you that he wasn't just confused but actually believed that.

It's a non-issue but while we argue about it, no one's paying attention to where he was, why he was there and what this says.
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An occasional slip up is understandable but Trump seems to make it a regular thing. As if he isn't aware of what he is saying.
 
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