The Trump Presidency: Sweet/Sweat 16

[Delphic Oracle]

Trump Tweets

The Legendary Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan, the Founders of Ford Motor Company and General Motors, are “rolling over” at the weakness of current car company executives willing to spend more money on a car that is not as safe or good, and cost $3,000 more to consumers. Crazy!

Henry Ford would be very disappointed if he saw his modern-day descendants wanting to build a much more expensive car, that is far less safe and doesn’t work as well, because execs don’t want to fight California regulators. Car companies should know....

....that when this Administration’s alternative is no longer available, California will squeeze them to a point of business ruin. Only reason California is now talking to them is because the Feds are giving a far better alternative, which is much better for consumers!

An example of the safety advances over 50 years. 1959 Bel Air vs. 2009 Malibu frontal driver offset test:

 

[Parsman]

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Fake photo! The hands are far too big!

 

[The Don]

An example of the safety advances over 50 years. 1959 Bel Air vs. 2009 Malibu frontal driver offset test:

Facts be damned. 40% - 45% of the US electorate either believe this twaddle, wish it were true so hard that they'll give him a pass over it or simply do not care enough for it, or any of his other pronouncements to change their voting intention.

 

[a_unique_person]

Facts be damned. 40% - 45% of the US electorate either believe this twaddle, wish it were true so hard that they'll give him a pass over it or simply do not care enough for it, or any of his other pronouncements to change their voting intention.

You would have to be Socialist to believe that Government regulations could achieve anything positive.

 

[Checkmite]

Trump "I am the chosen one".

A throwaway line.

No it's not.

Trump doesn't do irony, certainly not when saying something positive about himself.

And by the way, his quips about "serving more than two terms"? Those aren't throwaway lines either. He genuinely believes, or at least hopes, that's something that will happen.

 

[Aridas]

Mike Pence is either the most confused man in the world right now or the most delighted.

Pence is a wildly untrustworthy liar, though still far from in Trump's league in that aspect. I don't believe that he's either confused or pleased... given that I doubt he's ever forgotten or been deluded about what kind of man Trump is, despite his spinelessness.

That was one of the more creepy things.

Well, on the "positive" side, at least we know that, yet again, that conservative jeer was nothing more than projection. Seriously, it's almost like Trump's trying to actually do everything that said "conservatives" bashed Obama for (frequently on the basis of nonsensically false claims) and get idolized for it. And it looks like he's succeeding far, far too much, which is quite telling.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1164138795475881986

“Thank you to Wayne Allyn Root for the very nice words. “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world, not just America, he is the best President for Israel in the history of the world...and the Jewish people in Israel love him....

....like he’s the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God...But American Jews don’t know him or like him. They don’t even know what they’re doing or saying anymore. It makes no sense! But that’s OK, if he keeps doing what he’s doing, he’s good for.....

.....all Jews, Blacks, Gays, everyone. And importantly, he’s good for everyone in America who wants a job.” Wow!
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@foxandfriends

@OANN

Jews think Trump is the Second Coming? Aren't Jews still waiting for the First Coming?

 

[Sideroxylon]

He is the chosen one.

 

[Craig4]

Right around the end of the story, chosen ones have a tendency to ask if maybe next time could you choose somebody else.

 

[Belz...]

He is the chosen one.

Well, QAnon is one step away from saying we're all in the matrix, so...

ETA: Although to be fair he said it refering to him being the one leading the trade war with China, right? Not quite like saying he's Christ reincarnate.

 

[Foolmewunz]

Right around the end of the story, chosen ones have a tendency to ask if maybe next time could you choose somebody else.

Or Donnie could do the big finale from Jewel of the Nile and set the West Wing of the White House on fire and walk through it unharmed.

Can someone get Fox & Friends to mention this?

 

[smartcooky]

He is the chosen one.

He is the King of The Jews Israel!

Trump looks to me like he's in the midst of a slow-motion mental breakdown. He actually slipped today and said that he has the best economy and that he defeated the caliphate. Talk about self-delusional visions of grandeur.

Right back at the beginning of his presidency in 2017, there were a number of psychiatrists who warned that he was a dangerous narcissist and he was going to get worse.... looks like they were right.

Trump is turning full whack-job.

 

[a_unique_person]

Over an ensuing half-hour rant, Trump trucked in antisemitic tropes, insulted the Danish prime minister, insisted he wasn’t racist, bragged about the performance of his former Apprentice reality show, denied starting a trade war with China, praised Vladimir Putin and told reporters that he, Trump, was the “Chosen One” – all within hours of referring to himself as the “King of Israel” and tweeting in all caps: “WHERE IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE?”

I have to say. His "Apprentice" ratings stories never get old.

 

[smartcooky]

No it's not.

Trump doesn't do irony, certainly not when saying something positive about himself.

And by the way, his quips about "serving more than two terms"? Those aren't throwaway lines either. He genuinely believes, or at least hopes, that's something that will happen.

I have absolutely ZERO doubt that if he loses in 2020, whether its close run or a landslide, he WILL refuse to leave office. I know this because I recognise a pathological malignant narcissist when I see one ( I lived with one for more years than I care to admit) and I'm looking at one right now in the White House. They simply cannot stand to be challenged or criticised, and when they are, they get their panties in a bunch and lash out, often doubling down on what they have been challenged on or criticised for. ...

This is why he has surrounded himself with "yes" men, people who are too gutless to speak truth to power.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

Yeah, he is now disavowing the trade war with China. I was sure he started it because he wanted a trade war, and that trade wars were "easy to win"? I'm sure he couldn't be lying, mistaken, or delusional now, so I must be misremembering and it really was the US press that started the trade war with China.

 

[Sideroxylon]

Well, QAnon is one step away from saying we're all in the matrix, so...

ETA: Although to be fair he said it refering to him being the one leading the trade war with China, right? Not quite like saying he's Christ reincarnate.

Yeah, he was addressing another member of the press up the nearby tree.

 

[TofuFighter]

Well, QAnon is one step away from saying we're all in the matrix, so...

Or Donnie could do the big finale from Jewel of the Nile and set the West Wing of the White House on fire and walk through it unharmed.

I don't know where you guys are getting your Chosen Ones from.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

After today's performance, I started thinking again whether there is any validity to the fatigue factor in the election. Which just means that people, even ones that aren't completely opposed to Trump's policies, would be so tired of the day-in day-out drama emanating from the White House that they either vote Dem or don't vote at all - "His policies are fine, but I'm just sick of the ******** that he puts out every single day"

It may be not a huge group, or any group at all I suppose. I'm not on social media much, but I do know the pro-Trump posts that used to be all over the place from my conservative friends (I'm from Oklahoma) are just about gone. Even the latest Squad ruckus, which did surprise me a little.

I think what you're pointing too in regards to fatigue can also be attributed to people liking "candidate Trump", but not liking "president Trump". His antics were much more palatable as a candidate because he didn't really actually have any power or anything to do. Clowning around and being a general rabble rouser didn't distract from his responsibilities, because he didn't have any responsibilities.

President Trump is obviously not up to the task of being president. While this was obvious during the campaign to anyone who thought about it seriously for a few moments, we are now living the reality of this shortcoming.

 

[varwoche]

... President Trump is obviously not up to the task of being president. While this was obvious during the campaign to anyone who thought about it seriously for a few moments, we are now living the reality of this shortcoming.

So true. As obvious as it was during the election that this world class ignoramus was vastly under-qualified in several respects, his performance in office has been far worse than most of us imagined.

 

[bruto]

Well, QAnon is one step away from saying we're all in the matrix, so...

ETA: Although to be fair he said it refering to him being the one leading the trade war with China, right? Not quite like saying he's Christ reincarnate.

Indeed, and it's likely that the Trump apologists will jump on that, since the usual excuse when he says something outrageous is that he was too stupid to understand it.