Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

plus the last time a republican was president in september the US economy barely survived

imagine donald j. trump as president on the 16th anniversary of 9/11 :)

Time for some more moral equivalence and re-education of the people by the big man methinks. He's a good couple of weeks to get all the key facts.

"Other triggers include if someone's wearing a tie, if someone sneezes, if someone breathes "wrong" or if the sky's blue or any other color" pic.twitter.com/ZtVLzGQUsn

— Jon Schwarz (@tinyrevolution) August 17, 2017

has Trump's defence of white-nationalists this week damaged his popularity? I know that his approval ratings are terrible, but I got the impression that this was more due to the general chaos and inability to get anything done? will his comments this week alienate anyone who didn't hate him already? (I guess they damage Trump in that they force colleagues/officials/commentators etc to distance themselves from him making him more isolated, but do they play badly with voters?)

Aside from the hilarious URL the story is great: http://fortune.com/2017/08/15/donald-trump-itrump-trumpet-app/

The owner of Trump Tower, Trump Golf Links, and The Donald J. Trump Signature Collection can’t claim this one as his own: iTrump.

That’s because the trademark resides with a 40-year-old-engineer and amateur musician who created an iPhone app designed to teach people how to play the trumpet. This month, Tom Scharfeld prevailed in his grueling six-year legal fight against Donald Trump. And Scharfeld’s triumph is even more impressive because he succeeded without a lawyer.

Legal experts say it’s no surprise that Trump waged a fierce campaign to capture a name that he said screams DONALD TRUMP. After all, The Trump Organization has affixed the moniker to everything from real estate, vodka and golf courses to an airline, clothing and steaks. Long before Trump embarked on his run for the White House, the tycoon had sued to block upstarts from using the name, and he and his family have recently expanded their marks around the world.

“When you are representing yourself, it is almost impossible to win, so coming out a winner is one of the great long shots," said Harley Lewin, a New York lawyer not involved in the case. “Even if you are bright and perhaps right on the issues, the lack of knowledge of litigation procedure almost dooms you from the start."

Trump’s lawyers "didn’t seem to respect that I could do this," Scharfeld said. “We won all the claims and defeated those against us.”
James Weinberger, the lawyer for Trump in the iTrump case, declined to comment.

Nothing on Richmond's vaunted Monument Ave. compares to Saint-Gaudens' Sherman on Grand Army Plaza, re-gilded in the 80s by Donald J. Trump. pic.twitter.com/oRUR7EhX5U

— BANDZ STACKHAGE (@NickPinkerton) August 17, 2017

they damage Trump in that they force colleagues/officials/commentators etc to distance themselves from him making him more isolated, but do they play badly with voters?

There's a substantial minority of Trump voters who will be slightly dismayed by his clumsily cloaked support for white supremacists and KKK-types, but I expect only a few of them will see it as "the straw that broke the camel's back", so that they feel they must now reject him and his presidency as racist and unacceptable. But every one of these wretched events sees some more of his backers dropping away.

He doesn't seem to ever do anything that attracts new supporters. He mostly seems to alienate them a few at a time, week after week.

just like banks!

He doesn't seem to ever do anything that attracts new supporters. He mostly seems to alienate them a few at a time, week after week.

― A is for (Aimless), Friday, August 18, 2017 4:57 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea this is important & otm

Kinda like Morrissey

they certainly both have Opinions on china

Hi everyone I've thought about this....
In hate to say it but I'm gonna say "dud."

fp

Sorry but I just don't think he is a "cool guy" just being completely honest here

name three of his albums. i'll wait

Viva...ah I see what u doing

President Trump,
Ever since you became president, I had doubts about the future of this country.
Everyone in my family and among my friends told me that to serve on your council would legitimize a racist administration, but I wanted to influence the policy that your administration made, so I agreed to participate.
That was then; now I realize that no matter what I do, you will not change your ways, or listen to reason.
After these bewildering seven months, I realize that serving any further would only stain my own reputation, without achieving anything I hoped for, so I must resign my position.
Perhaps others will continue to support you and your pee tape ways; I wish you and them well.
Ever yours,

LOL!

pic.twitter.com/OhwS2MkCla

— Born Miserable (@bornmiserable) August 25, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/opinion/sunday/president-trump-and-the-baby-sitters-club.html?mcubz=3

a “child king,” a “self-pitying fool”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/opinion/sunday/trump-our-child-king.html?mcubz=3

He doesn't seem to ever do anything that attracts new supporters. He mostly seems to alienate them a few at a time, week after week.

And this is where things get really fucked because at some point he'll realize that being a war president is the only way to get those people back.

i just came across this gem on facebook. imagine the bar being set lower for any human being ever pic.twitter.com/fZU6Y28yo7

— Timothy Simons (@timothycsimons) August 29, 2017

jesus

Matt Damon throwaway answer on Trump is revealing. pic.twitter.com/d1THKaBH7k

— (((tedfrank))) (@tedfrank) September 1, 2017

That's some good shit

hoo ha!

As he puts on plastic gloves to serve food at NRG Stadium...President Trump turns to press and says: "My hands are too big!" pic.twitter.com/WIUTLOS4XD

— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) September 2, 2017

No!

If he serves a peach, you must impeach

Literally any other person this would be an endearing self deprecating thing but no... not here.

gotta admit i chuckled

hahahaha its almost like he's not an awful terrible destructive ignorant cunt

next to your deeper fears we stand surrounded by four maga years

#rosneftabout

make Antarctica green again?

Report from the ground. Holy shit people are going nuts right now ... huge line of people buying booze. Dude in the parking lot losing his shit about "n" word and more. I'm in a middle class suburb of NYC. People are going fucking bonkers. All I see is pure misery on the subway, dozens of depressed and dejected faces.

Hooray for the status quo, I guess. For anyone who thinks this is going to last, I've got another story to tell you.

Man, a few months ago I heard a kid say, "why does everyone look so sad?" For those who defend the status quo, how do you support this? Clinton is no different here in this.

[on the NYC subway]

If you're looking for a silver lining to the Trump phenomenon, this might be it. Our crazy president, if nothing else, has had a clarifying effect on American politics. He may make the Democratic Party desperate enough to return to power that it will actually have to start picking voters over donors when it comes time to choose which policy approaches to endorse. Which might mean embracing policies that would actually excite people for a change.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-single-payer-effort-shows-life-post-trump-may-not-suck-w503498

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/03/mary-macleod-trump-donald-trump-mother-biography-mom-immigrant-scotland-215779

Many of the array of psychologists, psychiatrists and family therapists I talked to for this story have a question Mary Trump actually once asked herself, at a moment when she was feeling something less than pride in her celebrity son.

This was in 1990. Donald Trump was divorcing his first wife, philandering with the model Marla Maples and floundering in hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, facing high-profile humiliation and ruin in his early 40s. Mary Trump, on the other hand, was approaching 80. Once a poor immigrant from the remote, desolate northwest corner of Scotland, and the product of the strict mores of the country’s Presbyterian Church, she had been married to the business-centric Fred Trump for more than half a century, residing with him and their five children and their live-in in a large, red-brick, white-columned house positioned regally atop a grassy hill. She had worked tirelessly, volunteering at a local hospital, staying active at schools, charities and social clubs, and steering her rose-colored Rolls-Royce to the family’s outer-borough apartment buildings to collect coins from the laundry machines. She and her husband had sent their fourth and most incorrigible child, who as a boy threw cake at kids at parties and erasers at his teachers at his private elementary school, first to Sunday morning Bible classes, like his siblings—and then, unlike his siblings, to a stringent military academy an hour and a half upstate shortly after he turned 13. Now, in the twilight of her life, beset with debilitating bone loss, she was being sucked into his tawdry, nonstop soap opera, rendered a bit player in a media frenzy, captured by paparazzi while sitting in the rear of her chauffeured car, looking steely and peeved.

That year, according to Vanity Fair, Mary Trump asked Ivana Trump, her soon-to-be-ex-daughter-in-law, a pointed question. “What kind of son have I created?”

throwing cake and erasers

There will be courses in universities about this asshole for the next hundred years, assuming universities still exist.

Some people just turn out fuckin' wrong. Inexorably-broken and irredeemable because they see nothing problematic about their brokenness. Nothing but a sour and twisted mockery of humanity. You just hope people like that never get their hands on actual power, y'know?

they never understand their failure to love another is not the other’s failure

Some people just turn out fuckin' wrong. Inexorably-broken and irredeemable because they see nothing problematic about their brokenness. Nothing but a sour and twisted mockery of humanity. You just hope people like that never get their hands on actual power, y'know?

what is wrong with a nation that, even through the quirks of the electoral college, sees this man worthy of such power? how can so many people see this man and not be repulsed by him, not think him unworthy of even being elected dog-catcher?

because they're racist / sexist pieces of shit, and *hated* the black president and the thought of a chick in the white house even more than the sane among us are grossed out by destructive silver spoon slobs?

Imagine going all the way to Japan and eating a hamburger at a country club pic.twitter.com/thYetsb5K0

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) November 5, 2017

https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/paradise-papers-exposes-donald-trump-russia-links-and-piggy-banks-of-the-wealthiest-1-percent/

the president will blow a gasket if there's no statement of exoneration by year's end

why not? he blows a gasket pretty often. several times a week afaics.

maybe he'll finally have a stroke and die