Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

If you can stand reading about him, highly recommend James Poniewozik's Audience of One:
Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America.

I'd love it if he were treated equally with Lincoln

he should definitely open up a local theater

He’s been saying it for months.

The latest David Roth is very good:
https://newrepublic.com/article/157546/donald-trump-coronavirus-press-conference

In close up, on television, at a glance, with the volume down, Donald Trump can from time to time look like a president. That effect becomes less convincing the more you pay attention, though. Even under professional lighting, Trump reliably looks like a photographic negative of himself; on his worse and wetter days, he has the tone and texture of those lacquered roast ducks that hang from hooks in Chinatown restaurant windows. The passing presidentiality of the man dissipates utterly in longer shots, where Trump can be seen standing tipped oddly forward like a jowly ski jumper in midair, or mincing forward to bum-rush an expert’s inconvenient answer with an incoherent one of his own, or just making faces intended to signal that he is listening very strongly to what someone else is saying. (These slapdash performances of executive seriousness tend to have the effect, as the comedian Stewart Lee once said of James Corden, of making Trump look like “a dog listening to classical music.”) Seen from this long-shot vantage, the man at the podium is unmistakably Donald Trump—uncanny, unknowing, upset about various things that he can’t quite understand or express.

donald trump is a comedian

"his worse and wetter days" for June thread title.

love the James Corden-bashing line snuck in there

lol same

beginning to think it might not be a great idea to elect people with malfunctioning brains to public office

I don't understand anything in this tweet. Not one thing. pic.twitter.com/NN3tvrir2V

— haunted dog (@zandywithaz) May 16, 2020

Have to admit trump is so uniquely insane and stupid that he occasionally stumbles on these absolutely wonderful phrases like “bring light inside the body” and “whipped his mind”

I guess it’s like we made evil wesley willis the president

wow, deep

ashamed to admit I usually get what Trump is alluding to most of the time but yeah that one is way over my head

Dud

"Apprentice fees"?? To his mind he's replaying one of his greatest hits, but it's one that never made the charts, except in one zip code in L.A. or N.Y.

Are people marking him on the wrong scale
How does he fare as an iconoclast or nihilist.
Is he school of Pa Ubu ? Is he quite gross enough ?
Seems to work as a catalyst a lot better than as a statesman.

"We are building, right now, incredible military equipment at a level that nobody has ever seen before. We have no choice. We have to do it -- with the adversaries we have out there. We have a -- I call it the 'super-duper missile.'”

Nobody will ever know what level Trump is on. Chaotic Evil is the best we can do.

https://money.cnn.com/2015/07/16/media/lawrence-odonnell-donald-trump-salary/

This is somehow dumber than anything that happened in the intervening 4.5 years right up to Trump's tweet about it.

wow. yeah.

Trump apparently called Scarborough during one of the show's commercial breaks to issue a "bet to a certain host on MSNBC." Scarborough relayed the terms.

If Trump's salary is not certified to be correct, Scarborough said, "then he will give said host one year's salary."

"If he is telling the truth, then said host owes Donald Trump a year of his television salary," Scarborough continued.

A Trump spokesperson clarified that, under the terms of the bet, Trump would pay one year of O'Donnell's salary, not his own.

always so much fun when a rich guy makes a bet for someone else's annual salary. what a prick

man of the people, by which i mean the shoggoth

tentative hope over US vaccine tempered by thought that if said vaccine works, he will take credit for it, his Magats will gladly give him cedit for it, his terrible, psychotic handling of the pandemic will be erased and he will win reelection, and then something worse than covid comes along and we all die

I'd gladly trade unearned praise for Trump for a real vaccine

getting high on your own supply

BREAKING: President Trump says he is taking hydroxychloriquine and has been doing so for weeks. @CBSNews #Covid_19

— Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCBS) May 18, 2020

maybe this is a stealth way of admitting he has one of the normal conditions the medication is used for and the entire ploy that it could treat covid has been a long cover-up

if covid-19 becomes less of an issue, he'll just say he's continuing to take it because it's a good product. great stuff!

He's actually had malaria this whole time.

rheumatoid arthritis
his golf swing isn't actually bad, it's just those joints being all swollen

I have a preview of tomorrow's press conference, if you'll indulge me:

I WAS BEING SARCASTIC, GAWW!

Or he'll look over at Dr. Birx and it'll be like "I think you said you wanted to try some yourself...Come on up here, we'll down a shot together."

1. do you think when trump talked about injecting disinfectant, he was thinking of the -chloro- part in that drug name?
2. maybe he'll end up in a spite coma like jordan peterson

he was thinking

seems like he's very clearly laying the groundwork for starting his own network (or taking over OANN) after he loses, even more so than last cycle

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Many will disagree, but @FoxNews is doing nothing to help Republicans, and me, get re-elected on November 3rd. Sure, there are some truly GREAT people on Fox, but you also have some real “garbage” littered all over the network, people like Dummy Juan Williams, Schumerite Chris...

....Hahn, Richard Goodstein, Donna Brazile, Niel Cavuto, and many others. They repeat the worst of the Democrat speaking points, and lies. All of the good is totally nullified, and more. Net Result = BAD! CNN & MSDNC are all in for the Do Nothing Democrats! Fox WAS Great!

putting aside the whole thing where he's criticizing a major news network because they're not partisan enough

How cathartic would a televised emperor's new clothes moment be? My fantasy is for him to just start getting heckled and laughed at in one of his stupid press conferences. Enough with the serious-sounding follow-up questions to his vapid rambling. Just laugh at this idiot.

Remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4y8OJxlK8

Saw this today...imagine the Taschen coffeetable of all the manly man Trump paintings!
https://cdn10.bigcommerce.com/s-dcvfa4/products/3422/images/4867/MAGA_Ride_lwrez_3__57475.1556137662.1280.1280.jpg?c=2

this guy is actually pretty cool

would pay a *substantial* sum to watch Asshole try to mount a motorbike, let alone ride it

"unless you live in the WH" really made me want to kick him in the face

Remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4rYWc4o-eY

ok then!

The President says the founder of Ford has good bloodlines.. If you’re not familiar with Henry Ford, I would encourage you to read more about him and specifically his actions during WW2 pic.twitter.com/vniaOSR2sX

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 21, 2020

I mean that's not a mistake, right? Like...who would say such a thing unless fully aware what he's doing

you believe in that stuff? ha ha

One of those Presidents playing poker paintings but it’s Joe Kennedy, Prescott Bush, Henry Ford and Himmler.

you can get Fred Koch in there, like reaching down to pet a a dog poking its head out from under the table

dud

Is this even possible to believe? Can this be for real? Where is this nursing home, how is the victim doing?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 22, 2020

what the fuck is he talking about

This, I think: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/05/21/detroit-police-make-arrest-after-nursing-home-assault-video-surfaces/

MAGA BUTTONS PUSHED:

--Scary POC.

--Old, possibly White, People

--CAUGHT ON TAPE!

--In a state He's feuding with...

--...That has a Female Democrat Governor

MAGA OUTRAGE BINGO!

"is this even possible to believe" asked the president of the united states, at the start of the greatest pandemic seen in america in multiple generations, regarding a felony assault
"yes" answered everyone