Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Just clips of him shovelling McDonald’s into his face.

It occurs to me that I've seen tons of photos of him posing with food but I've never actually seen a picture or video of him eating.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-i-love-hispanics-taco-bowl-cinco-de-mayo/

i guess he was just posing in that one, too. you're looking for a food eating action shot?

there was a video of him eating pizza with a knife and fork next to Sarah Palin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MEMOhoWBGE

you really want to see this?

https://maysimpkin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Donald-Trump-890653.jpg

In a video set to be released on Friday, Trump will call for a “quantum leap” in the American standard of living.

Trump’s plan, shared in advance with POLITICO, calls for holding a contest to design and create up to ten new “Freedom Cities,” built from the ground up on federal land. It proposes an investment in the development of vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles; the creation of “hives of industry” sparked by cutting off imports from China; and a population surge sparked by “baby bonuses” to encourage would-be-parents to get on with procreation. It is all, his team says, part of a larger nationwide beautification campaign meant to inspire forward-looking visions of America’s future.

"baby bonuses"? that sounds pretty national socialist

Great idea, but I've got a better idea. Trump and all his family and friends can buy an island somewhere, declare it tax-free/regulation-free/woke-free, then spend the rest of their days developing flying cars.

https://media.wired.com/photos/593252a2a31264584499416b/master/w_1600,c_limit/the-homer-inline2.jpg

Future Freedom Cities, filled with As Seen On TV appliances from the Trump brand? Did he get this from Ron Popeil?

”baby bonuses"? that sounds pretty national socialist

ha that plan rules tbf when did we forget how to dream

he even knows a certain real estate developer who might be able to make them a reality

He should also make Mexico pay for the Freedom Cities and flying cars

i was actually thinking of elon musk and how he make sure that people talk about him for the next 2 years

im gonna need big vision plans from all candidates going forward

Trump and all his family and friends can buy an island somewhere

is Greenland still for sale?

i want a food truck that is just for me, stocked with my favorite fusion dishes. and i want the proceeds of the truck to go to america

ILXors need to enter this design competition and make New Morbsville a reality

i want a food truck that is just for me, stocked with my favorite fusion dishes. and i want the proceeds of the truck to go to america

"All You Can USA"

Anyway, Trump's got my vote.

These big dreams of his were obviously poured into his ear by conservative think tanks who are workshopping ways to reverse demographic trends while preparing for the next civil war (“we will need our *own* cities and plentiful child labor when we secede!”)

We are an hour into Trump's CPAC speech and it has been all grievances about his legal problems, potshots at Biden, and alternative history about how awesome his term was. There has barely been a hint of an actual 2024 campaign agenda.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 4, 2023

what aaron ruper doesn't know is that he's about to launch his Freedom Cities idea. just wait til they hear about the vehicles that launch vertically, and how much time and money that will save

Fox host visits Florida diner asking who they prefer for 2024, presumably to showcase DeSantis' support, but every single person says Trump. Host then beelines to a lady wearing a DESANTIS shirt but even she says Trump or DeSantis lolpic.twitter.com/kxbUxKhicc

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) March 3, 2023

Trump’s plan, shared in advance with POLITICO, calls for holding a contest to design and create up to ten new “Freedom Cities,” built from the ground up on federal land. It proposes an investment in the development of vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles; the creation of “hives of industry” ...

Is this not just the plot of Brave New World?

thinkin' about those SOMA beans

reading the trump leaves

Trump's CPAC speech is worth paying attention to. It laid out his strategy for winning the GOP nomination (hitting DeSantis on social security & medicare) and the White House (hitting Biden on foreign policy). https://t.co/8LcH3CBTSh

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 6, 2023

oh cool Beltway press gonna treat him like a normal ghoul like it's 2015 again

i dont think thats what jeet is doing heer fwiw

I ordinarily don't have a problem with him

I have to think it's not a great sign that Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate for 2024, is signaling constantly to a fascist death cult devoted to the idea that he should be a dictator. https://t.co/Dqa7WBeboj

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) March 6, 2023

Aanyone here in the year of our lord 2023 who isn't well aware that becoming a dictator for life is Trump's biggest dream...

it's worthwhile to understand his strategy in order to plan how to beat it

I feel like have studied history a decent amount. I am not aware of anyone who was so driven by ego to become a fascist dictator, while being comically lazy at the same time.

Seriously, yr Caesar/Napoleon/Hitler/Stalin/Mussolini type doodz were fanatical egomaniacs, sure, but they put in the WORK, yo. They brought attention to detail. They looked at maps and org charts and such.

Trump just wants his name on stuff. Low energy. Sad.

Thing is, he doesn't have a "strategy" beyond just yelling his cultists' grievances back at them.

Eh, Mussolini was pretty lazy.

That's a dangerous assumption to make, hitting the competition on SS and Medicare is a fairly smart direction to go. It will be more difficult for him to paint himself as the moderate option as he did in 2016, but this kind of stuff pushes in that direction.

xp

Moodles, he has lucked into good lines of attack but there aren't principles behind it - it's all in the service of ego.

Mostly though he is a human feedback loop for MAGApplause. Doesn't matter what he says or whether he believes it or can even articulate it correctly, it's just "how do I get these chuds to cheer me and wear my stupid hats?" Like, embracing diversity would be a real position. Trump can only manage to tweet that he loves taco bowls. Acknowledging that non-college-educated voters are real people with real concerns would be an actual position; the best he can do is the garbled "I love the poorly educated."

Everything is filtered through the lens of whether it glorifies his name or doesn't. Everything that works gets repeated; anything that doesn't work gets rapidly abandoned. There is no secret sauce other than that. It is a remarkably simple formula, and it slightly depresses me that it has worked this well for this long.

lol remember when he praised the vaccine in fall '21 -- the only good thing to emerge from his wretched term -- but stopped when the crowd booed? Now he's attacking DeSantis for not opening the state early enough.

I agree that there are no principles behind it, but principles and strategy are two different things. He clearly doesn't have any strong beliefs or moral center, but he is running an actual campaign and trying to win.

giving people what they want aka populism is a powerful political art, particularly when contrasted with politicians who are more concerned with giving corporations what they want

or at least telling people what they want to hear, the actual giving is a little trickier

and doesn’t matter, since his base don’t care or find excuses for his total failure to deliver on the wall, health care, infrastructure, etc etc etc

he seemed so sad when he got booed for the vaccine, he was so proud of it initially I think he was convinced that he had actually done the research himself

lol yeah it was kinda like a snake oil salesman who stumbled on a snake oil that actually worked.

gotta admit, after about two years of not being worried about trump winning in 2024, i am now a little worried about trump winning in 2024.

after getting a long hard look at DeSantis yeah I think he is probably gonna be the nominee again

I'm less worried about Trump winning than DeSantis, but Ye Olde Fossil will beat Trump in November. Trump ain't wooing back voters he lost in those '20 swing states.

will be interesting to see just how senile they can both get

Poll time?

but Ye Olde Fossil will beat Trump in November

if things stay the same. there's a decent possibility biden has some sort of health scare in the next 18 months. i don't think that would increase trump's vote, but it might suppress biden's. enthusiasm for harris in the 2020 primaries was even less than it was for biden

Yes he did pic.twitter.com/neN3aV4tii

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 6, 2023