Discussion: After A Week Of Scrutiny, Donald Trump Gives Tempered Primary Night Speech

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Women.

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Yep. You called it. I believe Trump’s head is spinning tonight after the talking to he’s received. I suspect he doesn’t know whether to shit or puke. But I think he’s beginning to realize just how out of his league he really is, and just how terrible, horrible, no good and very bad the next 5 months are going to be. I’m sure it’s sobering. But mark my words, Trump is a narcissistic bully and will be back to playing the con with bombast and sharp attacks against even the hands that feed him. It’s all he knows. One trick Tangerine pony is about to fail epically, for all the world to see. It will be an ego shattering humiliation.

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I’m counting on the TRUMP brand being worth shit when this is all over. Initially I was really surprised that he would risk his business to run, and figured his kids are concerned about their business legacy. But his narcissism won out.

Just how many of his supporters from the ā€œuneducatedā€ middle and working poor classes will be able to afford to stay at his hotels and play on his golf courses? Maybe they would have frequented NJ casinos, but those are bankrupt. Trump business is already dropping, probably because of the sane folks who don’t want anything to do with him. His supporters will not be keeping him a billionaire when this is over. Can’t wait!

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ā€œYou’ve given me the honor to lead the Republican Party this fall,ā€ Trump said. ā€œI understand the responsibility of carrying the mantle, and I will never, ever let you down.ā€

Who tele-prompted this? A doppleganger or sTumpy with an electric cattle prod up his drumpf?

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Yeah, I’ve wondered about that. Honestly, if you’d asked me this time last year what I knew of Donald Trump, it was only two things. One, I never watched the reality show, but I was aware of it’s existence. And two, we lived in Chicago when Trump Tower went up, and while it’s not my favorite building in the city, it’s not terrible looking either. That’s really about it.

As far as the Trump ā€œbrandā€ goes, I was pretty indifferent. For special occasions, my wife and I would go to dinner at nice restaurants in Chicago, and I certainly would’ve considered Sixteen (in the Trump Tower) for a nice meal. Now, you couldn’t pay me enough to eat there!

But even more than that, alienating entire ethnic groups or religious groups is never good for business. No Hispanic family is ever going to stay at a Trump hotel or gamble at a Trump casino. No Muslim is ever going to go golfing at a Trump course. And corporations that value their minority workers aren’t going to schedule events at a Trump resort. Go, figure.

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Sadly, it won’t be his ego that’s shattered. He’ll just decide which scapegoat will suffer his wrath. And with a NPD, who is identified as a scapegoat is as mercurial as the scapegoater himself.

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Precisely!

Agreed about the ā€œego shattering humiliationā€ that’s coming his way! But not sure he’s got the feedback loop that enables him to ā€œrealize just how out of his league he really isā€. Normal people like you and I realize when things aren’t working, learn from it, and decide to do things differently. I’m just not sure he’s capable. So much of what he does is an extension of his personality flaws. So all these Republicans who are calling on him to change are wasting their breath, since he’s unable to change. But even more than that, he’s unable to engage in the self-reflection that would be necessary to even know he should change.

It’s worked for him for decades in real estate, it worked for him through the GOP primary, and by golly he’ll (try to) make it work for him from now until November.

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I would argue that he has never in his life had serious challenges to his spoiled rich kid psychic construct like he’s probably had in the last few days from the ā€œwhat the FUCK are you doing?!?ā€ crowd of supporters-not-endorsers. He sure sounded like he was dragging his dick through the dirt tonight, flirting now and then with letting his normal self out for a little romp before realizing again that he just got his ass handed to him by the republican powers that be.

@peepsrepmd Remember that the narcissistic personality has at its heart a VERY fragile ego. And while therapy for such an individual typically involves careful dismantling and reconstruction of the ego to address the cognitive distortions at play, Trump’s future reckoning post humilliation may be more akin to Ibogaine therapy for a Heroin addict; brutal, savage, mind-bendingly ego shattering, but ultimately effective.

edited to add; The prognosis for the Heroin addict after Ibogaine therapy is significantly better that it is for the narcissistic personality after therapy. But a presidential campaign loss and ā€œbiggest loserā€ reframe may have, for Trump, significant, unforeseen, and potentially very positive therapeutic outcomes. Hope springs eternal.

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Schadenfreude… and it gives me a cheshire-cat grin just imagining how much it’s eating him alive! :smile_cat:

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Yeah. It’s a meme only in small-minded republican echo chambers.

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ā€œā€¦and I will never, ever let you down.ā€ Ha! Donny boy, that ship has sailed… and is sitting on the bottom.
You’ve jack-knifed the GOTP leadership into endorsing a bigoted racist mysongynist know-nothing, putting them on the track to a landslide defeat, losing the Senate to boot, and will probably leave the party in smoldering ruins… while you’ve tanked their mouthpiece Faux news in the process. No, you’ve let them all down… couldn’t happen to a more deserving crowd.

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Not only that…the world is fast collapsing around the dRumpf, evident in the ā€œwitness-protectionā€ gaze/uneasiness in Ivanka and Melania.

Even the dRumpf boys look cheap in their ā€œguidoā€ personas.

The blood trail you see comes from HRC performing gonadectomy on the dRumpf last Thursday :rage: :rage:

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Melanoma does not appear pleased.

The one where he didn’t show up? :smirk:

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In the same fashion that Mussolini was more ā€œtemperedā€ than Hitler.

Dream on…

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Me thinks Donaldo has no idea what he’s in for. The Democrats can save money, by just playing his own words; Hillary will destroy him in a debate; the GOTP cowards will abandon him in droves,the media smells blood and will be relentless, and the donors won’t fork over the billion dollars the RNC claims it needs him to raise…Yep, this is gonna be one helluva ride…and a spectacular conflagration of Drumpf, the Senate, the GOTP and Faux News! All in on election!

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Stubby dumpy lasted all of 4 hours and went to hanratty and talked about the judge…He is a slime-con…that is what they do….He has no integrity or honor and does not want to do the job but have the title…Unqualified on all levels!

HE IS BROKE TOO BOOT!

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As a Bernie supporter, Thanks for the offer, Donald. But you will be the last person I’d ever vote for.

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