Discussion for article #247316
This is not going to end well.
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Mussolini reincarnated. Drop the suit, Trump, and design a gaudy uniform.
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He´s a fucking dangerous monster. Sanders´ campaign had nothing to do with the Chicago protests, even if there were Sanders´ supporters in the crowd. I´d like to say that Trump knows better, but after his campaign ¨found evidence¨ that the Ohio fence jumper was ¨an ISIS member¨, I´m starting to believe that he might be delusional.
That he should be good at.
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Drumpf = inequality, bigotry, racism, lies, and con jobs.
Drumpf talks and acts like a Fascist central authoritarian dictator. He is unfit to lead this country and people are finally realizing that.
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http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/burns.htm
How convenient for Herr Trump that Senator Sanders is a leftist Jew.
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It was wrong of me to enjoy the Crazy Trump ride for as long as I have.
Now I’m worried that it is too late to stop the ride and get off.
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I think he IS delusional. We all saw how scared he was in Dayton. No way was that fake. I think he can see the wheels coming off of this, but having spent his entire life as a cheap bully and a completely insulated trust-fund brat, he just doesn’t have the competence to get it under control. More threats are genuinely the only tools he has in the bag. I think the stress of this is driving him into paranoia.
If his kids want to inherit anything, they’d better have a word with him, because he is driving his whole empire off a cliff.
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Horrifying. I watched the live feed of his KC rally yesterday and it certainly seemed like he was suggesting that, tho he has such a roundabout way of speaking he can always deny it. Well, he’d deny it anyway, wouldn’t he?
He said the protesters were Bernie’s people and they were bad, bad people who were bringing our country down, but his own people would never get away with that at a Sanders rally. Overall it was very clear that he was inciting violence.
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According to the NYT, much of the driving animus behind Trump’s run is his humiliation from Obama’s jokes at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
It’s more than a little frightening to have a man so transparently thin-skinned, so willing to lash out at any perceived slight dealing with foreign leaders, not to mention in charge of our nuclear arsenal. He is, imo, unqualified from an emotional/mental aspect to be President. Donald Trump as President will not end well for the USA.
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It is far too late for sure. Just ask the republican party
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He’s trying to draw out Sanders’ supporters. It’s fascinating he wants to pin this on Sanders, not Hillary (esp. as Hillary is the candidate with more minority support). I think it’s because Trump knows that Sanders will be easier to defeat in the general. That’s because Bernie has not yet endured the kind of sustained attacks–he’s a friend to Castro, honeymooned in Moscow–that the right-wing attack machine (and Trump in particular) will be expert at delivering, while Hillary’s unfavorables are already baked in. By turning this into a Donald v. Bernie contest, Trumps ensures Sanders supporters will turn out in force on Tuesday, which in turn hurts Hillary. For those who want to argue that Sanders is stronger in the general, I’m sorry–I just don’t buy it, for all the reasons already expressed on these boards ad nauseam. What interests me here is why Trump would want to insist that the protesters are Sanders supporters, not Hillary supporters, esp. as Hillary is the one widely associated with broader African-American support. If anything, Trump should be trying to appeal to Bernie supporters (if there’s the supposed crossover that many on these boards claim), not alienate them. He’s not doing that here…
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If his kids want to inherit anything, they’d better have a word with him, because he is driving his whole empire off a cliff.
I totally agree with you on that. I think what may have started out as an ego driven lark has now morphed into something REALLY ugly and out of control. He’s now strongly implying that he has some kind of “army” he can sic on his enemies on his command. As we’ve all been saying, really out of control.
There’s no way we’re going to have a Pres. Rump and whatever he can salvage out of his "career’ will be minimal.
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I thought that part of the Times article was a bit silly. It’s Obama’s fault? Really rampant silliness.
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I have maintained this from day one. I am no pyschic, but when he started this I reminded some friends that I said Trump is the kind of guy that will try to get back at Obama some way. I had read that after that dinner, Trump was fuming and very embarrassed.
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That’s what I was thinking as well. It’s pretty much accepted as a given that the term “thug” implies Black people, of which, are more soundly in Clinton’s camp.
I don´t think so. There were protesters chanting ¨Bernie! Bernie!¨ right after it was announced that the event had been cancelled, so I think that´s the more logical explanation for Trump´s charge than some well-thought out election strategy.
Let me just add: I am a student at UIC. The school is very diverse, and trust me, the majority of the kids - I´m much older - are Sanders supporters, black, white, brown or Asian. Don´t let the Mississippi primary results inform your image of allegiances here.
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I don’t think this is any kind of strategy coming from Trump. That is 3rd or 4th dimensional chess, and the Donald is still getting out his checkers.
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Twofer going on here: Trump is helping his own campaign and helping Sanders’s campaign at the same time.
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The reason why he´s singling out Sanders is that there were protesters chanting ¨Bernie! Bernie!¨ right after it was announced that the event had been cancelled. I think that´s the more logical explanation for Trump´s charge than some well-thought out election strategy. There were a lot of minorities there, but they were younger and urban, and they were more likely to be Sanders supporters than not.
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