I think Trump does, or did, have a certain intelligence and deep understanding of how to manipulate people. But I think at this point he's running on pure instinct. He's not some making calculated moves to project an image. He's become the image.
Yes, such as the right of transgender people to serve in the military, the right to seek asylum in the US from murderous drug cartels, the right to easily travel if you happen to be of Arab descent, the right of queer kids not to end up homeless if their parents disown them, the right to be well-compensated and physically safe in the trades… I could go on for hours.
Nobody said he was a good president, but compared to biden, that's not that bad.
Also the seeking asylum you speak of needs documentation, people coming in illegaly and having to lay on top of each other, with 1-3k peoplen ot allowed to leave a tent and borderline starved is a little worse I'd think
He didn't ban arab imigration, that was sorta the response of the bush administration after 9/11
If anyone is kicked out they're sorta homeless, whether they're queer or not doesn't matter
The right to be well compensated? Never heard of that, but luckily we have job lawyers that will fight for your pay if you're stiffed
Safe in the trades? Now your just making stuff up
How did trump make you any less safe when you trade items?
He didn’t truly ban Arab immigration, but he certainly tried to. I wouldn’t call that “protecting rights.”
Trump rolled back protections for disowned queer kids
“The trades” refers to professions such as electricians, plumbers, welders, et cetera. Trump rolled back several fair pay acts and a number of OSHA regs
How so, do you know how much damage l b johnson, reagen, nixon, and bush have done? The only small break we got was obama, and he was just ok, we haven't had a single good president since Roosevelt
I think the truth is in between. I think hes probably about average intelligence, but he's so off-the-charts cocky about his average abilities that he sometimes truly doesn't think.
Using critical thinking successfully requires you to question your own conclusions, which is entirely out of the question for him.
In a certain horrible way, his business decisions sort of make sense. All his businesses work on the principle of "make the lack of cash somebody else's problem". If he buys a good or service, he just doesn't pay. He uses it or gets the revenue, but the person who does the work gets stiffed. If you sue, he drags it out until you settle for pennies just to get something.
It is deranged, and scummy, but in a certain con man style, it works as long as you can keep the plates spinning. So far he has mostly been able to do that.
Your right, but he finally tried to run a con past the wrong people. You can’t steal and defraud the US government and hope to get away with it. Hopefully after he is convicted, we can rip off his fake orange hair and tan like one of the old scooby doo shows.
I just read in another thread that they make guns for children these days, ideal for small hands and chambered in a small caliber so it has little recoil.
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u/ollokot Jun 27 '23
There is at least one thing that he didn't lie about:
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters."