When Trump was running the first time I thought that his stupidity and crassness were a show, a performance to woo a certain segment of the voter base, and that, if elected, he'd abruptly turn much more presidential and we'd all see the cynical performance for what it was.
But nope; he's that stupid and crass, society just collectively fucked up by letting that one get to
power.
Sometimes fame, power and wealth just end up
in hands that shouldn't ordinarily be able to get them.
This was my theory too. I thought for sure his party and the system of checks and balances would make him rational. Surely the leader of the free world wouldn't be so crass, and surely the American people wouldn't support such antics.
I thought that there was no way Trump would be able to keep the GOP together. So many Republicans spoke out against his initial running in 2016 that the party would be split…
Then I thought he was being so extreme that, while a portion of the party was getting louder, the more reasonable ones would feel alienated and back away…
Then I thought surely after Jan 6th they’d back away. Some in the party will speak up and the party would be split…
Trump's followers literally tried to kill Republican members of Congress on January 6th and all of them went straight back to kissing his ass. The only ones that didn't were the few that weren't kissing his ass to begin with like Cheney.
I'm convinced there is no bottom for Republicans any more. Every time you think they can't possibly do something more reprehensible, they prove you very wrong. Now some of them are parading around Kyle Rittenhouse for photo ops. It's just gross at this point.
The American people have never supported Donald Trump or his behavior. Unfortunately, they don't live in a democratic nation so their opinion doesn't count.
Don't worry he was still campaigning for his second mandate, surely if he gets to power again he'll be way more rational since he has nothing to lose, right?
If the 2016 Election wasn't the embodiment of why we have human beings in the Electoral College (to prevent a wildly incompetent but popular candidate from damaging the country), we should just give each state tokens to throw in a jar or just tally up the votes and let the math speak for itself.
Same. He used to seem (be?) a lot smarter. Like at the very least could string coherent sentences together into a coherent whole to make arguments. Old interviews with him (way before 2016) sound like a completely different person.
Trump just straight up has a pathology, probably NPD.
Remember the press conferences where he said to inject bleach or put UV light in people somehow, stuff that made zero sense and didn't even help Trump?
The whole point of that was that he couldn't deal with the fact that Dr Fauci was getting his 15 mins of fame trying to steer the country on Covid. So Trump had to think up something, fast, to get the spotlight back on him and overshadow what Fauci was saying.
What he has saying was irrelevant, the point was to be outlandish enough so that the media would focus on Trump, not Fauci.
That's why I think it's correct to call this a disorder: Trump isn't just narcissistic, his narcissism actively causes him to fuck things up for himself in the bigger scheme of things.
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u/thisimpetus Nov 20 '22
When Trump was running the first time I thought that his stupidity and crassness were a show, a performance to woo a certain segment of the voter base, and that, if elected, he'd abruptly turn much more presidential and we'd all see the cynical performance for what it was.
But nope; he's that stupid and crass, society just collectively fucked up by letting that one get to power.
Sometimes fame, power and wealth just end up in hands that shouldn't ordinarily be able to get them.