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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 07:32 AM Sep 2018

Right now in New Zealand its September 11th...The world is watching in dismay....and they see it....




Donald Trump’s bizarre quotes about 9/11 before becoming president

On the day of the 9/11 attacks, Donald Trump claimed that the destruction of the World Trade Center meant that one of his buildings was now the tallest in lower Manhattan. His bragging was not only tasteless, it was untrue.

Despite claiming he knew hundreds of victims of the attack, Trump never named or expressed condolences for any of them. However, years later, Trump did tweet, “I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th.”

It may be a special date, but Trump has bragged he has since gotten better ratings than any of the broadcasts about the tragedy that day.

And, in the aftermath of the 2001 terror attack, Trump made not a single charitable donation that can be verified to any of the not-for-profit groups that provided aid to survivors, rescue workers, or the families of cops and firemen who died trying to save others, However, Trump did take $150,000 in federal aid for economic damages from a disaster that occured one mile away from any of his buildings.

Read more:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-bizarre-quotes-911-attacks-tallest-building-higher-ratings-muslims-cheering-george-w-a8530571.html





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Right now in New Zealand its September 11th...The world is watching in dismay....and they see it.... (Original Post) kpete Sep 2018 OP
Powerful malaise Sep 2018 #1
Two things: madaboutharry Sep 2018 #2
No. 2 PJMcK Sep 2018 #3
Political Voyeurism Xipe Totec Sep 2018 #5
Good take. Failures seeing themselves as successful pangaia Sep 2018 #13
If Trump hadn't inherited $300 million from his father Fortinbras Armstrong Sep 2018 #15
Used cars.... SergeStorms Sep 2018 #17
The power of reality TV jayschool2013 Sep 2018 #9
Yep. The 'Duck Dynasty' crowd... SergeStorms Sep 2018 #14
"His bragging was not only tasteless, it was untrue." jcgoldie Sep 2018 #4
It is simply beyond intelligent belief... Guilded Lilly Sep 2018 #6
Every morning as I read the news Buckeyeblue Sep 2018 #7
The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief doesn't get IT Achilleaze Sep 2018 #8
A poor excuse for a GWC58 Sep 2018 #10
Textbook example of malignant narcissism.. Permanut Sep 2018 #11
America First! IronLionZion Sep 2018 #12
Meanwhile in Santiago, Chile central scrutinizer Sep 2018 #16

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
2. Two things:
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 07:39 AM
Sep 2018

1. The graphic in The New Zealand Herald is brilliant.

2. The phone interview with Donald Trump is just another example of how Donald J. Trump is the center of his own universe, suffers from unbounded narcissism, and is a shallow and sick man who is incapable of empathy.

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)
3. No. 2
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 07:47 AM
Sep 2018

Yet tens of millions of Americans-- who consider themselves "patriots"-- voted for and support this egotistical and stupid man.

Baffling.

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)
5. Political Voyeurism
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 08:05 AM
Sep 2018

They get their rocks off by watching Trump and fantasizing about doing it themselves.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
13. Good take. Failures seeing themselves as successful
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 10:15 AM
Sep 2018

in another failure whom they know they falsely see as successful but hate themselves so much it doesn't matter.
it just feels good and is another way of hiding from their own useless lives.

In fact the really are NOT even alive. They are shadows seeing shadows on the walls of a deep, dark cave.

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)
15. If Trump hadn't inherited $300 million from his father
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 10:37 AM
Sep 2018

He'd be another of those failures. I suspect a salesman.

SergeStorms

(19,201 posts)
17. Used cars....
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 08:31 PM
Sep 2018

without a doubt. You must have a complete lack of ethics to sell used cars. I tried it briefly in the mid-70s. I didn't have the "killer instinct" needed to be successful at it.

jayschool2013

(2,312 posts)
9. The power of reality TV
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 08:51 AM
Sep 2018

and its ability to make even the most reprehensible characters seem normal, even laudable.

SergeStorms

(19,201 posts)
14. Yep. The 'Duck Dynasty' crowd...
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 10:17 AM
Sep 2018

flocked to Don-the-Con like flies to a fresh dog turd. Honey-Boo-Boo had run it's course, Duck Dynasty ended shortly after his inauguration, and the mouth breathing, slack-jawed, booger eating morons had to latch onto something quick, so they started a new cult; one that worships, insensitivity, hatred, braggadocio, and anti-intellectualism. In Donald Trump they found their patron saint.

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
4. "His bragging was not only tasteless, it was untrue."
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 08:02 AM
Sep 2018

...pretty much sums up the orange douchebag in a nutshell.

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
6. It is simply beyond intelligent belief...
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 08:28 AM
Sep 2018

that the United States has, sitting in the Oval Office, this stain on humanity.

Trying to wrap one’s head around this hideous reality is enough to make any decent person’s brain implode.

Our souls may be seriously wounded for our lifetimes and though so many of us hang on and resist/revolt/refuse defiantly for the saving of our next generation of souls to come, the ache can be momentarily debilitating.

The only expectations about this wretched man’s behavior today were already scraping the bottom of the human barrel. He lives down to these expectations with every breath he takes.

Let us clutch the real heroes and heroines in our hearts and memories today.

Buckeyeblue

(5,499 posts)
7. Every morning as I read the news
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 08:35 AM
Sep 2018

I think things cannot get any stranger, but yet it seems everyday is stranger than the day before.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
8. The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief doesn't get IT
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 08:38 AM
Sep 2018

at all. What a poor excuse for a leader the republicans and russians have inflicted upon America. A poor excuse indeed.

Permanut

(5,609 posts)
11. Textbook example of malignant narcissism..
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 09:22 AM
Sep 2018

Mango Mussolini should appear in future psychology textbooks. His contribution to history.

central scrutinizer

(11,649 posts)
16. Meanwhile in Santiago, Chile
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 08:24 PM
Sep 2018

Big march on 9 septiembre (domingo) through the city center to the grave of Salvador Allende who was murdered on 11 septiembre 1973 by the CIA backed coup of Pinochet.

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