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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts) Mon Jun 17, 2019, 03:59 PM Jun 2019

What Trump is good at

By Michael D'Antonio
Updated 12:52 PM ET, Mon June 17, 2019

... it's that it's never safe to assume that anything with Trump is simple and straightforward. His main talent involves ignoring facts, shaping a marketing message, and making sure he and his team stick to it.

Trump is a propagandist ...

... Trump demands that those who serve as his chorus loyally repeat his claims and refuse to contradict him ... So .. aides repeat the fiction that Trump was fully exonerated by special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the 2016 election even though the opposite is true ...

No presidential candidate in memory practiced incitement and demagoguery in the dangerous way that Trump used them in 2016. As he called for his crowd to meet protesters with violence and suggested his opponent be imprisoned, Trump alienated the majority of voters, who gave Hillary Clinton a substantial popular vote win. However, he cultivated just enough support in key states to win the Electoral College ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/opinions/what-trump-is-good-at-dantonio/index.html

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What Trump is good at (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2019 OP

I agree that Trump is a propagandist, but not that he actually won anything. Claritie Pixie Jun 2019 #1

That seems more and more likely struggle4progress Jun 2019 #2

Trump is a fascist pimp, he is good at manipulating others. Thomas Hurt Jun 2019 #3

Besides lying he is very good at.... elfin Jun 2019 #4

These stories are long overdue, but it's good that they're being filed at last gratuitous Jun 2019 #5

What t rump is good at...ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!!!n/t asiliveandbreathe Jun 2019 #6

Claritie Pixie

(2,199 posts)

1. I agree that Trump is a propagandist, but not that he actually won anything.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2019, 04:05 PM

Jun 2019

I believe the 2016 election was rigged so that *just enough* votes in strategic states he was never projected to win (not even close), giving him more electoral votes than Hillary.

Why do I think this? Because Trump is a propagandist whose projection is pathological. When he says the election was rigged against him even though he won - it's a tell. He didn't win and he knows it.

He also knows there's no way he can win in 2020 without rigging in his favor again.

Trump is a loser, always has been, always will be, and he knows it.

struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)

2. That seems more and more likely

Reply to Claritie Pixie (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 17, 2019, 04:07 PM

Jun 2019

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)

3. Trump is a fascist pimp, he is good at manipulating others.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2019, 04:08 PM

Jun 2019

elfin

(6,262 posts)

4. Besides lying he is very good at....

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2019, 04:28 PM

Jun 2019

hair spray. According to a list of his "must haves" when he is traveling is Tresseme #2 firm hold hair spray. It takes a lot of research to settle in on one brand for problem hair. I know about troublesome hair. So that means he is an expert. Right?

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

5. These stories are long overdue, but it's good that they're being filed at last

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2019, 04:44 PM

Jun 2019

I just wish they'd lay off the tone that says, "Hey, look at this brand new thing we just discovered about Trump! Can you believe it?!"

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)

6. What t rump is good at...ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!!!n/t

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2019, 04:56 PM

Jun 2019

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