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NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 02:27 AM Jun 2020

He's Scared Shitless

Today’s little spectacle was meant to convey a sense of power and might. But it wasn’t about protection of the nation; it was about his own personal protection

This isn’t just about political survival and re-election here. This is about a man fearing for his own physical safety.

We know Trump is a coward – shit, he can’t even handle tough questions from female reporters without running away. We also know that due to continual drug abuse coupled with obvious mental instability, he is extremely paranoid.

He has not listened to the protestors, but he has heard them. He has heard the sound of their anger, much of which is directed at him. The cries of adoration he has been deprived of since his rallies were shut down have been replaced by the shouts of those who despise him, and hold him responsible for everything he has refused to take responsibility for.

He is now living with the fear of a sniper taking him out from afar. He wonders who among his SS detail would simply look the other way if he were in imminent danger. He suspects everyone around him of being part of that “deep state conspiracy” that he invented in his own mind.

Donald Trump is scared shitless. He really doesn’t care if the country believes he has the military might to bring about law and order – he just needs his perceived enemies to believe that given his pOTUS status, he can get to them before they get to him.

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He's Scared Shitless (Original Post) NanceGreggs Jun 2020 OP
Hell, I'm surprised one of his SS detail hasn't capped his fat ass yet... Wounded Bear Jun 2020 #1
No rockfordfile Jun 2020 #2
He knows the Putin cartel can get to him under any and all circumstances. NBachers Jun 2020 #3
Well, yeah, which is why he's agitating to get Puitin back into Warpy Jun 2020 #10
unilaterally having Putin may make the summit the G2. n/t SleeplessinSoCal Jun 2020 #11
Then they could change it to the L2. The 2 Looting Dictators. Captain Zero Jun 2020 #21
"an ally of peaceful protesters" Lock him up. Jun 2020 #4
I've said similar to others today. And, the thing is, his fear transcends his term in office. herding cats Jun 2020 #5
No, he's not. He's just getting warmed up in my opinion. Worse is coming. BamaRefugee Jun 2020 #6
The states run the election. roamer65 Jun 2020 #8
Yes, and republican controled legislatures can decide to NOT hold the election in that state, not_the_one Jun 2020 #39
Yes, you are right. roamer65 Jun 2020 #40
But they can intimidate mail carriers wnylib Jun 2020 #42
With any luck he will just die. mwb970 Jun 2020 #12
In the immortal words of Prostetnic Vogo Jeltz - 'Death's too good for (him)them!' GoneOffShore Jun 2020 #17
He CANNOT shut down the election. volstork Jun 2020 #29
10,000th DU post that he can't do something. Then he does. "STILL HE PERSISTS". BamaRefugee Jun 2020 #30
You've got THAT right! MyOwnPeace Jun 2020 #32
The really ironic thing is how many times you see posted on DU "Insanity is doing the same thing BamaRefugee Jun 2020 #33
OK, but you've gotta' admit...... MyOwnPeace Jun 2020 #35
Absolutely. But i just wish for every 1000 posts like that , SOMEBODY, a lawyer, a Congressperson, a BamaRefugee Jun 2020 #36
And THAT shows the failure of Congress MyOwnPeace Jun 2020 #37
He was on the phone with Putin today BigmanPigman Jun 2020 #7
Putin is also laughing his ass off over all this. herding cats Jun 2020 #13
Maybe Putin told Cowardly Don what must be done to avoid calling in the loans. Hermit-The-Prog Jun 2020 #18
Yes. I think the addition of DOMINATE in his vocabulary was Putin's pep talk to him. Captain Zero Jun 2020 #23
Not just supporting him, but advising him. wnylib Jun 2020 #43
K&R smirkymonkey Jun 2020 #9
I have doubts about whether he wnylib Jun 2020 #44
Bunker Boy Lady_Chat Jun 2020 #14
He claimed to be "an ally of peaceful protesters" while... Lock him up. Jun 2020 #16
The military can't follow any of his illegal orders. Duppers Jun 2020 #15
trump is a very small man Gothmog Jun 2020 #19
Seen on FB--Why did the chicken cross the road? Maeve Jun 2020 #20
+1 dalton99a Jun 2020 #22
Love it! geardaddy Jun 2020 #28
-+ 1000 wnylib Jun 2020 #45
Yes he is scared and cornered. Roc2020 Jun 2020 #24
Yes, a scared and weak coward hiding behind the Bible KSNY Jun 2020 #25
No he will always have plenty of shit no matter how scared he gets. yellowcanine Jun 2020 #26
Absolutely homegirl Jun 2020 #27
He's the venomous cobra The Wizard Jun 2020 #31
Yes, Trumps fight-flight response has been triggered BIGLY. ananda Jun 2020 #34
I couldn't agree more pandr32 Jun 2020 #38
Not a good look. Aussie105 Jun 2020 #41
GOOD! nt Hotler Jun 2020 #46

Wounded Bear

(58,656 posts)
1. Hell, I'm surprised one of his SS detail hasn't capped his fat ass yet...
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 02:29 AM
Jun 2020

I couldn't do that job, not for Trump.

Warpy

(111,261 posts)
10. Well, yeah, which is why he's agitating to get Puitin back into
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 03:13 AM
Jun 2020

the economic summit, make it a G-8 again. Putin would like that and Dummy would be safe.

What he's really terrified about is all those people massing in Lafayette Park and other places in the city. He can't control them. He can't bullshit them. He can't bully them. None of his usual tricks are working.

So he's doing the schoolyard bully's trick of running to teacher to tattle. He's trying to hide behind the US military, who don't seem to be having any of it, not yet.

(I'd just like to know which dumbass handed him that bible. It didn't fool anybody, not even the fools.)

Captain Zero

(6,806 posts)
21. Then they could change it to the L2. The 2 Looting Dictators.
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 09:15 AM
Jun 2020

I hope nobody else fucking comes to it. Let 'em sit with the June Bugs at Camp David,
Of course Putin will bring a cadre of KGB to steal all the info in and about the place that they can.

Lock him up.

(6,929 posts)
4. "an ally of peaceful protesters"
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 02:57 AM
Jun 2020

Few minutes later, the peaceful protesters the doped maggot was just lying about being an ally of, got gassed and shot rubber bullets at without warning, in order for Coronaorange the 1st to use the Presidents Church to make a clown of himself while holding a Bible he doesn't know how to read as a prop for a Reality-TV photo-op declaring himself a dicktweetertot!!

Peaceful protesters don't need enemies, I guess...

herding cats

(19,564 posts)
5. I've said similar to others today. And, the thing is, his fear transcends his term in office.
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 03:01 AM
Jun 2020

He's seen the anger rising up, and the international reaction to his weakness. He reacted today like a bully who'd been confronted by a victim and panicked in an attempt to pull his faux visage back over him like a cloak. It was a sign of weakness and he looked scared and cornered.

BamaRefugee

(3,483 posts)
6. No, he's not. He's just getting warmed up in my opinion. Worse is coming.
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 03:06 AM
Jun 2020

All of this is the rehearsal for how he shuts down the election and stays in power.
And we’ll wring our hands and create snarky memes and cutting tweets, and demand lawful orderly life to return, but we’ve been doing that for three and a half years and he just keeps getting more heinous, and unchecked and emboldened.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
8. The states run the election.
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 03:10 AM
Jun 2020

I don’t foresee shutting it down, but I smell violence at the polls.

That is why they are fighting vote by mail schemes tooth and nail. You can’t intimidate and suppress the vote when there are no people there to do it.

 

not_the_one

(2,227 posts)
39. Yes, and republican controled legislatures can decide to NOT hold the election in that state,
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 12:08 AM
Jun 2020

in SUPPORT of the turd.

Don't think they can't, or wouldn't. They have essentially changed all the rules, doing as they please because no one will stop them.

wnylib

(21,466 posts)
42. But they can intimidate mail carriers
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 09:32 AM
Jun 2020

and attack them or steal mail. Vandalism at post offices or at postal boxes is also a possibility.

volstork

(5,401 posts)
29. He CANNOT shut down the election.
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 05:43 PM
Jun 2020

The states administer the election process. At any rate, his term ends on January 20, 2021 no matter what.

BamaRefugee

(3,483 posts)
30. 10,000th DU post that he can't do something. Then he does. "STILL HE PERSISTS".
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 05:48 PM
Jun 2020

I'm not happy about it, trust me, but remember the heady days on DU when we all posted "WE'VE GOT HIM NOW!".

Wait, that was 3.5 years worth of days that we posted those.

He's the Energizer Bunny from Hell.

MyOwnPeace

(16,926 posts)
32. You've got THAT right!
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 06:03 PM
Jun 2020

SO many times we've posted:

We've got him now!

THIS is the straw that'll break the camel's back!

He'll NEVER get out of this!

Mueller Ain't Going Away!


I'm now counting on the November election. Anything that kicks his FAT a$$ out before that is just a bonus!!!!

BamaRefugee

(3,483 posts)
33. The really ironic thing is how many times you see posted on DU "Insanity is doing the same thing
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 06:10 PM
Jun 2020

over and over again and expecting different results”

But we all post "HE MUST BE STOPPED" over and over and over, so.....WE ARE F*CKING NUTS, if we're honest.

BamaRefugee

(3,483 posts)
36. Absolutely. But i just wish for every 1000 posts like that , SOMEBODY, a lawyer, a Congressperson, a
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 06:35 PM
Jun 2020

pundit, ANYBODY, would post the actual concrete steps to do something about that will actually stop him in his tracks.

Never seen it.

MyOwnPeace

(16,926 posts)
37. And THAT shows the failure of Congress
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 06:48 PM
Jun 2020

to do what they should be doing to maintain the "balance of power" as was designed in the Constitution. Try as Speaker Pelosi has, Moscow Mitch has all of the power in his slimy, bony hands (he SHOULD have been found guilty at the hearings).
The only thing that anyone can figure for the Congressional "roll over and die" act is the somehow BunkerBoy has some powerful pictures from years past!

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)
7. He was on the phone with Putin today
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 03:07 AM
Jun 2020

before he told the governors to get tough. Putin IS supporting him throughout this...never forget that.

herding cats

(19,564 posts)
13. Putin is also laughing his ass off over all this.
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 03:38 AM
Jun 2020

While I don't disagree he'd gleefully love to see a second term of Trump. I also think he's perfectly happy with where things are right this moment even if Trump loses. No matter what, he's won the day and history will show such. His legacy is set, and he knows this already.

Remember: Putin isn't Trump's friend, and if he sees him imploding he'll definitely lead him astray to the worst possible detriment of the US before his toy is lost to him.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,346 posts)
18. Maybe Putin told Cowardly Don what must be done to avoid calling in the loans.
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 07:06 AM
Jun 2020

The Grotesque Orange Pustule is scared of what his master might do.

Captain Zero

(6,806 posts)
23. Yes. I think the addition of DOMINATE in his vocabulary was Putin's pep talk to him.
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 09:19 AM
Jun 2020

He's not an original thinker.
Putin is interfering in our government again too.
I think a lot would be solved with some ju jitsu to Putin's voice box.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
9. K&R
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 03:11 AM
Jun 2020

I agree. Why else would he have been hiding out in the WH basement bunker w/ the lights off for days? Why else would he only come out once a huge military presence arrived for his sake alone?

It's just more posturing to make him look like a tough guy, but his little stunt is failing miserably. It only makes him look like an even bigger coward. He's not fooling anybody.

He is finally beginning to see just how many people really hate him with a passion and he realizes that he will never, ever be safe again.

wnylib

(21,466 posts)
44. I have doubts about whether he
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 10:46 AM
Jun 2020

really was cowering in the WH bunker. There is a lot of security around the WH and I don't believe he was ever in danger from protesters, or ever perceived himself to be in danger from them.

But I can easily imagine him playing that role as an attempt to make the protestors look dangerous. When it only got him called out as a coward, he tried the tough guy with a Bible image.

He is dealing with the protests the same as with the virus -- try various image projections to see what will work. He is searching for the right image that will gloss over reality and give him the superficial appearance of being in control. It's always been just a game show with him.

Lady_Chat

(561 posts)
14. Bunker Boy
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 03:52 AM
Jun 2020

He's so good at hiding, did it during Vietnam too. As the protesters got closer one night, he tweeted out to his MAGA Supporters that they should come down to the White House. Guess he thought they'd come and protect him? Unfortunately they are as big a group of cowards as he is. So they never showed. So today, he crawled out his bunker, tail between his legs, and had cops rough up peaceful protesters for a photo op by a church. The guy who never goes to church, suddenly gets religion. His ratings must be dropping like lead with his Evangelical crowd. I can no longer even put in words how much he disgusts me.

Lock him up.

(6,929 posts)
16. He claimed to be "an ally of peaceful protesters" while...
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 04:28 AM
Jun 2020

... the bomb bursts and rubber-bullet's rounds were being shot at the peaceful protersters in the audio through the mic...

Let that sink in... (disgusting). What an imbecile.

Maeve

(42,282 posts)
20. Seen on FB--Why did the chicken cross the road?
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 08:50 AM
Jun 2020

To pose for a blasphemous photo op at St. John's Episcopal Church

Roc2020

(1,616 posts)
24. Yes he is scared and cornered.
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 11:27 AM
Jun 2020

he can't go overseas. he can't go to his new york penthouse or mara lago the protest there would put his life in more danger. he can't do maga rally's because of covid-19. he has to stay at the white house in the white house. And watch America burn and the fire right outside his window. He has good reason to be terrified. swell.

KSNY

(315 posts)
25. Yes, a scared and weak coward hiding behind the Bible
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 11:28 AM
Jun 2020

I would feel pity if he weren't able to harm so many people.
He knows deep down what he is..incompetent, ignorant, weak, and impotent.

Aussie105

(5,397 posts)
41. Not a good look.
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 04:11 AM
Jun 2020

First he sends his goons (aka police) to use force to clear the path.

Then he walks all that way (what, no golf buggy?) surrounded by a different lot of goons (aka secret service).

Holds up a Bible in front of the church. Upside down. For why? for a photograph!

(At that moment, me and a lot of others prayed . . . please Lord, just one well placed bolt of lightening, and I will be a True Believer!)

Not a good look at all.

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