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highplainsdem

(48,980 posts)
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 08:54 AM Jun 2020

Steve Schmidt: Trump has the attention span of a gerbil and the self control of a four year old





Everybody remember the video of Trump scrolling through his phone last week while small business owners talked about the wrecked economy? That’s exactly what happened with Covid and Russian Bounties. He has the attention span of a gerbil and the self control of a four year old





Actually, the comparison to Trump is insulting to both gerbils and 4-year-olds...
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Steve Schmidt: Trump has the attention span of a gerbil and the self control of a four year old (Original Post) highplainsdem Jun 2020 OP
Steve is being too kind to him many (sane) people can think of worst things to say to such a man. Mystery sage Jun 2020 #1
Yep, to say the self control of a four year old is being overly generous. tanyev Jun 2020 #2
I disagree with Schmidt. MoonRiver Jun 2020 #3
+1000. nt ecstatic Jun 2020 #11
Putin was probably texting him instructions IronLionZion Jun 2020 #12
Of course! MoonRiver Jun 2020 #13
Really funny no doubt musclecar6 Jun 2020 #4
Anyone have a link to the video? Six117 Jun 2020 #5
Here, YouTube video: highplainsdem Jun 2020 #17
Okay, show of hands gratuitous Jun 2020 #22
Many people think that gerbils may explain his odd posture when standing. dameatball Jun 2020 #6
Get a candle... ChazInAz Jun 2020 #15
Bernstein's CNN piece on the president's calls with foreign leaders revealed Trump was always sop Jun 2020 #7
Disagree ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #21
Steve Schmidt is correct Gothmog Jun 2020 #8
I have a gerbil that's a thespian, and he can recite Hamlet's Act 3 Scene 1, Nunnery Scene. TheBlackAdder Jun 2020 #9
A little rough on gerbils and four year olds, I think. marble falls Jun 2020 #10
lol.. true! See post #18.. Cha Jun 2020 #19
Gerbils are actually quite industrious and capable... 3catwoman3 Jun 2020 #14
Steve, you forgot to add.... lastlib Jun 2020 #16
Yes, especially "4 year olds".. trump has the self control Cha Jun 2020 #18
Plus I don't get "attached" to gnats! marble falls Jun 2020 #20
lol.. me neither! Cha Jun 2020 #23
I think tRump is stuck at a non-toilet trained two-year old emotional level. He has an diane in sf Jul 2020 #24

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
3. I disagree with Schmidt.
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 09:03 AM
Jun 2020

I think he knew exactly what was going on with COVID-19 and Bountygate. He was protecting his sorry self and Putin.

musclecar6

(1,686 posts)
4. Really funny no doubt
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 09:13 AM
Jun 2020


For a guy like Trump who hates the term of a loser, if ever there was anybody who is showing himself to be a total loser it’s him. He’s such a dumb fuck he thought he could bluster and bullshit his way thru a pandemic and just forget about the facts of life of the horrible things ignoring a pandemic causes and now look what he’s got us into. A real fucking disaster thanks to his stupidity followed by those other moron Republican governors from the states that opened way too fast and prematurely. Assholes one and all

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
22. Okay, show of hands
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 06:25 PM
Jun 2020

How many of you watched that video and thought, "If it was me trying to read my testimony while Lord Littlehands was busy stabbing at his phone with his teeny tiny thumbs, I would have stopped mid-sentence to ask, 'I'm sorry, Mr. President, is my story boring you?' and treat him like the spoiled teenager he looks like."

Or is it just me?

sop

(10,186 posts)
7. Bernstein's CNN piece on the president's calls with foreign leaders revealed Trump was always
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 09:23 AM
Jun 2020

extremely complimentary and deferential to Putin, as well as Erdogan. I don't buy this "Trump acts like a four-year-old" stuff. Trump knows exactly what he's doing, who he's helping and what's in it for him.

ProfessorGAC

(65,042 posts)
21. Disagree
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 06:21 PM
Jun 2020

He's just narcissistic & dumb.
He's a bully to people that won't hit him, and deferential to those who might.
A coward & a punk.

TheBlackAdder

(28,201 posts)
9. I have a gerbil that's a thespian, and he can recite Hamlet's Act 3 Scene 1, Nunnery Scene.
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 09:53 AM
Jun 2020

.

Here he is. He's named Jeff Sessions and is starting at, "To be or not to be..."




Here's another training to be a classical ballet dancer.



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Cha

(297,240 posts)
18. Yes, especially "4 year olds".. trump has the self control
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 06:07 PM
Jun 2020

of an adderall junkie. And, an attention span of a gnat.. I don't think gnats would disagree.

diane in sf

(3,913 posts)
24. I think tRump is stuck at a non-toilet trained two-year old emotional level. He has an
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 02:41 AM
Jul 2020

unending amount of destructive energy. He was never very smart and now his decaying brain has destroyed any sort of attention span he might have once had.

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