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skip fox

(19,359 posts)
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 05:03 PM Sep 2015

Does Trump (consciously or unconsciously) want to lose?

Does that explain some of his recent activities like snubbing Fox News?

Will we see more of this?

I cannot imagine he would really like being President and I think he's beginning to realize that fact. He's like the attention, of course, but not the work.

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pscot

(21,024 posts)
2. I think he's trying to see what he can get away with
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 05:08 PM
Sep 2015

Apparently no excess is too wretched for his teabagging fans. He's just an attention whore..

eissa

(4,238 posts)
3. I think he believed it would be a lot easier than it's turning out to be
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 05:12 PM
Sep 2015

Men like him, who have been accustomed to being deferred to, have a hard time accepting defeat. When he goes down he's going to make it look like he didn't want it anyway. "You didn't dump me, I dumped YOU!"

 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
4. I have a hard time seeing him do something
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 05:14 PM
Sep 2015

that would make him lose the GOP nomination. At this point he could get caught taking bribes of Nazi gold from Hitler's zombie and it wouldn't alienate his base, because let's face it, Hitler was their kind of guy. Certainly The Coutergeist loves him, and she has been playing Hitler's old hits.

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)
8. He represents the GOP the best of any candidate I've seen. A rich bully and all the wannabee
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 05:24 PM
Sep 2015

republicans flock to him like a pile of ...

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
5. It's all about the Donald and nothing more.
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 05:14 PM
Sep 2015

This turd smells and that is what the Roger Alies/Rupport Murdoch/GOP directors want. They just do not have anyone worthy of being President.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. How about all of the above? His staff is probably sweating bullets
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 05:14 PM
Sep 2015

trying to get him to memorize a fact or two on issues he doesn't see his own face in. A taste of what'd be ahead if he were so unfortunate as to win.

Warpy

(111,277 posts)
7. No, he wants the star on top of the Christmas tree
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 05:16 PM
Sep 2015

He's a toddler having a tantrum until Mommy gets it for him.

The presidency is a bauble. Anyone who suggests it doesn't belong to him outright with none of that election nonsense is going to face a tantrum.

That's all this is, a two year old screaming "MINE! MINE!"

kacekwl

(7,017 posts)
9. He really does not want to be President.
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 05:42 PM
Sep 2015

It's all a game to him. He will drop out at some point for some reason that makes him look like a hero and then forever be able to say if I was the president I would have been great all the problems would have been solved etc. His ego is huge but he really does not want all the work that goes with the office.

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