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My opinion: The strategies that supposedly "worked" in his business life cost him the presidency. 353 vs 179 electoral voteswww.electoral-vote.com
The Atlantic by Dan P. McAdams June 2016
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/
"Trumps tendencies toward social ambition and aggressiveness were evident very early in his life, as we will see later. (By his own account, he once punched his second-grade music teacher, giving him a black eye".) According to Barbara Res, who in the early 1980s served as vice president in charge of construction of Trump Tower in Manhattan, the emotional core around which Donald Trumps personality constellates is anger: As far as the anger is concerned, thats real for sure. Hes not faking it, she told The Daily Beast in February.
The fact that he gets mad, thats his personality. Indeed, anger may be the operative emotion behind Trumps high extroversion as well as his low agreeableness. Anger can fuel malice, but it can also motivate social dominance, stoking a desire to win the adoration of others. Combined with a considerable gift for humor (which may also be aggressive), anger lies at the heart of Trumps charisma. And anger permeates his political rhetoric.".
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(52,243 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Last edited Fri Aug 12, 2016, 06:50 PM - Edit history (1)
he's a boor, they're boorish.
he's just like them, but he's famous and rich, so he must know what he's doing.
end of trump voter thinking process.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)Assessing the truthfulness of the 2016 candidates campaign statements, PolitiFact recently calculated that only 2 percent of the claims made by Trump are true, 7 percent are mostly true, 15 percent are half true, 15 percent are mostly false, 42 percent are false, and 18 percent are pants on fire. Adding up the last three numbers (from mostly false to flagrantly so), Trump scores 75 percent.
The corresponding figures for Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Bernie Sanders, and Hillary Clinton, respectively, are 66, 32, 31, and 29 percent.
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)"In Trumps own words from a 1981 People interview, the fundamental backdrop for his life narrative is this: Man is the most vicious of all animals, and life is a series of battles ending in victory or defeat. The protagonist of this story is akin to what the great 20th-century scholar and psychoanalyst Carl Jung identified in myth and folklore as the archetypal warrior. According to Jung, the warriors greatest gifts are courage, discipline, and skill; his central life task is to fight for what matters; his typical response to a problem is to slay it or otherwise defeat it; his greatest fear is weakness or impotence. The greatest risk for the warrior is that he incites gratuitous violence in others, and brings it upon himself."
He certainly did bring it upon himself.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)One who fights only from a position of overwhelming advantage, who skedaddles at the first sign of a prepared opposition, and who shelters under the aegis of the bankruptcy laws when the fight he picked doesn't go as planned. Strangely, for all the battles he's been involved in, Trump has never taken a direct blow. The one time he could have seen some actual live ammo shooting battle, he had an owie foot.
tavernier
(12,392 posts)A baby bird? A little finger?
Barbecued immigrant?
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)the dark ages of dentistry
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)If I have the money when they crack eventually I'll do porcelain or gold, but I might be stuck with the poor man's fix once again.
imanamerican63
(13,798 posts)Maybe, he needs to see a dentist? "Oops, I thought your tongue out instead of the cavity"! Said the dentist 😷!
anamandujano
(7,004 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)reckless and inappropriate in a President, but he was basically telling them that they're crazy.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)That is Trump in a nutshell. There is NOTHING there. He is an empty shell of a man and only anger, ego and hatred are present to fill up the vacuum.
UTUSN
(70,703 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,205 posts).
With all of the other fake shit doing on in there, that should have been taken care of too.
Granted, they are functional but someone with money would have had them addressed.
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