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Do you think it bothers Drumpf he is being shunned by so many of his fellow celebrities who won't perform at his Inauguration?
BainsBane
(53,093 posts)What I don't get is why he hasn't arranged some country musicians, Toby Keith, for example.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)It seems like meatloaf was too.
Alec Baldwin said he'd do it, it shouldn't be difficult to come up with a show.
Tanuki
(14,926 posts)"Opening Day" event January 21. That's the controversial party that Uday and Qusay were listed as co-directing, with the blatant pay-to-play "hunting party with the Trumps" shakedown. The slime brothers are now dissociating themselves from the event, in the wake of the public shaming (and exposure to legal remedy) over their lack of ethics, but as far as I know, the party is still "on".
TheBlackAdder
(28,239 posts).
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onetexan
(13,078 posts)Disgraceful
TheBlackAdder
(28,239 posts)LeftInTX
(25,695 posts)Seriously we could do this all day!
TheBlackAdder
(28,239 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)You're going to go down in history as Donald the Vain.
bdamomma
(63,944 posts)you are a delusional sick old man??? Keep dreaming.
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)No that's not it. He is just a giant douchebag.
TimeChaser
(5,551 posts)A country singer probably isn't good enough to him. He wants A-list talent
dhill926
(16,377 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)safeinOhio
(32,739 posts)Seeking revenge.
gulliver
(13,197 posts)Trump likes to be the star of the show. He also uses our celebrities against us by calling them out as elites.
ailsagirl
(22,901 posts)The man has a huge, but fragile, ego.
chillfactor
(7,587 posts)he thinks everyone should bow down to his "highness."
Tanuki
(14,926 posts)Bettie
(16,139 posts)fairly soon, as dissenters.
Vinca
(50,323 posts)I did hear he scored Cardinal Dolan though. Whoo hoo!
VOX
(22,976 posts)He thinks name-dropping "Carl Icahn" and "Sheriff Joe Arpaio" is very impressive to his troglodyte fans. His own fragile ego would love to toss around some monikers with far greater wattage than "Wayne Newton."
NJCher
(35,789 posts)The unique characteristic that Trump brings to the table is his complete lack of caring about what anyone thinks of him. Do you think he would behave the way he does if he cared?
There's a lot a person can do if they don't think it's important what others think. This gives Trump tremendous latitude in his actions.
Trump has always had money. This is a terrific assist when building a personality that doesn't care what others think.
Trump might pretend to care, but it's really just a way to exert power and crush those who don't agree with him. It's a way to say "Look what I can do to you, you puny journalist."
He doesn't care, not one whit.
Chefr
avebury
(10,953 posts)becomes all about revenge. He lives for revenge and to do so as publicly as possible to the person that he feels harmed him.
You can't be that obsessed about revenge and try to act like you don't care what other people say.
NJCher
(35,789 posts)He isn't genuinely offended. He uses these instances to get a one-up on whomever delivered it.
Of course, according to attribution theory, none of us can say what is in another's mind or what their motivation is. This is purely my opinion, but it is based on a semester of analyzing Trump's behavior in an interpersonal communication class. The basis of our analysis was nonverbal communication which, in most cases, does not lie (like verbal communication).
Cher
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)He's thin-skinned as they come. This is the guy who sent pictures of his hands to the editor (?) from Vogue because he once said Trump had tiny hands. He cares for sure.
Greybnk48
(10,179 posts)I also think that Ivanka knows that agreeing with her father in this instance, and being a gung ho member of his team has made her a pariah. She's fucked. Uday and Qusay were pretty much hated across the board from the get go, they're such slime balls.
ismnotwasm
(42,022 posts)In every single photo I've seen. Makes me curious if they come across like that in real life
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)coco22
(1,258 posts)Uday and Qusay..Especially the older one throughout the campaign I would tell my friends that he was an younger version of Trump and probably even worse,and we don't know what is in the mind of the youngest son yet.
ismnotwasm
(42,022 posts)I don't believe that man gives a shit what people think of him. Most of what he does, so far, is dangerous theater.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)... who knew him personally.
newblewtoo
(667 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,030 posts)He's famous for being a famous self-promoter.
True celebrities have hard-earned talents that make Trump look like a joke.
Trump will always be a wanna-be poseur ...even as President.
JI7
(89,282 posts)President than he would and is smarter .
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Evidently that's the ONE contractor that he does actually pay!
MADem
(135,425 posts)inanna
(3,547 posts)If it's true, then yes, it would bother him very much.
MFM008
(19,827 posts)I want him to get an ulcer....
or brain tumor????
I just saw on CNN an interview with someone that knows maggot and he said its "galling"
him.
He needs to be galled....well he needs to be GORED but all those things eat at those delicate arteries.
no_hypocrisy
(46,257 posts)Throughout the years, Trump has courted celebrities to drop into Trump Tower to say hello. And he makes sure to get a photo of them either arms around each other or Trump and guest smiling broadly into the camera with Trump doing a "thumbs up" with his double-jointed digit. And he's made sure to post those pictures.
And now after his concept of being their forever friend, they abandon him when he needs them most. To validate him as one of them.
IMO, Trump has a Queens Inferiority Complex. He has never breached Manhattan Society. Not invited to their parties, offered to be in their corporate boards of directors, be seen in their company. In the Eighties, the Maidstone Club in the Hamptons told him not to even bother applying for permanent membership. He has been ostracized consistently and all he has is the illusion of celebrity, not reputation or family pedigree.
And it burns him that he lost to Kasich as far as votes in the primary in Manhattan.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)Start around the 34-minute mark:
BigDemVoter
(4,157 posts)canetoad
(17,202 posts)Like a swarm of ravenous, saw-toothed maggots chewing on his gut.
maggots....good....good..... lol
avebury
(10,953 posts)Trump has a pathological fear of being ridiculed/humiliated. During a President's term of office there are always numerous events where A-List entertainers are invited for one reason or another (adding star power to a State dinner, providing entertainment for an event put on for a visiting dignitary, and so on.). He may find that he is shunned for his entire presidency which will result in ongoing humiliation. He will not be able to stand it and will probably be out for revenge.
He needs to grow up, grow a pair and develop a thicker skin or it may end up being a miserable time for him.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)... I don't really anticipate will happen this year, they better NOT accept an invitation to Trump's White House! I'll be writing letters to Ohio State and urging them not do it! I can't imagine most of the football players would want to be around him!
Alabama? Yeah, they'll probably be there with bells on.
Obama is still in office until the 20th, so maybe the typical timing of the WH visit could be sped up?
avebury
(10,953 posts)There might be a lot situations where an individual athlete, a team or members of a team refuse to go to a Trump WH.
There are oh so many people that might refuse to deal with a Trump WH.
JI7
(89,282 posts)Or how to deal with syria and other issues.
mcar
(42,426 posts)His poor widdle ego can't handle rejection.
tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)eom
randr
(12,418 posts)I do not think anyone with "celebrity" status sees Trump as a peer.
He is more like the fake alien the Enquire Rag has had on its cover a bazzillion times.
hatrack
(59,597 posts)And it's only going to get worse.
Year after year, the list of people who don't want to be seen with him or speak on his behalf will grow and grow and grow, and he'll get more pissy and crude and angry.
Can't wait!
DrDan
(20,411 posts)elleng
(131,277 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)I guess that means all those celebs don't matter. He will NEVER believe it's him or something he's done.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)And they don't take "no" too kindly. This has to be deeply embarrassing for him.