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jaysunb

(11,856 posts)
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 08:45 PM Jan 2017

Who will tell Trump the truth ?

Is there at least one person either inside or outside the bubble that will tell him what's going on in the real world and what he should try to do to correct the collision course he's on?
Is there any person on the planet that this ill man will at least try to hear ?

Even Nixon listened to his wife and family at the end....and the end is surely near for Trump.

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putitinD

(1,551 posts)
1. Repubicans don't understand the concept of truth, with them it is just who is the loudest
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 08:48 PM
Jan 2017

and most obnoxious wins.

bluecollar2

(3,622 posts)
15. I believe the official DU designated ass kicker
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 02:04 AM
Jan 2017

Is Skittles.

You may want to clear any ass kicking duties through her.

Protocol you understand.

rzemanfl

(29,567 posts)
21. Skittles and I have a special connection having to do with her screen name,
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 11:44 AM
Jan 2017

two big cats, my grandchildren and the candy of that name. I think she would dispense with protocol.

JI7

(89,262 posts)
6. i meant they will get rid of those who would try to be honest
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 09:16 PM
Jan 2017

Or not hire them in the first place.

jaysunb

(11,856 posts)
7. Got it !
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 09:25 PM
Jan 2017

Mitt and Woolsey are serious insiders, and probably have already been assigned to end it. Just my .02

Solly Mack

(90,780 posts)
8. He won't listen.
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 09:35 PM
Jan 2017

On his final day of life, Trump will be calling out for his own version of "Rosebud".

He's weak, insecure, and carrying the wounds from a childhood where he always felt second best. All his life he has tried to make up for these feelings of inadequacies, both real and imagined - through the use of bragging to turn the modest into the spectacular, and through lying - to turn the mediocre into the best it has ever been or will be.

He lives in a fantasy bubble he has created for himself. A place where he feels safe, and his ego will brook no attempts at changing it.

Trump is a pathetic and sad man, who would be pitied if not for the power he holds.

That power makes this craven bully - who will forever be searching for a "Rosebud" that will forever elude him - dangerous to all who refuse to cater to his delusions.













Solly Mack

(90,780 posts)
11. Thank you. I really do believe that about him.
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 12:32 AM
Jan 2017

He's going to fuck up the country because of something he didn't get in childhood. Something he felt he deserved and lost.

Everything about him screams emotionally stunted.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
16. Citizen Trump
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 02:13 AM
Jan 2017

I like Welles, but I don't think he was any more prescient than Kazan (Face in the Crowd). Trump has been caught by a lot of live mikes, to no detriment. At this point, what could he say that would lose support from his zombies, or gain support from thinking Americans?

Solly Mack

(90,780 posts)
18. Nothing he says or does will change anyone's opinion of him.
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 02:22 AM
Jan 2017

Well, maybe being booted off needed services might, but we'll see.


I still think that on his death bed he'll still be longing for that elusive something he thinks he's lost.

He strikes me as empty inside.

Ilsa

(61,697 posts)
9. The republicans want this to continue for awhile to build a case
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 09:41 PM
Jan 2017

Against trump. They'll want to get rid of him eventually. I'm sure the cia will help.

jaysunb

(11,856 posts)
12. Bingo ! But they are also waiting to get the Supreme Court
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 01:44 AM
Jan 2017

Justice. Then...Hello President Pence.

UTUSN

(70,725 posts)
13. Mad Dog & Kellyanne. I question that Tricky Dick listened to Pat.
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 01:51 AM
Jan 2017

It's said that Mad Dog is fully capable of using the F-word on "superiors". PENCE is just biding his time, waiting for the Call.

Hamlette

(15,412 posts)
14. Ivanka? That's my guess. He might listen to her "at the end" like Nixon
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 02:00 AM
Jan 2017

it was only when Goldwater told him he would lose the trial in the Senate.

So, maybe a combo of the three favorite kids and a politico or two. I don't see Kellyann of Bannon ever telling him he wasn't loved and I don't think he'd listen to any establishment republican including Priebus. (sp)

DFW

(54,436 posts)
17. Big difference though
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 02:18 AM
Jan 2017

Gerry Ford was actually a decent guy. Pence is a cold Torquemada-wannabe.
The notion of having him in the Oval Office should scare women twice as much as Trump.

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