Trump 101: How not to President (TrumpThread #101)

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Two images. Same day.
161 days to November 3rd.

Thanks to BruceAnd Nosh for thread title.

Previous thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3877401-Trump-100-Thread-and-Were-Way-Down-the-Rabbit-Hole?pg=1

Nothing like a Trump tweet to pour petrol on things 🙄

It is easier to pretend that you are walking normally when you aren't, if there is not someone beside you walking normally.

Final ten feet I ran down to level ground.
I believe he felt like that. So relieved!

Yes, it may well be the dementia.
I really don't know how he doesn't fall forward standing like that. The centre of gravity must be way to the front.

6 months 28 days since trump was rushed to the hospital without explanation.

Which is in itself an explanation.

twitter.com/philippereines/status/1271946543965384707?s=21

I remember tripping over a paving slab when hugely pregnant with DC - I thought I was never going to manage to get upright again.

It seems to me that what we have to hope for now is that Trump loses in November and then before he has time to do anything which puts the entire world at risk has a serious stroke or heart attack, is hospitalised (and sedated for his own safety) and cannot spend December wreaking havoc. I don't as a rule wish that sort of thing on anyone, but I really do think that when he has lost he will become very dangerous indeed.

He certainly has the psychological symptoms of PSP frontotemporal dementia, but the problem is he has always been inappropriate and lacking in empathy, so that tends to pull us in the direction of thinking that's just the way he is🤔

He's right about momentum, but not momentum that he has not acheived through his own efforts. More like when you start running down a slope and can't stop yourself speeding up.

Having lost a parent to dementia, it is not an affliction I would wish on anybody.
However someone who DID have dementia should not be in charge of a major country

I just felt so sorry for the cadets. WP (or any of the military academies) are unbelievably difficult to get into and a very challenging and rigorous program to complete. To be a 'captive audience' and have their graduation used as a 'campaign rally' must have been so disheartening.

At least the cadets weren't ordered to laugh and applaud, as apparently has happened with some of his appearances at businesses and military posts. Their dead silence was wonderful. I'll bet he was FURIOUS. But even he apparently understood he couldn't go on a rant against them.

edition.cnn.com/2020/06/12/politics/braxton-bragg-confederate-legacy/index.html

Oops one too many "not"s

I have a feeling that places like Fort Bragg were so named as a gesture of appeasement towards a beaten enemy who had refused not to remain an enemy even when beaten, whom the government in 1918 hoped to make into if not a friend at least not a rancorous unfriend. I don't suppose that the Union was any less racist than the Confederacy: they didn't really go to war to free the slaves, it was a side-effect retro-written as an aim. You'll find it in Wikipedia, but I seriously doubt it was the aim at the time: that war had a lot more to do with (as usual) territory and money. ("It's the economy...")

(Or as Steve Earle put it, "I don't even know what I'm fighting for, I ain't never owned a slave.")

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/brian-stelter-jenna-ellis-clash-cnn-fake-news-trump-a9565766.html

www.mediaite.com/online/ouch-first-lady-melania-trump-tweets-happy-birthday-to-the-u-s-army-but-not-her-husband/

abc11.com/fort-bragg-renaming-braxton-confederate-leaders/6243153/

Another Trump.

www.thedailybeast.com/mary-trump-donald-trumps-niece-is-writing-a-tell-all-book-that-details-how-she-leaked-tax-papers-to-nyt/

There's a town of Ft Bragg out here on the Calif Coast. They're going to have a City Council meeting on changing the town's name and possibly having a referendum. It's been brought up twice before and nothing happened because it was 'too expensive'.

My funniest ass-kissing tweet of Trump’s birthday.

Charlie Kirk @CharlieKirk11 9hr

Happy Birthday to the man who wakes up every day and FIGHTS to save Western Civilization!

I’m honored to be in this fight with you, @realDonaldTrump.

Ugh.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/15/the-gap-between-trumps-world-and-reality-is-widening-its-disturbing-to-watch

'over the past few weeks, the increasingly strange, intentionally provocative, inappropriate and frankly delusional tweets and pronouncements issuing from the Oval Office have once again caused us to reflect on the president’s inner life. We’ve grown accustomed to his shortcomings, the regular failures of decency, common sense, and good taste. Yet the gap between what the president is saying – and the reality we observe around us – appears to be widening'

Increasingly strange
The oval office is Trump's ring of power, it has turned him into the fat version of Gollum
the more I think about it the more I see parallels🤔
they both refer to themselves in the third person, self-pitying, speak in nonsensical riddles

Oh yes. That scene in the movie when the Black Riders approach and all the creep crawlies come to the surface.

Still.

edition.cnn.com/2020/06/13/politics/biden-women-voters-analysis/index.html?utm_source=twCNNp&utm_content=2020-06-14T19%3A16%3A04&utm_medium=social&utm_term=image

I really can't see any significance in Melania not posting a tweet to her husband saying "happy birthday". Is it usual for husbands and wives to tweet each other with birthday wishes? And if it is, did Trump tweet happy birthday to her?