Is Trump unraveling?

[Guest]

Surely, by now, even Trump must be at least beginning to realize how big a fool he made of himself by this clumsy, transparent ruse!

And surely it must be becoming harder and harder even for the likes of subgenius and ajax to avoid at least suspecting that Trump is a narcissistic fool.

[_canpakes]

Surely, by now, even Trump must be at least beginning to realize how big a fool he made of himself by this clumsy, transparent ruse!

Nope.

Remember, it’s all about owning the libs, which in this case means being a shameless, compulsive liar. The Base loves that stuff!

[_canpakes]

And surely it must be becoming harder and harder even for the likes of subgenius and ajax to avoid at least suspecting that Trump is a narcissistic fool.

Also nope.

The Base heartily condones useless, compulsive lying, snowflake personalities and victimization. The Lying Liar Lamestream Media and Evil Lib Scientists obviously conspired to set up Dear Leader with their printing of the actual weather chart. Something something Hillary Benghazi Uranium Tyson Chicken One Clinton Kill List. MAGA!!1!

[_EAllusion]

The initial error seems like a simple mistake. It's a more serious mistake than a simple slip of the tongue because his words about disaster preparedness actually carry some weight given his job and all. But it was nonetheless a simple mistake.

The incompetent Orwellianism that followed is cuckoo-town.

Remember when Obama said there were "57 states" because he accidentally combined the territories and states he had campaigned for? It was a silly slip of the tongue, though one far right circles used for years to prove he is a moron. Imagine that same mistake, but a few days later, Obama came out with a map of the United States with some sharpie on it to include Guam and Puerto Rico as official states.

[_subgenius]

oh, is it that time in the hair-fire circle again? already?
I thought the "omg, mean orange tweeter is mental!!!" wasn't until next week....wasn't russian stripper pee tape supposed to be this week?

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

oh, is it that time in the hair-fire circle again? already?
I thought the "omg, mean orange tweeter is mental!!!" wasn't until next week....wasn't russian stripper pee tape supposed to be this week?

Well, it's good thing he doesn't regularly lie while invoking 'fake news':

“They’ll say, oh, that’s a conflict of interest,” Trump continued. “Fake news, they’ll say this is a conflict of interest. You know where my club is, right? Trump National. It’s a very big success on Lake Norman. Beautiful. Largest man-made lake in the world by far, right?”

Whatever the case may be, there's absolutely no low that Trump could hit without you and some of your ilk talking about hair fires and snowflakes or whatever. I honestly believe Trump could just get on national television, present a young baby, and then “F” it on air claiming it's a Liberal baby and it deserves it, and you'd just talk about hair fires and snowflakes.

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- Doc

[_canpakes]

oh, is it that time in the hair-fire circle again? already?

You always confuse comedy gold with 'hair fire'. There's no need to project your comprehension difficulties on to the functional portion of the population.

On a related note, maybe this is a common enough characteristic amongst conservatives and Trumpkins to explain why there are so few successful conservative-oriented comedians.

[_moksha]

Trump adding the Sharpie pen inclusion of Alabama as a cover for his hair-brained lie is part of his mental decline.

Even Captain Queeg and his strawberry theft obsession was not as upsetting as this bizarre lying compulsion by Trump. Queeg was a fictional Navy Officer, while Trump is the dysfunctional produce of a Kremlin conspiracy and some type of conservative mass insanity.

[_MeDotOrg]

In thinking about how and why the President lied about something that would have fallen silently out of the news cycle, I would imagine it is easy for him to do so because he has gotten away with it for a long time.

Before his Presidency, Trump would call society gossip columnists pretending to be his own publicist. Trump values perception more than reality. And before he was President it was probably a lot easier to get away with altering his own image with metaphorical sharpies, no matter how untrue a picture they painted.

But now his actions are under a different microscope from the soft news universe of entertainment media.. The 'Fake News Media' is not backing down from his bluster and evasions. What's interesting to see is Trump's lack of adaptability. Now that he cannot control the media, there are no daily press briefings or formal press conferences. From the very first day of his Presidency, when he directed Sean Spicer to lie about the size of his Inauguration crowd, it is clear that his arguments are predicated on his own biased perception being reality, facts be dammed.

Think about all of the time he has wasted on this pinprick to his ego, as Dorian churns up the Eastern Seaboard.

And subgenius, I think it's Trump whose hair is on fire. All he had to do was acknowledge that he was wrong, and that his inclusion of Alabama was based on an earlier forecast. End of story. But Trump can never be wrong, and he wasted a ridiculous amount of time defending a perceived slight to his ego. He supposedly didn't go to Poland so he could monitor the storm, and he's tweeting out information that is several days old? And who in their right mind would believe that the sharpie half circle was really part of the map?

The argument has been made that Trump is an incompetent executive, and if the United States were a publicly held company, the President would have been fired by now. All you have to do is look at his time management in the last week.

[_aussieguy55]

27 Mental health people have commented about Trump's mental health. One claims he displays the behavior of narcissistic personality.

The Narcissistic Personality

Believing you are better than others I know more about infrastructure than anyone
Fantasizing about power success and attractiveness
Exaggerating your achievements or talents
Expecting constant praise and admiration Having cabinet members tell him what a great job he does
Believing that you are special and acting accordingly
Failure to recognise other people’s emotions and feelings
Expecting others to go along with your ideas and plans
Taking advantages of others
Expressing disdain for those whom you feel to be inferior Mocking disabled reporter.
Being jealous of others
Believing that others are jealous of you
Having trouble keeping healthy relationships
Setting unrealistic goals
Being easily hurt and rejected
Having a fragile self-esteem
Appearing tough-minded or unemotional
Phillip Zimbardo & Rosemany Sword
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump : 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President pp36-39