Little Hands, Lying Mouth

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Donald Trump
Terrorism and terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe have "gotten to a point where it's not even being reported."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, February 6th, 2017
Accusations came a month before election


Donald Trump
"If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?"
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, December 15th, 2016



No evidence


Donald Trump
There was "serious voter fraud" in Virginia.
— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, November 29th, 2016



Zero complaints this election


Donald Trump
There was "serious voter fraud" in New Hampshire.
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Monday, November 28th, 2016



No evidence to back up reckless claim


Donald Trump
There was "serious voter fraud" in California.
— PolitiFact California on Monday, November 28th, 2016



Zero evidence for this conspiracy theory


Donald Trump
Says he "won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, November 28th, 2016



POTUS defended the protester


Donald Trump
Says that at a campaign rally President Barack Obama "spent so much time screaming at a protester, and frankly it was a disgrace."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, November 6th, 2016



Preposterous


Donald Trump
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it. That’s what could happen. You triple the size of our country in one week."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, October 31st, 2016



Common data, not voter suppression, technique


Donald Trump
"Wikileaks also shows how John Podesta rigged the polls by oversampling Democrats, a voter suppression technique."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 25th, 2016



It wasn't lost or stolen


Donald Trump
When Hillary Clinton "ran the State Department, $6 billion was missing. How do you miss $6 billion? You ran the State Department, $6 billion was either stolen — they don't know."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, October 20th, 2016



A fraudulent claim about fraudulent votes


Donald Trump
"It’s possible that non-citizen voters were responsible for Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina."
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Wednesday, October 19th, 2016



Still no evidence


Donald Trump
"Of course, there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, October 17th, 2016



Fact-check and mate!


Donald Trump
"We don't have any" chess grandmasters in the United States.
— PolitiFact National on Friday, October 14th, 2016



All 4 scientific polls show he lost


Donald Trump
Says he won the second debate with Hillary Clinton "in a landslide" in "every poll."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, October 12th, 2016



He literally asked people to 'check out sex tape'


Donald Trump
Says a tweet he sent out "wasn’t saying, ‘check out a sex tape.’ It was just ‘take a look at" the background of Alicia Machado.
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, October 9th, 2016



He needs a few history lessons


Donald Trump
"Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they've ever been in before. Ever. Ever. Ever."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, September 22nd, 2016



Kept tweeting about it, and many still believe it


Donald Trump
"I finished" the controversy about where President Barack Obama was born.
— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 16th, 2016



Right there on her website


Donald Trump
"My opponent has no child care plan."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, September 14th, 2016



She has said plenty


Donald Trump
Says Hillary Clinton has "not answered a single question" about her immigration plan.
— PolitiFact Arizona on Friday, September 9th, 2016



Expert: Absolutely zero possibility
Donald Trump
"Inner-city crime is reaching record levels."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
Expert: "I'd like to see him try"


Donald Trump
Says the U.S. election system is "rigged."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, August 15th, 2016



He flatly rejected a more plausible critique


Donald Trump
Says Barack Obama "founded ISIS. I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, August 11th, 2016



Phonetic analysis says otherwise


Donald Trump
"Hillary Clinton says she wants to, ‘raise taxes on the middle class.’ "
— PolitiFact National on Friday, August 5th, 2016



Ayotte has long done better than Trump in N.H. polls


Donald Trump
"I’m beating (Kelly Ayotte) in the polls by a lot."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, August 5th, 2016



Speaking of fire ...


Donald Trump
"We have a fire marshal that said, 'Oh we can't allow more people’ ... And the reason they won't let them in is because they don't know what the hell they're doing."
— PolitiFact Colorado on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016



No one in Clinton campaign or DNC had a say


Donald Trump
"As usual, Hillary & the Dems are trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, August 1st, 2016



You mean the other way around?


Donald Trump
On gift taking, "Bob McDonnell took a fraction of what (Tim) Kaine took."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Sunday, July 24th, 2016



Denied months ago


Donald Trump
Says Ted Cruz "never denied" his father was photographed with Lee Harvey Oswald.
— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, July 22nd, 2016



Only if you don't look


Donald Trump
"We don't know anything about Hillary in terms of religion. Now, she's been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there's no — there's nothing out there."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, June 24th, 2016



Deleted? So why are her comments still there?


Donald Trump
Says Hillary Clinton "has even deleted this record of total support (for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) from her book."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, June 23rd, 2016



One is much costlier than the other


Donald Trump
"For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016



U.S. has always opposed ISIS and its predecessors


Donald Trump
"The Obama administration was actively supporting Al Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist group that became the Islamic State."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, June 15th, 2016



It's not


Donald Trump
"Crime is rising."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, June 9th, 2016



He could have kept quiet, but didn't


Donald Trump
"I wanted to keep it private, because I don't think it's anybody's business if I want to send money to the vets."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, May 31st, 2016



Don't hold your breath, Kaczynski


Donald Trump
It "is Hillary Clinton's agenda" to "release the violent criminals from jail. She wants them all released."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, May 26th, 2016



A nonsensical jumble


Donald Trump
"Look, we are at war with these people and they don't wear uniforms. … This is a war against people that are vicious, violent people, that we have no idea who they are, where they come from. We are allowing tens of thousands of them into our country now."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, May 25th, 2016



Expert: 'Outlandish at best'


Donald Trump
Says Ted Cruz’s father "was with Lee Harvey Oswald" before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016



Clinton leads Trump among women by historic margin


Donald Trump
"Frankly, (Hillary Clinton) doesn’t do very well with women."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, May 2nd, 2016










Donald Trump
The number of illegal immigrants "could be 3 million. It could be 30 million."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, September 1st, 2016 Bowling Green massacre part two?





Donald Trump
"Look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, February 19th, 2017



Sanders was mocking Trump


Donald Trump
"While on FAKE NEWS @CNN, Bernie Sanders was cut off for using the term fake news to describe the network. They said technical difficulties!"
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, February 12th, 2017



Cuomo did ask about it.


Donald Trump
Says CNN’s Chris Cuomo "never asked" Sen. Richard Blumenthal about Blumenthal's misstatements on his own service in Vietnam.
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, February 9th, 2017



This is wrong


Donald Trump
"The murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, February 8th, 2017



More like 60,000+


Donald Trump
Says "109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers" were affected by the immigration executive order.
— PolitiFact National on Monday, February 6th, 2017



Christian refugees have entered U.S.


Donald Trump
"If you were a Muslim, you could come in, if you were a Christian, it was impossible."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, January 29th, 2017



They were the third-lowest last year since 1990


Donald Trump
"Here in Philadelphia murder has been steady — I mean — just terribly increasing."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Thursday, January 26th, 2017



Unprecedented tough words


Donald Trump
"The media ... sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, January 22nd, 2017



Polls show many Americans want to see them


Donald Trump
Americans don't "care at all" about Donald Trump's tax returns.
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, January 11th, 2017



Historically, it's in the bottom quarter


Donald Trump
"We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, December 12th, 2016



That's not what it said


Donald Trump
"The @nytimes sent a letter to their subscribers apologizing for their BAD coverage of me."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, November 15th, 2016



Read his New York Times interview


Donald Trump
"The @nytimes states today that DJT believes ‘more countries should acquire nuclear weapons.’ How dishonest are they. I never said this!"
— PolitiFact National on Monday, November 14th, 2016



A fitting close to our 2016 fact-checks


Donald Trump
"Beyonce and Jay Z, I like them, I like them ... I get bigger crowds than they do. It's true. I get far bigger crowds."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, November 7th, 2016



Lags well behind past GOP candidates


Donald Trump
"I have tremendous support from women."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, November 4th, 2016



We've seen the crowds. Thanks, media!


Donald Trump
The media "never show crowds."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, November 3rd, 2016



No evidence at all


Donald Trump
"Twitter, Google and Facebook are burying the FBI criminal investigation of Clinton. Very dishonest media!"
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016



Tanks but no tanks


Donald Trump
Says Ohio’s I-X Center "used to be a great plant," but "thousands of people of worked here, and they left" when their jobs were moved overseas.
— PolitiFact Ohio on Monday, October 31st, 2016



His evidence is faulty


Donald Trump
"14 percent of noncitizens are registered to vote."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, October 24th, 2016



Thin rebuttals


Donald Trump
The stories from women saying he groped or forced himself on them "largely have been debunked."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, October 20th, 2016



Let's go to the tape


Donald Trump
Says Hillary Clinton is "wrong" to say he mocked a disabled reporter.
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, October 20th, 2016

FBI director says, "It's the reverse."


Donald Trump
Says Hillary Clinton was "let off the hook" for her email scandal while Gen. David Petraeus had his life "destroyed for doing far, far less."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 18th, 2016



The ad was from a pro-Trump super PAC


Donald Trump
"I've gotten to see the commercials that they did on you. And I've gotten to see some of the most vicious commercials I've ever seen of Michelle Obama talking about you, Hillary."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 11th, 2016



A Newsweek journalist wrote that, not Blumenthal


Donald Trump
Says Sidney Blumenthal wrote that the Benghazi attack was "almost certainly preventable. Clinton was in charge of the State Department, and it failed to protect U.S. personnel and an American consulate in Libya."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 11th, 2016



There's laughter, but not at the girl


Donald Trump
Says after Hillary Clinton helped a man accused of raping a 12-year-old, "she's seen laughing on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, October 10th, 2016



She wants to protect Obamacare


Donald Trump
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to go to a single-payer plan" for health care
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, October 9th, 2016



No such duty exists, experts say


Donald Trump
Says he has "a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, October 9th, 2016



No figures to back that figure


Donald Trump
"In her campaign for president, Hillary Clinton has received $100 million in contributions from Wall Street and hedge funds."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, October 6th, 2016



What about Bernie?


Donald Trump
Says to Hillary Clinton, "You heard what I said about (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal), and all of a sudden you were against it."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 27th, 2016



A minor change, and not due to Trump


Donald Trump
"NATO is opening up a major terror division. ... I'm sure I'm not going to get credit for it, but that was largely because of what I was saying and my criticism of NATO."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 27th, 2016



All based on assumptions


Donald Trump
Says "Hillary Clinton's plan would bring in 620,000 refugees in her first term, alone, with no effective way to screen or vet them. Her plan would cost $400 billion in terms of lifetime welfare and entitlement costs."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 27th, 2016



Figure is cherrypicked, refers to 30 years period


Donald Trump
Says Hillary Clinton’s energy agenda "will cost the U.S. economy over $5 trillion"
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 27th, 2016



Despite repetition, still not true


Donald Trump
Says top Clinton advisers "were pressing" birther movement stories "very hard."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 27th, 2016



For the nth time...


Donald Trump
"I did not support the war in Iraq … The record shows that I’m right."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, September 26th, 2016



Only returns would show taxes paid, charitable giving


Donald Trump
"You will learn more about Donald Trump by going down to the Federal Elections" to see the financial disclosure form than by looking at tax returns.
— PolitiFact National on Monday, September 26th, 2016



He didn't object when asked about it, twice


Donald Trump
"I never said" that Muslims would be subject to profiling under his policies.
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, September 21st, 2016



A repeated falsehood


Donald Trump
"Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 16th, 2016



His campaign stuck by this claim


Donald Trump
"Our veterans, in many cases, are being treated worse than illegal immigrants."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 9th, 2016



More like cautious acceptance


Donald Trump
"I was totally against the war in Iraq."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, September 7th, 2016



Tax returns are a glaring omission


Donald Trump
"I released the most extensive financial review of anybody in the history of politics. … You don't learn much in a tax return."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, September 7th, 2016



A lot of fertilizer here


Donald Trump
"Hillary Clinton wants to shut down family farms" using "radical regulation," by raising business tax "rates as high as nearly 50 percent" and by taxing "family farms again at death by as much as 45 percent."
— PolitiFact Iowa on Wednesday, August 31st
Doing some day drinking are we?
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Poor dickmuncher still doesn't get it. As Salena Zito famously wrote - Trump's "supporters take him seriously, but not literally." They know we're finally heading in the right direction. They laugh at the gotcha-playing fact-checkers in the libtard media.

Trump is a performance artist. Like Lady Gaga. Now sit back and enjoy the show, cocksucker.

Trump as Lady Gaga

Trump is a political performance artist, challenging what we think is normal.


By Daniel Henninger
Dec. 7, 2016 6:47 p.m. ET

It is 12:13 a.m. and the president-elect of the United States, who has just named retired Marine Gen. James Mattis as his Secretary of Defense, is watching “Saturday Night Live.” Alec Baldwin is impersonating him. The president-elect tweets: “Just tried watching Saturday Night Live - unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can’t get any worse. Sad.”

Twenty minutes later, from the SNL set, Alec Baldwin tweets he’ll stop if the president-elect will release his tax returns. How is it possible that a man who selects Jim Mattis for Defense on Thursday can be in a tweet smackdown with Alec Baldwin Sunday morning? The answer is coming into view. Donald Trump is Lady Gaga. He is a performance artist.

He is challenging what we think is normal—first for a presidential campaign and now for the presidency.

He’s Andy Warhol silk-screening nine Jackie Kennedys. You can’t do that. Oh yes he can. Currently Donald Trump is silk-screening American corporations: Ford, Carrier, Rexnord, Boeing. Andy Warhol called his studio The Factory. Reince Priebus, Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon are now in Donald Trump’s Factory. Like everyone else, they’ve got to figure out what’s coming next.

Lady Gaga once talked about the doubters in an interview: “They would say, ‘This is too racy, too dance-oriented, too underground. It’s not marketable.’ And I would say, ‘My name is Lady Gaga, I’ve been on the music scene for years, and I’m telling you, this is what’s next.’ And look.... I was right.” Who does that sound like?

In “The Art of the Deal,” Donald Trump described what he was up to: “I play to people’s fantasies.” Anti-Trumpers will say: Precisely. We can’t have a performance artist as president of the United States. That’s irrelevant now.

In four years it may be possible to say that making a performance artist president was a mistake. But that will only be true if he fails. If the Trump method succeeds, even reasonably so, it will be important to understand his art from the start.

So far, the media and the comedians are stuck in pre-Trump consciousness. You’d think the comedians would get it, but getting laughs from left-wing audiences has taken a toll.

Consider two Trump tweet performances:

Jill Stein commences her preposterous recounts and the press analyzes the threat to the Trump electoral-college victory. Suddenly, the president-elect tweets that “millions” voted illegally for Hillary. The press pivots from Jill Stein to prove, across several days, that the Trump claim is “bogus.” Like any smart performance artist, he’s made the strait-laced audience part of his act.

One day later, @realDonald Trump tweets: “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!” Now he’s the Queen of Hearts. Off with their heads! And like terriers chasing another tossed ball, the media ran down every case on the subject to prove, “court rulings forbid it.” That is true. The courts forbid it. But if it is important to comprehend a president’s mind and intentions, it will be pointless if the media does nothing more the next four years than consider its job done if it microscopically fact-checks and flyspecks everything Donald Trump tweets.

Donald Trump treats the truth as only one of several props he’s willing to use to achieve an effect. Truth sits on his workbench alongside hyperbole, sentimentality, bluster and just kidding. Use as needed.

Another important distinction: Performers merely entertain. Performance artists challenge, subvert and alter. They may be slightly crazy, but they’re crazy serious, though usually a little unclear about where they’re going.

Donald Trump’s voters believed the country was going in the wrong direction—the most powerful metric in the election. They thought he was the one person who shared their sense of wrong direction. These voters wanted to move from point A (Obama) to point B (post-Obama), and they were willing to see the facts bent if indeed they could arrive at point B, such as an improvement in their economic well-being or escape from the politically correct alt-left.

Treating the presidency as political performance art has multiple liabilities. An initially exciting performance can turn tedious. I’ve talked to Trumpians, die-hards from day one, who think the tweets worked in the campaign but not for the Oval Office. An overworked exclamation point loses its meaning!

Will Donald Trump, like Madonna, be driven to ever more outrageous public performances (“Cancel order!”) to keep the world’s attention trained on his persona? From Beijing to Washington, he’s got the world’s attention.

Some of America’s most charismatic presidents were also public performance artists who challenged and overturned status quos: Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan. All of them knew that a successful American presidency would be measured by a totality greater than their public performances.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-as...aga-1481154430




dilbert firestorm's Avatar
wow, that was a long post. i fell asleep reading it.
Trumploni...a pathological lying, paranoid schizophrenic. So sad!
LexusLover's Avatar
Trumploni...a pathological lying, paranoid schizophrenic. So sad! Originally Posted by Prolongus
It'll be okay. Hopefully you will get through the Anger Stage of grieving and move on to "bargaining," which will mean seeking a willingness to compromise.

1. denial
2. anger
3. bargaining
4. depression and
5. acceptance

Phase 3 will be short-lived and then you'll have to work on that "depression" when you realize that all this time you've wasted on whining, rejecting, blubbering, lashing out, name-calling, marginalizing, distorting, being petty, and ridiculing didn't work! So, acceptance won't take long, as you realize that you voted for the wrong person.

In the end the folks around you will have decent jobs, your 401K will be fat, your taxes will be lower, and you will feel guilty for all of those bad things you've thought and said about Trump. You don't have to admit publicly you were wrong.

God will forgive you and bless you, like God blesses America.
LexusLover's Avatar
Poor dickmuncher still doesn't get it. Originally Posted by lustylad
He's got small hands to go with this small mind.

He too is in the grieving process, so I cut him some slack.

God does also.
It'll be okay. Hopefully you will get through the Anger Stage of grieving and move on to "bargaining," which will mean seeking a willingness to compromise.

1. denial
2. anger
3. bargaining
4. depression and
5. acceptance

Phase 3 will be short-lived and then you'll have to work on that "depression" when you realize that all this time you've wasted on whining, rejecting, blubbering, lashing out, name-calling, marginalizing, distorting, being petty, and ridiculing didn't work! So, acceptance won't take long, as you realize that you voted for the wrong person.

In the end the folks around you will have decent jobs, your 401K will be fat, your taxes will be lower, and you will feel guilty for all of those bad things you've thought and said about Trump. You don't have to admit publicly you were wrong.

God will forgive you and bless you, like God blesses America. Originally Posted by LexusLover
Thanks for your concern and deep thoughts, Lemming-In-Chief!
LexusLover's Avatar
Thanks for your concern and deep thoughts, Lemming-In-Chief! Originally Posted by Prolongus
It appears for you to "graduate" from the Anger Level you will have to utilize some Anger Management counseling or course work.

Perhaps that should be an item in the new legislation regarding "health care," since "good health" is often dependent upon a "healthy mental condition"!

To further facilitate the effort deductions for coloring books and comfort pets with appropriate supplies, crayolas, food, and vet visits should get Congressional approval.

Hopefully with "the Village" assisting you there will be "movement" (not bowels ... with you that's a different issue) ... from "anger" to "bargaining"!
Munchmasterman's Avatar
Doing some day drinking are we? Originally Posted by canuckeight
I see you believe all that trump bullshit could drive a person to drink, but sorry no, no drinking.
Poor dickmuncher still doesn't get it. As Salena Zito famously wrote - Trump's "supporters take him seriously, but not literally." They know we're finally heading in the right direction. They laugh at the gotcha-playing fact-checkers in the libtard media.

Trump is a performance artist. Like Lady Gaga. Now sit back and enjoy the show, cocksucker.

Trump as Lady Gaga

Trump is a political performance artist, challenging what we think is normal.


By Daniel Henninger
Dec. 7, 2016 6:47 p.m. ET

It is 12:13 a.m. and the president-elect of the United States, who has just named retired Marine Gen. James Mattis as his Secretary of Defense, is watching “Saturday Night Live.” Alec Baldwin is impersonating him. The president-elect tweets: “Just tried watching Saturday Night Live - unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can’t get any worse. Sad.”

Twenty minutes later, from the SNL set, Alec Baldwin tweets he’ll stop if the president-elect will release his tax returns. How is it possible that a man who selects Jim Mattis for Defense on Thursday can be in a tweet smackdown with Alec Baldwin Sunday morning? The answer is coming into view. Donald Trump is Lady Gaga. He is a performance artist.

He is challenging what we think is normal—first for a presidential campaign and now for the presidency.

He’s Andy Warhol silk-screening nine Jackie Kennedys. You can’t do that. Oh yes he can. Currently Donald Trump is silk-screening American corporations: Ford, Carrier, Rexnord, Boeing. Andy Warhol called his studio The Factory. Reince Priebus, Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon are now in Donald Trump’s Factory. Like everyone else, they’ve got to figure out what’s coming next.

Lady Gaga once talked about the doubters in an interview: “They would say, ‘This is too racy, too dance-oriented, too underground. It’s not marketable.’ And I would say, ‘My name is Lady Gaga, I’ve been on the music scene for years, and I’m telling you, this is what’s next.’ And look.... I was right.” Who does that sound like?

In “The Art of the Deal,” Donald Trump described what he was up to: “I play to people’s fantasies.” Anti-Trumpers will say: Precisely. We can’t have a performance artist as president of the United States. That’s irrelevant now.

In four years it may be possible to say that making a performance artist president was a mistake. But that will only be true if he fails. If the Trump method succeeds, even reasonably so, it will be important to understand his art from the start.

So far, the media and the comedians are stuck in pre-Trump consciousness. You’d think the comedians would get it, but getting laughs from left-wing audiences has taken a toll.

Consider two Trump tweet performances:

Jill Stein commences her preposterous recounts and the press analyzes the threat to the Trump electoral-college victory. Suddenly, the president-elect tweets that “millions” voted illegally for Hillary. The press pivots from Jill Stein to prove, across several days, that the Trump claim is “bogus.” Like any smart performance artist, he’s made the strait-laced audience part of his act.

One day later, @realDonald Trump tweets: “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!” Now he’s the Queen of Hearts. Off with their heads! And like terriers chasing another tossed ball, the media ran down every case on the subject to prove, “court rulings forbid it.” That is true. The courts forbid it. But if it is important to comprehend a president’s mind and intentions, it will be pointless if the media does nothing more the next four years than consider its job done if it microscopically fact-checks and flyspecks everything Donald Trump tweets.

Donald Trump treats the truth as only one of several props he’s willing to use to achieve an effect. Truth sits on his workbench alongside hyperbole, sentimentality, bluster and just kidding. Use as needed.

Another important distinction: Performers merely entertain. Performance artists challenge, subvert and alter. They may be slightly crazy, but they’re crazy serious, though usually a little unclear about where they’re going.

Donald Trump’s voters believed the country was going in the wrong direction—the most powerful metric in the election. They thought he was the one person who shared their sense of wrong direction. These voters wanted to move from point A (Obama) to point B (post-Obama), and they were willing to see the facts bent if indeed they could arrive at point B, such as an improvement in their economic well-being or escape from the politically correct alt-left.

Treating the presidency as political performance art has multiple liabilities. An initially exciting performance can turn tedious. I’ve talked to Trumpians, die-hards from day one, who think the tweets worked in the campaign but not for the Oval Office. An overworked exclamation point loses its meaning!

Will Donald Trump, like Madonna, be driven to ever more outrageous public performances (“Cancel order!”) to keep the world’s attention trained on his persona? From Beijing to Washington, he’s got the world’s attention.

Some of America’s most charismatic presidents were also public performance artists who challenged and overturned status quos: Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan. All of them knew that a successful American presidency would be measured by a totality greater than their public performances.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-as...aga-1481154430




Originally Posted by lustylad
Trump didn't write "art of the deal".
A ghost writer did douche-bag.
wow, that was a long post. i fell asleep reading it. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
I can tell. I've read your "sleep writing" responses.
It'll be okay. Hopefully you will get through the Anger Stage of grieving and move on to "bargaining," which will mean seeking a willingness to compromise.

1. denial
2. anger
3. bargaining
4. depression and
5. acceptance

Phase 3 will be short-lived and then you'll have to work on that "depression" when you realize that all this time you've wasted on whining, rejecting, blubbering, lashing out, name-calling, marginalizing, distorting, being petty, and ridiculing didn't work! So, acceptance won't take long, as you realize that you voted for the wrong person.

In the end the folks around you will have decent jobs, your 401K will be fat, your taxes will be lower, and you will feel guilty for all of those bad things you've thought and said about Trump. You don't have to admit publicly you were wrong.

God will forgive you and bless you, like God blesses America. Originally Posted by LexusLover
Can't address the OP?
Go back to fisting bambitcho, Tanto.
He's got small hands to go with this small mind.

He too is in the grieving process, so I cut him some slack.

God does also. Originally Posted by LexusLover
So now you know what God will do?
30000 plus and losing ground fast.
Can't comment so he takes the post credit and runs.
Fucking big pink font douche-bag.
It appears for you to "graduate" from the Anger Level you will have to utilize some Anger Management counseling or course work.

Perhaps that should be an item in the new legislation regarding "health care," since "good health" is often dependent upon a "healthy mental condition"!

To further facilitate the effort deductions for coloring books and comfort pets with appropriate supplies, crayolas, food, and vet visits should get Congressional approval.

Hopefully with "the Village" assisting you there will be "movement" (not bowels ... with you that's a different issue) ... from "anger" to "bargaining"! Originally Posted by LexusLover
It's okay. You got the post credit.
Now shut the fuck up, Tanto.
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Assmuncher, little dick, long tongue.