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In what way is Trump unusual? He picked up the torch from Ronald Reagan and Trump currently has many people in both branches of Congress who support him and his
by minikites 6y ago
In what way is Trump unusual? He picked up the torch from Ronald Reagan and Trump currently has many people in both branches of Congress who support him and his ideas.
- mhh__ 6y agoI think Trump is unusual in that he is genuinely a stupid man who is incredibly easily manipulated - e.g. See Rex Tillerson's comments on it wrt. having to use pretty graphs and no words for the president, and Bob Woodwards calls. Nixon was a tortured soul, but he was no fool. Beyond that he's not too unique as a president - at least in the abstract: No one else has dared to be so bold in their disregard for the constitution, and yet so inept in executing it.
- mhh__ 6y agoIf you're going to downvote please counterargue. If you can find me some evidence of Donald Trump being a genius then go right ahead...
- pontifier 6y agoI'm still not sure if he can read or not.
- SuoDuanDao 6y agoI'd bet even odds he's dyslexic, that condition is over represented among people in his line of work and would explain a lot of his behaviour.
- SuoDuanDao 6y agoI'm not sure what skills you consider necessary to win both a contested primary election and a national election, but I'd consider many of them intellectual skills and the competition to be of a high level.
- mhh__ 6y agoPresumably you've never heard of the Idiot Savant?
- TheRealSteel 6y agoMoney. Money is what's necessary to win an election in America.
- DuskStar 6y agoBloomberg's presidential run would perhaps be a counterexample there.
- enraged_camel 6y agoMoney and name recognition. If it wasn't for the TV show 'Apprentice', it is doubtful that people would have known who he was. That show is what established his (completely fabricated) reputation as a successful, skillful businessman, and he was able to ride that wave all the way to the White House.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> That show is what established his (completely fabricated) reputation as a successful, skillful businessman Uh, no, The Apprentice traded on that reputation, which had already been established decades earlier.
- enraged_camel 6y agoI meant in the public perception. Most people in America didn't know who Trump was before that show aired.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Most people in America didn't know who Trump was before that show aired. Maybe most people who were quite young when it aired; Trump was a constant media presence from something like the late 1970s well into the 1990s, and sort of a pop culture touchstone for conspicuous excess as well as having a reputation as a successful NYC developer and prolific womanizer.
- peytn 6y agoI just think some of the concerns about Trump veer towards the aesthetic. Some people react to him like they react to a bad painting. The rest is just rationalization. For your specific example, polishing graphs and communicating visually sounds totally valid in the context of any other executive.
- mhh__ 6y agoThe point is that he physically cannot read the papers they give him unless they have absolutely enormous middle school graphs
- fitzie 6y agoI rather the stupid man who approves a pipeline that keeps jobs and money in this country than the smart guy who kills the jobs, sends the money away for oil that will come over in railcars at higher cost, and no benefit for the environment at all, at least according to the scientists.
- Dma54rhs 6y agoPeople just find these comments lazy and boring. Just like calling Biden senile by the other camp etc.
- zzzeek 6y agohundreds of congresspeople and a handful of senators have gleefully supported his attempt at a violent overthrow of the US.