Trump has lit up social media again.
In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016
In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.
I offered him my quick thought on the subject:
What if we add the millions of people whose votes were suppressed in defiance of the Voting Rights Act? You lying bastard. https://t.co/YpiveYrCoW
— Ophelia Benson (@OpheliaBenson) November 27, 2016
What if we add the millions of people whose votes were suppressed in defiance of the Voting Rights Act? You lying bastard.
Ezra Klein points out that he can’t keep track of his own arguments.
Trump has lost the thread of his own argument. The point of Trump’s tweets was to dismiss those questioning the legitimacy of the vote.
Yes but that’s true only if you regard his tweets as an argument. I consider them blurts, instead; it saves a lot of time.
This perhaps goes without saying, but it’s unnerving that the president-elect can’t restrain himself from making a bad situation worse on Twitter, or even hold himself to the logic of the argument he intended to make and the outcome he wanted to achieve.
Yes. Yes it is. It’s very unnerving that he is that stupid, and undisciplined, and narcissistic, and impulsive. It’s shocking that someone like that can get elected to such a powerful office. I’m unnerved by it multiple times every day. It’s hard to say enough about how terrible it is.
This tweet is an example of Trump’s most dangerous quality: his tendency to mobilize against a threatening, sometimes imaginary Other whenever he himself is under siege.
Most dangerous and possibly most disgusting. His constant lashing out is a revolting thing to see in a head of state.
This tweet is an example of one of Trump’s other dangerous qualities: his tendency to believe what he wants to believe about the world, facts be damned.
To believe it and to try to force it on everyone else. Another bad quality in a head of state.
It has been weeks since Donald Trump won the presidential election, and here is what we can say: he is still just himself. He is governing like he promised. He is appointing the loyalists, lackeys, and extremists he surrounded himself with during the campaign. He is tweeting the same strange, crazed missives, pursuing the same odd and counterproductive vendettas. His conflicts of interest have proven, if anything, worse than expected, and he has shown no shame, restraint, or interest in addressing them.
He will always be just himself. That’s painfully clear. Nothing can shift him.
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8 responses to “More Twitter lies from Trump”
How long before those with whom he’s surrounded himself decide that he’s too much of a liability , even for them, and give him the heave-ho? He doesn’t have the skill, experience or brains to deal with juggling power at these levels. His family is only going to be able help him so much; after that their own gasping and inexperience will be of little use. The bickering and backstabbing has already begun. Washington becomes Imperial Rome. At least some of the architecture fits the plot.
Silly question I suppose, but are their any Republicans left with enough moral and ethical backbone to say “Enough is enough?”
“Enough is enough?”
They’re just getting started!
Sometimes I feel like the real divide this election was between people who can recognize NPD on display and those who can’t.
At least he was right about one thing. The election was rigged. he won.
Someone called Matt Walsh popped up in my FB feed this AM, pointing out that if Trump believes what he says, he is effectively asking for a recount of the *entire election*.
@5: If Trump’s antics get too embarrassing, there’ll be an impeachment over some business dealing or other (I’m sure there’s no shortage of potential cases, given Trump’s history, and he’ll soon start adding to that docket), and Pence will take over. Unfortunately, I’m not really seeing an upside to that.
Stupid, undisciplined, narcissistic, and impulsive.
He may well represent the majority of Americans.
No, I don’t think so. More like, he represents the worst of everyone everywhere. Few people are that terrible on all four of those dimensions all the time. Trump is highly abnormal, in a bad way.