Poll: Was Donald Trump ever fit to hold office of the President?

[zzyzxroad]

No. I met my cousin's daughter's son summer 2016, an English lad of 11 at the time. We sat on a couch with my tablet and laughed our asses off at Trump. I asked him at one point what the English thought of him and his running for POTUS, and he had a one word response: "disgraceful."

Now, I did read "The Art of the Deal," and was quite impressed. This was years before he threw his hat in the ring. Then I found out that the guy who did the actual writing subsequently said that taking on that job was the worst thing he'd ever done and he regretted doing so. Said that Trump is actually a pathological liar. It was basically made up stuff. From that point forward I knew he was a shit. The moment he was declared the winner in 2016, I figured we were in for an unimaginably horrible 4 years and prayed it wouldn't be 8. My prayer now is for a conviction in the Senate on the current impeachment charge because I want him barred from office, period.

I remember thinking of him as peer to D rate celebrates such as Adam Carolla, Andy Dick or Gilbert Gottfried. After he bankrupted casinos in Atlantic City and had to frequent Howard Stern to stay it the public eye.

 

[Muse]

I remember thinking of him as peer to D rate celebrates such as Adam Carolla, Andy Dick or Gilbert Gottfried. After he bankrupted casinos in Atlantic City and had to frequent Howard Stern to stay it the public eye.

Unfortunately, that and $$$ are his obsessions, that, his sex and golf make up his life. Nothing else means anything to him... oh, and there's his McDonalds.

 

[brycejones]

In early 2016 I thought Trump might be an interesting enigma.

Then the first debate VS Hillary sealed my opposition. He promised everyone everything and the moon. All obvious lies and no substance. He wasn't for any positive change. My economic policy is better served by free and open trade. His getting into bed with Republicans for most policy (tax cuts) wasn't going to help anyone.

His decorum and behavior alone disqualified him from being President.
Unfortunately many millions of Americans are apparently just as vile as he is. Humanity unmasked is not a pretty sight.

His speech announcing his candidacy said everything you needed to know. It showed him as someone who was straight up racist and not afraid to say it.

 

[woolfe9998]

WaPo, 30,573 lies told by Trump while in office. Half were from the last year. His rate of lies accelerated almost daily.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-fact-checker-tracked-trump-claims/2021/01/23/ad04b69a-5c1d-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html

Question: at the present rate of acceleration, how many lies would Trump have told at the end of a second term? Is there a way in which he could condense his lies into a kind of shorthand, so that he can squeeze in more in a given day, hence raising the maximum theoretical number of lies per unit of time?

Please see your study guide for further instruction, and make sure to support your answers. Show your work.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Lets recap the last 4 years under him first.....

 

[amenx]

People were warned before the 2016 election. Tony Schwartz (ghost writer of Trumps best selling Art of the Deal book) and who knew him up-close-and-personal very well, was shocked at the prospect that Trump could be prez.

Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All

In “The Art of the Deal,” Tony Schwartz helped create the myth that Trump is a charming business genius. Now he calls him unfit to lead.

www.newyorker.com

 

[Pohemi]

No - see 300k dead Americans, China unchecked, government agencies sabotaged, endless corruption etc

He bankrupted casinos.
Raw dogged porn stars.
He is a sexual predator.
Do I really need to keep going?

+ kids in cages.

No.
He got the job because Americans have weird standards and most of us are easily tricked thanks to a reliance on electronic media and lack of critical thinking. It was inevitable. In fact a great many sociologists and political analysts predicted the American people would eventually elect a complete moron. It makes sense he would at the very least be charismatic. He told 70 million people exactly what they wanted to hear and they bought it.

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

He was right, of course. And his great and glorious future only took ~a century to fall into place.

 

[HomerJS]

WaPo, 30,573 lies told by Trump while in office. Half were from the last year. His rate of lies accelerated almost daily.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-fact-checker-tracked-trump-claims/2021/01/23/ad04b69a-5c1d-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html

Question: at the present rate of acceleration, how many lies would Trump have told at the end of a second term? Is there a way in which he could condense his lies into a kind of shorthand, so that he can squeeze in more in a given day, hence raising the maximum theoretical number of lies per unit of time?

Please see your study guide for further instruction, and make sure to support your answers. Show your work.

Before Trump took office I started an official Donald J. Trump lies thread. I soon realize the folly because it would be a full time job keeping up. He started with a whopper every other day that quickly accelerated.

A few days before taking office I predicted exactly his very first lie. Snowballed from there.

 

[MtnMan]

Before Trump took office I started an official Donald J. Trump lies thread. I soon realize the folly because it would be a full time job keeping up. He started with a whopper every other day that quickly accelerated.

A few days before taking office I predicted exactly his very first lie. Snowballed from there.

I suspect WaPo had to dedicate someone to the task full time, and some days reassign others to help with the sheer volume of lies.

Have you ever been in a fast food restaurant at an interstate exit and watch the panic behind the counter, and call for 'all hands on deck' when a couple of tour buses pull into the parking lot.

 

[woolfe9998]

Before Trump took office I started an official Donald J. Trump lies thread. I soon realize the folly because it would be a full time job keeping up. He started with a whopper every other day that quickly accelerated.

A few days before taking office I predicted exactly his very first lie. Snowballed from there.

This reminds me of my fascination with the "Guinness Book of World Records" and "Ripley's Believe it or Not" when I was a kid. World's fattest man. World's tallest woman. World's largest doughnut. 100 years from now Trump will be in something like that as "World's Most Prolific Liar" and people will be like "no way! No one could ever have lied that many times!"

 

[HomerJS]

This reminds me of my fascination with the "Guinness Book of World Records" and "Ripley's Believe it or Not" when I was a kid. World's fattest man. World's tallest woman. World's largest doughnut. 100 years from now Trump will be in something like that as "World's Most Prolific Liar" and people will be like "no way! No one could ever have lied that many times!"

Imagine this, people in this forum claimed it doesn't matter what the President says. Any of you want to confess the error of your ways?