2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumOver/under on whether Trump starts talking about skipping the next debate by this evening.
Any takers?
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,865 posts)Why should he skip the next one?
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,185 posts)Just like he wants us to think he's worth $10 billion.
Just like for years he wanted us to think President Obama wasn't a natural born citizen, and then he wanted us to think that he was the one who proved he was born in the US.
Just like he wants us to think he can't release his tax returns because of an audit.
Heart of hearts there's a lot of what Donald Trump says that he absolutely knows is total bullshit when he's saying it, but that doesn't stop him from making it sound as though he wants us to believe what he says is the truth.
The truth is incredibly relative when it comes to him.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,865 posts)and that all of his handlers are telling him exactly that.
I also doubt he knows when he's bullshitting, that he believes, at least in the moment, whatever it is he's saying. He sincerely thinks that not paying contractors is a good business practice, as is getting other investors to take the risk in his projects. And that not renting to African Americans is a good business practice. And that Obama really was not born in this country, until he decided otherwise.'
As you so correctly said, "The truth is incredibly relative when it comes to him." He lives in a version of reality in which whatever he says is true, at least when he says it.
So I do believe that he thinks he really did win the debate. Actually, he's not the only one. Lots of his supporters likewise think so. In reality, truth is often relative. What we here see as the truth about the campaign and every single thing connected to it is not how others see it. We need to understand that, otherwise we might start thinking that Hillary's superiority and better fitness to be President is so incredibly obvious that we'll lose complete sight of the fact that not everyone out there agrees with us.