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Arkansas Granny

(31,538 posts)
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 06:47 AM Nov 2018

Trump says he regrets the tone he used during first 2 years in office

President Donald Trump said he regrets the tone he has used during his first two years in office during an exclusive interview with Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Trump said if there was anything he would try and redo it would be to soften his tone.

"I would like to have a much softer tone. I feel to a certain extent I have no choice, but maybe I do," Trump said. He attributed his tone during his first two years in office to wanting to get things done on his agenda, adding that he could have been softer in his delivery.

The president also stated that he had doubts about using a softer tone because he might have been "swamped" by his opposition.

https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/trump-says-he-regrets-the-tone-he-used-during-first-2-years-in-office


He's facing the fact that Democrats are probably taking the House and he's trying to "make nice". Too little, too late, orange one. Let the investigations begin!
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Trump says he regrets the tone he used during first 2 years in office (Original Post) Arkansas Granny Nov 2018 OP
tRump* is a liar and a bully... kinder, gentler tRump* is all part of the con... Raster Nov 2018 #1
He will say anything Roy Rolling Nov 2018 #41
+1 Crutchez_CuiBono Nov 2018 #52
What a load. catbyte Nov 2018 #2
Yeah! He hasn't been in office two years, yet, and regrets not going full Stalin & Nazi earlier. TheBlackAdder Nov 2018 #31
He's Lying, Bigly BBG Nov 2018 #3
He's trying to flim-flam the Republican that is sitting on the fence because of his "tone"... kentuck Nov 2018 #4
Yes. Very transparent, but Republicans aren't known for their critical thinking skills (as he WELL deurbano Nov 2018 #66
It would be funny Dorian Gray Nov 2018 #5
If you believe that duforsure Nov 2018 #6
bullshit. All one has to do is look at the people in his administration, to realize he is a lying still_one Nov 2018 #7
I even remember Trump True Blue American Nov 2018 #13
He is just doing his typical con job still_one Nov 2018 #17
and yes, I'm next in line to become pope....... sunonmars Nov 2018 #8
Did you fill out your Paplication? rpannier Nov 2018 #43
FOF malaise Nov 2018 #9
Too little too late. Being a racist, misogynist pig inciting KKK, Nazi's and Supremacists Wintryjade Nov 2018 #10
The guy is such a jerk, opportunist and liar. He looks/acts like a cheap bullying vaudeville act. nt RKP5637 Nov 2018 #11
That is 100% correct malaise Nov 2018 #12
Still can't think of anything that you need forgiveness for? czarjak Nov 2018 #14
That's not a regret. It's an excuse. Raven123 Nov 2018 #15
If only you people would just do what I want, I wouldn't have to yell! unblock Nov 2018 #16
Not belicose enough? Alpeduez21 Nov 2018 #18
"Sinclair Broadcast Group" Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2018 #19
Right sarge43 Nov 2018 #20
Trump regrets nothing. honest.abe Nov 2018 #21
Someone tell Tiny we won't be singing kumbayah with him tomorrow. Vinca Nov 2018 #22
His lips were moving. I don't believe a word. And even if - who wants a nice liar? marble falls Nov 2018 #23
Whatever, people have made up ther mind dewsgirl Nov 2018 #24
Like everything else that comes out of his mouth, it's a lie. LuckyCharms Nov 2018 #25
On the same day he doubled down on Pocahantas?! - Yeah riiiiigggggght. hexola Nov 2018 #26
Exactly. dalton99a Nov 2018 #29
NOT A SINGLE FUCK GIVEN! In It to Win It Nov 2018 #27
Fuck you, traitor. dalton99a Nov 2018 #28
Riiiiiight.... NotAPuppet Nov 2018 #30
Oh, he regrets NOTHING. Laffy Kat Nov 2018 #32
A guy you'd really like to go get a beer with. lpbk2713 Nov 2018 #33
Give me a break. demmiblue Nov 2018 #34
Somewhere, Bob Mueller cracks a smile Mr. Ected Nov 2018 #35
I so hope you're right. I keep thinking that after the election, something is going Arkansas Granny Nov 2018 #37
Not as much as he'll regret today. Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #36
Lol. I certainly hope so. Arkansas Granny Nov 2018 #39
Keeping my fingers, eyes, legs and boobs crossed, Arkansas Granny. Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #45
Trump says a lot of things, and he is consistent ... Martin Eden Nov 2018 #38
What a crock of you-know-what. llmart Nov 2018 #40
He can't even be contrite correctly Tarc Nov 2018 #42
Typical things abusers say, #12 Iterate Nov 2018 #44
Lie, number 6108!! sinkingfeeling Nov 2018 #46
he's trying like hell to quickly cover the blood on the floor before the police show up. Javaman Nov 2018 #47
For Once, He's Staying On Script ProfessorGAC Nov 2018 #48
Musta been sitting on his golden throne... N_E_1 for Tennis Nov 2018 #49
He doesn't mean any of it. Do not trust him. He already showed us who he is. brush Nov 2018 #50
He ended last night with a chant of lock her up. bronxiteforever Nov 2018 #51
He thinks we're alllll a bunch of rubes. Crutchez_CuiBono Nov 2018 #53
let me guess mercuryblues Nov 2018 #54
He is incapable of regrets get the red out Nov 2018 #55
It was just trump being trump, nothing else Perseus Nov 2018 #56
If that is his only regret he hasn't been paying attention. dameatball Nov 2018 #57
I was expecting Borowitz DBoon Nov 2018 #58
Is that softer side going to last until tomorrow? appleannie1943 Nov 2018 #59
Lie #14 for that day. GoCubsGo Nov 2018 #60
he finally got it, GOP is going down today and HE will be held responsible....and then his life beachbum bob Nov 2018 #61
What? - Did He Use Too Much Orange......nt global1 Nov 2018 #62
Trumps tone pamdb Nov 2018 #63
To hell with a "softer tone," asshole -- just STFU! LastLiberal in PalmSprings Nov 2018 #64
"I regret showing zentrum Nov 2018 #65
Oh please. He has no regret and he can't be AllyCat Nov 2018 #67
MAGA Liar. nt NCjack Nov 2018 #68
Bullshit. Nt Sunsky Nov 2018 #69
When I read the headline, I thought, BadgerMom Nov 2018 #70
Now there's some complete and utter desparation, for you. Paladin Nov 2018 #71
Sounds like someone has confused Election Day with April Fool's Day. (n/t) thesquanderer Nov 2018 #72
That's a huge pile of bull fecal matter. He lies about his lies. spanone Nov 2018 #73
It's nice that you recognize the error of your ways, Don. Buns_of_Fire Nov 2018 #74
LOL ck4829 Nov 2018 #75
As of when? HopeAgain Nov 2018 #76
????? OK, chalk it up to one of today's half dozen lies. LAS14 Nov 2018 #77
May not be bullshit...could be... Wounded Bear Nov 2018 #78
But did he apologize for all his nastiness? ...No. C_U_L8R Nov 2018 #79
That may be the biggest lie Trump ever told YessirAtsaFact Nov 2018 #80
He's been an ass since the interview. He just said some words there. nolabear Nov 2018 #81

Raster

(20,998 posts)
1. tRump* is a liar and a bully... kinder, gentler tRump* is all part of the con...
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 06:54 AM
Nov 2018

...and a realization that he could be knee-deep in shit. Not to worry... he'll find someone to blame, he always does.

Roy Rolling

(6,943 posts)
41. He will say anything
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 08:46 AM
Nov 2018

And all of what he says are lies.

Including this. It's a lie. He only regrets it didn't work. Blue wave.

BBG

(2,561 posts)
3. He's Lying, Bigly
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 06:58 AM
Nov 2018

He has no capacity for self-reflection and so cannot form the basis for regret. His lips move and so he lies.

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
4. He's trying to flim-flam the Republican that is sitting on the fence because of his "tone"...
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 07:01 AM
Nov 2018

He acts desperate.

deurbano

(2,896 posts)
66. Yes. Very transparent, but Republicans aren't known for their critical thinking skills (as he WELL
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:37 AM
Nov 2018

knows), so might as well give it a shot!

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
6. If you believe that
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 07:07 AM
Nov 2018

I got a bridge to sell you. The Democrats are going to vote them all out of office , and this is the begining of things to come, and he knows it. Now the Democrats to get the younger vote on their side should at once pass Medical MJ federally and start the process of gaining their votes too, and stop their being criminalized for their prisons for profits. trump would have to have feeling to regret anything. Its all an act for con man trump now. The Dems need to send bill after bill to him to be signed showing his true intentions, not his BS. Especially issues more republicans are now supporting.

still_one

(92,491 posts)
7. bullshit. All one has to do is look at the people in his administration, to realize he is a lying
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 07:07 AM
Nov 2018

POS.

He has been an asshole all his life

Are people's memories that short that they don't remember his birther lies?

What people need to realize is that socio-paths will say and do anything. They have no sense of right or wrong.



True Blue American

(17,995 posts)
13. I even remember Trump
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 07:25 AM
Nov 2018

Cutting his disabled nephews health Insurance. He has always been a useless blob,even in the days he cheated transferring his Fathers money. His sister, MaryAnne is also a crook, creating a non existent company to transfer her Fathers money. That is now under investigation.

Winning the office by cheating with Russians may be his worst mistake, now they are being exposed.

rpannier

(24,349 posts)
43. Did you fill out your Paplication?
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 08:55 AM
Nov 2018

I would lay claim to the term, but Stephen Colbert claimed trademark about fifteen years ago

 

Wintryjade

(814 posts)
10. Too little too late. Being a racist, misogynist pig inciting KKK, Nazi's and Supremacists
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 07:16 AM
Nov 2018

is much more than a mere tone he thinks he might have to soften.

Raven123

(4,917 posts)
15. That's not a regret. It's an excuse.
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 07:35 AM
Nov 2018

Read closely. He said he needed use racist, angry, fesrmomgering lies to enact his agenda.

Alpeduez21

(1,759 posts)
18. Not belicose enough?
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 07:45 AM
Nov 2018

Screw repukes and everything they represent.

Remember: Trump is the symptom of the disease that is republicans.


Vote in every election like you feel about THIS election.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,543 posts)
19. "Sinclair Broadcast Group"
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 07:49 AM
Nov 2018

Gee, everybody should trust Sinclair and TrumPutin, they rank right up there with Mother Teresa. Irony, sarcasm, and satire have been brutally murdered.

Someday, when TrumPutin and his crime family are locked away and can no longer damage decent society, I hope we have a functioning FCC and FTC that actually work for "consumers" instead of conglomerates.

sarge43

(28,946 posts)
20. Right
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 07:52 AM
Nov 2018

Then almost in the same breath, makes noise that police will be watching for voter fraud today, in short a threat. What, they going to shoot anyone whose signatures don't match?

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
24. Whatever, people have made up ther mind
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 07:57 AM
Nov 2018

at this point. If Dems take rhe house, he will double down ..on his behavior.

 

hexola

(4,835 posts)
26. On the same day he doubled down on Pocahantas?! - Yeah riiiiigggggght.
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 07:58 AM
Nov 2018

He said this same bullshit right before the vote in 2016 - "I'll have a different tone once Im in office" or something like that...

NotAPuppet

(326 posts)
30. Riiiiiight....
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 08:05 AM
Nov 2018

a softer tone. From “lock her up” to “put her in jail”. Trumpelina is truly a changed man!

Laffy Kat

(16,391 posts)
32. Oh, he regrets NOTHING.
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 08:06 AM
Nov 2018

Just a pathetic and transparent attempt to appear introspective. Someone grab me a distress bag.


Mr. Ected

(9,674 posts)
35. Somewhere, Bob Mueller cracks a smile
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 08:29 AM
Nov 2018

No, motherfucker, your biggest regret is the pile of indictments I'm about to unleash on you and your contemptible family.

Arkansas Granny

(31,538 posts)
37. I so hope you're right. I keep thinking that after the election, something is going
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 08:33 AM
Nov 2018

to come out in the investigation.

Martin Eden

(12,881 posts)
38. Trump says a lot of things, and he is consistent ...
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 08:33 AM
Nov 2018

... in that what he says bears no relation to truth (or to what he may have said previously).

llmart

(15,564 posts)
40. What a crock of you-know-what.
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 08:42 AM
Nov 2018

As one of the newscasters on GMA said when reporting this, then he went right out and riled up his supporters with more falsehoods and hatred.

Tarc

(10,478 posts)
42. He can't even be contrite correctly
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 08:49 AM
Nov 2018

"I wish I did, but they made me do it, so I dunno".

Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.

Iterate

(3,020 posts)
44. Typical things abusers say, #12
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 08:59 AM
Nov 2018

#12, "I'm sorry" Of course, even that is a manipulation. Not mentioned in this list, "I can change"

#19, "Why do you make me hurt you?"

#9, "You're too sensitive."

https://www.domesticshelters.org/domestic-violence-lists/things-abusers-say

I don't think Trump the abuser is brought up often enough, as if victims don't want to mention it.

Another list, this one of abuser traits and tricks. The shoe fits:

http://www.newhopeforwomen.org/abuser-tricks

Javaman

(62,534 posts)
47. he's trying like hell to quickly cover the blood on the floor before the police show up.
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:05 AM
Nov 2018

he's such a piece of shit

ProfessorGAC

(65,326 posts)
48. For Once, He's Staying On Script
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:06 AM
Nov 2018

Someone told him to say that, and for once, he paid attention. That won't last.

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,793 posts)
49. Musta been sitting on his golden throne...
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:07 AM
Nov 2018

when that crap came out of him. It’s not bullshit...it’s trumpshit.

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
56. It was just trump being trump, nothing else
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:13 AM
Nov 2018

trump, last two years you have been you, no reason to excuse yourself, you are a piece of crap, and you cannot escape that, that is the reason why the NY elite has never accepted you, you have no class. You dress a monkey with fine clothes, jewelry, allow it to sit on a golden toilet and it is still a monkey, and the fact that you don't have enough grey matter in your brain to understand that speaks volumes of who you are.

trump, you are a piece of crap, nothing you can say will change that, it hasn't been only the last two years, it has been all your life, you are one of those rare specimens that no matter what it receives, it doesn't learn, it leans automatically towards the bad and the ugly, it is in your blood, embedded in your brain and there is nothing you can do about it. I just hope that justice does what it is supposed to do and that you have plenty of time to think about your life from a prison cell, to think about all the people you have hurt, you may even have time to right a book, or scribble what comes to your pitiful mind to have someone make sense of it and ghostwrite it for you.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
61. he finally got it, GOP is going down today and HE will be held responsible....and then his life
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:23 AM
Nov 2018

changes 1-2-2019 when new democratic congress is sworn in


and oh, perhaps an entire series of Mueller indictments as well

64. To hell with a "softer tone," asshole -- just STFU!
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:27 AM
Nov 2018

Your biggest regret should be that you and Melanoma moved into the WH after more than 3 million people said they'd prefer Hillary over you.

Your second biggest regret should be selling out our country to Putin.

Poor guy -- every morning he has to look at the mirror only to see himself looking back.

AllyCat

(16,251 posts)
67. Oh please. He has no regret and he can't be
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:37 AM
Nov 2018

Softer. He has one way. He’s completely one character and this is it.

C_U_L8R

(45,031 posts)
79. But did he apologize for all his nastiness? ...No.
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 11:14 AM
Nov 2018

The only thing bothering Trump is that he sees his poll numbers in the toilet.
And it's not tone, pal.... it's substance.

YessirAtsaFact

(2,064 posts)
80. That may be the biggest lie Trump ever told
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 11:16 AM
Nov 2018

First, he’s not capable of feeling regret, empathy or a number of other normal human emotions.

Secondly his tone is deliberately cruel. It’s part of the Nazi appeal to racism.

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