I don't think Chumpy has the mental ability to know how this shutdown is damaging the US,

[MoonRiver]

including his political ambitions. Somebody, preferably McTurtle, needs to intervene, but I doubt that turd will. God help our country.

[OnDoutside]

1. I disagree. He knows but he doesn't care. His concern is winning

in whatever manner that will get him the win.

[MoonRiver]

5. It's definitely not helping him.

He's blamed by most Americans for the shutdown, per about 4 polls.

[OnDoutside]

28. Definitely so. The resolution is GOP senators buckling. Trump just won't,

And McConnell is too much of a dick...I'd be surprised if he runs again.

[lark]

27. I agree.

He knows how bad this is and is laughing at all the hurt he's causing. His master told him that doing this would hurt Dems chances in 2020, so he's definitely not going to stop. He also told him this would stop all the court cases (absent Mueller, of course) against him, his family and his criminal enterprises. drumpf only does what he thinks is good for him, for his pocketbook, and PUtin told him this is a way to hurt his enemies who voted against him in the mid-terms. drumpf hates us and is laughing at the pain he's causing. Until his funders turn on him, this will not stop. When large airports used by congress critters and the ultra rich are shuttered due to lack of TSA and Air Traffic Controllers, he will make a deal because he's a giant pussy.

[dlk]

2. Trump Knows, He Really Just Doesn't Care - He Lacks a Conscience

It's always and only all about him.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Not at all, but he doesnt care, at all. Putin is in charge.

The thing we have to DEMAND our media say out loud is PUTIN is in charge.

Putin wants to DESTROY us. He is. We have to fight back for real.

[Claritie Pixie]

4. Disagree. I think all of this is by design to destabilize and break the government.

If he's a Russian agent which seems likely, it's been planned.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Rump has the IQ and maturity of a 9 yr old child.

He knows putin has told him to go with shutdown if possible because it will harm us.

Rump knows nothing but is aware enough to know he works for putin.

This isnt my opinion, I and others have watched him and read him for many years. He is a complete idiot who is incapable of learning.

ALL of his business ventures go bankrupt eventually unless he has someone else make decisions which is rare.

[MoonRiver]

8. He's a useful, but fully complicit, Idiot.

[Claritie Pixie]

9. I am not so sure he's the dum dum he portrays.

He may be but he's a showman - a snake oil salesman - and may just be playing a part to deflect.

[Eliot Rosewater]

12. He is dumb. Let me put it this way...

You can be relatively dumb but know when someone is clapping or smiling.

He will say ANYTHING to ANYONE and when they smile or clap, he simply repeats it, in some cases for years.

Add to that he is a racist and he has a built in audience.

[Botany]

7. I used to think that but I think Trump is now and has been actively working to bring down America ..

... from the inside under the orders of Putin and to stop the investigations into his ties to Russia and
election meddling.

[Eliot Rosewater]

13. Oh no, that is simple. Putin tells him to do A, he does A. Takes no intellect at all.

He cant learn, barely reads.

He is dumb. He knows NOTHING about business, BTW.

I could prove it if I was allowed to ask him 5 BASIC busiuness questions as he would not know the answer to any of them and would give me this look


https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5b4ce8cc9bedd20c4002b78d/master/w_768,c_limit/Trump-Putin-Muscle-Flexing.jpg


This is the look of someone who knows nothing about why he is in the room, nothing.

[Botany]

20. And in this picture he looks like something out of a Fellini film

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181170460

Where have we gone so wrong that this image looks like something out of a Federico Fellini movie? Gold candelabras, sterling silver gravy boats from Lincoln’s White House with dipping sauce for Chicken McNuggets, cold crappy fast food sandwiches on silver trays,
warm salads, White House employees doing acts they know are crazy, a world famous portrait of Abe Lincoln in the background and a crazy looking “Fellini clown” over seeing this shit show. And all the time our government is shut down over something that is not a
problem and the shut down is no doubt because of orders from Vlad Putin.

Talk about down the rabbit hole.

[Eliot Rosewater]

21. My entire body is in a constant state of RAGE at the idea any human still supports him

[Botany]

22. You have 20 to 35% of the American people who think that:

Barack Obama is a n****r and that Hillary is a d**e b***h and until
they are personally hurt by Republican/Trump's actions they are fine
with him. Look @ the GM workers in Lordstown, OH who had their jobs
saved by Obama but still some of them went and voted for Trump in 2016.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. More likely he just doesn't care.

He doesn't care about damage to others as long as it doesn't damage him. However, he does lack enough understanding of politics and life in general to be able to figure out that eventually the shutdown will cost him. Bigly.

[dchill]

11. He is incapable of empathy. He is a sociopath.

[maxsolomon]

24. This is the salient point.

His sociopathic supporters don't care either.

Witness Coulter dismissing NP closures as "the gift shop". Has she ever stepped foot in a real NP, not just the clock tower at Trump's hotel in DC?

All that matters is the fight - forcing Dems to concede.

[dchill]

29. Sociopathy in some degree is a prerequisite...

to qualify as a Trump supporter. Everything else is just extra cheese on a rancid pizza.

[RobinA]

14. I'll Go With

doesn't know, doesn't care. He has no idea what it's like to work for a paycheck and to not have enough money. Or even limited money. Born on home plate, doesn't even think he hit a home run, thinks he deserved to be there and had special dispensation not to run the bases in order to score.

I don't believe there's any Putin-conspiracy, it's about him getting his way.

[democratisphere]

15. When a so called president does what drumpf has done with the government shutdown,

that so called president is not fit to hold office.

[duforsure]

16. trump knows but he could care less

About anyone but himself. When he speaks its a constant projection from him to the reality he wants. He has no room for anyone else in it.

[RockRaven]

17. In order for him to behave differently, he's have to understand AND care.

He does not do either. Explaining crap to him is pointless if he isn't going to care anyway. So they don't just need to get him to understand, but manipulate him into giving a crap. That's a heavy lift. Seems like it would be easier just to trick him or lie to him.

[lame54]

18. He's loving it...

The country is falling apart and all he has to do is nothing
Absolutely nothing
The easiesy way to get the results he wants

[ecstatic]

19. McConnell needs to put the CR on the floor NOW!

Or resign so that a real leader can take charge.

[ooky]

23. He is mentally ill, but it doesn't prevent him from knowing he is hurting people

and hurting the country. He doesn't care because he is an evil man.

[redstatebluegirl]

25. He thinks it only damages Democrats.

His inability to understand any concept beyond the 4th grade level is amazing to me.

[hibbing]

26. Him and his sleazy family are grifting like MOFOs, he does not care n/t