The Election: Attack the ego, attack the delusion, then watch Trump destroy himself.

[shockey80]

For many years I have worked with people who have suffered severe brain injuries. Many of them now suffer with mental illness, delusion and strange behavioral problems. Many of them have some things in common with Trump. I shit you not.

The people I work with and Trump repeat the same patterns, routines, over and over again. They do this as a way to deal and cope with life itself. Disrupt their routine, patterns and they lose control. They will lash out and act out with extreme desperation. They make big mistakes.

Some of the people I work with and Trump seamlessly cross back and forth over the boundary of reality and delusion. This is why Trump is so hard to understand at times. It makes it almost impossible to predict what he will do next. For example: Trump will tell a lie and he knows it is a lie, that's reality. In the next sentence Trump will tell a lie that he believes is True. I am a stable genius, This is delusion. He doesn't even know he is doing it.

Trump does not have a soul, he lacks remorse, empathy. In its place is an ego the size of Mount Everest. Attack it.

If you challenge the people I work with and Trumps delusions they take that as an attack that is completely unbearable. They lose control. They make big mistakes. You are challenging their very sanity. They cannot recognize their own delusions. To them it's true and real.

Some of the people I work with and Trump, emotionally are at grammar school levels. Trump is like a child in many ways. This is major weakness the Democrats should take advantage of.

In my opinion The Democrats running for president should not attack Trump in a normal way, He is not normal. I would like to see all of the Democratic candidates get together and form a coordinated, constant, sustained attack on Trump's Ego and Delusions. He would not be able to handle it.

They could do it this way. Constantly attack Trumps lack of intelligence. Whenever the Democrats attack, mention any of Trumps failures, tie it to his lack of intelligence. Example: Trump failed to build a wall because he and the idea are stupid. I would like to see all the candidates call Trump Stupid, Dummy, give him a nickname like Dumb Donald. This all sounds silly, child like, Right? That's the point. To us it sounds silly, To a mentally ill , insecure child, it is a nightmare.

Attacking Trumps lack of intelligence, attacks both his ego and his Delusion. You kill two birds with one stone. In my opinion, if the Democrats were to do this the American people would witness Trumps brain come apart at the seams. He would destroy himself.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Using the words "Trump lacks"........will drive him crazy...

"Trump lacks energy"

"Trump lacks intellectual curosity."

"Trump lacks a moral compass."

"Trump lacks empathy."

That is not name calling. That is laying the truth to Trump's faults, and there are many. It will drive him insane to hear that day in and day out. It goes for the jugular of his ego .

[Beartracks]

4. Yes, this. Steer clear of name-calling, because...

... it would definitely be perceived by voters and the media as childish and silly, EVEN THOUGH the same from Trump is simply regarded as his personal style.

[sop]

59. They don't have to call Trump nasty names, just tell the truth, like Harry Truman:

"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

On the other hand, Harry could get nasty, too: "Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in." - Harry S Truman

[yonder]

10. Yes.

[Liberalhammer]

46. And hes got a small mushroom dick.

N/t

[dlk]

54. Trump Lacks Basic Spelling Skills...

[pandr32]

2. I am liking the "Dumb Donald"

He would totally fall apart for sure, but no legitimate news source is going to resort to name calling. They would only report that someone else said it--so who?

[shockey80]

5. Dumb Donald would drive him nuts. I would bet money on it.

The major point I am trying to make in my post is Trumps brain, like the brains of the people I work with is nothing like ours. This is how Trump confuses us. You have to deal with, attack Trump in a totally different way.

When you realize this you can see how weak and fragile Trump is. Grown ups running for office do not want to go around calling people Dummy. Its child like. With Trump, that's exactly what you have to do. It's bizarre, Trump is bizarre, everything that has happened the past two years has been bizarre.

It's time for the Democrats to get bizarre. LOL!

[True Blue American]

11. Sad to say

I had a family member just like Trump. That is why he became obvious to me as soon as I heard him.

That walk down that staircase where he had to pay people to applaud him with his Barbie doll wife convinced me.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

17. How about "Donald the Dope" or "Dopey Donald" - he'll get mean & vindictive.

He will become less passive/aggressive, and more aggressive. He'll start "losing it", which might be horrible considering the power he holds (nuclear codes, economy) and the armed, unstable people he has following him. Trump is like the charismatic cult leader Jim Jones. When the jig was up, and Jones was cornered he directed a mass suicide and mass murder of his followers in the remote jungle of Jonestown, Guyana.

[tclambert]

55. I like "Dopey Donald." The childish sound of it would especially rankle Trump.

He sees things in childish terms, so the more childish the insult, the better. It will trigger his intellectual insecurity. And you can make fun of him for little, unimportant mistakes even, like when he called Tim Cook of Apple, "Tim Apple." Most people would laugh that off as a harmless slip of the tongue. Not Dopey Donald. His intellectual insecurity makes it impossible for him to admit a mistake, no matter how frivolous. He's so afraid that any admission of error will expose him as the dope he truly is, he can't help making it worse by denying the video evidence or making dopey claims to try to cover his original dopey mistake.

[trickyguy]

45. I couldn't agree more that the Dems need a "Dumb Donald" approach. Give him his own poison.

I've been thinking this for a long time now and thank you for your prescient post.
You have the experience in the mental health field that we need to hear about now.
The time for being polite with this Presidential disaster should be over.
Go for it Dems.

[True Blue American]

3. May I add another thought?

Narcissistic people also have a very real inferiority complex. They use the bravado, bullying and attacks to get what they want.

They know very well they are fakes and use those tactics to cover up just how inferior they are.

That is why Trump sits in front of his 3 TV’s waiting to attack. His reaction to humor is a classic example. He thinks the name calling, meanness is funny. Not realizing it exposes him. Ignoring Trump is the best thing you can do.

[shockey80]

6. There is no doubt Trump is a Narcissist.

You don't even have to be a doctor to figure that one out. In my post I talked about how Trump has no soul, no remorse, empathy. Those are traits of a narcissist.

[True Blue American]

7. Trump is everything you say.

He also has an inferiority complex big enough to drive a truck through. He knows full well he is none of those things he claims he is.

The man even cheats at Golf, a sport that many consider ethical. Golfers despise cheaters.

[Andy823]

8. I agree

he is a narcissist, and the one thing they hate is to be ignored. My brother in laws wife was a narcissist, she had to have all the attention, or she would sit with her arms crossed, just like trump and give people dirty looks, just like trump. Also like trump, she love to stir things up, play people against each other, then if confronted, she would turn herself into the "victim", and blame it all on someone else.

The worst thing you can do to a narcissist is to IGNORE THEM.

[True Blue American]

9. So familiar.

I had one in my family. Play one against the other. Anything to get attention.use people until they wised up.

[smirkymonkey]

73. Oh god, my step-mother is just like this.

It just occurred to me why she picks on me so much. Because I do ignore her.

[ProudLib72]

13. Two years ago, I was saying the same thing: ignore him

That has turned out to be impossible. The MSM seem to adore him. He generates constant crisis and, thus, constant news. Therefore, I am in complete agreement with the OP. The best thing to do is ridicule him for his stupidity. We do it here all the time, but candidates have yet to take that up. Our congresspeople afford him the respect of treating his stupidity like it's an affectation of republicanism itself instead of solely his own. Other republicans have gone to great lengths to make this believable. So it's time to start calling out his ideas as outlandishly idiotic. Ad hominem all the way! It will produce results.

[smirkymonkey]

40. I also think Dem candidates need to get it out there that he is weak and gullible and

being played by Putin, Kim, the Saudi's and other "Strongmen" dictators that he kisses up to. He thinks that it makes him look powerful by aligning himself with them, but to the rest of us, he just looks like a patsy. That needs to be played up.

[flying_wahini]

12. Hashtag this Lots of good ideas here

#DumbDonald
#DumbellDonny Or others?

[JawJaw]

24. "DumboDonald"

Dumbo Donald rolls off the tongue quite nicely and he'd hate being compared to a Disney character.

He started it with the Pocahontas crap, after all - so he can't play the victim.

Big floppy ears...huge ass....small trunk. Such a small trunk.

He'd be incandescent with rage.

[onetexan]

32. Dimbulb Donald

[Ligyron]

34. I agree.

I do hesitate somewhat but the "when they go low, we go high" biz, noble though it may be, didn't work out all that well, did it? Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Dumbo Donald does roll off the tongue and is catching.

Now which candidate or public figure will be the first to launch this dart?

[sprinkleeninow]

25. #BankruptedDon

[ronatchig]

42. Do-Do Don?i

[House of Roberts]

49. Dullard Donald

How's that?

[Captain Zero]

61. Donnie the Dummy

we could use nice language. Donald Trump challenged by his intellectual deficits. Not up to the job. Not up to the challenge. Not up to the task. Not up to speed, even yet into his third year. Not performing at grade level.

[OregonBlue]

68. Donny Dunce

[WinstonSmith4740]

14. SO true!

Have you ever worked in marketing? I've been saying for years the Democrats need to put the political consultants aside and hire some people with damn marketing backgrounds. The Democrats just don't seem to know how sell themselves and their ideas, and to use their opponents weaknesses against them.
Your final paragraph says it all

Attacking Trumps lack of intelligence, attacks both his ego and his Delusion. You kill two birds with one stone. In my opinion, if the Democrats were to do this the American people would witness Trumps brain come apart at the seams. He would destroy himself.

I think the new guard that came in after 2018 gets this...unfortunately, the old guard is still trying to go by the decorum that was expected and actually worked back when Republicans had ethics and morals. Democrats need to go after him...hard. He's like any other 3rd grade school yard bully...when confronted, they crumble.

[shockey80]

21. I have never worked in marketing.

I am a man who believes in common sense. I believe in educating one's self. I believe in being aware and paying attention. I believe in reading ,learning. Today in America, I am called the far left.

[plimsoll]

67. Isn't that the truth.

Marketing.

We wonder why things are the way they are. Marketing has it nailed. Everybody has a lever to pull, and with the help of facecrook google and data analytics predators can figure out new and exciting ways to part people from their own best interest.

[smirkymonkey]

41. Exactly! They need to hire marketing and PR people and turn this ship around.

They are terrible at messaging and controlling their images in the face of republican attacks. We need to go on the offensive and stop turning the other cheek.

Especially when they are sparring with Trump, because eventually he will lose control and have a very public meltdown. The best thing that could happen would be for the nation to see how seriously mentally unstable he really is.

[c-rational]

70. +1,000 Agreed to using marketing / advertising strategy to turn this around. Although I am not

a fan of advertising techniques, they are effective and used like a weapon by our adversaries.

[fierywoman]

50. I'd like to see this stuff marketed with a sense of humor. So sick of the man with the dour

voice and the low scary music in the background.

[c-rational]

69. 1 - Excellent point. We need better messaging.

[shockey80]

15. I would like to add this to my original post.

The news media has to learn how to question and deal with Trump. They do a good job investigating Trump. They do a terrible job when they question him. They are unprepared for his responses. They all should know by now he is a child who will lie to them, Insult them.

The news media has to change. Trump is not normal, you have to adjust. Once in a while you see a reporter do a good job. Even then they could have taken it farther. Example: You just told a lie, why do you constantly lie like a child, or, why do you lie all time, it makes you look like an idiot and a criminal.

[sprinkleeninow]

26. "Another whopper lie of yours again!" Then point a finger at him and mock. eom

[BlancheSplanchnik]

72. Or break that fourth wall and turn to the camera and say, "There he goes again".

They loved that phrase when it came from Reagan.

[SWBTATTReg]

16. Good advice! NT

[Firestorm49]

18. Thank you, Shockey80.

Now, if we could take your comments and have as many DUers as possible sign on to it, then send it on to Tom Perez or Pelosi, maybe it could be taken under consideration for each candidate, and the final candidate in the coming election. I’d sign it, and I’m hopeful that many others would also.

[True Blue American]

20. Just read an article

On Juanita Jean. Trump owes $7 million to DC for his Inauguration plus cities all over the Country he has stiffed for security.

It was mentioned that a few years ago they had billboards put up for Deadbeat Dads who did not pay support so my Suggestion is Billboards all over about,” Deadbeat Donald!”

[shockey80]

30. Good idea.

[shockey80]

22. I believe Pelosi knows this.

She needs to take it to a higher level.

[tosh]

23. I believe that too.

I believe that is her strategy exactly. It will be so much fun to watch!

[LuvNewcastle]

37. I think she does, too.

When she's questioned about Trump, she talks about him like one would speak of a bratty kid. She sounds like she's about to take away his lolly and paddle his ass.

[shockey80]

27. Wow, thank you.

[trickyguy]

48. I'd sign on to that in an instant. I was in marketing and I understand the deal here.

[machoneman]

19. Attack him where he's most vulnerable. For example.....

...constantly tell the press and public:

He's broke and has far less money than he claims.
His hair is as phony as he is.
He weighs way more than claimed. Easily at least 265 lbs. and he's grossly overweight.
He's 2" shorter than he claims. Show pics next to verified 6'2" tall men or even taller men.
Use all the real yet very unflattering pics of his big butt, large belly, saggy pants, mismatched suits and long ties.
Use those Buckingham Palace pic of his grossly long white vest.

I could go on but we're missing the point. Drive him crazy on his vanity, lack of money, unsophisticated speech patterns, weird statements and more. Keep him off topic on actual policies he's advocating. Use the same negative words (Pocahontas, nasty, etc.) against him.

[NCjack]

39. Trump is Bankfucked -- Can't Pay his Bills. nt

[smirkymonkey]

43. +1000

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I agree. I know there are some who will say these things are petty and not important, and that is true. But Donald Trump is a vain, petty man and attacking the things he is insecure about will drive him over the edge.

The goal is to expose him for the useless, unstable, insane person that he is. He is a bully who tries to project strength and that is what his base loves about him. When they see him fall to pieces in public, that strongman image will be shattered.

[procon]

58. Deadbeat Donald

He still owes for his inauguration, and he doesn't pay the cities where he runs his one man comedy shows. He's a Deadbeat!

[pangaia]

28. I agree 150% !

The fucker is insane and our candidates and ALL dems need to pound this home.

For pete's sake they almost all act like he is sane and normal. WTF is the matter with them??

All the discussions here at DU, by very smart folks, about candidates positions, who is ahead, who said what about who???
POLLS,,
and on and on...

Folks,, there ain't going to be any REAL election if somebody doesn't wake up !!!

Hell, it's already too late. We're fucked. But I say, TRY.. Like the poor but energized people in Hong Kong !!!

They do NOT want those fucking authoritarian communists screwing any more with their lives and they will go down fighting if they have to !!!

Will we?

[Timmygoat]

29. I think when debating him

The person opposite him, when he makes a silly remark, should smile, and say '
there you go again Donald' In other words treat him like a child who is fond of telling whoppers.

[shockey80]

31. Attack his lack of intelligence with every attack you make.

Smile while you do it.

[True Blue American]

38. You must have read the old

Story,” Forgive your enemies because it makes them madder than anything you can do! ”

[yellowdogintexas]

53. That was Reagan's trademark comment when debating President Carter

I began to despise him immediately. Prior to that I had only determined I would not vote for him

[solara]

33. Perhaps instead of joining in with donald's name-calling,

the candidates should ALL change their reactions to him and to the lies he spews. Whenever he tells a whopper, or says something with the expectation of a negative reaction, or calls someone a derogatory "nick-name", the targets should simply laugh at him, or maybe chuckle & shake their heads- like "There you go again fool" and then ignore him. Speak as if he has not spoken, as if he does not exist because he counts for nothing. He is a pretender & a bully and does not deserve attention

They should refuse to accept his venom or give him power in any way.

I think he probably can not withstand laughter for long without exploding. Bonus for us and for the nation. Camera or not.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

35. Here's an idea that might work for y'all to toss around....

Get our candidates to attack Trump in pairs in TV spots.

Form a coordination committee to design a series of TV spots where two of our guys sit side-by-side and speak alternately to describe some of Trumps failed government actions (loser!), weaknesses, misdeeds and crimes.

I think having two of them together in 15 or 30-second spots would blow his mind and throw his minders into disarray. He mostly likes to attack individuals and also cannot relate to people who might otherwise be seen as adversaries agreeing to anything.

This is totally unrelated to any potential pairings for President/VP, but instead they would be chosen for most impactful presentation of the issues being addressed in each spot.

That also demonstrates party unity.....

[demigoddess]

36. I would so love to see this. It is the best tactic. Especially the shaking of head

and saying "there you go lying again". No anger just treat him like you would never believe anything he says.

[meow2u3]

44. Dumb Donald the Godfather

[Liberalhammer]

47. To Trump:

Is to make a name to degrade a person using an adjective before their first name to make it a derogatory term:

Diaper Donald

Dickweed Donald

Mushroom Dick Donald

Dumb Donald

Etc...

[Paladin]

51. Excellent advice.

Everybody get busy, putting this into action. I'll do my part.

[fierywoman]

52. Wasn't it a child who called attention to the Emperor having no clothes? Think of the

ad possibilities!

[mr_lebowski]

56. How about "Donnie No Deals" or "No Deals Donnie"?

He clearly thinks his deal-making is his great skill, so ... where's his 'deals'?

N. Korea? China? Infrastructure? Obamacare Replacement? NAFTA? Getting Mexico to Pay for the Wall? Saving the Coal Industry?

Hammer him on his FAILURES to make any of the DEALS he promised. The only thing he's 'accomplished' (which isn't much) are things he could unilaterally order.

[BobTheSubgenius]

60. A now-deceased VERY close friend of mine worked in a field similar to the one you described.

A lot of her...I don't know what the latest buzzword is - clients? Consumers? (really) Never patients or cases, for sure.

Anyway, a lot of them had frontal lobe damage from car accidents and the like, and were (and probably still are) just as you described.

I've never encountered anyone who has such parallel experience as my friend Helen. RIP

She loved it. I hope you do, too. I also love your synopsis, as I know she would have.

[W T F]

62. Bingo!! Attack him with his own rhetoric at his own mental level.

[Myrddin]

63. Dunkin' Donald

Might be too subtle a way of calling him a donut, but it rolls well?

[blakstoneranger]

64. The Media is Supporting Trump

The media is playing both sides against the middle. The democratic candidates need to talk about their agendas and how to accomplish them and then they should all attack trump as a united front--even though only one dem will get the nomination. However, the media is instigating a battle that pits the candidates against each other. The candidates are being forced to unnecessarily attack Biden for little petty things. In light of all the crap that trump has done, we really can't go any lower. How are we setting standards of behavior for biden when we let "trump be trump". They can all push their agendas and as a unified front, attack trump on everything from his uncouth behavior, his racism, his lying, his associations with foreign aggressors, his failures on immigration, his lack of judgment in letting the government shut down or destroying the iran deal, his repealing safety regulations for capricious and/or monetary reasons, his appointing incompetent or unsavory characters to high offices simply because the "like" him. The candidates don't need to attack each other because when they do, they give trump ammunition to attack them as well. Take joe biden, when the dems allowed someone, I don't know who, to bring up Biden's innocent act of kissing women on the head, they gave trump the idea to call biden "creepy joe". trump has been using this stuff for his own benefit. DON'T LET THE MEDIA CONTROL THE WHAT THE CANDIDATES DO. Some of them are already falling for it and have started to criticize other dem candidates on petty issues.

[US4u2]

65. Good Point

Or:
that he "Made America Grate AGAIN!!!"

I think that when you fight fire with fire, you only get burnt. Best to understand that this guy is only a figurehead, the real people holding the power are the people behind him, telling him what to do. I am all for getting this guy out of the WH, but it should be more important to get a Democratic Senate and keep the House, for, if need be, they can override this idiot's veto, or put an end to the gerrymandering that brought this scourge to power, along with the dark money that financed him. There are some serious flaws in our system of government that need to be addressed with legislation, so that no one man can use executive directions to enrich himself, his family or his buddies at the expense of the people or the planet. The presidency is an office, just like any other government office, albeit the top office, but it should, as all the others, be an office that answers to the people.

[lettucebe]

66. Tiny

Just call him Tiny. No Donald, no Trump. Just Tiny. Everyone would know to whom they refer, lol

[gulliver]

71. Just call him "stable genius" like he calls himself. But then chuckle and shake your head.

I don't like calling people dumb except in the sense that they do things that are bad for them. There's nothing wrong with being relatively unintelligent. The world needs to be decent place for folks, regardless of IQ or "sophistication" (whatever that might be) levels.

You're right that we need to laugh at Trump. That's just good rhetoric when an opponent calls for it and deserves it. Nancy Pelosi has a good sense of it.

[ooky]

74. Good insight.

I think this would also work to unravel his base who are always saying what a "good job" he is doing, by calling out the bad job he is doing and attacking their delusion.

[shockey80]

75. Everything Trump does is tied to his ego and his delusion, I'm smarter than everyone.

Attack his lack of intelligence and Trumps brain will short circuit.

[Sneederbunk]

76. The Dem Candidate's most valuable advisers will be psychiatrists.

Their job is to come up with the daily trigger.

[shockey80]

77. That is funny and true.

[Laelth]

78. I sense great wisdom in the OP. Thank you. n/t

-Laelth