Trump's Biggest Mistake

[CitizenZero]

Trump should have never come down that escalator and run for the Presidency in the first place. He was doing fine running his New York fake real estate and game show scam. He was a comical side show at best. Now he has brought holy hell down on his own head.

I doubt that he would have been over run with civil and criminal cases had he never run for the Presidency. He has brought all of this down on his own head. He is in danger of losing all of his money, his New York businesses, and he may land in jail. None of this would have happened if he had just shut up and stayed in New York. He put a target on his own back when he ran for the Presidency.

He may be destroyed by his own sociopathic vanity. This is why he is desperate to be re-elected. It may be the only way that he stays out of jail and retains any of his so-called fortune. Donnie should never stuck his neck out and ran for the Presidency in the first place. If he loses all of his money and lands in jail, he will regret it all. Dummy.

[edhopper]

1. Or he will win the Presidency again

And gain new power and wealth.

[AltairIV]

31. Nope

Trump will never sit in the White House again. Because:
He will die or become completely medically unfit for office
He'll be in prison/ he'll be on trial and bleeding votes.
One of his own followers will wake up and realize trump doesn't really love him and put several rounds into him.

[edhopper]

35. That is just wishful thinking

right now he has a 50/50 chance

[Silent3]

62. I think the odds are getting a little lower than that, but not low enough to suit me

It's definitely over-the-top wishful thinking to speak as if Trump has already lost. We're far from out of the woods at this point.

[edhopper]

63. I think he has little chance of winning

the popular vote. The problem is he can win enough States.

[PatrickforB]

49. I'm not thinking he will. I mean look at how the giant border truck convoy turned out.

Hardly anybody.

Plus, the GOP has the abortion millstone, and I'll bet women turn out big in the states that have draconian bans. I mean, if just TX flips blue it will be a big deal, and this Abbott seems like a total dirtbag.

The E Jean Carroll thing was huge, too, because women voters all over the country heard about how she got awarded $83 million. That wouldn't have happened if there had been any doubt about the rape.

And of course, the criminal proceedings are ramping up.

I think Trumpy is toast.

For what it is worth, I predict the following:
1. Trumpy will walk away with the GOP nomination and become the official nominee in July.
2. During the campaign season, I believe he will have a major health event because honestly, Ed, he looks like shit.
3. This will take him out of the race, and the GOP will have to scramble to put in an emergency candidate.
4. All the while, Biden and the downticket Dems will be pounding on abortion, healthcare, climate and so on.
5. Most Indy's, all Dems and a significant number of Republicans will vote for Biden.
6. In the meantime, the split to No Labels will hurt the Repubs more than it does us.
7. Dems will take back the House, keep the Senate and Biden will go to the White House for a second term.

I also think during the lead up to the general election, Trumpy's dementia and poor health will be more heavily covered.

Let's hope so, eh?

[liberal N proud]

51. If he does, we will never have another legitimate election

I fear he will destroy democracy

[edhopper]

58. That is not

far fetched.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. No, he didn't He put a target on his own back. He committed alleged crimes.

He has EARNED every bit of the problems he's going through and then quite a lot more.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Well. Obama did skewer him in 2012 and Putin probably demanded that he run.

2024 ain't 2016.

[Walleye]

4. The second biggest mistake was not conceding and transferring power when he lost the election

[captain queeg]

9. Yeah, if he'd just accepted the results he would remain the hero of millions

(More millions than now) and wouldn't be in all the legal jepordises he is now.

[Walleye]

27. Somewhere deep in his brain he must know he made a huge mistake by not accepting the results of the election

[moonscape]

37. Brain?

[Walleye]

48. I would say lizards brain but I don't want to insult lizards

[Kaleva]

50. I agree.

[central scrutinizer]

56. His second huge mistake was dismissing covid-19

He wasted two months in early 2020 that saw the US skyrocket to lead the world in cases and deaths. Had he listened to Fauci and instituted mask mandates and contact tracing, the stock market and the economy may not have cratered and he wouldn’t have been routed in the election.

[Walleye]

59. Because he considered his own political interests ahead of the health of the United States population

And of course to him his political interests are his financial interests. And he was too stupid to do anything else. He saw the stock market start to go down and panicked

[keithbvadu2]

6. Comments in his term in office said he never really expected to win. He ran for his own vanity just to run.

[TwilightZone]

8. He ran to expand the brand.

It was, as it always is with Trump, all about money.

[peggysue2]

38. Bingo!

It was all about making more money and expanding the enterprise. Because that's all Donald Trump really cared about (besides his own ego): Money.

The one time he told the truth was early on confessing that through his entire life he'd been 'greedy, greedy, greedy.'

Of course, even then he had to turn it on a lie by insisting that now 'he wanted to be 'greedy for America,' as if he wanted to be greedy in the service of the average Joe and Jane.

Just another con-job.

[Aviation Pro]

7. I'd say it's Motherfucker's second biggest fumble

The first was attending the Correspondent's dinner where he was sliced and diced by a real President.

[surfered]

10. Couldn't have happened......

….to a more deserving person.

[Demobrat]

11. His big mistake was attempting to overturn the election.

He could have conceded graciously, sat back and eaten cheeseburgers for four years, and run again without the distractions of the criminal trials.

[dchill]

14. Thankfully, he's not that smart.

[agingdem]

26. his taxes were being scrutinized before he left the White House...

but inciting an insurrection and the recorded call to Georgia's Secretary of State brought the depth of his in-office criminality into focus...

[rubbersole]

12. He'll take the attention all the way to his pissed on grave.

His 'wealth' was always somebody else's/fake but it gave this psycho a way to fame and delusional legal invincibility. It's still working.

[JoseBalow]

13. Don't forget Kushner's Billions

[AverageOldGuy]

15. True. So . . . Will everyone . . .

True. If Trump had never been President, he would be living his pre-2016 life . . . But now . . .

Will everyone who is heartbroken for Trump please raise your hand .

A show of hands? Anyone?

In the back?

Anyone?

Bueller?

Bueller?

Anyone??

[czarjak]

16. Thinking you're going to fool everybody all the time never lasts.

[NJCher]

30. Very true

But there is a sizable contingent of posters here who think he will fool all of the people all of the time. You see that in comments like "they won't do anything to him." "He's always gotten away with it," etc.

[EmmaLee E]

54. But yet, you can fool too many of the people

too much of the time.

[czarjak]

61. As in every time.

Unfortunately.

[Martin68]

17. Trump was shocked to win, but he is used to faking success. In spit of his profound ignorance of the Constitution and

the political process in a democracy, he soon discovered that he had a great deal of power. He had confidants who suggested ways to take advantage of his position and the system, and he ended up wanting to stay on power in spite of his total incompetency as POTUS. Now he only sees the presidency as an opportunity to escape accountability and criminal conviction, and a means to take revenge on anyone who has opposed or displeased him.

[CitizenZero]

19. I Agree

I agree entirely with your comment. Right on.

[multigraincracker]

18. Putins Puppet, some one

once said, along with “His basket of deplorables”..

[Mr.Bill]

20. Probably no one in history but him made a major party

run for president without having a clue what the job was all about.

[BaronChocula]

21. 100

If he was never president*, Tish James may have never considered the New York charges. If he never ran for president*, there would be no campaign finance violations. If he was never president* there would be no federal indictments for stealing classified documents and defrauding the U.S. If he was never president* there would be no RICO Georgia case.

[CitizenZero]

24. Right On

I agree entirely.

[DemocraticPatriot]

22. He didn't like the job anyway. LOL

YES, he miscalculated, drawing so much attention to himself---
but that IS the one thing at which he excels...



He was successful in THAT thing....

as opposed to the thing that he is least successful with,
"thinking ahead and considering the consequences!"

LOL

[DemocraticPatriot]

23. Not to mention "WHEN to keep your own damn MOUTH SHUT"....

[Mr.Bee]

25. and Billy Joel sang

You had to open up your mouth
You had to be a big shot, didn't you
All your friends were so knocked out
You had to have the last word, last night
You know what everything's about
You had to have a white hot spotlight
You had to be a big shot last night

Now anytime I hear that song I will think of Drumpf

[dalton99a]

28. "If that black guy can be president, so can I"

[Irish_Dem]

29. Narcissists often fly too close to the sun.

They truly think they are the smartest, most handsome, best people in the world.
They can be easily manipulated with flattery. Hubris is their downfall.

[malaise]

32. Nailed it

Rec

[pansypoo53219]

33. being president opened the grift floodgates + he wants more.

[Attilatheblond]

34. And may have been required by some pretty bad people he owes LOTS of money too

People who have big apartments in Moscow.

[True Blue American]

36. I have felt thay way

Ever since he was elected.

[panfluteman]

39. Karma's a Bitch, and So Is Unbridled Ambition!

Trump looked at the GOP and saw that it was a political party that was ripe for a takeover.
Trump looked at all the income inequality and the frustrated American worker and saw that he could exploit that situation for his own political gain.
Trump looked at the White House and saw that it could be turned into his own personal mafia syndicate.
Trump took the oath of office figuring he could be as unfaithful to that oath as he had been in his marriage vows to Melania.
What Trump didn't see, and didn't figure out, was that the office of president karmically demanded that he sincerely serve his country, and not just himself, to come out on top and remain unscathed.

The karmic lesson that Trump had to learn from this whole affair ( and for Trump it was actually like a promiscuous, illicit affair with the presidency) was that you gotta give to get, and that the quality of the intentions that you put into the whole enterprise will come back to haunt you if you don't put your absolute best into it. And Trump had to learn this the hard way, in the school of hard knocks, as they say...

[republianmushroom]

40. "None of this would have happened if he had just shut up and stayed in New York. "

Totally agree.

[Captain Zero]

46. Considering his connections to Epstein he sure picked

THE ONE term to be president,
right when Jeffery was jailed and disappeared.

[BradBo]

41. That's true, BUT,

if he kept his mouth shut about COVID, let Fauci do all the talking, he would have slide easily into another term and not Biden. To me, that was the strategic mistake he made, Im sure most his advisers were warning him. I don’t think he ever really thought he would be elected in 2016.

[louis-t]

44. I agree. If he had handled that properly he would have been a hero.

All he had to do was say "Listen, we have a little problem. We're going to have to mask up and stay apart for a little while until we come up with a vaccine." But he made it all about himself. He thought ignoring it and pretending it would just go away would insulate him. He thought he was going to be blamed if he admitted there was a problem. Narcissism ruled his behavior. The same with the first Carroll verdict. If he had just shut his mouth, he could have paid her and swept it under the rug. But he has no self control. The worst person you could possibly put in any kind of government position. He puts himself over the country every time.

[Aristus]

42. I hope this serves to discourage other incompetent nepo-billionaires who see the Presidency as

ticking a box.

Stop fucking doing that, assholes. The Presidency is about public service, not publicity for your scam businesses.

[homegirl]

43. His "pal"

Putin made him do it!

[WinstonSmith4740]

45. One of the best tweets I ever saw about this was a few years ago.

Whoever it was said:
"Oh, Donny, Donny, Donny. You could have spent the rest of your life playing golf, laundering money for the Russians, and fucking porn starts, but no! You had to run for president because the black guy pissed you off at the correspondent's dinner."
Truer words were never spoken, and he's now reaping the whirlwind. To which all I can say is

[ShazzieB]

47. Hoist by his own narcissistic petard!

[unblock]

52. I'll take a contrary view:

I think donnie ran for president out of fear, not greed.

I think Donnie's empire was collapsing and the pressure was on. I think if Donnie's empire of grift was continuing to function, he would have left well enough alone. But most banks had shut him out, and while there's always a d-string supplier to be found, really the whole business community knew not to work with him. Certainly lawyers knew that.

I'll bet his Russian backers made him do it. They wanted a payoff for funding him and it wasn't cash they were looking for, and he likely wasn't generating enough cash anyway.

I think the idea about him doing it because he was annoyed by a joke Obama made is a story that lives on because it serves everyone. For Donnie, it deflects blame. See, it's Obama's fault, he's not a Russian plant. He needed an excuse to run given he had zero experience.

If Donnie was a true billionaire with a real empire, he would have gotten revenge by giving millions to Obama's opponents.

The idea that everything was going swimmingly in Donnie's world and suddenly one joke makes him risk everything to run for president just doesn't add up. I think it was desperation. I think his crimes and ineptness were catching up with him and he needed a Hail Mary.

[Jrose]

53. Djt, who basked in the spotlight...

Is going to be burned by the spotlight!

[mwb970]

55. How did he think we would get away with crimes in the presidency?

He is in the biggest goldfish bowl in the world, and he thinks he's invisible.

[Botany]

57. He didn't have a choice. Vlad told him to run in 2013 when he was in Russia for his beauty pagent

and that was when he Vlad got the pee pee tape of him. Vlad had been working Trump for years
and no doubt he had lots of other kompromat on him Trump too besides the pee pee stuff. Pay
offs, bribes, money laundering, maybe some Jeffery Epstein stuff, drug use, and videos of Melania
spanking him as she wore leathers and cowboy hat yelling @ him to, “call me boss lady” as he
pleasured himself looking @ pictures of Ivanka.

In 2013 Trump came back from Russia and copyrighted “make America great again.”

[ZonkerHarris]

60. It's worse than that. He has gauranteed that his whole life will be investigated, by journalists, historians and more

for the rest of American time.

[ecstatic]

64. "may be the only way that he stays out of jail and retains any of his so-called fortune"

The problem is, his attempt to recover what he lost is going to get the rest of us killed.

He almost succeeded first term.

His failures during the covid outbreak are not talked about enough. I remember in late February 2020, I had a 2 week Mediterranean cruise booked, starting 2/29/20. Prior to departure date, I was concerned about the reports of covid that were popping up. I had been in that situation once before in 2009 when the swine flu was running rampant. The difference is, President Obama and his team made the decision early on to take that flu seriously and, as a result, my booked Cruise was delayed and I didn't have to worry about losing my money.

Fast forward to 2020, things were handled a lot differently. Despite covid being on the march, trump's team did absolutely nothing. By not weighing in on the situation, MSC Cruise lines and the other cruise lines decided to stay quiet too. After all, they didn't want to lose any money.

So we had to decide whether we were going to lose tens of thousands of dollars or potentially risk being caught up in an international pandemic.

That failure to lead definitely contributed to covid becoming a worldwide pandemic and to the death toll.