Trump on Lincoln(from Bob Woodward interview)

[Ken Burch]

[tonedevil]

1. That word salad...

could probably use some dressing.

[gratuitous]

2. Uh oh, I need 13 more words to get to the 300 word essay minimum!

"The very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very end."

[Dream Girl]

3. Like a third or forth grader who didn't study for the test...

Absolutely appalling. Is this for real?

[Dream Girl]

4. He is a very, very, very stupid man who is very, very, lucky he was born rich.

Also he is very, very, very lucky he was born a white male.

[hedda_foil]

43. OMG...He has no idea whatsoever what Lincoln did. Not a clue.

[animity]

5. Book report

I would give him an F - for the worst book report answer.

[hwmnbn]

36. Agreed...

And welcome to DU!!

[Denzil_DC]

6. Jesus H. Christ!

Would it be beyond one of these interviewers to do what a statement like that's crying out for?

- "So, Mr. Trump, what was it Lincoln did that was very vital to do at that time?"

You know what? I think he'd reveal himself as Palin in drag. If he didn't just try to bluster his way out of it.

For context, here's the run-up to Woodward's question:

BW: Any . . . . Before coming over, Bob and I have had lots of chats. And we were thinking about this, that you are running for the nomination in the Republican Party.

DT: Right.

BW: Which is the party of Lincoln and the party of Nixon. . . . And so we have this party that you are running to be the nominee in, and it’s got two heritages. Lincoln and Nixon.

DT: That’s true. That’s true.

BW: And why did Lincoln succeed? Thought about that at all?

Full transcript here (begorrah): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04/02/transcript-donald-trump-interview-with-bob-woodward-and-robert-costa

[gordianot]

7. Trump lives in a world of delusional projection.

[milestogo]

8. I felt like I was reading Sarah Palin.

Brainlessness

[dem in texas]

29. Exactly what I was thinking

Same word salad as used by Palin.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. If he had ever worked for anyone

he would have been fired after 3 weeks

It's like he has no sleep, attention deficit disorder, stupidity, and ego
all at the same time

[malchickiwick]

10. These are the "best words"??

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. That deserves the official Billy Madison Treatment.

[underpants]

15. I didn't know that was from Billy Madison

I'd heard it on the radio. Not a Sandler fan myself.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. Silly, stupid movie, but that was back when you expected Adam Sandler movies to be stupid

So it's a guilty pleasure of sorts.

I'm afraid Sandler hasn't grown up in terms of his acting though, but that's on him.

It's a great quote though. It works so well in many occasions.

[LuvLoogie]

23. I thought he was good in Spanglish and the Drew Barrymore

movies, 50 First Dates the better of the two. He did that odd drama, I think it was Punch Drunk Love. He was good in that. I think he does OK. Those are the only movies I've had any interest in though, so can't comment on his other work.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. His first two movies with Drew Barrymore--The Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates--were decent.

He did a third with her that wasn't really all that good, though.

He hasn't done anything worthwhile in recent years. Just a few direct to Netflix movies and some other forgettable dreck like the Grown Ups movies.

[Dave Starsky]

35. He's just phoning it in now.

But at the beginning, he was at least trying. Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore have some genuinely laugh-out-loud moments. I still always crack up at the Bob Barker fight scene.

[malaise]

12. Incoherent psychobabble

on steroids

[dubyadiprecession]

13. shove him into shallow water, before he gets to deep.

[dhill926]

14. Deep...

[Wellstone ruled]

16. What was that?

Babble? Wow,are we in for some major STUPID,get the net and long sleeved white jacket folks.

[progressoid]

17. He speaks his mind!

[nini]

18. Someone needs to make a decoder ring for this stuff

Holy crap

[mcar]

20. What in the holy hell does that even mean?

[Aviation Pro]

21. Dude...

Dude Trumpowski. Possibly the most imbecilic man on the planet.

[brooklynite]

22. Maybe trump should have picked Rex Hamilton instead of Rex Tillerson...

[Johonny]

25. Imagine you're a world leader meeting this guy and he drops statements like this on you

how soon before you search for the door...

[onecaliberal]

26. So fucked, we are

[book_worm]

27. the man is a complete moron.

[rug]

28. I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so

[Historic NY]

30. What did he even say....

Donald Trump and Miss North Carolina share a lot, its all in a thimble.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

31. The worst part is that his worshippers think this makes sense.

He's a genius!

[smirkymonkey]

32. Has anyone ever read his own words back to him?

And if so, I wonder if he thinks he sounds like as much of an idiot as the rest of us do or if he thinks he sounds brilliant. I really don't know how anyone with an IQ over 70 could read those words and not believe they are anything but the ramblings of a total moron.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

33. Perfectly cromulent and embiggens all of us.

[Solly Mack]

34. I could be charitable and say his mind races ahead of his mouth

but the fact is what comes out of his mouth is how his mind works.

Jumbled, tumbled and full tilt stumble.

[Grammy23]

40. Well, actually his mind DOES race ahead of his mouth and what comes out is

like picking up the phonograph needle and dropping it randomly on the record. It is words strung together in a sentence but one clause has absolutely nothing to do with another one in the same sentence. I wonder if he even HEARS how ridiculous he sounds as it is tumbling out of his pursed lips?

[Solly Mack]

44. He probably thinks he sounds brilliant.

And I'm sure the sycophants around him don't tell him any differently.

[erpowers]

37. Is This Real?

How do we know this is real? Is there any audio? If this is real he is worse than Sarah Palin. I think Mrs. Palin on occasion makes a point when she speaks. There was no point in that comment.

[Ilsa]

39. Yeah, it was posted last month, and

Bob Woodward talked about it on video and there is a transcript.

[Grammy23]

41. Now someone explain how a serious interviewer can sit there, listen to

this know nothing stumbling through an interview and keep a straight face? Don't the follow up questions write themselves as he leaves a meandering trail of nonsense? How do you not cut him low after an answer that reeks of total ignorance of the topic? If that was an opening to an essay test, he should get a big, fat F!

[spanone]

38. sounds like sarah palin is his speech coach

[onethatcares]

42. oh, you elitist

spell checking, punctuation punctuaters. If you could only see into his heart