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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHave you ever met a human being as repulsive as Trump?
I have never met anyone as disgusting. I cannot see one single redeeming quality in him. I feel nothing but disgust every time I hear his voice, see his face or read his ignorant, bigoted rants that play to the worst aspects of human nature. He is the ultimate example of a spoiled brat with a distorted sense of entitlement who turned into a psychopath. I cannot say I hate him, but I hate every single thing he represents and the damage he is causing. I have never met anyone who is anywhere near as vile. Is he the most disgusting person you know?
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)on total destruction, at any cost.
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Doodley
(9,088 posts)radical noodle
(8,000 posts)The writer of the OP was expressing an opinion that is pretty widely held here. Are you sure you're in the right place? I hope you enjoy your stay.
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BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)in a Star Wars movie...Jabba the Hut.
applegrove
(118,642 posts)he has not passed any legislation. He can't controll the minds of 63% of the population. He is selfish but careless. He's damaged the country and its spirit. But he is no Hitler. People use Trump and not the other way around. Bannon, Priebus, Miller, the GOP, Putin are all more masterminds than Trump and use Trump. He doesn't change anyone's thinking like a psychopath would. He just uses what obvious hot buttons he can find in his base. He's a bullshitter. A salesguy. But no match for the Putins of the world.
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)One guy was an absolute bullshitter who was able to tell each person exactly what they wanted to hear. For me, early twenties, my beautiful daughter would like to meet a nice guy like you, as I stood next to my boss who was about to do a contract with him for rented office furniture.
I told my boss that he was was wrong, but it went through, and his furniture became locked up in a building office for non payment of lease.
There are many more examples, but its the one I remember most.
pdxflyboy
(675 posts)Trolling much?
applegrove
(118,642 posts)No Vested Interest
(5,166 posts)applegrove
(118,642 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)MIRT is on it though!
C Moon
(12,213 posts)Funny that both Trump and Traitor start with a "T."
No Vested Interest
(5,166 posts)I try to have as little exposure to his words and actions as possible.
The night it was obvious that he would be the next president I resolved to not let him ruin my pleasure and joy in life.
He is the complete opposite of my kind, polite spouse, who never bragged about his accomplishments nor felt the need to build himself up, nor resorted name-calling.
I get news of his actions and words by reading and hearing them second-hand, for the most part. Thus I can be informed of current affairs without having to be disgusted or repulsed by viewing this person who projects himself upon the universe hour by hour.
Great harm is being done every day by this person, and I fear that much of it is not reversible.
The optimist in me hopes that his tenure will be short- one way or another- and that we can once again live in normality.
murielm99
(30,736 posts)It will take a long time, but we can do it. I may not see the reversal in my lifetime, but it will come.
Our democracy is fragile. We need to realize that whenever we think we are the strongest country in the world. All democracy is fragile. We are not superheroes.
WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)I think when this is all over, and he's gone, the world will look at us with admiration. Our system of laws is what will ultimately do it, and as frustratingly slow as they turn, the wheels of justice will turn on this.
Bradshaw3
(7,517 posts)For me the answer would be no. We've all met shitheels of various stripes and levels of shitheeldom but nothing like this guy for me. Of course the psychiatrists have weighed in and they agree he is a special case of malignant narcissism. He is also vile as you write. And he is president. Still unbelievable.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)You say you cannot hate him, but I hate him with a white hot passion. I have never felt such hatred for a human being before. I can't even say what I would wish upon him.
murielm99
(30,736 posts)I still looked at him and listened to him. I was sick of Dubya and hated his voice. I still listened and payed attention, although I often used bad language.
I can't look at 45. I can't listen. I do know a couple people IRL who affect me that way, but not quite as badly.
Yes, he is repulsive. Imagine having to deal with him in person, day in, day out.
Kath2
(3,074 posts)I was in high school in 1975, was always totally anti-Vietnam war and was soooo happy when he left office.
I think Trunp is even more repulsive.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)syringis
(5,101 posts)I'm not American and I don't live in the US.
As I said it often, I gave up trying to figure out what are your feelings being on the front line ?
I will translate what I usually say in french about him, I don't know if that makes much sense in English : he's a Hell's vomit.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Not to attend a Congratulations party at the White House.
Paula Sims
(877 posts)His words = Trumps words and have been since I've been alive, before I even KNEW or HEARD of Trump. They are the perpetual victims and truly are afraid of being "found out" that they're not what they claim to be. The big tell is their use of superlatives and seeming larger than life. They are never to blame and always find reasons/excuses for their actions. He's the first to "organize movements" but the second they go south on him, others are to blame and he threatens to sue everyone. Lying is a way of life and they'll convince themselves something happened one way if it fits their narrative. It's not lying because they don't know (or rather, they reject) the truth - it simply happened their way and no other way. Sadly, his wife and his daughter are exactly the same way.
How do you stop them? You can't. I was hoping my brother's brain tumor would end it (ie after it was removed) but then I realized it's a tumor of the soul and that's there as long as the person is alive.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)I still have flashbacks about this asshole.
treestar
(82,383 posts)I have met awful people, and there are people who remind me of him, but they are just shadows of the likes of him. He had the luck to be born rich and has used that to get into positions of power and so he is the most repulsive since he has tainted our history.
sprinkleeninow
(20,246 posts)I do not 'hate' him either. That's not to say it sickens to have him parked in The Peoples' Whitehouse.
There have been and continue to be despicables through the ages. But when one of this degree is in 'our' Whitehouse assuming the highest office of our nation, it's quite unfathomable and unbearable.
airmid
(500 posts)tavernier
(12,383 posts)He was the founder of the American Nazi Party and he spoke at Western Michigan University when I was a student there. His blathering bull shit turned my stomach. We wore black arm bands and turned our backs on him in the hall where he spoke. This was in the mid sixties. A few years later someone shot him in the street.
I never met Putin, but I was in Latvia and saw and heard of the horrible things he encouraged and instigated against the Latvians by the Russians who lived and worked there. They knew him as the devil he was years ago and warned me that he would continue to create tension and seek power.
PCIntern
(25,541 posts)conducted I believe, by Alex Haley?
Remarkably frightening...
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)LeftInTX
(25,300 posts)A former boss
PJMcK
(22,035 posts)In the 1980's, a man I worked for was friends with the Fisher brothers who were New York developers. I was invited to a cocktail party for a new office building they had built. I briefly met Donald Trump who had just rebuilt the Commodore Hotel next to Grand Central Station.
I hated him immediately and ever since. In an instant, it was clear that he was a selfish jackass. I've never understood how anyone could listen to him and not roll their eyes... or vomit.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)doc03
(35,328 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Hes crude, oafish and bloated from eating junk and greasy fast food; his skin looks like an actual orange: the uneven fake-tan spray is caked onto his orange peel-like skin.
I dont see this guy having any REAL friends in life. He says awful things about anybody/everybody. Who in their right mind would want to even be near him?
Can you imagine having to listen *in person* to the lies and all the bullshit he spreads every DAY, slathered with major helpings of first-person-singular whining? Or worse yet, when hes mega-pissed at some weird details gone wrong and hes bellowing at the top of his lungs?
What the deplorables see in him is beyond guessing. Apparently Trump is their Pied Piper
Shanti Mama
(1,288 posts)Or encountering them on TV. He is far and away the worst.
I used to think listening to Bush was difficult...ha!
ansible
(1,718 posts)Trump is a horrible guy sure, but the blood of 200,000 iraqis and over 4000 americans on Bush's hands is far worse.
Shanti Mama
(1,288 posts)But Trump is just so vile. Makes GWB seem like a good guy.
ileus
(15,396 posts)The only difference is your locals don't have any power, but they're just as repulsive.
eppur_se_muova
(36,261 posts)What kind of professor cheats grad students ? That's like stealing from prisoners.
If he's ever audited by the IRS, I'm sure the results would be interesting. He lived to cheat everyone, including his professional colleagues and his employer.
Initech
(100,068 posts)Wannabe cowboy with a shit eating grin and a holier than thou complex.