Is There Nothing Donald Trump Won't Say?

[Zorro]

Shamelessness meets illogic in a memorable (and endless) speech.

By Frank Bruni

I’m so relieved that the pandemic is over! I’d somehow missed that news, but then I watched the Republican National Convention, culminating in President Trump’s big speech on Thursday night, and learned that with his swift, muscular action, he’d pretty much vanquished the “China virus” and other countries wish they were so lucky. I learned that the economic toll of it was fast receding and would be a blurry memory soon.

I learned that it’s now perfectly safe for hundreds of people to sit cheek by jowl without masks, because that’s what they did in order to bathe the president in applause and chants of “four more years.” I learned that anyone who says different is just being a hater. But Trump is a lover. I learned that, too.

How to reconcile that with the vicious tone and vitriolic content of much of his remarks, which were as grounded in reality as a Tolkien novel and about as long? I’m stumped.

But I’m impressed: that he claimed such big-heartedness while showing such small-mindedness; that he twisted facts with such abandon and in such abundance; that he again trotted out that nonsense about having done more for Black Americans than any president since Abraham Lincoln; that he disparaged Joe Biden for not “following the science” about Covid-19 when he, Trump, mused about injections of bleach and vouched recklessly for hydroxychloroquine; that he characterized Biden’s positions as a “death sentence for the U.S. auto industry” when the Obama administration helped to save American carmakers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/opinion/trump-rnc-speech.html

[TreasonousBastard]

1. He won't say "I fucked up". Never has, never will.

[Chainfire]

2. Since Trump's brain does not differentiate truth from lies

and he is not encumbered by ethics or morals, there is nothing he won't say. To his credit, in my opinion, he believes everything he says, even if he contradicts himself in the same sentence. Trump's behavior is not so surprising. What is amazing is that 40% of Americans support and defend his contradictions, half truths and damn lies, and applaud him as a hero.

I, for the life of me, can't figure out why we have fallen as far and as fast as we have. For him to even be a viable contender in a race for the Presidency of the United States is a sign that, one day soon, a historian will be writing the history of The Decline and Fall of the American Republic.

[MurrayDelph]

3. I can think of three things

1) I was wrong
2) I am truly sorry
3) It's on me


Ok, he can say the third one, but not without lying.