2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNot only does Donald Trump not tell the truth,
I doubt that he even knows the truth most of the time. He seems not even to be able to remember which positions he has taken in the past, and seems to just wing it each time, as though he'd never even thought about a question before.
He is not a smart man.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Con Job has totally assumed a self created Reality TV Character. This dude has some real mental health issues going. Mark Burnett created a real douche bag this time.
MineralMan
(146,284 posts)what they've said in the past. They lie, even when it doesn't benefit them to lie. Many are simply incapable of telling the truth, because they don't recognize it.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Trump is able to remember jingoism's he created or someone told him. Certain phrases seem to repeat themselves when ever he opens his mouth. One troubled dude.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)of his type of disorder. Aside from very deliberate lies, he's so superior to everyone else that, generally speaking, he knows whatever he says is correct when he says it.
MineralMan
(146,284 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)In 33 years as a Union Representative, I always advised the people that I represented to tell the truth. It is easy to remember because it actually happened. Rarely can someone lie well because lies require a rewriting of reality to support the lie.
But Trump's advantage is that he is speaking to people who desperately want to believe that he does have the answers. So his inconsistencies are not important to his true believers.
Arkansas Granny
(31,513 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)promises and assurances constitute an actual plan. Trump knows and takes advantage of this willingness to believe.
Arkansas Granny
(31,513 posts)unblock
(52,178 posts)as long as he gets away with it, he'll just keep lying bigger and bigger. why not?
Gothmog
(145,049 posts)MineralMan
(146,284 posts)tblue37
(65,273 posts)stage dementia.
He might have had a small stroke, or he might have early stage Alzheimer's (his father had Alzheimer's).
He has always had disgusting opinions and attitudes, and he has always behaved deplorably, but these days he has no filter at all. I keep thinking of Sophia on The Golden Girls, whose stroke left her with no filter at all so that she said any outrageous thing that came to her mind.
Of course, it is appalling that so many Americans are so enchanted by the blatherings of someone who cannot prevent himself from spouting things that are simply not said out loud in a civilized society.
CJohnson_LS
(52 posts)Just look at how many of his businesses have gone bankrupt over the years. He knows NOTHING about business or politics. And people in this country actually want this guy to be our next president? Good God! Trump will do more damage in his 1st year of office than GWB did in 8 years.