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muriel_volestrangler

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5. The only thing you find out by listening to Trump is what his team wants his voters to hear

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Jan 22, 2020, 06:19 PM

Jan 2020

They are entirely focused on how to get re-elected. It bears no relation to what their future actions will be.

Or, if he goes off script, you can try to psychoanalyse him. But his delusions, neuroses and obsessions come and go, so there's not much point.

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I wish they would just laugh at everything he says. louis-t Jan 2020 #4

Me too. ooky Jan 2020 #8

The only thing you find out by listening to Trump is what his team wants his voters to hear muriel_volestrangler Jan 2020 #5

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