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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"I didn't get the Nobel Prize. I stopped 8 wars. Putin called me, he said, 'I can't believe you stopped this one!'"
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
Trump: "You know, when I didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. You gotta understand, I don't care. Norway has lost so credible. I stopped 8 wars. Stopping wars -- I think I do it the best. President Putin called me, he said, 'I can't believe you stopped this one!'"
Trump: "You know, when I didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. You gotta understand, I don't care. Norway has lost so credible. I stopped 8 wars. Stopping wars -- I think I do it the best. President Putin called me, he said, 'I can't believe you stopped this one!'"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-27T22:17:07.136Z
Lonestarblue
(13,466 posts)What a complete fool we have in the Oval Office.
NewHendoLib
(61,849 posts)Marie Marie
(11,283 posts)republianmushroom
(22,317 posts)malaise
(295,961 posts)That is all
SheltieLover
(80,379 posts)Miles Archer
(23,189 posts)...then he was playing Trump, and Trump was too ignorant to see it.
Trump's Putin's asset, his useful idiot. Nothing more, nothing less.
SheltieLover
(80,379 posts)ColoringFool
(694 posts)big var soon to be in Vatican. Vas in movie! Vhite smoke, bleck smoke, please to pick vun for PEACE! Sviss Army Guards threaten us! Is TRUE!
VHAT? YOU SOLVED ALREADY, ON OTHER PHONE?! Number 9, Mr. President! Ve vill ask you get Olympic Gold Medal, da?
Can't vait for ballroom!"
MyOwnPeace
(17,548 posts)he didn't say 'SIR!' even once!
ColoringFool
(694 posts)DoBW
(3,220 posts)Potus >>
piece of totally useless shit
viva la
(4,597 posts)I know he doesn't care, but does he realize it?
Miles Archer
(23,189 posts)He's lived in an alternate reality for his entire life.
Roy Cohn taught him to project, to deflect, to blame his accusers of anything he's accused of.
Mark Burnette created the fictional "Apprentice" character, so that Trump...in "real life"...could inhabit his "happy place," where he was a fabulously successful billionaire businessman, rather than a guy with three marriages and six bankruptcies.
I've written about your question a number of times on DU. "Going with my gut," after having to witness his garbage for decades, I'd say:
1). WHATEVER is "true," what's at the HEART of it is that he DOESN'T care.
2). What he DOES "care" about is attention, fawning praise, and idealized public image of himself, things he can eat, things he can spend, and women...willing or unwilling...that he can have sex with, but even WITH whatever money he has, I can't imagine ANY woman with a level of self-esteem low enough to have sex with him in 2026. No idea what's in Melania's pre-nup. If sex is a condition, I'm sure she's figured multiple ways to "get it over with" as quickly as possible and only when the pre-nup demands it. She's allegedly had it re-written on an unspecified number of occasions. Maybe she took a hit on her eventual payday to have it removed altogether.
3). Any "crack in the armor" / "slipping of the mask" would "expose him as a fraud." Now, that's already accomplished by readily available fact-checking. But every time that happens he screams "FAKE NEWS," and the MAGAts believe him, so the audience for that is limited to about 2/3 of the country, and IN that group, a LOT of people have gone numb and just don't care. And he knows this. A major part of his strategy is to be so consistently loud-mouthed and obnoxious that he simply wears people down and wears them out.
EnergizedLib
(3,025 posts)If its even possible to say that.
flvegan
(66,265 posts)I've figured out one of the reasons most of his inner circle is so useless and stupid. They have to listen to ole Diarrhea of the Mouth Donnie blather on with his cartoonish "reality" constantly. It's like a never ending blast of Fox News for People More Stupid Than Those Who Watch Normal Fox News. Like a 300 pound 3 year old amped on cocaine and french fries constantly in your ear.
Knowing you're in the presence of a child raping traitor must be exhausting too, that is unless you yourself are one as well.
sakabatou
(46,134 posts)Skittles
(171,660 posts)demented old fool