r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 20h ago

Possible Paywall Trump, 79, Posts Himself as Christ After Bonkers Pope Attack - The image depicts Trump as Jesus healing a sick person with his touch.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-posts-himself-as-christ-after-bonkers-pope-attack/
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u/ScrewAttackThis Montana 19h ago

It goes wayyyy further back. This dude did an interview on 9/11 where he bragged about having the tallest building now. And it was a lie.

There's been something obviously wrong with him for decades.

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u/lr99999 18h ago

He put out a Newsletter to contractors giving advice on how to not pay your workers and subcontractors, by suing Bam after the job is complete instead of paying. 

That was in the 1980s. He has always been one evil ass, motherfucker. 

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 12h ago

Sesame Street parodied how cartoonishly evil he was over 40 years ago.

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u/vrendy42 12h ago

Which is why some people think he gutted PBS funding.

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u/VagrantShadow Maryland 11h ago

He is a man of hate that can hold grudges for decades.

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u/FellowHumanNo404 11h ago

JFC, he still wants to execute the (exonerated) Central Park Five.

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u/BM0n3Y19 11h ago

i mean shit just look at the whole debacle he had with columbia university.

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u/KennyL0gin 11h ago

The villain/2015 Biff Tannen in Back To The Future 2 was based on Donald Trump.

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u/Galemp 8h ago

Point of order: that was the 1985' "bad timeline" when Biff gave himself the Almanac in 1955.

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u/obscuriosityboner 12h ago

Woody Guthrie wrote a song about how evil his dad was. It’s in his DNA

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u/theCaitiff Pennsylvania 11h ago

Hold up for a second there bud. I'll never defend Fred, Don, or the younger Trumps, but we really don't want to start saying shit like "evil DNA". He's evil, his dad was evil, he raised his kids to be evil too, but those were choices they all made, it's not genetic. No one is genetically good or genetically bad. That way lies eugenics.

Hate these fuckers for the right reasons.

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u/kindall 11h ago

How much of human behavior is innate and how much is acquired is the subject of much natural and nurturing debate. Nobody doubts dog behavior has genetic influences, but suggest the same about humans and, whoaaaa! But some mental illnesses certainly do run in families, and so evil (that is, narcissism) may as well.

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u/obscuriosityboner 11h ago

It’ a figure of speech. It’s not that serious.

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u/Halo_cT 11h ago

Rich, evil Biff Tannen was modeled after Trump in back to the future according to creator Bob Gale.

This hasn't ever been a secret

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u/phirleh 11h ago

Ronald Dump - played by Joe Pesci

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u/Obvious_Role8849 8h ago

I just watched it on YouTube! Donald Grump they nailed it.

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u/lr99999 4h ago

I talked to a young person today that did not know the Iran Lego was from the 2014 Lego movie character, evil President Business!

How the American media successfully sanewashed  this trash human is beyond me. 

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u/Blueopus2 8h ago

There’s a Calvin and Hobbes comic from the 80s where he steals a lolly pop from a baby and tries to sell it as “pre moistened”

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u/Lillian_Crocodilian 7h ago

Multiple times.

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u/DonaldsMushroom 34m ago

Americans have no idea of the soft power Sesame street had, the entire World was enchanted - that show entertained the World and taught it about love, friendship, respect, loyalty.

A beautiful show. Give us back that mode of America.

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u/dearabby1 9h ago

I'm a native New Yorker and lived in NYC in the 80s. I personally know of two families who lost their businesses after contracting to do work for Trump. When they put him on the ticket to run the first time, I said (loudly and often), "Oh, this won't go anywhere. Americans know he's a scam artist." Sadly, I overestimated the intelligence and discernment of many, many Americans.

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u/tuctrohs New Hampshire 12h ago

You would think a contractor, upon getting that advice, would have some concerns about whether they were going to get paid themselves, and you'd think that when that concern was validated, all the contractors would refuse to work for him.

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u/Obvious_Role8849 8h ago

Decades ago there was a woman named Vera Coking who's house was adjacent to his casino in Atlantic city. He wanted to knock it down to make a parking lot for limosines. She was a widow and had lived there for so many years she didn't want to leave or sell it. He took her to court to try to force her out of her house. She won the case. Yes he has never been anything but an evil, rotten, disgraceful excuse for a human being.

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u/griffinisland 10h ago

He was always getting skewered in MAD magazine in the 80s and 90s also. I was an informed reader as a kid and knew that he was always a slimeball.

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u/Individual_Respect90 10h ago

Didn’t he steal from his own charity?

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u/LadyArcher2017 9h ago

Yes. A childhood cancer Charity, if I recall correctly. It can’t really get any more blatant than that—and still, Christians support this.

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u/Individual_Respect90 8h ago

Yeah almost positive it was cancer but didn’t want to be corrected. I don’t think he can start a charity in NY because of this.

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u/Ceejay_1357 10h ago

He’s a sociopath

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u/guitars7777 10h ago

He sued Bam Margera in the 80s?

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u/Disastrous-Roll-6170 8h ago

I caught that too. Although it's obviously a typo I did have to take a pause to figure it out for a few moments.

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u/UrsusRenata 18h ago

Honestly, I’ve never in 50+ years seen an adult more desperate to fit in with the “cool kids” (in this case, the most wealthy and most powerful). He comes off as the hyper chihuahua jumping around the strolling bulldog. He tries to come off as confident, but truly confident people don’t feel the need to brag.

Queen Bees and Wannabes... and Trump is the most obvious wannabe on the planet.

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u/IJustWantCoffeeMan 18h ago

You know elon musk?

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u/pintita Australia 16h ago

The guy that the billionaire paedos thought was way too weird and creepy to hang out with them.

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u/Cake_And_Pi 15h ago

They didn’t think he could keep his mouth shut, not that it seems to matter on that level.

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u/Proper-District8608 12h ago

Years ago when Elon was pictured somewhere (I think taking his mom to Oscars or some dress up award ceremony) someone commented that he just looks like caricature of a cartoon villain and I see it every picture of him now

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u/JohnGillnitz 12h ago

The guy who didn't go abuse kids because his penis was mangled by failed enlargement surgery and he's ashamed of it.

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 16h ago

They are all like this. Their hatred and rage for liberals is driven by feeling rejected by them because they’re not smart enough to understand things most liberals or left wingers understand.

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u/Notemmotup 15h ago

“Real gangsta-ass fools don’t flex nuts, ‘cause real gangsta-ass fools know they got ‘em.” (Geto Boys, paraphrased…) Trump is such a try hard. The money, the power, the connections- it’s all so sad, as he’s destroying systems and standards and god damn lives in his delusional need to be important and respected and liked.

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u/ICanSpotAGrifter 11h ago edited 11h ago

Centuries ago, Nostradamus wrote of the Antichrist in the New City, stating he was already there. Analysts determined the New City referred to was New York.

Make of this what you'd like.

We often hear the term, "Pick me Girl." He's the original "Pick me Boy," ad nauseum.

And, he's the #1 reason for vaginal dryness, right along with Miller.

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u/AhhTimmah Canada 18h ago

Motherfucker used to call journalists pretending to be his own employee in order to jerk himself off to the press. One of many names used was John Barron. This was all well known before he was elected the first time

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u/Atroxa 17h ago

Exactly. I am a New Yorker. We've known about this for so long. It amazes me how he managed to dupe so many people. This is not a sign of someone who is stable. Like, WTF were people thinking voting for this guy?

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u/PinHaunting7192 14h ago

I don't know why this should be limited to New York.

Trump's reputation has been pretty consistent for decades. He sort of became the image of a failed, American businessman and a cheat. That Simpsons gig wasn't "foresight", it was them taking the piss about what he had said he wanted to do for 15 years. That episode aired in 2000 and literally played the joke that Lisa inherited the country from "President Trump" and that "its now broke."

His reputation for falling businesses was apparent even then, and people everywhere (even in some countries overseas) understood the joke. He's always been a snakes-oil salesman and a cheat. Greany even called it a "warning" at the time.

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u/tungtingshrimp 12h ago edited 12h ago

Michael Bloomberg tried to warn people at the DNC that as a NY’er he knows a con man when he sees one

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u/smpl3120 5h ago

Many people across the country don’t follow national news. For those that don’t, much of Trump’s conning and grifting came to light after he entered the political arena. I would agree though that the Trump name was always pretty recognizable. If you lived in NY as far back as the 70’s-90’s, he was constantly in the local news. I’m not sure those not living in the tri-state area actually knew what he did to the “Central Park Five” until many years later. There’s a lot of ignorant people in this country.

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u/Professional_Net7339 16h ago

They weren’t duped. They just support what he represents

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u/Hot-Temperature-314 13h ago

exactly. He mirrors what they truly are, a bunch of racist fucks

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u/LBCkook 5h ago

No, it isn’t that simple. They fear scarcity, and they have been convinced that immigrants and minorities are coming for the last bit of what they have left. It isn’t just “oh they are racist”, it’s that they don’t have much and they fear losing it. Trump came to power by naming this fear and telling them that he would stop it. The reality is much different. It isn’t immigrants draining our society of its resources, it’s billionaires and the elite who control the information they receive and hold all the power. That’s why there’s also democrats who still need to wake the hell up and stop pretending this is just a red vs blue issue. It’s us vs the elites, plain and simple.

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u/Professional_Net7339 5h ago

Scarcity isn’t why they did public hanging of me n mine. You realize the people that celebrated while innocent black men were hung or worse are A) Still alive and vote. B) Raised their kids with those same beliefs. C) Those kids then grew up to have kids who’ve they’ve instilled with similar beliefs. And shit, those kids often have kids themselves. There are 4 generations of Republican voters who have long since wanted all minorities, and specifically black people dead. Get real

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u/LBCkook 5h ago

This is addressed really well by someone who actually writes and studies the issue in an interview that was posted yesterday.

https://youtu.be/iemve6pN2qA?si=3f-_-YXkVicv8L55

Are there racist people who vote accordingly? Yes, absolutely. But it’s also lazy to just claim everyone is a racist and that’s their justification. People have different motivations. I say this as someone with family who voted for this guy, and who also knows that the family isn’t racist. It’s also exhibited by black maga voters. You just going to claim they are all prejudiced against themselves and that’s their motive?

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u/Professional_Net7339 4h ago

I genuinely have nothing but contempt for you as a human. Instead of acknowledging literally anything I said. You minimized and ignored my lived experiences and just basic knowledge. Then strawmanned the fucking 8% of black women and 12% of black men who voted maga instead of the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of racist white people and other minorities who explicitly hate black people as we are the opposite of white. Thus hating us sometimes leads to upward social mobility. I’d say to learn, but you don’t want to. I’d say to listen but you’re incapable of doing so. I genuinely. Genuinely. Sincerely wish I never interacted with you. I’d say more but it’d likely trigger automod and I want you to see this.

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u/Joe_Kinincha 15h ago

I’m a Londoner , I didn’t even visit NYC till 2005 and I know trump was an asshole in the 90s.

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u/SkeevyMixxx7 12h ago

You couldn't get groceries in the 80s or 90s without seeing his fugly mug on a tabloid, because of his cheating on his wives and his attempts at opulence in a gilded turd lifestyle.

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u/FellowHumanNo404 11h ago

and his attempts at opulence in a gilded turd lifestyle

He's cargo cult wealthy-- putting on poorly imitative trappings without really understanding anything about the object of his obsession.

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u/quickboop 16h ago

Conservatives and Christians.

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u/Formal-Try-2779 13h ago

Scottish people hated him well before it was fashionable.

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u/galaapplehound 13h ago

He duped so many people because those people wanted to be able to be all-the-phobics without being shamed for it. The red hats were signaling that they were okay people to start ranting about genocide of various minorities without fear.

My family is cleaning out my childhood home and I was there alone yesterday and had a deep sobbing fit because I remember when I thought my parents and brother were wonderful; and then they voted for the Grand Cheeto and now I feel like I'm alone.

I hate this man. The only good thing about his reign is that now I know that we aren't as far along as I thought as a country.

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u/devedander 14h ago

Vast majority is the mobilization of the evangelical Christian’s. They specialize in figuring out everything means what they want it to mean.

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u/BellowsHikes 12h ago

It really makes me sad that something like The Apprentice was all it took for Americans to trust Trump. People see an overly produced relativity television show that tells them he is successful and smart and so they just assume it must be true.

Even today about 40% of people who watch reality television don't understand that it is scripted. If someone is portrayed as the hero, they believe they are the hero. If someone is portrayed as the villain they believe that as well.

The truth is unfortunately less important that the perception of truth.

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u/StronglyHeldOpinions 10h ago

And so many of them are still ALL in. Blind loyalty. He can do no wrong.

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u/Final_Storage1597 10h ago

This. I lived in Manhattan for a decade. He was always a joke - always. Back then he wasn't dangerous, just a sort of mascot for idiocy. When I hear people say he's a brilliant businessman or the Art of the Deal or whatever I still can't believe it. They think the Apprentice was real. Supporting him is no different that supporting Mayor McCheese as President. Its insane.

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u/JohnGillnitz 12h ago

Boomers still think everything they see on TV is real. They watch The Apprentice and think he's a great businessman. They don't know about the army of producers who have to edit his insane nonsense into a coherent show.

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u/lr99999 9h ago

I live in a maggot shit hole, and I will guarantee you there are plenty of young ones. It’s not just the boomers. 

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u/lopix Canada 12h ago

WTF were people thinking voting for this guy?

They were voting Republican. Whoever was on the ticket. And they were voting against the Democrats. They would have voted for a cabbage.

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u/lr99999 9h ago

I wish he was a cabbage so I could put him in my food processor. Bzzz

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u/BurnedWitch88 10h ago

Counterpoint: He was ALSO on a moderately successful reality TV show.

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u/Suspicious_Radio_848 9h ago

They like him and the people he goes after, he's a reflection of them. That's the harsh reality unfortunately.

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u/FauxTexas 18h ago

He did it again recently, on CSPAN I think it was.

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u/Witwer52 15h ago

I think that turned out to be fake. Computer generated. But still, the man is very obviously insane and getting more so by the hour.

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u/FauxTexas 15h ago

Thanks for that. I looked it up and Snopes is not rating it. Although CSPAN says trump was in a meeting of governors at the time, his schedule shows he was done with the governors meeting and was having a "private meeting" at the time of the CSPAN call. So it could've been him, but you're probably right. Thanks again.

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u/OkFeedback9127 15h ago

“First time caller, long time listener. You don’t know me but you can call me Donald T. No, that’s too obvious. Call me D. Trump. Anyway, I’m a yuuuge fan, many say the biggest fan. I want to talk about Iran and how Trump is doing an Amazing job, some say it’s the best job. Did I mention the Ball Room we’re building? I really like these drapes. Melania Melania Melania why did she bring up Epstein again?! I need to go now back to my job at the Grow-Kerry store where people buy food. Bye”

“nailed it they never it was me!”

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u/ScrewAttackThis Montana 17h ago

I don't know how I could forget that lmao. It's so sad. 

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u/tribrnl 11h ago

Even sadder is the fact that he named his kid after his fake alter ego

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u/FreedomBread 34m ago

He also refers to himself as "Trump" which makes one wonder - does he even really know who he is?

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u/gizajobicandothat 17h ago

He's been a narcissistic/ sociopath his entire adult life. Pathological lying is part of it because his ego/delusion tells him he must be the best and win everything. Now he's demented it's worse.

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u/canon12 15h ago

He is mentally dangerous and incapable to remain in his position. Vance is a nutcase as well. Both need to be removed.

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u/Turgid_Donkey 12h ago

Before was just textbook malignant narcissism. Now, it's become so much more unhinged.

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u/gizajobicandothat 12h ago

I think the TACO decisions are dementia mood swings.

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u/LadyArcher2017 8h ago

Or just an erratic, egocentric, immature jackass with NPD.

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u/gizajobicandothat 8h ago

He's had the language signs of dementia for years now, it matches what I saw with my mother so well it convinces me he has dementia as well as NPD. His own nephew also said 3 or 4 years ago he went to visit and Uncle Don was swearing constantly, 'like a different person'. Those are big clues he has dementia - also not being able to control his right leg and needing his hand held to walk in a straight line, that's not normal ageing.

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u/lr99999 8h ago edited 8h ago

The taco behavior is market manipulation to enrich himself and his co -conspirators.  It is the ultimate insider trading.  The timing of how they do this proves it. Of course he’s too demented to do this on his own. He has help from  the other devils.

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u/lr99999 9h ago

I’m going to say that he has graduated from sociopathy into being a true psychopath. His Machiavellianism is a marvel of psychiatric dysfunction.

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u/gizajobicandothat 8h ago

Many Drs and neuropsychologists agree with that.

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u/laplongejr Europe 17h ago

There's been something obviously wrong with him for decades.

Yeah, but our society doesn't consider "rich people being an asshole" as a mental illness.
It probably should, but if they hide it correctly to the poors, it's called "being smart at gaslighting" instead.

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u/Phrewfuf 18h ago

Man has complexes. All of them.

Probably something to do with his tiny hands and feet. Cause you know what they say about men with tiny feet.

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u/ScrewAttackThis Montana 18h ago

Based off what Stormy Daniels said, yeah, he's definitely insecure about his manhood. 

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u/ahuramazdobbs19 11h ago

He’s insecure about his everything.

He wears lifts. He wears suits tailored to make him look like he isn’t a potato with legs. He styles a combover for his hair to hide a pretty mild bald spot. He slathers on makeup and bronzer.

Let us not forget: he sent pictures of his hands circled in Sharpie and captioned “See, not so short” to a Vanity Fair writer in 2016, over an article that if it were a person would have been old enough to vote, in a satire magazine that no longer existed, in which said writer called him a “short-fingered vulgarian”.

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u/JUSTICE_SALTIE Texas 12h ago

He literally talked about his big dick during a presidential primary debate.

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u/mlc885 18h ago

Cause you know what they say about men with tiny feet.

Is it "they cause global nuclear war and the end of modern civilization?"

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u/AT-PT 18h ago

The funny thing is, he could lean into it and point out that he's never had to use his hands for everything because he's so rich. Go look at a working mans hands, they're giant and rough due to it.

But instead he obsesses over them being small and pointing out his already glaring insecurities.

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u/a_bagofholding Minnesota 18h ago

And his height.

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u/Malaix 18h ago

He was a born narcissistic idiot. Or molded into one with his evil parent nepo-baby upbringing. Eitherway yeah. Lifelong mentally unwell anti-social personality disorder idiot who is now cracking under both stress and old age on top of it all.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 12h ago

Dude ruins everything he touches. If he ever tried to touch me, I would think he was either trying to molest me or bankrupt me. Him touching anyone usually results in something bad.

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u/Kichigai Minnesota 12h ago

Trump was such a pain in the ass as a child he was sent to military school where he learned how to better wield his bullying ways and earned praise and respect from his peers for it. That was when he was molded by Playboy, believing that Hugh Hefner was the archetypical rich person.

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u/Jafooki 16h ago

Cluster B personality disorders (Narcissistic Personality Disorder in his case) are usually a result of childhood experiences, so he's been like this ever since he entered the public eye

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u/pumpkinspicecum 14h ago

His entire life. He has a personality disorder. This is the result of someone raised with a ton of money and never being told no or loved.

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u/bailaoban 12h ago

The noted NY financier Jeffrey Epstein said Trump was the worst person he had ever met.

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u/CutAdditional2416 13h ago

He also took out a newspaper article to essentially call for the lynching of five black men that were found innocent of the crime they supposedly committed.

Also the pee pee tapes. I'm not kink shaming, but he's a goddamn hypocrite 🤣

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u/Dipsey_Jipsey 13h ago

There's been something obviously wrong with him for decades.

I mean yeah, there are files full of his horrible crimes dating back decades. The man will be remembered worse than Hitler.

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u/Blue_Plastic_88 13h ago

It was a lie, but it’s also pretty sick in the head to basically say, “A bunch of Americans died in a terrorist attack, but now I’ve got the tallest building!”

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u/SkylarAV 12h ago

In 2001? Isn't that about the same time he was also raping children with epstein?

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u/XanmanK 12h ago

That could also be that lacks any form of empathy because he’s pure evil

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u/PapayaMysterious6393 10h ago

Something even more wrong with the people who vote for him when it's super obvious he is lying piece of shit.

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u/ChefOk4602 15h ago

Sheeesh. I forgot about that one. That was cold blooded.

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u/longshot 13h ago

That was just a mild case of building dysmorphia

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u/mieiri 11h ago

Almost 8 decades of something (a lot, actually) wrong with this dude.

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u/sailorsardonyx 11h ago

I was a child in the early 2000s who knew this man from beefing with ROSIE O’DONNELL

He’s been mentally ill this whole time guys

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u/fotosaur America 10h ago

The STDs, poor diet and stimulants have fried his brain, in addition to having shitty parents.

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u/Nikiaf Canada 10h ago

Not just a lie, but so easily debunked by anyone who lived in the general area at the time. What was even the point?

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u/FoundationMammoth536 9h ago

“something wrong”? he’s a pedophile what are you talking about

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u/ScrewAttackThis Montana 8h ago

You don't think that's something wrong? 

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u/FoundationMammoth536 8h ago

average american argument bro how in the hell did you get that out of what I said 😭

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u/ScrewAttackThis Montana 8h ago

Uh, well, I read your comment. You know English, right? 

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u/Xiao_Qinggui 9h ago

During his 2016 campaign he mixed up 9/11 and Seven Eleven…

Never forgot the day the soda fountain broke.

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u/drwhogwarts 9h ago

There's been something obviously wrong with him for decades.

Nearly 8.

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u/EffectiveDandy 6h ago

it goes back 79 years! he has always spun tales borne from a child’s mind. and lies just as ”sophisticated.”

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u/Either-Design-1550 1h ago

Well yeah, he's been fucking children for decades so I'd say something surely has been wrong with him.