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Marla's avatar

“If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.”

Always with the "never been done before" and "never seen before." I suppose when you're as ignorant and uneducated as Trump, you've simply never heard of most things. Everything is new and unique!

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Daniel Goldschmidt's avatar

Truth be told, that's actually a quote of Donald Trump ordering take-out fast food at a McDonald's drive-up window. Apparently, withholding extra packets of ketchup has consequences...

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Beth's avatar

He needs new schtick. It's all soooooooo old and meaningless. If it ever had meaning, that is.

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SandyG's avatar

Like his comment re Lincoln in 2017 at the National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner: Great president. Most people don’t even know he was a Republican. Does anyone know? Lot of people don’t know that.”

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Beth's avatar

And didn't he follow that up with something like "If you know that, you can win every argument"?

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SandyG's avatar

Hmm, don't recall that.

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GlenD's avatar

Trump, as with the goose, wakes to a new world with every sunrise.

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Dennis Holt's avatar

I never cease to be amazed at how limited his vocabulary is. But then it is also an essential element in his appeal to his devoted followers. They see themselves in him in part because of this.

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Marla's avatar

The difference between now and the 1980s is astonishing. He still uses a lot of the same words (e.g., "tremendous") but he's actually intelligible and coherent in this clip. So what is it? Has he developed this dumb persona on purpose, or is it something specifically wrong with his mind?

https://youtu.be/ZNq9Bjch6UA?t=96

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Helen's avatar

Dementia

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SandyG's avatar

Great question.

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Sko Hayes's avatar

Should have read more comments before posting almost the exact same comment above!

And then there's this one- remember when we used to think George W. Bush was dumb? Listen to Bush talk about policy versus Trump.

https://youtu.be/2oFvd8klUXU

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Helen's avatar

That's right. He never ever says anything of substance.

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SandyG's avatar

My favorite GW Bush comment of all time, according to HRC, during Trump's Inauguration speech in 2017: "Well, that was some weird shit."

Very insightful of him, I think.

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Daydream Believer's avatar

Or when he refers to himself in the third person: “Trump says the media is very unfair to Trump!”

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rlritt's avatar

Wasn't there a serial killer who did that?

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Badger1848's avatar

Maybe Trump has just watched the Seinfeld episode "The Jimmy" one too many times...

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Sheri Smith's avatar

He’s definitely running scared. He’s a whiny little bully.

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David Osborn's avatar

When he whines I wonder why ANYONE in the military or law enforcement gives him even a minute of their time

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rlritt's avatar

I don't get it. Except maybe they are whiners too.

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Linda Oliver's avatar

He’s always been a whiny bully.

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NLTownie's avatar

Also the sign of a lazy mind.

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Liberal Cynic's avatar

"Everything is new and unique!"

Adderall infused dementia does that to a person.

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SandyG's avatar

Love that.

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Mingo's avatar

Is that why his cadence is so stultifying? Adderall induced. I can't stand the way he pronounces China, with a hard "i". Chiiiina!

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Beth's avatar

And he also says it as if it starts with a J. Jiiiiiiina. Is it some kind of inside "vagina" joke that he does that? It's just bizarre.

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Carol Janes's avatar

or "country" sounds like his throat is full of phlegm...

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

She learned well from her mentor Trump..:)

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John Kelly's avatar

Was anyone else reminded by this language of Putin's warning to the West on the eve of his invasion of Ukraine last year? The two are uncomfortably similar.

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Sko Hayes's avatar

Most authoritarians use the same language- invoke fear, and ostracize unbelievers.

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Christopher Wood's avatar

There is a video of sayings for them so as not to be too confused when trying to stir up the mindless hordes of followers.

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TomD's avatar

Or one of Prigozhin's video posts... .

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Josh's avatar

Speaking of stale phrases that need to be jeered into oblivion. It's definitely the Trump verbal tic that annoys me the most.

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Helen's avatar

Trump has a vocabulary of about 100 words and phrases. He recycles them constantly. And everything is hyperbole. He had the best economy of all time and he was the best president in history. What a clown!

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dcicero's avatar

All the Trump impersonators have latched onto this. He just connects these phrases together like Lincoln Logs and makes a speech out of them.

“Very strong and powerful” is another one.

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Beth's avatar

And doing things "strongly", looking at things "strongly"....his syntax is just so odd, maybe because his vocabulary is so tiny.

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Josh's avatar

Yeah, no matter what the actual contextual appropriateness is. A 'perfect' phone call? Nobody talks like that.

But what matters is that the superlative gets used and associated with his actions. I don't get how people don't find this at a minimum bizarre and obnoxious to listen to regardless of your bent.

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rlritt's avatar

That makes it simple for his followers. They don't feel like they are being talked down to.

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SandyG's avatar

Yes. That is how they are conned. Reminds me of the snake oil salesman. He employes what is known as a confidence trick, "an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick). That's MAGA!

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dcicero's avatar

"Many people are saying..."

"Many people have told me..."

"I think it does a great disservice to our country."

"I think it is very unfair."

"Y'know, most people don't know this, but..."

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Ben Swett's avatar

You know it

I know it

Everybody knows it

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SandyG's avatar

A sonorous claim, absolutely devoid of any evidence to back it up.

Do you remember when Trump said about Mexican immigrants they were rapists, etc.? Reporters did ask for evidence to support that. He said he would provide it. They never followed up. For some reason, the press has failed us.

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Bluchek Mark's avatar

Things / expressions we could do with less of:

Whatever / Whoever “is a disgrace!”

“...like a dog!” (As though dogs are a bad thing!)

“...disgusting”

“...a loser”

SHOUTING IN ALL CAPS WITH MULTIPLE EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!

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Mary Brown's avatar

And misspellings!

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SandyG's avatar

Mary, I am a retired reading teacher to kids with dyslexia. Bad spelling is a sign. I'm sure he has undiagnosed dyslexia, and felt the shame of it as all kids do growing up and being not successful at school, which is all about reading.

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Joey J's avatar

I'd argue to never trust a person (barring allergies or a traumatic past incident) who can't get along with dogs, or children. And Trump strikes me as the sort who has never played with a dog nor given any time to children to don't "belong" to him.

So of course he would consider dogs a "bad" thing.

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dcicero's avatar

Variations on...

"They hate America..."

"They hate the Constitution..."

"They hate our way of life, folks..."

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dcicero's avatar

"...the likes of which no one's ever seen before."

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David Osborn's avatar

This one always make me think of him at the local library… you know… MAKING SURE’

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R Mercer's avatar

Many people are saying so

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Eric73's avatar

Mine would be how everything and everyone is always "very unfair" to him and his allies.

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Josh's avatar

Yeah that one's always stuck out for me too. For a bunch of Alpha/Sigma Based Males, his cohort sure whines about fairness a lot.

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SandyG's avatar

Well said!

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Sko Hayes's avatar

Alpha males in the Republican party are ALL victims, according to them.

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Josh's avatar

Poor little guys. They just need bigger pickups.

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Rick's avatar

Mine is his use of the word "perfect" to describe phone calls.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

The man speaks only one language, but he has an incredibly limited vocabulary in it.

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SandyG's avatar

Well put.

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Sko Hayes's avatar

If you watch interviews of Trump from back in the 1980s or the 1990s (available on you tube) you can tell he's lost a lot of language. The sign of someone who never reads.

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Rick's avatar

Which is one of his superpowers. Saying the same words over and over and over, and not getting bored with the sound of his own voice.

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SandyG's avatar

He learned this from the Nazis: Joseph Goebbels . . . understood the power of repeating falsehoods. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,” he asserted, “people will eventually come to believe it.” This phenomenon, pervasive in contemporary politics, advertising, and social media, is known in cognitive psychology as the “illusory truth effect" (https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/illusion-chasers/i-heard-it-before-so-it-must-be-true/).

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GlenD's avatar

I owned many an LP (remember those?) that had the same problem.

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dcicero's avatar

He also fully understands that a TV interview only lasts so long. If he pads his remarks with all kinds of filler, he runs out the clock. He talks and talks and says nothing.

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SandyG's avatar

Yep, lots of filler, like bad dog food. The only interviewer who EVER matched his blah-blah-blah is Jon Swan. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjGSFQIp_qw.

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