“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!
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...
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.”
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/).
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.
“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!
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...
He needs new schtick. It's all soooooooo old and meaningless. If it ever had meaning, that is.
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.”
And didn't he follow that up with something like "If you know that, you can win every argument"?
Hmm, don't recall that.
Trump, as with the goose, wakes to a new world with every sunrise.
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.
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
Dementia
Great question.
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
That's right. He never ever says anything of substance.
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.
Or when he refers to himself in the third person: “Trump says the media is very unfair to Trump!”
Wasn't there a serial killer who did that?
Maybe Trump has just watched the Seinfeld episode "The Jimmy" one too many times...
He’s definitely running scared. He’s a whiny little bully.
When he whines I wonder why ANYONE in the military or law enforcement gives him even a minute of their time
I don't get it. Except maybe they are whiners too.
He’s always been a whiny bully.
Also the sign of a lazy mind.
"Everything is new and unique!"
Adderall infused dementia does that to a person.
Love that.
Is that why his cadence is so stultifying? Adderall induced. I can't stand the way he pronounces China, with a hard "i". Chiiiina!
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.
or "country" sounds like his throat is full of phlegm...
She learned well from her mentor Trump..:)
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.
Most authoritarians use the same language- invoke fear, and ostracize unbelievers.
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.
Or one of Prigozhin's video posts... .
Speaking of stale phrases that need to be jeered into oblivion. It's definitely the Trump verbal tic that annoys me the most.
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!
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.
And doing things "strongly", looking at things "strongly"....his syntax is just so odd, maybe because his vocabulary is so tiny.
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.
That makes it simple for his followers. They don't feel like they are being talked down to.
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!
"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..."
You know it
I know it
Everybody knows it
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.
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!!!!
And misspellings!
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.
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.
Variations on...
"They hate America..."
"They hate the Constitution..."
"They hate our way of life, folks..."
"...the likes of which no one's ever seen before."
This one always make me think of him at the local library… you know… MAKING SURE’
Many people are saying so
Mine would be how everything and everyone is always "very unfair" to him and his allies.
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.
Well said!
Alpha males in the Republican party are ALL victims, according to them.
Poor little guys. They just need bigger pickups.
Mine is his use of the word "perfect" to describe phone calls.
The man speaks only one language, but he has an incredibly limited vocabulary in it.
Well put.
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.
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.
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/).
I owned many an LP (remember those?) that had the same problem.
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.
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.