Lion in Winter

This is the essence of a cult - the distortion of reality so that it fits one's beliefs. For the US, it doesn't matter when one person in Australia does it. It will matter if enough of the US population is still in thrall come election day, although ironically so many of them are in a demographic of people likely to be hurt by such an outcome.

moneypenny20

He's playing with you.

Lion in Winter

No, that would take some self-reflection and some level of cleverness.

It's been the same for years and years.

Phathamster

​​​​​​To be fair at least he had the balls to enter into something that vaguely resembled a debate.

Whereas Trump deliberately disrupted one and now is running scared of another...

christmasoompa

From his latest interview "I'm a perfect physical specimen and I'm extremely young". Clearly the drugs have addled his brain even more than it was already.

Phathamster

Dementia creeping in? Maybe he thinks he is still in the 60s?

christmasoompa

He's previously proven time and time again how delusional he is, this is just yet another example. It did make me laugh though.

Phathamster

It has to be a deliberate act, it's like he just craves the attention.


He's the presidential version of Joey Essex.

caretaker

He won't come off looking very brave if he won't do a virtual debate:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/america...iden-1.5137600

DaveLovesDee

Can we call it trolling, and give him a warning?

moneypenny20

It would be better coming from a mod but if you can get him to listen to you, go for it.

robtuck

That's because that is precisely what he is about. He has never wanted to be President, but he has loved the idea of playing the President. For Trump, success is relevance - being talked about as if he is successful. His entire life is centred around that principle. Just look at the period where he used to phone up pretending to be someone else to dish the dirt on himself, or drop hints about this guy Trumps wealth. He did the latter to try and create gossip to support his own claims on his net worth to try and be relevant in the Rich List.

His entire means of wealth is anchored to an image - tough guy, rule breaker, player, hard nosed etc. He has to keep that persona in the media - if for no other reason than it appears his income is pretty much reliant on licensing fees for The Apprentice these days and he appears personally leveraged to the eye balls - he's also got a small problem in that his real estate is likely declining in value these days given the Covid-19 impact on Hospitality and Commercial Real Estate. I think most of his income comes via licensing his name with that as well.

The saddest bit of all that is the Republicans got hood winked into taking him on - he couldn't give two hoots about the Party, or anyone who votes for him. And that's the criminal bit for me because there are plenty of people who do vote for him that have real "grievance" with the way the system works for them and they've wasted time supporting him. The net result is a few Billionaires are a bit richer these days, little else has changed, well, apart from fewer of them have jobs now.

Giantaxe

Black Flies Matter.

That fly landing and staying on Pence's hair was the perfect metaphor for an Administration that fails to take racial injustice seriously.

Leslie

Yeah, I'm not sure why it's okay for him to troll but it's not okay for us to call him a troll. He gets to say and do whatever he wants and the people that point it out get their posts deleted. He's not even trying to hide it anymore. Which means I'll probably end up getting banned pretty soon.

Steerpike

A friend just sent me this. I presume it's legit ...