Donald Trump

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Trump is a fascist who is simultaneously secretly moving the US towards a dictatorship but also completely incompetent and doesn't know what Government is. He's a plotting genius and a plotting buffoon.

I guess Trump is whatever people need him to be that day to criticise him. Schrodinger's Trump.

The difference being that being alive or dead are mutually exclusive, whereas being a fascist and a buffoon are not.

 

[Damocles]

The difference being that being alive or dead are mutually exclusive, whereas being a fascist and a buffoon are not.

Having the ability to singlehandedly corrupt the American system of democracy and turn it into a fascist state, and being a buffoon who doesn't understand every day facts about Government are mutually exclusive.

Either he is this evil genius subverting the populace or he is bumbling around falling into Presidencys. He can't be both.

 

[west didsblue]

Having the ability to singlehandedly corrupt the American system of democracy and turn it into a fascist state, and being a buffoon who doesn't understand every day facts about Government are mutually exclusive.

Either he is this evil genius subverting the populace or he is bumbling around falling into Presidencys. He can't be both.

Being a fascist buffoon unwittingly having his strings pulled by influential GOP members and by the Kremlin is also a possibility.

 

[kaz7]

I've said for a while he is going down the dictator route,if he could he would shut down all media and have a state sponsered news channel to spout his nonsense like putin,this fake news and banning some media from asking questions is the start,hopefully some sensible senators won't let him do it

 

[Damocles]

Being a fascist buffoon unwittingly having his strings pulled by influential GOP members and by the Kremlin is also a possibility.

This is true. However this underlies the idea that it's not possible for Trump to change the US and he in fact is a victim of manipulation.

Is Trump the REAL victim here?

 

[SWP's back]

Having the ability to singlehandedly corrupt the American system of democracy and turn it into a fascist state, and being a buffoon who doesn't understand every day facts about Government are mutually exclusive.

Either he is this evil genius subverting the populace or he is bumbling around falling into Presidencys. He can't be both.

Or the shadow team around him are smart and would prefer to rule via dictatorship and are able to have such sway because he is a buffoon.

 

[west didsblue]

This is true. However this underlies the idea that it's not possible for Trump to change the US and he in fact is a victim of manipulation.

Is Trump the REAL victim here?

Wouldn't go that far.
Seems to me Trump's main aim is to enrich himself and the legislation he's trying to introduce in conjunction with the GOP will certainly do that. Meanwhile the deals his businesses are doing abroad on the back of his position as president will also help to swell his coffers.

 

[SWP's back]

Being a fascist buffoon unwittingly having his strings pulled by influential GOP members and by the Kremlin is also a possibility.

Ah you've covered this.

 

[Damocles]

Or the shadow team around him are smart and would prefer to rule via dictatorship and are able to have such sway because he is a buffoon.

Which fine but that still means that Trump isn't some evil genius himself.

Seems to me Trump's main aim is to enrich himself and the legislation he's trying to introduce in conjunction with the GOP will certainly do that. Meanwhile the deals his businesses are doing abroad on the back of his position as president will also help to swell his coffers.

Do lots of buffoons complete international deals in order to swell their private coffers while softly stepping around the various legislative frameworks designed to stop this? Or is Trump the only world leader who happens to be stupid?

 

[west didsblue]

Do lots of buffoons complete international deals in order to swell their private coffers while softly stepping around the various legislative frameworks designed to stop this? Or is Trump the only world leader who happens to be stupid?

I think you're giving him too much credit. He's not softly stepping around anything just deflecting when the questions come too close to home. It'll all catch up with him eventually. His business acumen isn't that great anyway. Six bankruptcies and thousands of other people losing money on his behalf would suggest he's an accomplished snake oil salesman and nothing else. Without his inherited £200m from his father he'd be a nobody.