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There’s No Understanding Donald Trump
Theatlantic.com ^ | 7/13/19 | James Fallows

Posted on 07/14/2019 4:09:30 AM PDT by cotton1706

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To: chajin

They just have never been the same since Jack Thornton died.

Let alone Sergeant Preston!


41 posted on 07/14/2019 5:48:10 AM PDT by heshtesh
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To: DoodleBob

Recent studies indicate what we call Neanderthals coincide with Scriptural definitions of Nephilim or offspring between fallen angels and human women, also referenced as giants and those with elongated skulls.


42 posted on 07/14/2019 5:52:25 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: HotHunt

It would be nice if Hillary and Joe could run as co President together that way they could share the spotlight as co losers together. I would really hate to see either one of them be shorted recognition for their loser status in the future.


43 posted on 07/14/2019 5:58:31 AM PDT by heshtesh
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To: cotton1706

Understand this Leftists: Trump is winning. You are losing.

Deal with it.


44 posted on 07/14/2019 6:02:02 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: cotton1706

WTF!!! I had to fight to keep from laughing. Yet another escapee from the preschool playground.


45 posted on 07/14/2019 6:15:18 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: cotton1706

bkmk


46 posted on 07/14/2019 6:29:59 AM PDT by sauropod (#FreeTommy)
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To: cotton1706

What ridiculous blather.


47 posted on 07/14/2019 6:40:39 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: cotton1706

I read the entire article and all I got out of it was “He’s not one of “us” so he must be an idiot”. Doesn’t matter that Trump had to deal with government scammers and riffraff to build his buildings and run his companies.


48 posted on 07/14/2019 6:53:54 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: catnipman; nathanbedford; V K Lee; Liz; HarleyLady27
Excellent posts, catnip and nathan!

The relationship is everything.  It's true in finding (and keeping) a spouse and it's absolutely true in business.

Watching Trump put on the Greatest Show on Earth is even more instructive than reading Art of the Deal.  In my one-person business, Trump's daily tweets and examples are invaluable to me -- aside from the thrill of seeing all the MAGA wins.

A lot of it is careful planning -- the kind of meticulous planning you do when you're financing and building a 50-story skyscraper.  The staff writers at the White House are constantly collecting Trump's thoughts, plus they know what issues are bound to come up and they prepare for them.

A tweet that's a real zinger may have been conceived and vetted two weeks ago.  This is why the power and timing of his tweets is often perfect.  Then, since Trump is so good thinking on his feet, you have him last week stoking the fires of anger between Pelosi and AOC.

Trump and his team know perfectly well what tough questions would be thrown at Trump by reporters.  So they prepare traps for make the reporters look like fools.  Another factor is that Trump moves quickly and across multiple fronts, so Fake News can't keep up.  They focus on Kellyanne's shoes on the Oval Office couch while Trump is getting something moving elsewhere.  Later on, we see pictures of Obama putting his shoes on the historic Resolute desk in the Oval Office.

In Osaka, when Putin and Trump are in a press conference, a reporter asked the insulting question, "Have you told Putin to not interfere in U.S. elections?"

And instantly Trump turns to Putin and jokingly tells him to "not interfere in our elections" -- to which Putin laughed.

Putin and Trump have a relationship -- enough of a bond of trust that the attacks from the partisan press cannot shake.  And isn't trust exactly what we need between the two nuclear superpowers?

49 posted on 07/14/2019 7:18:23 AM PDT by poconopundit (Will Kamel Harass pay reparations? Her ancestors were black Slave Owners in Jamaica.)
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To: cotton1706

A fallows mind is a terrible thing to waste.


50 posted on 07/14/2019 7:43:45 AM PDT by euram
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To: cotton1706
When their basic premise is that everything Trump does is wrong, then yes, they will never understand him.

51 posted on 07/14/2019 7:46:32 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: DoodleBob

OMG. Fallows is genetically proven to be a Neanderthal!


52 posted on 07/14/2019 8:27:58 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: cotton1706

If you’re a brain dead liberal


53 posted on 07/14/2019 8:57:28 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Nothingburger

I think you nailed it. Trump confuses the elite because Trump puts America and it’s people first. That is a concept that will elude them until the day they die. They are incapable of understanding the America First concept.


54 posted on 07/14/2019 9:13:45 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: cotton1706

Ta just waitctil thecthird term andc7bsupreme court picks


56 posted on 07/14/2019 12:56:42 PM PDT by genghis
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