I won't deny Obama is the one who inspired him to become president -- that correspondents dinner was absolutely the catalyst -- but Donald Trump never ran and lost against Obama. You think the temper tantrums he throws over Biden or Obama now are bad, I cannot fathom the temper tantrum he would've had if he lost to a black man (let alone the one we would've, could've, should've gotten to see if he lost to a black woman).
But the one thing Trump hates more than anything, more than every racist, sexist, -phobic prejudice he has, is losing to people. He views every interaction as a competition (look at the way he shakes hands, he has always done that), and the more public, the more humiliating the loss, the worse of a tantrum he throws over it. Look how hard he pissed and moaned all throughout Biden's term. Look how hard he's fought to not pay E. Jean Carroll (it's not about the money, he can afford it; and it's not about the reputation of being a rapist, he knows his reputation is garbage outside of his base). Think of how much time he spends playing golf and ""winning"" tournaments at his own golf courses. Losing, at anything, is the one thing that really, truly gets under his skin. And to Biden he lost the most public kind of competition a man can lose.
It says he'd mused about it a few times before, but prior to 2016 he'd only ever tried in 2000, under the Reform party, which meant it was about as much of a nothing burger as Ross Perot. Effectively a political publicity stunt.
I don't think anybody did, least of all him, but he certainly didn't have very strong opposition. I don't remember meeting anyone that was genuinely excited to vote for Hillary at the time, just this sense of "well, duh". In his mind, he probably can't lose a competition he never planned to win, and this is partly why he doesn't pay much lip service to Clinton anymore (from what I'm aware, anyways, I try to avoid listening to his drivel at length), hell he probably gets a warm, fuzzy feeling when he thinks of 2016; and even Obama who he talked a lot of shit about and still sometimes does, he gets less blame these days I've noticed; but that senile, egotistical old fuck will never forget the man that beat him in the most public, high-stakes big-money popularity contest in America.
Get this, here the current government does that too. It's a coalition of three parties. Aside from one short exception, all previous governments for the last 30 years had at least one of those three parties. Sometimes two of them. Still they say their hardship comes because previous governments did not spend enough on maintenance, or spend too much on the wrong things. They take 0 responsibility, while their own party was there making choices.
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volore@scribe.disroot.org · 64 pts · 18d
Claims to be against socialism, claims to be a capitalist who made his wealth off real estate
Lets Joe Biden live rent-free in his head forever.
Ariselas@piefed.ca · 17 pts · 18d
Don't forget his Obama fixation.
volore@scribe.disroot.org · 13 pts · 18d
I won't deny Obama is the one who inspired him to become president -- that correspondents dinner was absolutely the catalyst -- but Donald Trump never ran and lost against Obama. You think the temper tantrums he throws over Biden or Obama now are bad, I cannot fathom the temper tantrum he would've had if he lost to a black man (let alone the one we would've, could've, should've gotten to see if he lost to a black woman).
But the one thing Trump hates more than anything, more than every racist, sexist, -phobic prejudice he has, is losing to people. He views every interaction as a competition (look at the way he shakes hands, he has always done that), and the more public, the more humiliating the loss, the worse of a tantrum he throws over it. Look how hard he pissed and moaned all throughout Biden's term. Look how hard he's fought to not pay E. Jean Carroll (it's not about the money, he can afford it; and it's not about the reputation of being a rapist, he knows his reputation is garbage outside of his base). Think of how much time he spends playing golf and ""winning"" tournaments at his own golf courses. Losing, at anything, is the one thing that really, truly gets under his skin. And to Biden he lost the most public kind of competition a man can lose.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 18d
Penn Jillette told a story about how the orange pedo was in a room with him before going out to the Today show. The gist is he was upset at Penn, solely because he's taller.
volore@scribe.disroot.org · 6 pts · 18d
you know something, you beautiful bastard, you just finally gave me a reason to be happy I'm tall: Donald Trump would despise me for my height.
Thank you, I hadn't seen that, that's a delightful realization for my weekend.
Serinus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 18d
He had run several times before. The big difference was Putin's help.
The correspondents' dinner may have played a part, sure.
volore@scribe.disroot.org · 4 pts · 18d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign
It says he'd mused about it a few times before, but prior to 2016 he'd only ever tried in 2000, under the Reform party, which meant it was about as much of a nothing burger as Ross Perot. Effectively a political publicity stunt.
Serinus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18d
2016 was also a publicity stunt. He didn't expect to win.
volore@scribe.disroot.org · 3 pts · 18d
I don't think anybody did, least of all him, but he certainly didn't have very strong opposition. I don't remember meeting anyone that was genuinely excited to vote for Hillary at the time, just this sense of "well, duh". In his mind, he probably can't lose a competition he never planned to win, and this is partly why he doesn't pay much lip service to Clinton anymore (from what I'm aware, anyways, I try to avoid listening to his drivel at length), hell he probably gets a warm, fuzzy feeling when he thinks of 2016; and even Obama who he talked a lot of shit about and still sometimes does, he gets less blame these days I've noticed; but that senile, egotistical old fuck will never forget the man that beat him in the most public, high-stakes big-money popularity contest in America.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 18d
He had already ran for President way before Obama back in 2000 I think.
volore@scribe.disroot.org · 2 pts · 18d
yes I noticed but once and several are different things, you know
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 33 pts · 18d
Everything that he fucks up must be blamed on somebody else. And there's a lot of blame to go around.
veroxii@aussie.zone · 23 pts · 18d
A story as old as politics. It's always been tradition to blame the previous government. Even here in Australia.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 18d
There's an official ceremony here where they blame the previous party for everything and shit. it's called inauguration.
huppakee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18d
Get this, here the current government does that too. It's a coalition of three parties. Aside from one short exception, all previous governments for the last 30 years had at least one of those three parties. Sometimes two of them. Still they say their hardship comes because previous governments did not spend enough on maintenance, or spend too much on the wrong things. They take 0 responsibility, while their own party was there making choices.
MML@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 18d
Well what atrocities did the spiders commit? That is who ruled you before right?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18d
the spiders still rule, the humans just have a regency
tomatoely@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 18d
In my country they call it the "heavy heritage"
F6FHellcat@feddit.online · -53 pts · 18d
zergtoshi@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 18d
elevenbones@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 18d
Gottem!
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 18d
I see you've recently joined the fediverse and you're politically conservative. You are most certainly NOT welcome here. Leave now and go back to your Nazi platforms.
RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 18d
Fucking boot licker
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 13 pts · 18d
More projection than an IMAX multiplex. Very on-brand for conservatives.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 18d
I don’t know about that, but I did laugh.
I’m not USian though, so it’s a case of not my monkies and not my circus.