Is Mr Trump crazy?

[ColinEssex]

I'm afraid I'm at a loss to understand.

It's all over the TV news today, Mr Trump is shown beating up another man at some sporting event. Is that the way you expect a President to act?

He says he wants to make "America great again" but with his ridiculous tweets and his paranoia, he is making the USA an even greater laughing stock worldwide. Can't he see that? Now this fight business, it's just stupid.

Doesn't he have any advisors to show him what a total pillock he is and how he is destroying what little credibility the USA had?

Col

 

[Ranman256]

he is bat $#!+ crazy

 

[moke123]

In Presidential Mathematics... 44 > 45!

 

[NauticalGent]

Well look who has surfaced! And I am at a loss myself. Seriously thinking of taking up permanent residence over here...

 

[NauticalGent]

In Presidential Mathematics... 44 > 45!

Beleive it or not, it's actually 44 = 45. But then, and I am sure this will be contested, that equation applies for just about every president since 1972...

 

[isladogs]

Very sad to think he might get re-elected in 4 years time.
That's assuming he hasn't nuked the world by then of course

 

[AccessBlaster]

Very sad to think he might get re-elected in 4 years time.
That's assuming he hasn't nuked the world by then of course

I remember when Reagan was supposed to nuke the world, then Bush senior and Bush junior and now its Trump.

The Democrats are the only ones who actually used a nuke, and interned Japaneses American citizens.

 

[NauticalGent]

Actually, the conspiracy theorist is me tells me that this whole thing is smoke and mirrors. He will be impeached as planned and the Pence will acsend the "throne". He would have never been allowed in a conventional election.

Maybe I watch House of Cards too much...?

 

[NauticalGent]

I remember when Reagan was supposed to nuke the world, then Bush senior and Bush junior and now its Trump...

Song never changes, does it?

 

[Vassago]

Beating up a man? At a WWE event as part of the script...

But yeah, we have a toddler for a President. His twitter Trumper tantrums are hilariously not part of a script.

 

[Vassago]

But with tensions escalating between the Russia/Syria and North/South Korea and China fiasco, is it really far-fetched to believe he would use nukes?

I never bought into the idea that Bush Jr would, he wasn't much brighter than Trump. At least he seemed to have a little shred of care about innocent life.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Trump, being the businessman that he is, doesn't want to nuke ANYTHING. That is an expensive solution. He wants other folks to take the problems for their own so that he doesn't have to spend military budgets on actually fighting. He's just hoping that by escalating the war of words that perhaps China will go whip up on Kim Jung Il and Russia will whip up on Assad. And then, other than being an instigator, he solves the problem without firing a shot.

Which, to be honest, is what SHOULD have been happening all along. The USA has been the world's peacekeepers for too long with limited help. The UK has indeed been helping a lot and I do not for a moment wish to denigrate their estimable participation. But too many other countries have been ready to let the USA do their dirty work, take the benefit from it, and then insult us for playing rough. Now that they see that their solution isn't coming from us, maybe some of them will actually grow a pair and step up to the plate.

Damn, in my own way, I'm beginning to sound like Colin E, just a different hot-button...

 

[ashleedawg]

Actually, the conspiracy theorist is me tells me that this whole thing is smoke and mirrors. He will be impeached as planned...

Bizarre, someone just told me the same thing a couple hours ago... like, word for word as your post.

Uh oh, you're behind it all then, aren't you??

 

[Frothingslosh]

I remember when Reagan was supposed to nuke the world, then Bush senior and Bush junior and now its Trump.

The Democrats are the only ones who actually used a nuke, and interned Japaneses American citizens.

Yes, Republicans would rather we had gone in and slaughtered tens of millions of Japanese citizens and gotten millions of American soldiers killed in the process (which was literally the only other option). They also overlook that during World War II, the intentional destruction of entire cities in air raids was performed by ALL sides. They even overlook that just as many people were killed in the massive air raid in Tokyo called Operation Meetinghouse, as well as the fact that at the time, no one had ANY clue about the long-term after-effects of high radiation doses. Nukes were thought to just basically be REALLY big bombs that wouldn't require massive air raids and the casualties that go with them.

And today, whenever I see someone calling for someone or someplace (say, Daesh or North Korea) to get 'bombed back into the Stone Age', 'nuked until they glow', or otherwise wiped out by WMD's, it's almost invariably a Republican making that call and Democrats trying to find any way to solve the problem that does NOT require the deaths of thousands or even millions. Because apparently unlike conservatives, liberals actually LEARN from America's mistakes.

 

[Frothingslosh]

I remember when Reagan was supposed to nuke the world, then Bush senior and Bush junior and now its Trump.

Also, let's not forget that Clinton was supposed to have literally murdered everyone who ever inconvenienced him, and Obama was going to:

• Take everyone's guns by force
• Take everyone's ammo away, THEN take everyone's guns by force
• Destroy the US government because he was secretly a foreign-born Muslim spy for the Muslim Brotherhood (later, that changed to ISIS)
• Conquer Texas and place all white people in FEMA death camps cunningly disguised as Wal-Marts
• Take everyone's guns, destroy America, execute all non-Muslims and all whites, and hand the flaming wreckage over to ISIS to become the heart of the new Caliphate
• Give Mexican cartels heavy weapons so they could kill all the cops
• Stage 'false flag' terror attacks such as Sandy Hook so that he could declare martial law, rescind the Second Amendment, and take everyone's guns
• Kill every Christian because he can
• Destroy America so LGBTQ people can kill everyone else

Funny how you forget to mention all that in your haste to paint Democrats as the source of all idiocy in the world.

OH! And let's not forget Hillary Clinton supposedly running a child sex ring out of the basement of a pizza shop with no basement.

And while I'm thinking about it, let's not forget the EIGHT separate GOP investigations into Benghazi, every single one of which found every GOP allegation to be completely unfounded. Seeing as I was FRIENDS with one of the people killed there, that ongoing idiocy always pissed me off especially badly.

 

[NauticalGent]

Uh oh, you're behind it all then, aren't you??

You just made the list...

 

[Minty]

Don't go forgetting that Hitler is alive and well living with Elvis in a WW2 bomber on the Moon.

 

[Vassago]

Trump, being the businessman that he is, doesn't want to nuke ANYTHING. That is an expensive solution. He wants other folks to take the problems for their own so that he doesn't have to spend military budgets on actually fighting. He's just hoping that by escalating the war of words that perhaps China will go whip up on Kim Jung Il and Russia will whip up on Assad. And then, other than being an instigator, he solves the problem without firing a shot.

Which, to be honest, is what SHOULD have been happening all along. The USA has been the world's peacekeepers for too long with limited help. The UK has indeed been helping a lot and I do not for a moment wish to denigrate their estimable participation. But too many other countries have been ready to let the USA do their dirty work, take the benefit from it, and then insult us for playing rough. Now that they see that their solution isn't coming from us, maybe some of them will actually grow a pair and step up to the plate.

Damn, in my own way, I'm beginning to sound like Colin E, just a different hot-button...

Should have been doing all along? This IS what we have been doing all along, and it hasn't worked. We've been begging China to toughen sanctions for YEARS. It hasn't really gotten us anywhere. As much as China "condemns" N. Korea for their actions, they haven't come through much for us so far and they continue to show more and more advanced technology.

I don't think Trump wants to nuke anyone, but I wouldn't put it past his supporters in office to persuade him.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Conquer Texas and place all white people in FEMA death camps cunningly disguised as Wal-Marts

Damn, Frothy, I missed that one...

But then again, there WAS that headline from a couple of weeks ago about a woman found dead in a WalMart restroom, and she had been there three days. Says a lot when taken in context with your post!

Vassago, I agree with you that so far it is not working. However, with Mr. Trump's recent events such as riling up NATO and pulling out of several multi-national agreements, it might be his way of saying, "OK, you're on your own. Wake up and smell the garbage heap."

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Tony, I hope that Colin will pay attention. I've tried various ways to point out to him that it is his choice to be miserable by focusing on the negatives around him, stopping and sightseeing the wreckage as it were. I am reminded of a line from the NCIS TV series that my dear Linda likes so much.

In it, agent Gibbs comments: If it seems that you are going through Hell... keep going.

In another episode, Gibbs comments: If you think that life is a bowl of cherry pits, remember all the cherries you had to eat to get it that way.

I see it this way: Even with a bunch of negatives, you can see bad times as torture or you can see them as the "downs" that let you recognize and more deeply appreciate the "ups" that have to go with them. They are part and parcel of living.