He doesn't know he is President....he thinks he is a game-show host or a stand-up comedian...

[kentuck]

That's why his people go to see him. Just for the entertainment. They don't go to hear him talk about issues that matter in their lives. It is more like the Comedy Club than a political event.

When you compare the way he talked in his interviews with Bob Woodward and the way he talks on stage, in front of his supporters, it is a world of difference. He actually sounded intelligent talking to Woodward. At his rallies, he sounds like a red-neck Billy Bob that's had a few too many to drink. He seldom will say anything with more than two syllables.

He is the Apprentice-in-Chief. He wants to call names and mock people and get a few laughs. That has been his primary job as President.

On November 3rd, it will be so cool to hear someone say, "Donald Trump, you're fired!"

[Ohiogal]

1. He cheapens,demeans, destroys , and mocks

any and all of our country’s highest standards and practices

He is a disgrace to America and so are his moronic cheerleaders

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

2. He is the worst comedian ever

He has a poor sense of humor.

[PatSeg]

20. That is true

Though his political speeches are more like standup comedy, it is really bad comedy. A lot of the responses from the audience are more conditioned now and there's a lot less enthusiasm, like they've heard this same tired routine over and over again. Though he still has a lot of support from his base, it does seem rather half-hearted now. I suppose it is a good thing that Trump can't throw those huge rallies anymore, because I doubt he'd get the turnout he did in 2016. Now he has an excuse.

[livetohike]

3. His schtick is old, tired and boring. His supporters are

immature and ignorant. What will he do when he loses? He won’t just disappear. He’ll have rallies and make people pay to get in. He won’t spend any of his own money.

[tinrobot]

4. The comedian who never laughs

[TheBlackAdder]

25. He's the Dennis Miller of presidents. Sucks all the way around.

[JI7]

5. He is boring as fuck

[Mike 03]

18. His vocabulary is so impoverished that I see him as boring too.

It's unfathomable to me that there are supporters of his who hang on his every word, when it's always the same seven or eight riffs.

In Woodward's book, the reader sees how Trump uses almost exactly the same words, phrases and sentences every single time he returns to one of his recurring themes, even if months elapse between him returning to these particular themes.

[smirkymonkey]

6. The thing is, he's not funny. Not at all.

He's such a crashing bore. The sad thing is how he THINKS he's funny, clever and witty. He's just so pathetic.

He doesn't have a humorous bone in his body. But of course his idiotic audience finds his casual cruelty hilarious. They are so easily amused.

[LymphocyteLover]

24. Yep. Exactly.

he's also a very sick man-- a true psychopath

[pwb]

7. The Entertainment President.

The laughing stock of the world.

[ms liberty]

8. Those tapes were a revelation to me, and a frightening one

He is putting on a show for the rubes every time he goes in front of people or a camera. He is far more aware and coherent than he plays on teevee.

[CaptYossarian]

31. The first rule of public speaking is "know your audience".

He sounds like the guy at the end of the bar for his redneck cult followers, yet speaks in softer tones and complete sentences for Bob Woodward.

But if he pictures his cult audience naked, the rallies will get shorter and shorter.

[Mike 03]

9. I know Trump abstains from alcohol, but he genuinely reminds me

of angry drunks I've known.

There is a quote I've been trying to run down; it is in one of the books--perhaps A Very Stable Genius, where someone cornered Trump and called him "an act" to his face. Trump responded, paraphrasing but close: "Totally. I'm totally an act. I'm amazed people don't understand this."

If anyone remembers who it was who cornered him, let me know. It was possibly Scaramucci? Or maybe Lewandowski?

[Patterson]

39. You think he doesn't drink just because he SAID so?

[malaise]

10. But the shitshow is about to be dropped

ByeDon!

[Illumination]

11. So this begs the question: Just how many personalities does DJT have?...

[chriscan64]

12. Yes, the Woodward tapes revealed a slightly less ignorant Trump in private.

The idiot on stage does try to lead his mob, but in other ways just follows them, taking cues from Fox and telling them what he thinks they want to hear. It's like if Tom Brady was going to New York to play a road game against the Jets and went up into the stands to join the drunken low-brow fans hurling insults instead of quarterbacking the team. Private Trump is still ignorant, but dangerously exhibits not caring in addition to not knowing.

[GoCubsGo]

13. Yep, it's all a made-for-TV schtick.

And, it's the same damn schtick night after night after night after night. His cult is there to hear his "greatest hits." Someone here likened Trump to Fat Elvis. It's much the same thing. The only difference is that Trump hasn't been found dead on the toilet after an overdose. He's only a caricature of what they think he is. Unlike Elvis, he never really was the person they've come to see perform.

[scarytomcat]

29. too bad he keeps doing things that have real world affects

he will go back to TV and play the abused card til he dies
his fans know it is an act
it is the really crazed ones that are acting up with guns
he must think he is so clever to make a reality show reality

One thing I have wondered... why a rich billionaire would take a job for a salary of a million? Makes me think he needs the cash to support his lifestyle.

[CaptYossarian]

32. The orange Milli Vanilli?

[DEbluedude]

14. He is one of the results of the mind-numbing dumbing down of America...

that has been thrust upon the American people for the last 4 decades. People who were already uneducated, fearful and pissed off at the direction their lives had taken found something that would make them feel good about themselves. Demonize "the other". The 24-7 bullshit spewed from right-wing media enflames them. The "reality" TV shows that were such a success - duck dynasty, swamp people, kardashians, big brother, survivor, jersey shore, the list goes on ad infinitum, make them feel like- Yes!, they're just like me! This is real life! It boggles the fuckin' mind. They live in an alternate reality. It's so depressing at times.

[Ligyron]

30. I have a theory about the type of people who watch reality shows.

It doesn’t apply to everyone and certainly not to those here who enjoy such obviously Manufactured BS Because surely they know it as such. No, I speak of those who cannot tell the difference between fact and fiction, fantasy and reality or who can but prefer a reinterpreted perversion of reality because they don’t like what they cannot help but see in the real world.

Pro wrestling is to some extent an example and who is the only person running for President who actually participated in one act of this farce? Why, it’s Donald J Trump. Then, to the total astonishment of anyone with half a brain, he actually wins! Much religious talk and dogma is another example as is Fox “News” or the Hallmark channel although the later doesn’t pretend to be anything but fiction. More than a few of its viewers however imagine the supernatural parts to actually be a thing while knowing the actual story itself to be fictional.

[greymattermom]

15. It's actually worse.

He thinks that the president was always a reality tv star, that the only job of being president is the tv part. That must be how he always functions, and that's why his companies go bankrupt. He's all show and no business.

[eShirl]

16. he's pretending to be as dumb as he thinks his cult followers are

[kentuck]

17. That was the trick that Hitler used.

He always spoke to the most "common" man in his audience.

[Nay]

19. When he loses the election, I want every newspaper and online headline to scream,

"YOU'RE FIRED!!"

[sarge43]

21. Also he doesn't know the most important rules of great comedy

1. Punch up, not down.

2. Never laugh at your own jokes.

[Harker]

26. While it may not be a rule...

demonstrating a willingness to laugh at oneself, at least occasionally, is a good attribute in a comedian.

Trumpsky laughs at people and their troubles, never laughs with anyone, or at himself.

[CaptYossarian]

33. Not laughing at himself may have begun with the mashed potato episode in

Mary Trump's book.

When his brother got mad at him at a family event and dumped some mashed potatoes on Donald's head, the entire family laughed at his expense. He was totally humiliated and would never intentionally make himself the butt of his own jokes.
v
I don't recall at what age this happened, but I am a firm believer in the theory of Arrested Development. His emotional age varies so much that there were most certainly several bad episodes that contributed to his sociopathy. His father's incessant abuse is at the top.

[Harker]

36. When my ex-brother was a child

laughter from another room would cause him to burst in and angrily shout, "it's not funny!"

Your explanation rings true for me.

[CaptYossarian]

38. That sounds like a cross between Asperger's and Tourette's.

[Harker]

40. He was never examined or diagnosed.

Sadly, his behavior led to more ridicule... laughter directed at him.

[CaptYossarian]

41. Does he deny anything's wrong?

He needs to be diagnosed and treated, or else his life of misery will continue until he's dead. Maybe a NAMI chapter would have some info on how to get the ball rolling.

The general public will continue to destroy him. Mean people suck. Those folks going out of their way to bully him for mental illness is itself a mental illness. They just go about their life, wallowing in their fake superiority. It's pathetic.

I wish him well.

[sarge43]

34. Another important rule. Thanks. n/t

[LymphocyteLover]

22. did you see this disgusting ridiculousness?

Link to tweet

[Harker]

28. So he's preparing his base for Biden's

outstanding debate skills, and trying to diminish them in advance.

Sad.

[LymphocyteLover]

37. one wonders why they don't use that drug for Trump!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

27. The thing is, his little Yuk Yuks aren't jokes, they're threats.

He just yuks it up so he can move his shit forward.

[world wide wally]

35. Did anybody bring the rotten tomatoes?