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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump is the definition of
the Ugly American - loud, obnoxious, rude, boorish, ignorant, but thinks he knows everything, offensive, boastful, particularly about money and material shit.
I detest the scumbag and give thanks that he is also viewed the same way by rational Americans.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)international crisis with Putin, for example.
malaise
(267,799 posts)You know the worst thing is that he has no understanding of the political system - he knows nothing about Constitutional arrangements - he actually believes he can run government the way he runs his business.
He would create more crises.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)malaise
(267,799 posts)Hahahahah
Malbrownluna8708
(76 posts)Trump wife= Squinty eye non smile
Christie wife= Oversmiling
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Just like so many have - great cycle of wealth there. Romney, Paul, etc. all want to run the government as a business. The mantra was force fed to Americans when Reagan was in office.
Here's a video by Russell Means about corporations and how this isn't sustainable:
That didn't even mention climate change. But they just won't listen. I also think they are working to make sure they escape the worst of it. Since I don't believe the misery is going to be equally distributed, it never has been.
It will be the end of representative or any other kind of democracy. Corporations, theocracies, etc. are hierachical and all power is at the top, no matter what mistakes are made, and never democratic. Never.
We're galloping to neo-feudalism. And climate change will make it all seem necessary. Desperation makes people give up their rights, and they can be 'dog eat dog' which is exaclty what the RWNJs are training for all the time. Those guns aren't just for looking at, their racism and sexism has a goal as well - power and the control of territory.
No individual rights, which is a western construct for the most part AFAIK, except natives had it, too. But many countries never had that, so sex slavery, chattel slavery and treating their population like animals and bowing to the warlords or priest s or whoever is normal to them.
I'm sure you remember Obama's great talk in Jamaica. He talked about that to those whom I hope will be future world leaders. They will face many challenges that we have not concieved of yet.
malaise
(267,799 posts)Our democracies are in deep trouble - they're even threatening Greece about holding a referendum.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Bruce Ruiner.
No, Bruce Rauner. A hedge fund thief and loud mouthed bully who feels that he can apply his business experience to the state.
malaise
(267,799 posts)I'll never understand it.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Plus Rauner/Ruiner spent over $20 million of his own money, plus outside money.
Warpy
(110,900 posts)Most are headed by GOPs and don't give a rat's ass what he says about Mexicans. All the cancellations and firings are a shot across his bow, warning him not to pursue this. When even the Republicans see you as a blowhard and international catastrophe waiting to happen, perhaps it's time to curtail appearances and just collect the money the Super PAC is laundering.
He's the angry white man's angry white man, happily parroting everything Coulter has written in her latest hate book. He also has star power because of this, and while that's usually what the GOP goes for in a candidate, they know he'd actually try to run things instead of taking orders and that is the last thing they want.
And yes, he is the stereotypical Ugly American and that appellation has little to do with his ugly looks and everything to do with his ugly personality.
malaise
(267,799 posts)the President an illegal immigrant.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)our secret will be out and they will look at us"!
Is essentially the thinking.
That's why so many of them are silent and hoping he would just blow away with the rug.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)He also perfectly reflects what the Repuke party has become in one nauseating package.
abakan
(1,815 posts)All he does is, expend a lot of hot air, and stink up the place.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)The kind that hangs humidly in the air like a semi-permanent miasma.
Just like that...
malaise
(267,799 posts)I can almost smell it
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)it is a picture that should not have been painted.
panader0
(25,816 posts)In 1957 my dad got stationed at Sidi Slimane in Morocco. Winters and summers we toured Europe. England, Germany, Italy,
Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Austria. But Morocco was where I saw the most "ugly" ( I was seven). The Europeans were treated differently, nicer, by the Americans than the Moroccans.
From Wiki:
The Ugly American is a 1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer. The book depicts the failures of the U.S. diplomatic corps, whose insensitivity to local language and customs was in marked contrast to the polished abilities of East bloc (primarily Soviet) diplomacy and led to Communist diplomatic success overseas.[1] The book caused a sensation in diplomatic circles. John F. Kennedy was so impressed with the book that he sent a copy to each of his colleagues in the United States Senate. The book was one of the biggest bestsellers in the country, has been in print continuously since it appeared and is one of the most politically influential novels in all of American literature.
malaise
(267,799 posts)I read it as a teenager - it left a serious impression. It is a brilliant book.
Didn't know Kennedy sent it to his colleagues - makes sense.
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)Late sixties, probably.
I know it is irreverent, but it reminds me of the film John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, which opens with a diplomatic disaster when the US ambassador presents a set of luggage to an Arab shiek as a gift -- of pigskin. Not a recommended movie, but I've always loved it. Hey, Peter Ustinov playing a shiek and Shirley MacLaine half-naked as a harem girl/undercover reporter. What's not to like? And it even has a score by John Williams.
-- Mal
freshwest
(53,661 posts)kentuck
(110,950 posts)with money...
malaise
(267,799 posts)He boasts about his ignorance. It would be funny were it not so embarrassing.
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)malaise
(267,799 posts)Did you see that fabulous cartoon?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)I want him to drive the damn thing!
All the way to the bone yard.
malaise
(267,799 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)malaise
(267,799 posts)That's Christie
freshwest
(53,661 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)malaise
(267,799 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)that hair will sprout giant wings and fly him away otherwise.
calimary
(80,693 posts)Or maybe what's left over at the bottom of a cotton candy machine? Uh-oh, this batch turned out yellow...
Somebody couldn't make it to the bathroom in time?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)What's amazing is that he thinks he looks cool. And that isn't his own real hair, is it?
I think it's a toupee. He should use hair spray.... somethin'
Honest to Gawd, where are these people produced anyway? Some kinda constipation factory?
He needs help, seriously. But I still want him to win the GOP nomination! Woohoo!
malaise
(267,799 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Something just not quite right about these guys. They don't seem to be fully conscious.
Maybe they are alien greys...
I always saw GWB as having been dropped on his head as a baby, somethin' like that...
malaise
(267,799 posts)Look how they're dancing around Trump's rants.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Doesn't he remind you of every smarmy Republican you ever had to deal with?
mcar
(42,206 posts)A buffoon and, yes, stereotype of an Ugly American.
He couldn't happen to a more deserving party.
malaise
(267,799 posts)Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)Thespian2
(2,741 posts)Thanks, malaise. That was so perceptive, I can't think of anything to add!!!
swilton
(5,069 posts)Fill in the blank.........................
I'm certain that the predicate nominatives/adjectives are endless.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)a Republican Presidential candidate!
3catwoman3
(23,812 posts)...brilliant!
malaise
(267,799 posts)3catwoman3
(23,812 posts)...crass, crude and creepy.
Grown2Hate
(2,005 posts)a Democratic operative. I mean, if we built a Repuke candidate from scratch to bring out the worst qualities in a candidate running for national office, could we do better than Donald Trump? He's PERFECT for how horrible he is as a human. It really makes me wonder sometimes. I'm just happy he's running and making for such a nasty situation for the Repukes with a HUGE voting bloc.
malaise
(267,799 posts)calimary
(80,693 posts)But I love him to pieces for trashing the brand! He shat on the GOP brand so badly lately that they're gonna have to change their signature color from red to brown.
malaise
(267,799 posts)calimary
(80,693 posts)It just seemed like an easy fill-in-the-blank-here question!
malaise
(267,799 posts)I can't wait for their debate next month
calimary
(80,693 posts)We're all going to be walking around dragging our chins on the ground! I can't wait!
Trash the brand, Donald!
I keep thinking back to his yapping nonstop about Barack Obama's birth certificate and saying all these people he supposedly had investigating everything over in Hawaii - "they can't believe what they're finding!" YEAH, you carwash-chamois-headed fuckstick! That's because there's NOTHING THERE!!! It's all - uh - shall we say - "Trumped Up!" Or, according to the very strategic camera framing just below, obviously all this is just more shit he pulls out of his posterior!
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Hey, I LOVE this guy! I laughed for two days straight after he announced! He just perked up my mood something fierce! Every clown car needs a hood ornament, and now we have him! Yellow knob-mop and everything!
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PufPuf23
(8,687 posts)A far too public embarrassment for the USA.
A focus group subject for some sort of only in America personality disorder.
malaise
(267,799 posts)ReTHUGs?
PufPuf23
(8,687 posts)There is some hope in the World when Trump is even an embarrassment at least some of the most vile politic - the ReTHUGs.
OTOH the World or at least the USA appears quite hopeless when the likes of Trump is part of supposed serious social discourse much less a material success and admired by many. Yuck.
The GOP and American conservatives have a major ability to be attracted to individuals and ideas that are ugly, mean, and stupid.
So we have Trump.
Happy 4th of July.
malaise
(267,799 posts)have windfarms near his golf course. That was the behavior of the quintessential 'ugly American'.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/11/donald-trump-loses-windfarm-scottish-golf-resort
<snip>
Donald Trump has lost a legal action against a major experimental windfarm being built close to his golf resort in Aberdeenshire.
The billionaire property developer had alleged that Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, had secretly interfered in the decision to approve the 11-turbine European offshore wind deployment centre site (EOWDC) in Aberdeen Bay a claim rejected on Tuesday by a Scottish civil court judge, Lord Doherty.
Making clear he was expecting to appeal, Trump alleged there had been clear and illegal bias by the Scottish government and that his rights under the European convention of human rights had been breached.
Doherty dismissed the claims that Salmond had interfered, stating he "was not persuaded that the fair-minded and informed observer would conclude that there was a real possibility of bias on the part of the decision-maker; or that the decision not to have a public inquiry had been unreasonable or unlawful".
PufPuf23
(8,687 posts)Can you imagine what it would be like to consider Trump a positive celebrity or to be Trump?
I can't even go there.
Well I'd spend some of my big bucks on a decent hair style.
If I was Trump, I would retire and enjoy my ill gotten wealth.
Trump feeds on negative attention.
Trump self-promotes.
Trump is a bully.
Trump can't get too much attention.
Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)and he has a round little mouth like a chicken's ass.
malaise
(267,799 posts)shit alright
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)You nailed it!
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
malaise
(267,799 posts)but I think the Donald's silver foot went all the way down his throat
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)So over the top that one would only believe it in reality. He is every bit Mr. Potter. His dreams are every bit Trumpville USA.
Kind of funny in a way since I always compare Bernie to a Capra movie lead. Standing up for the little guy, not taking ones self too seriously, creative writing, walking the walk, waiting for trains alone, speaking plain American common sense to directly to the people and not being overly concerned with how one appears to others.
On this 4th I am thankful for the fires of liberty. May they Bern brightly.
Owl
(3,629 posts)malaise
(267,799 posts)as a result of his racist rants
mobeau69
(11,074 posts)"He's everything your mother told you not to be."
malaise
(267,799 posts)Welcome to DU
calimary
(80,693 posts)Glad you're here! This thread has to be the winner of the day! I've been laughing steadily ever since I first peeked at it. Donald Trump is - um - very inspirational, isn't he? I've never seen this many good one-liners outside of the average Jon Stewart show!
malaise
(267,799 posts)spanone
(135,632 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)So is Bully!
Vinca
(50,168 posts)malaise
(267,799 posts)hahahahha
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)malaise
(267,799 posts)demosincebirth
(12,518 posts)go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter...
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)and the millions here who actually think like him.