"There is no other Donald Trump, this is it" - Hillary Clinton

[madaboutharry]

Yesterday morning we were all subjected to the same hopeless ritual. Cable news folks and their guests saying things like "He needs to show empathy" and other hopeful comments that the president would actually display some spark of decent human behavior during his visit to Texas. Of course everyone was disappointed. We should have known that the moment we saw Trump and Melania walking towards Marine One. Trump dressed in khaki pants with brand new never worn before boots and Melania, in her snakeskin stilettos and silk bomber jacket, looking like she was on her way to lunch with her friends. The Trumps are poseurs. They are not like other people.

Tony Schwartz, the man who wrote The Art of The Deal, said it over and over again before the election; Trump has a black hole where his soul belongs.

So why would anyone think that Trump would go down to Houston and suddenly behave like President Obama, saying the right words and holding the victims of this flood in a close hug?

It has become like groundhog day. Everyday is the same. Everyday that Americans wake up to a day when Trump is president will be a day we are subjected to the narrow vision of a man who can not see a world past himself.

This is how it is and this is how it is always going to be.

[Freedomofspeech]

1. A black hole where his soul belongs...

That is the perfect description.

[Butterflylady]

2. Nothing where the brain should be either.

[Bluepinky]

3. And to top it off, very tiny hands.

[ailsagirl]

15. Except...

I'm convinced he has no soul

[iluvtennis]

28. And a pea sized heart ala "The Grinch who Stole Christmas". How I DESPISE this monster.

[Miles Archer]

4. A guy with a bullhorn who couldn't score a bullhorn moment

I'd bet the farm that Trump was carefully coached on George W. Bush, in terms of what to do and what not to do.

And while I say "bullhorn moment" with a touch of sarcasm, I also see the cynicism and clutching at straws in the Trump White House that very well could have encouraged them to go down that path.

Clinton and Schwartz are both correct.

No one should be looking for something that doesn't exist.

Unless, of course, you are Neil Patrick Harris on 'shrooms, then it is OK to look for unicorns.

Anything else, no.

[mcar]

5. She warned everyone

But her emails!!11

[barbtries]

7. yeah.

what an exquisite, tragic irony that emails will take down trump.

[delisen]

27. I am so glad she warned. If she had not the "normalization"

process in the weeks after the election may have been overwhelming.

[barbtries]

6. i am gobsmacked

at how many people have held out this hope that he would change. i knew he would never change after seeing him go down that escalator. pure self-aggrandizing theater. then he opened his mouth and sealed the deal.

i'm still struggling with this stubborn optimism regarding him. He's sick, he will not change because he cannot change. he's infantile, narcissistic, with multiple pathologies and a severely damaged mind.

Excruciatingly slowly i think, people are coming around. I have become active on twitter and follow more than one person who claims to be a recovering republican. but still it's frustrating because at what point did you see the light? he's been transparent all along.

[calimary]

20. You and me both, barbtries.

Made me think of all the women I know who, when they were in love or about to marry, talked about how "I can change him." And I'd always think to myself - "no you can't. THIS is it. THIS is who he is. He may not feel like changing. He may be okay with the way he is. NOTHING you can do or say will change that (or him), unless HE decided to change, for himself. He won't do it for you."

Made me wonder what the heck they were marrying him for! You sign up with someone - either as a mate, OR as a representative OR as a president - AS IS. Warts and all. There's no such thing as "some assembly required" here. You get what you get, and it is what it is. And yeah, it's made me laugh to hear all the pundits, the interviewers, the reporters, the GOP apologists, the campaign PR people, the guys at the end of the line assigned to sweep up after the elephants' parade, all repeatedly assuring that - "oh, he'll get it! He'll catch on!" and "he'll become presidential!" All through the transition period they yammered about this. "Don't worry!" and "he's gonna start getting it" and "just be patient - he'll grow into the job" and the ever-popular "he's still new at this... just give him time!"

It's ALL BULLSHIT. Just exactly how much time are we supposed to give him to "start getting it" or "grow into the job"? Every time the unscripted, unteleprompter'd, unsupervised trump opens his fish-lipped yap, we can all see who he really is, and how he isn't "growing into" ANYTHING!

[lunatica]

21. to be fair most people thought he was acting. Putting on a show on the escalator

That he was donning his entertainer persona.

Now we find out he was, but that it's his entire repertoire. Even when he's being himself.

I know why Melania looks the way she does. She's turned him off a long time ago and she just pastes a smile on her face. And the reason she needs her sun glasses is so no one can see her rolling her eyes when he says something.

[dalton99a]

8. He is and has always been a vile con man

[VaBchTgerLily]

9. That's right- the man is not capable of empathy and is never going to change

[Pepsidog]

11. Bush was real bad but he wasn't soulless

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I hated "W" and the lying cadre of Republicans that enabled him but I never viewed him as an inherently evil man. Sure he was ignorant and intellectually limited but at least he had a political ideology no matter how bad it was. 45 is a dark empty man who believes in nothing but self aggrandizement. He has no soul, no core convictions and intellectually makes Bush look like a thoughtful elder statesman. I think 45 will be forced to resign and then I cannot fathom what a Pence presidency would look like. He is clever enough to come me in and calm the country and I fear he will look like a savior and then we are in for even worse days.

[PaddyIrishman]

13. Miss Me Yet?

What has struck me ever since Trump got elected is that all those George W Bush "Miss Me Yet"? billboards that were erected and shared on Facebook after Obama got elected, finally mean something.

Republicans miss George W Bush more than anything.

He mightn't have been the most intellectually curious man in the history of the presidency, but he listened to his advisors and could at least give the impression of empathy; two things that Trump is incapable of doing.

[niyad]

18. welcome to du. I fear you are quite correct about a pence presidency. the trouble is, he LOOKS

almost sane, but far from it.

[lunatica]

22. Maybe Mueller will take Pence and the top Republicans out.

[calimary]

23. Welcome to DU, Pepsidog.

I think you're spot-on in your assessment, from your reply title all the way down to "...we are in for even worse days."

I fear that's exactly how it'll play out, even if we do get rid of trump. There are those here and all over everywhere else who believe that there's enough dirt on Pence that whatever takes trump down will take Pence down with him. I wish that were true but I get the feeling it won't work that way.

I suspect there'd be such a load of relief out there that they lanced the boil and now - let's move on! Let's get back down to business! It's over, we fixed it, problem solved, everybody move on. (Particularly because we now HAVE the "dream president" we've always wanted, at long last! A beady-eyed religious fanatic who is one of us, smooth-talking enough, spouting prayer-filled platitudes, looking all holy and reverent and sanctimonious, and sufficiently well-connected with friends he still has in Congress who will be GLAD to send him bills to sign that turn back the clock on civil rights, women's rights, voting rights, and gay rights, among other things. That way, we can live the dream! Happily ever after back in the 6th Century!)

[oppressedproletarian]

12. Not all that walks in the shape of a man

is human. A sociopath has no soul or conscience.

[Kleveland]

14. I think of him as inherantly evil...

I picture him as an Orc in my mind.



"Don't worry, we'll build the wall!"

[oppressedproletarian]

16. or Jabba the Hutt! n/t

[CrispyQ]

17. "...a man who can not see a world past himself."

[ffr]

19. Are Liberals always right? Maybe not, but you can bet they are most of the time.

Bank on it.

Thank you HRC!

[eppur_se_muova]

24. link ? nt

[madaboutharry]

25. I wrote this myself.

madaboutharry is the link.

[johnp3907]

26. Here ya go:

[apkhgp]

34. Thanks for posting that video

Every second that I can spend watching Hillary with her learned and well thought out speeches is way the hell better than anything I have or will ever hear 45 say. It is just that simple.

[Sunlei]

29. I place full blame for trump on Republican party.RNC supported him so they could hack USA democracy

period.

[lunamagica]

30. She was right about everything. I wish the media would broadcast this over and over again

But of course they wont

[Honeycombe8]

31. Are these your words or Hillary's? nt

[madaboutharry]

32. I wrote this post this morning.

The title is in quotes because Hillary said "There is no other Donald Trump, this is it"

The message is what I wrote. I don't get why that would confuse anyone.

[Honeycombe8]

33. Because the title implies you'd be quoting Hillary Clinton.

But there were no quotes in the post itself. Just quote marks in the title.

And there was no cite for the Hillary quote, to separate it from the post text. Just clarifying.

Good post.