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BumRushDaShow

(130,518 posts)
Sun May 12, 2024, 05:29 AM May 12

Biden calls Trump 'unhinged' and says 'something snapped' in former president after he lost 2020 election

Source: CNN Politics

Published 5:54 PM EDT, Sat May 11, 2024


CNN — President Joe Biden on Saturday called Donald Trump “clearly unhinged” and claimed that “something snapped” in the former president after he lost the 2020 election.

“It’s clear that … when he lost in 2020, something snapped in him,” Biden told supporters in Seattle at a private fundraiser Saturday, according to reporters in the room. “He’s not only obsessed with losing in 2020, he’s clearly unhinged. Just listen to what he’s telling people.”

Even though Biden thinks the presumptive GOP presidential nominee is “unhinged,” he said he believes the November election will be “close.”

“We feel good about the state of the race, but we know the race is close,” Biden said, pointing to recent polls.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/11/politics/biden-trump-unhinged-seattle/index.html

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Biden calls Trump 'unhinged' and says 'something snapped' in former president after he lost 2020 election (Original Post) BumRushDaShow May 12 OP
Because daddy told him MFM008 May 12 #1
Nothing snapped. Aussie105 May 12 #2
Yes Trump was always unhinged but cranked it up. Irish_Dem May 12 #3
Yep, just like a bratty two year old being told NO for the first time. Novara May 12 #6
Yup. He hired companies to "investigate" the election and every one concluded he lost. So he knew Rhiannon12866 May 13 #20
I must disagree with Biden... Mike Nelson May 12 #4
In public, from the time he won the court case in NYC, up to the presidency, he was "golden." 3Hotdogs May 12 #5
all... myohmy2 May 12 #7
On Monday Michael Cohen will oasis May 12 #8
LOL BumRushDaShow May 12 #9
Someone call Marlon Perkins and Jim Fowler ArkansasDemocrat1 May 12 #13
Anything but an enema on oasis May 12 #14
If the Court Officers are armed that way Traurigkeit May 12 #17
The rubber band holding his little reptile brain together snapped dalton99a May 12 #10
The hamster wheel fell over NanaCat May 12 #15
Actually a good tactic BaronChocula May 12 #11
Trump snapped at the correspondence dinner liberalmediaaddict May 12 #12
He's beyond sociopath NanaCat May 12 #16
Something Rebl2 May 12 #18
Biden knows what he's doing. By saying something 'snapped', NH Ethylene May 12 #19

Aussie105

(5,552 posts)
2. Nothing snapped.
Sun May 12, 2024, 06:02 AM
May 12

You are just seeing disappointment and resentment cranked up to gale force 10.

It's amplified by zero social conscience, zero filtering and of course, mega ego.

He had a dream of becoming the most powerful person in America, one of a few globally.

And it didn't happen! The peasants, who are below his contempt, have hampered his dream all along the way.

So it's spoilt man-child throwing a long temper tantrum, nothing more.

Rest assured he hates every member of the human race equally. Except his immediate family, he just dislikes them.

Irish_Dem

(48,811 posts)
3. Yes Trump was always unhinged but cranked it up.
Sun May 12, 2024, 07:08 AM
May 12

When he lost face and didn't win.

He knew he lost the election.

But could not stand the thought of it and deliberately came up with
a strategy to delegitimize the election and Biden.

It was mean, cruel and very damaging to the country.

He didn't care. He was getting revenge on the American people and
that makes him very happy.

Novara

(5,904 posts)
6. Yep, just like a bratty two year old being told NO for the first time.
Sun May 12, 2024, 07:41 AM
May 12

Immature, psychologically regressed, toxic narcissist. No one has ever said NO to him until the voters did in 2020.

There are a lot of sore losers in the world who can't accept defeat (most of the GQP). But this motherfucker has made it to nearly 80 years old without anyone ever telling him NO. He simply CANNOT handle it.

My Mom had dementia, and I had to learn that her reality was different than actual reality, and just don't challenge it, because it would only upset her. She was in her 90s and I loved her dearly so I let her live in her alternate reality. To the orange motherfucker, his reality is no one ever challenging him, no one ever telling him he can't do something. It's why he saw Biden's win as illegitimate. He CAN'T lose at anything because all of his life he was handed everything.So if he loses, it won't fit his alternate reality and he doesn't think it's real.

But keep talking, Joe. He's broken, all right. Fundamentally broken. Been broken all his life. America needs to see it.

Rhiannon12866

(207,606 posts)
20. Yup. He hired companies to "investigate" the election and every one concluded he lost. So he knew
Mon May 13, 2024, 05:58 AM
May 13

And his reaction? He publicly announced he'd "won by a landslide" over and over - until he convinced his "supporters" to come to the Capitol to "fight for him" on January 6th. He totally enjoyed the whole spectacle, did nothing to send help for Capitol Police or protect members of Congress despite the serious injuries and deaths.

Mike Nelson

(10,008 posts)
4. I must disagree with Biden...
Sun May 12, 2024, 07:18 AM
May 12

... on this one. Something "snapped" in Trump before 2020. I don't know when it happened because I didn't follow his career during his TV show or earlier. He may have even been born with the "Snap" - but he's always seemed unhinged, to me.

3Hotdogs

(12,515 posts)
5. In public, from the time he won the court case in NYC, up to the presidency, he was "golden."
Sun May 12, 2024, 07:33 AM
May 12

Yeah, he fucked up three casinos, but Daddy bailed him out on that. So he was still "golden."

2020 was the first big setback in his life (we don't know how far he got with Ivanka) and it rocked his world.

Every speech since, has been about 2020, revenge, crooked judges and how unfair people have been to him. I guess he can't bring up "Sleepy Joe" anymore.

Now, nothing in speeches about lowering taxes, bringing in jobs........ He doesn't even want to make 'merica great again. It's all about poor me.

myohmy2

(3,261 posts)
7. all...
Sun May 12, 2024, 07:55 AM
May 12

...those hostile negative vibes pent-up in king magat can't possibly be a good thing...

...king magat is at an old age when most people can reflect positively on their life experience and accept their losses graciously...

...there's something about uncontrolled magat-ism that ruins people...

...it creeps me out just to watch a magat...

ArkansasDemocrat1

(1,338 posts)
13. Someone call Marlon Perkins and Jim Fowler
Sun May 12, 2024, 11:59 AM
May 12

Remember Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom? Fowler will shoot the tranq while Marlon explains why it needs to happen

oasis

(49,579 posts)
14. Anything but an enema on
Sun May 12, 2024, 12:34 PM
May 12

the Orange Turd. He is so full of shit that it was cause an ecological imbalance.

NanaCat

(1,783 posts)
15. The hamster wheel fell over
Sun May 12, 2024, 02:44 PM
May 12

Not that it had any hamsters to power it in the first place, but there you have it.

BaronChocula

(1,669 posts)
11. Actually a good tactic
Sun May 12, 2024, 10:36 AM
May 12

Effective political messaging has to comport with the way many people feel, even if they're wrong. Though most of us know that the Florida rapist has been operating with a damaged psyche for decades, Biden's encapsulation gives aid and comfort to people who may have voted for Cheato McFascist before, but don't want to feel like their prior vote was based on their profound lack of judgement. They will say to themselves "he wasn't that bad when he said he can grab women's genitals at will, so of course I voted for him then."

Basically, Biden knows the truth, but he's appealing to what some less charitable people (not me) would call idiots.

liberalmediaaddict

(797 posts)
12. Trump snapped at the correspondence dinner
Sun May 12, 2024, 11:38 AM
May 12

When President Obama roasted him he just couldn't take it.

After that he became a full blown birther. He's never been able to accept losing or being rejected.

His reaction to being defeated in 2020 was totally predictable. Everyone knew he wouldn't concede and would claim it was stolen.

He'll react exactly the same way in November. If he wins it's fair. If he loses it's rigged.
Classic narcissistic sociopath.

NanaCat

(1,783 posts)
16. He's beyond sociopath
Sun May 12, 2024, 02:46 PM
May 12

Sociopaths at least were normal once. TSF never was. Psychopaths are born that way, and he's a textbook example of one.

Rebl2

(13,671 posts)
18. Something
Sun May 12, 2024, 05:31 PM
May 12

snapped in trump long before 2020! Maybe the year Obama made fun of him at the WhiteHouse correspondent's dinner.

NH Ethylene

(30,832 posts)
19. Biden knows what he's doing. By saying something 'snapped',
Sun May 12, 2024, 07:46 PM
May 12

He is giving 2020 Trump voters an excuse to switch their allegiance. Nobody wants to admit they were made a fool of when they voted for Trump before. This way something has changed, so they are not admitting a mistake but are nimbly pivoting based on real-time info.

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