2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhat was the first thing that turned you off of Trump? For me, it was when
he said the families of terrorists should be tortured. I assume families of other criminals would be next.
I have a close family member who was a pedophile. I'd hate to think me or any other members of our family would be held responsible for his horrible deeds.
Anyway, that was my first turn-off of Trump - many more to follow that are too numerous to list.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)The wall and the stuff he said about Muslims, even refugees!
gopiscrap
(23,725 posts)I have no use for republicans in my life, they can cease to exist as far as I am concerned.
Was all downhill from there.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)the big O's birth certificate.
Johnyawl
(3,205 posts)I was a construction project manager from the mid eighties until my retirement last year, and in that industry in those years everybody knew who "The Donald" was. Big time wheeler-dealer with a flamboyant lifestyle. Never paid that much attention to him, never read his book, never watched his TV show. When he started with the birth certificate I realized he was just another racist piece of shit.
emulatorloo
(44,057 posts)That was it for me as well.
Emilybemily
(204 posts)He has always been a faker and a prick.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)The first time I recall seeing him was on a 60 Minutes interview 30+ years ago. I thought "Who is this asshole?"
Leghorn21
(13,522 posts)When he first hit the scene ages ago, and I saw him on my teevee, I thought, whoa, this cretin here is hands down the most u n i n t e r e s t i n g carbon-based lifeform I have ever beheld in my entire life.
Today, of course, I have a variety of other responses to the Republican nominee for President, but a dullard is a dullard.
Uck just uck -
prairierose
(2,145 posts)I always thought he was phony but being such a misogynist was even worse.
rickford66
(5,521 posts)Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Seeing him on TV. I think probably Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous. Never liked him, but I despise him now.
bellmartin
(218 posts)...never to have to hear about him again. And that was with the insulation of being way out here in the midwest. What a cancer he's been on the American scene.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)So I couldn't stand him years ago
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I believe his ego was dripping all over his face and he made me ill. I think I must have the same powers as various dogs that have been shown on social media going crazy when they see Trump appear on TV. He does the same thing with me. I simply can't watch or listen to him. Perhaps it's survival mode?
madamesilverspurs
(15,798 posts)when he tried to get Congress to change the rules on Native American gaming. He claimed the rules were unfair to privileged white casino owners.
.
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)sarae
(3,284 posts)It became obvious very quickly that he was a racist POS.
I didn't even know about his housing discrimination in the `70s, or the Central Park Five in the early`90s, but if I had it would have been obvious even earlier.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)eom
canetoad
(17,135 posts)of his character and positions.
Before the primaries, I knew who he was but don't watch TV so had never seen The Apprentice. Didn't really follow stories about him until he emerged as a potential candidate.
I honestly thought that at some stage he would metaphorically leap out of a cake and yell, 'Fooled you all.' That his unspeakable rhetoric was a stunt; a way of demonstrating how repulsive the GOP attitudes are. Never, ever bought into the CT that he'd been put up to it by the Clintons - that was too far-fetched.
Well, I waited for the denoument, and waited and it never came. Then I knew he was a monster in an orange skin.
That really sums it up for me. I almost could have written what you said verbatim.
I still think he's going to jump out of a cake.
But at that candidates' dinner when he talked about how most of the people in the room had invited him into his homes until he started running for office, I wondered who had changed - them or him. And had they really changed or had he gotten too outrageous for them to be associated with him.
Sorceress
(309 posts)But his absolute refusal to admit he is wrong or, heaven forbid apologize for anything ever, alerted me to what kind of disturbed person he really was. I knew then that this wasn't just a hateful person, this was a person who was suffering from some sort of personality or psychological disorder. In other words, he was a crazy pants.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)NYers have hated him for decades.
eissa
(4,238 posts)A smug, arrogant rich guy reveling in two women fighting over him. He seemed to bask in the publicity and almost seemed proud of all the lurid details being spilled out. I thought he was an even bigger prick during the whole shaming of Alicia Machado. He's always struck me as a very sexist, shallow piece of shit, and he's only gotten worse over the years.
aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)katmondoo
(6,454 posts)manicraven
(901 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)Remember when he hired people to attend his first presser - as tho no reporter would inquire?
Or when he went thru endless chief of staffs? One stumble after another.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)He's morally bankrupt.
appleannie1
(5,060 posts)my teeth grind while my hair stood on end. Since long before his TV days. I call that instinctive behavior my pervert alert.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)They were on the side of the Bonwit Teller building that tRump demolished to build his temple to opulence. The Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted to preserve them. When he discovered that this would delay demolition by 2 weeks, he had workers destroy them.
Mother Jones had a good summary of it. I remember how hated he was among New Yorkers when he pulled this crappy stunt.
Here's a better article, with a LOT more detail:
http://www.pressherald.com/2016/03/18/trumps-first-media-controversy-is-a-really-great-story/
He's been an unliked, irredeemable asshole for a LONG time.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)down the TRUMP Tower escalator, then made his Mexican speech. Pretty much from the get go.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)I don't vote for Republicans. End of story.
Everything else that he has done has been no surprise, although it is still disgusting. It is the culmination of years of hate, greed, fear mongering and sexism that IS the Republican party.
Eugene
(61,805 posts)That was beyond the pale even before the Central Park Five were cleared.
The Trump Taj Mahal fiasco and his other financial blunders
only sealed the deal for me.
patsimp
(915 posts)trying to compensate for their tiny dicks, tiny minds, and ugly faces.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)That was just so unnecessary and flat out cruel I could not believe it.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)Although I'm pretty sure there were others before that, but that image sealed the deal for me.
gratefultobelib
(1,591 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)It was all down hill from there.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)I thought he was a douche bag then, and he has only made me lower my opinion of him ever since.
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)I have always hated that man.
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)I was betting the USFL heavily in the mid '80s. Trump made one idiotic comment and proposal after another. Very similar to today. He suckered some people, threw huge chunks of cash into a league that badly needed money and exposure, and initially it was viewed as a positive.
I was telling friends in Las Vegas it couldn't work, that Trump's involvement was a negative. The USFL had a nice niche in spring as a moderate league. Trump conned the other owners into voting to switch to fall. That was essentially the end. Trump assumed he could replicate the AFL success and bully his way into the NFL, with the Generals even if the league as a whole didn't transfer.
What a fool. I still remember where I was when the court ruling was announced, with the $1 verdict tripled. The jurors were stupid but not moreso than Trump and his inept assumptions.
There are many related articles online, with astute comments from Charley Steiner, among others.
I still miss the USFL.
Jimbo S
(2,958 posts)Ever notice NFL commentators are not allowed to mention USFL?
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)It never happens
CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)Long before he started challenging President Obama's legitimacy as President
kimbutgar
(21,040 posts)From as long as I remember something about him bugged me. What he did to Ivana bringing his mistress to Aspen and humiliating his wife and mother of his children told me all I needed to know about him. I watched maybe 5 minutes iof the apprentice and thought it was a stupid contrived show.
True Dough
(17,246 posts)Yes, the content of his many of statements is utterly disgusting, but the way he expresses it, especially with his repetition of the final phrase and the hand gestures is enough to make me turn the channel.
BlueProgressive
(229 posts)was enough for me. I hate ALL those guys.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,652 posts)And the first time I saw him open his mouth he spewed incomprehensible gibberish. Can't even remember what it was about, but it made no sense whatsoever. Knew immediately he was not presidential material even though I knew next to nothing else about him since I have had no interest in his marital history, reality tv show, or business dealings.
1) No experience 2) Can't speak. Everything else has simply compounded the horror.
Libby2
(4,629 posts)Until then I was barely aware of him.
northoftheborder
(7,569 posts)Don't remember when he became totally repulsive to me - never admired his lifestyle or watched his stupid show; probably when he started in on Obama's heritage.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)He embodied the whole Lifestyles of the Rich and famous zeitgeist od the awful decade.
anoNY42
(670 posts)Jimbo S
(2,958 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(9,546 posts)But, truthfully, I've always found him repugnant. That hair...that orange tan...that sense of entitlement...just a big walking pile of NOPE.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)the Deplorables. Before that, I thought he was just in it for publicity and he was much like most rich guys, a braggart. But that bigotry caught on with ignorant white wingers.
jcgoldie
(11,610 posts)He has done nothing but plunge in my estimation of his character ever since.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Squinch
(50,901 posts)He was obviously a liar and a cheat, and yet everyone seemed to believe him. Then that book came out - the art of the deal - when it was public knowledge that he had inherited all his money and sucked at business.
Just a distasteful slug for four decades. In all that time, there has always been a large part of the population that believed him, and it has always flummoxed me.
CanonRay
(14,080 posts)He passed me off 20+ years ago.
jzodda
(2,124 posts)That got me incensed then and I still am.
LisaM
(27,792 posts)He just seemed like a creepy thug with no taste. I guess the next time would be when I got a load of one of his ugly buildings.
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)never, since years ago when the idea first surfaced. And I'm not even from NY/NJ.
C_U_L8R
(44,983 posts)Never liked him.
Thought he was a creepy tacky self-promoter.
An empty suit.
TrishaJ
(797 posts)had an agent contact Herschel Walker during his junior season at UGA because the Donald had a yuuuuuuge idea to start a new pro football league and he wanted Walker to sign with the New Jersey Generals. Aaaaand, like all Trump's other great ideas, it flopped. Walker had to forfeit his senior season at Georgia and go play with Donald Trump.
On edit: this was before the NFL started drafting underclassmen. So Walker had one more year of eligibility at Georgia.
LAS14
(13,769 posts)CrispyQ
(36,413 posts)He is the the republican party without a filter. The GOP has courted the zealots, racists & loons for 30 years & now they've lost control & are surprised. Stupid shits. They created this monster & the media feeds it.
ramapo
(4,587 posts)"You're fired" was confirmation.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)I had more respect for Lindsey Graham at one of the early debates than I ever had for t-Rump This is something that for all that I despise about him, I think he made an intriguing point:
malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)...should have been when EVERYBODY turned off of the turd for all time (of course, myself, I was 4 years old at the time).
Funtatlaguy
(10,862 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,336 posts)Short fingered vulgarian.
Oh, and working as a sub-contractor/strolling entertainer at a Trump casino in Atlantic City. A chill ran through the staff every time he showed his ugly mug.
brooklynite
(94,302 posts)Some things never change.
Chemisse
(30,802 posts)Silly me, I thought his candidacy was over that very minute.
lanlady
(7,133 posts)I cheered when I heard about his bankruptcies in Atlantic City. Thought he'd go away & we'd never have to see his smug face again. Boy was I wrong!
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)She was probably watching TV.
I knew then and there I could never vote for this man.
Raine
(30,540 posts)so repulsive!