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Trump called his campaign the greatest infomercial in political history, Cohen said.
Mr. Trump ran for office to make his brand great, not to make our country great
He never intended on winning the primary or the election it was just a marketing scheme to promote his brand
Now the Trump brand is less than worthless
underpants
(182,996 posts)✅
csziggy
(34,139 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)csziggy
(34,139 posts)If you look at the date it was put on YouTube, it is a very sad story.
BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)Sending that out. Thank you!
deek
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)dawnie51
(959 posts)is one big reality show, which Dump scripts daily to maximize outrage and eyes on the screen. War, death, misery, hunger, fear, none of that means anything to him.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)What we need next is the video from "Soylent Green".
Rhiannon12866
(206,601 posts)I thought of his "campaign" as just his latest money making scheme. Just like Trump University and Trump Steaks. Those failed, so this was just his next attempt.
PatSeg
(47,711 posts)after he lost the election. Running for president was meant to open all kinds of opportunities for Trump, but unfortunately for both him and us, Putin had other plans. Putin was doing Trump no favors by getting him elected, he was just using him and still is. Probably getting a good laugh on a daily basis.
Rhiannon12866
(206,601 posts)I have no doubt that's why he got as many votes as he did - starting with the campaign, he's all we saw. Any other candidate got moved to the bottom of the screen or we just got "sound bytes." I started changing the channel during the campaign, figured I'd go back to watching the news again when it was over - but it's still going on!
Back before this we learned about a earthquake in Japan or a tsunami in Indonesia, important world news, but these days when Trump sneezes we need to watch in its entirety!
And of course I believe that Putin interfered in our election. We heard long ago that he aimed to destabilize governments both here and in Europe. But I also hold the media responsible for saturating our airwaves with Trump, then and now, to the exclusion of any other candidate or news story.
PatSeg
(47,711 posts)Trump's win and unfortunately the mainstream media did its part as well. Whenever Trump opened his mouth, they dropped everything to cover it. They even let him literally just "phone it in" all day long, thus giving him even more free publicity.
Trump is a vulgar clown, but he knows out to be outrageous and get attention. Even before he ran for president, he managed to get some rather high profile interviews so he could talk about BS like Obama's birth certificate. If the media had been more responsible years ago, maybe Trump would have never gotten as far as he did.
I can remember a time when the news didn't cover nut jobs and conspiracy theories. That was what tabloids were for.
McKim
(2,412 posts)Yes, the news media is still covering him like a god and hanging on his every word. The phrase. The President of the United States is over used when referring to him. He should be covered less and called Mr. Trump. This is sensationalism and the result of a media that has become a dispenser of popular culture and trivia over substance.
Rhiannon12866
(206,601 posts)I respect those news people who just call him Trump. The only way I'd accept them putting "president" before his name is if they used air quotes...
JTML
(1 post)The media accepts Trump's lie that he is a Christian uncritically. Because he appears to support the sacrifice of children (not only the children of people seeking asylum, but also all the children already in this country whose health will be damaged by pollution), if he worships any god, it's a god of the Canaanites, Moloch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)as long as he continues to
1.discriminate against all non str8t white xtians
2.tries to kill as many women and doctors as possible in taking away a woman's right to determine what happens to their own body
If rump ordered the death or imprisonment of any number of any group for any reason, they are OK with it.
If rump bombs a foreign country to try and distract from Mueller, no matter how many are killed, they are A-OK with it.
I could go on.
It is this simple. We have a problem. It is already clear he and his boss putin have NO intentions of leaving power, ever.
FakeNoose
(32,854 posts)What a shit-show that would have been!
PatSeg
(47,711 posts)another right-wing propaganda machine! More and more the world is starting to look like an episode of the Jerry Springer Show.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)His approval rating among Republicans was 89% last time I looked. 89%.
I just can't understand this. How people continue to support an obvious con man mobster who uses his office for personal monetary gain.
PatSeg
(47,711 posts)probably don't identify as republicans anymore or have become independents. I think of that as 89% of the people who still have the guts to say they are republicans.
oxbow
(2,034 posts)How many of the uneducated and poor that he claims to love so much will support his golf courses or other businesses? They even tried to make a cheaper chain of motels called American Idea and couldnt get enough interest to move forward. The GOP is shrinking, the middle class is shrinking and - uneducated or not - his base will do so as well as he continues to fail and self-destruct.
They think he respects them because he talks like hes from the streets but Im sure he talks just as condescendingly about them in private as he does about everyone else.
LakeArenal
(28,863 posts)Or Putins?
GWC58
(2,678 posts)Karma, indeed, Be A Bitch! 😨
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)back to the days referenced in this YouTube:
This time he won't be able to dig his way out of his hole!
YAY KARMA!!!
kimbutgar
(21,240 posts)Because that's all they got.
CDerekGo
(507 posts)But seems at one point, October 2016, that there were rumblings, when tRump lost, there was to be a tRump TV. Anyone else remember that?
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)Kushner even launched a version of in on Facebook, to get the rubes ready for it.
He was suppose to lose but he fucked that up too, so instead of being a real billion now by running Trump TV, he will now die in prison.
eggplant
(3,917 posts)Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,897 posts)Trump Toilet Paper-It's as full of shit as he is That would be a top seller, wouldn't it?
Trump Garbage Bags- Let Trump take it to the dump! Now there's a slogan.
Trump Cat Litter, Trump brand laxative, the marketing and licensing opportunities are endless!