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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's stunning to me why Cheeto wanted this job
Did he not know that he'd be under a microscope?
The idiot could have continued until he died with his corrupt lavish lifestyle but no. He couldn't resist.
President Dumbass.
leftstreet
(36,109 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)I think he knew he was going to "win"
leftstreet
(36,109 posts)but I can't see the people behind him being dumb enough to let him know about any hacking or election fraud that may have gotten him (them) in the office
Trumps seems er, non-intellectual enough to be content with all the notoriety and fund raising of just running a campaign
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)a can in Leavenworth?
aikoaiko
(34,172 posts)southerncrone
(5,506 posts)He couldn't resist. He had to go for it.
LisaM
(27,813 posts)But I don't think he really wanted the job.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)For most humans, that would be beyond absurdity for a motivation.
He is not most humans, clearly.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Donnie was in ruins because a black man reached a pinnacle greater than he. Obama's joke at the dinner was the straw that broke Lil donnie's hairy orangutan back. Trump would have committed suicide had he not become SCROTUS, just to prove Obama wrong.
I hope we get the last laugh when Donnie is ousted from the WH. I would love to see him in jail but that is likely never going to happen.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Yeah I know, not really hard to do.
But I bet Donnie's been driven by an infantile desire to get even.
That's the way he's wired.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,010 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)A real professional fool.
spooky3
(34,460 posts)and no one would hold him accountable.
SJMULE
(193 posts)unblock
(52,253 posts)He's ignorant and disdainful if democratic norms and institutional protections against corruption and abuses of power.
He sees all that as constraining of an efficient leader, the way he's been able to get away with murder all his life.
He can't process any of the negative feedback as anything other than incompetence, fake news, and enemies out to get him.
The solution, to him, is more unfettered power.
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...maybe he was blackmailed by Putin to run for an office he didn't really want. Oh, I'm sure his ego was stroked by his victory. But I'll always wonder just whose idea Trump for President *really* was...