Serious post. There should be a stealthy effort to gaslight Trump on Twitter.

[LuckyCharms]

If I knew how to coordinate something like this, I would do it. It would destroy him.

Since he gaslights the country, gaslight him right back.

Somehow get a few million people to tweet things like the following:

What is that on Trumps face?

Hey Mr. President, what the fuck is that on your face?

Does Trump have some kind of skin cancer? What the fuck is that thing?

Did anyone else notice Trump's facial tumor?

1/ Did you hear about the guy that overheard Donald Jr. in a restaurant last year?

2/ Jr. said that all the children hate him and just pretend to love him for the money.

3/ Jr. said that the entire family views him as a "fucking loser" and crazy old man.

Everyone is talking about how Trump's children hate him.

Tiffany was mocking trump in a nightclub last night.

I actually think that if this type of effort was coordinated and done properly, it would bring him down. Nothing else seems to be working.

[LuckyCharms]

1. Bots! Bots could do this. n/t

[jberryhill]

2. "Somehow get a few million people to..."

I have a number of plans which start that way.

[shanny]

7. ...

[Gothmog]

3. Trump is too mentally ill to be gaslighted

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Trump is mentally ill and so the attempts to gaslight him will be futile. Trump's mental illness renders him incapable of admitting that he is wrong on any issue. Gaslighting is futile when dealing with a mentally ill idiot like trump

[LuckyCharms]

5. I have dealt personally with gaslighting. And I have shut down a narcissist, because...

this is what happens to them when you gaslight them:

Narcissistic rage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_rage_and_narcissistic_injury

When you use their own tactics on them, whether it is the truth or not, they revert to being a helpless child.

[freemay20]

8. Serious question...

Do you think one of the collective traits taken on by Trump supporters is collective narcissism? They're better than everyone else and only THEIR desires and wishes have merit, so it's like talking to a brick wall about anything other than themselves and what they, as a group, want. And of course they seem to believe they're in the majority. Lots of delusional thinking in that group.

So I wonder what sort of tactic could work against group narcisissm?

[LuckyCharms]

10. That is an interesting concept.

On first read, I did not understand your point, but I see what you mean about "collective".

I sure don't know, but I would like it if a psychiatrist somewhere could weigh in on that.

I know plenty of them that are truly narcissists individually, but as a group...I am not sure what that phenomenon would be called.

As far as tactics that would work against them...probably the same type of propaganda that worked on previously "normal" people that caused them to vote for Trump.

[freemay20]

11. So, basically nonstop lying. Sad, but true. Thx ;) n/t

[LuckyCharms]

14. Yes, unfortunately I think that since nothing seems to work with this guy...

we have to fight fahr with fahr as Sarah Huckabee Sanders likes to say.

[moriah]

13. Helpless child?

Can't resist the snark, but will that be much of a change?

[LuckyCharms]

19. In this regard...

I was gaslighted by a family member. It almost destroyed me. One of the characteristics of gaslighting victims is that they know something is wrong, but they don't know what. I thought I was losing my mind.

I started doing research. I learned about narcissism, and I learned how to combat it.

I confronted the family member. I tore his mask off. I hit him where it hurts. It worked. He was exposed. He couldn't cope. The injury they experience from being gaslighted back is really like reverting to childhood. It takes their bluster away. It's like beating the shit out of a bully who has been messing with you for years.

[mitch96]

17. I just read the definition of "gaslighting"

It sounds like what HE is trying to do to US!!!
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[LuckyCharms]

20. Exactly.

There have been many articles that describe his behavior as typical gaslighting.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. There's no evidence that Trump reads Twitter in general

People have looked at the accounts he follows, and it's a small, narrow selection (Fox News etc.). So he sees that if he's about to tweet, and his flunkies bring him the most sycophantic stuff in his twice daily "oh Lord, you are so smashing" ego massage. But mostly, he's as oblivious to comments about him on Twitter as he is to policy details, global warming, what poverty is like, what being a decent human being is like, etc. Twitter will not break through his bubble.

[LuckyCharms]

6. I hear you, but if his Twitter was flooded with similar comments

the media would cover it.

[Orsino]

9. The dissonance between his job and his avoidant personality already have him gaslit.

People are telling him things he doesn't want to hear several times a day, so often that the Chief of Staff has had to hire clowns to cheer hm up by inventing good news.

[LuckyCharms]

12. True, but now I am wondering what would happen if

bots flooded his twitter account for a few months to such an extent that it would be talked about on say, CNN and he would be forced to watch it on TV every day.

[Orsino]

15. I'm sure his staffers would be overworked...

...in blocking troll accounts so that the little prince heard less dissent. That's if he even reads Twitter at all beyond his own posting.

[LuckyCharms]

16. Yes you are probably right.

I don't have a Twitter account, and I am not familiar with bots except to know that they exist.

I am unsure of the effort it takes to block them.

[Orsino]

18. We accuse the president of toilet-tweeting...

...so it could be that he does read some replies. I've suspected that some staff is dedicated to searching Twitter's various teapots for tempests the president can fiddle with.