Tucker Carlson calls Trump 'full-blown BS artist' in segment defending him from media coverage
Source: The Hill
One of the reasons progressives say they hate Donald Trump is because he lies a lot, Carlson said at the start of the segment. Trump, theyll tell you, is a committed liar.
As the Post points out, the lying began at the inauguration. Perhaps you remember this claim, which, at the time, deeply offended official Washington, Carlson said before going on to play a clip of Trump claiming that his inauguration drew the largest audience ever.
Were not going to lie to you, Carlson said. That was untrue. The crowd at the 2017 inauguration was not the largest ever measured on the National Mall. Sorry, it wasnt.
Why did the president claim it was? Well, because thats who he is, the Fox News host continued. Donald Trump is a salesman. Hes a talker. Hes a boaster, a booster, a compulsive self-promoter. At times, hes a full-blown BS artist. If Trump hadnt gotten rich in real estate, he could have made a fortune selling cars.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/472378-tucker-carlson-calls-trump-full-blown-bs-artist-but-defends-him-from-media
Brainfodder
(6,424 posts)With friends like that, he might actually have a problem.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,180 posts)And Democrats are fools not to recognize that. Amusing to see so many responses that think he is making a blunder to admit Trump is a BS artist.
There is a whole culture built up in the US of the hero being not only the suave young man that unties the lady from the train tracks, but also the BS artist. Movies are littered with this kind of protagonist. How he can make the stupid antagonist fall for some BS in order to trap them. Heck, we even allow the police to lie in interrogations in order to get a perp to confess.
Far from being against BS artists, they are put on a pedestal for most people. Even the original snake oil salesmen that travelled the early days of the country to hock BS products are quietly admired more than anything, for their art of separating fools from their money. Hence the term "artist".
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,032 posts)He's a salesman so it's OK for him to lie about everything?
ChiTownDenny
(747 posts)Fortune 500 cos. You lie to your customer and sooner rather than later you get fired! The notion that Trump lies because he's a salesman is bull.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)He should also have noted that Trump has been successfully sued by those who were cheated by his phony university and his bilking of the Veteran rip off scam.
usaf-vet
(6,249 posts)FOX needs to fire Tucker Carlson because he is a white supremacist spewing racist hate as part of his daily trash talk. PERIOD!
IcyPeas
(21,957 posts)all the MAGAs know what he is. they just don't care and/or think it's hilarious. owning the libs and all that
Arkansas Granny
(31,545 posts)feel like they got one over on the libs. What miserable lives they must lead.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Decency, honesty, integrity, compassion are all missing in that orange shell of a "man-child" He would NOT have made a fortune without his father's money. He lost that, remember? Putin has propped him up for years. Why do you suppose he is fighting to keep his financials secret? He is NOT rich, he is a sham. Knowing tRump if his tax records proved he was wealthy, they would have been released long ago. I would not buy a used car from that bloated orange bastard. Selling cars would be hard work for that lazy ass. By the way, Fu - er - Tucker, what would YOU have been if your momma had not bought you the job at Faux?
WinstonSmith4740
(3,060 posts)Now we can add "sales". My late husband was the best damn salesman I ever met, and one of his mantras was that good salespeople are NOT good "talkers", but good listeners. Oh, being able to speak in complete sentences helps, or course, but basically a good salesperson asks questions and listens. Trump does neither. He's been "successful" because daddy staked him and bailed him out when he fucked up, he didn't pay his bills, and bullied everyone around him to get where he is. And he's still a failure.
reACTIONary
(5,797 posts)DBoon
(22,433 posts)Trump's psychological world is one big ME - other people only exist to serve his needs
Aquaria
(1,076 posts)Understand reciprocity in the selling process. Yes, I as a seller can make a sale/get the commission, but you as the buyer get something you want, too. Otherwise, you the buyer will take your business elsewhere. On top of that, you the seller are right more often than I the seller am, and I the seller am nothing if you don't come to me looking to buy something. A seller's reputation is what draws those customers in. If you have a lousy reputation, you won't get customers coming into a business to buy things.
My grandfather was a general contractor for over 40 years, and spent his retirement in small-scale ranching. He built and renovated homes for rich and poor and everyone in between. His cattle and chickens were prized for the quality of their meat and eggs. The way he saw it, his word was EVERYTHING--not to his success, but to staying in business at all. If people couldn't depend on his product AND his word, then they would take their business elsewhere. And he couldn't have lived with himself if he'd dealt with his customers like a cheat, a creep or a thug.
Dolt45 is crap at understanding reciprocity. That's why his businesses lose money and rely on his worthless cult of personality and shallow con games instead of actual sales. He doesn't do any sales, anyway, and probably hasn't ever in his life. Realtors do them. Nobody would trust that dirtbag with a bag of hair.
True Blue American
(17,998 posts)So that customer would trust you, keep coming back.
Once you ie to them they have no reason to trust you.
SWBTATTReg
(22,234 posts)conned people out of their money (remember rump university? A big joke and a scam pure and simple)...they are usually caught because they've screwed around too many people and it catches up with them.
BumRushDaShow
(130,145 posts)paleotn
(18,015 posts)but his followers know he lies. When pressed, they will freely admit it. And admit they simply don't care. As long as he's shitting on the people they hate, they could care less what he says.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,505 posts)more massing lies and deceptions connected to impeachment.
That also conditions the right-wing base to participate in the lying for them every day on the street. That's how cults work.
Sorry, Tucker, we're not buying YOUR bullshit..........
Botany
(70,674 posts).... and they would just say that he loves his daughter and is just keeping her warm.
I bet team Trump know that the Mueller report is gonna come out and they are scared
shitless. BTW this Ukraine stuff is nothing new but just a continuation of the 2015/2016
crime spree.
Black Gum Tree in fall.
Xipe Totec
(43,893 posts)Botany
(70,674 posts)n/t Putin/Russia have been working Trump as an asset for 25+ years and now is
working to take down America from the inside because that is what his boss wants.
robbob
(3,546 posts)Trump is a skillful liar/He says he didnt do it.
Thats just tRump being tRump/He saved the economy.
They want to acknowledge his inability to speak truthfully, and then turn around and quote some claim he made as if its the honest truth. And the worst offenders are the liberal media who, again and again, will repeat verbatim the lies coming out of this administration without just coming out and adding but given this administrations record, they are probably lying. Again.
underpants
(183,071 posts)robbob
(3,546 posts)radius777
(3,635 posts)Trumpers know he's a conman/thug/liar - that's why they elected him - to beat down the libs, blacks, mexicans, muslims, gays, etc - that they all don't like and don't want in 'their' America, which is in their minds a white nation where others should either know their place or get out.
It's all about white supremacy, and reversing social justice by any means necessary - even if that means rejecting democracy itself and siding with thugs like Trump and Putin.
Xipe Totec
(43,893 posts)paleotn
(18,015 posts)If it weren't for daddy's money, IQ45 would be selling rinky dink used cars, living sale to sale, with little to show for it except what spews from his pie hole.
bucolic_frolic
(43,570 posts)You gotta admit, they can distort the minds of their base in directions that suit themselves.
If Fox News viewers were computers, it's like there's no hardware. Only malleable software, and flashable at that.
Judi Lynn
(160,707 posts)if they don't spot him immediately.
And then, to actually listen to him?
TheFourthMind
(343 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,991 posts)... this before. It's calculated to normalize his behavior. They say he lies to "make liberal heads explode." He exaggerates everything, so it's a way of speaking. This is to make it "okay" for Trump to lie about criminal activity... and get away with more criminal activity. I would not be surprised if Tucker is directed by Trump himself... like "Best Sex I Ever Had! was Donald's line.
JohnnyRingo
(18,702 posts)Because he may one day tell us about something of dire importance to national security, but we'll assume the harmless "BS artist" is just lying again. "Because that's who he is".
An inflamed asshole defending a lying piece of shit. Fox News has lost all credibility.
bluedigger
(17,091 posts)Nitram
(22,985 posts)I wanna get back to reality!