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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo what if the family announces that Don the Con is in Scotland to recuperate
because he's unwell---and pulling out.
Something is going down.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)...and God/Goddess willing, that is exactly what is going to happen.
David__77
(23,503 posts)I see that as only slightly less likely than Trump pulling out while in Scotland due to being unwell.
Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)Assuming of course that he runs as a Democrat.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)I know his mother is/was a Scot-- doesn't matter. He's better off going to Las Vegas.
But it does sound as if something is definitely afoot.
Much too soon for him to pull out, though!!
peacefreak
(2,939 posts)golf course this weekend
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)Scots are the salt of the earth-- I'm sure they will collectively recoil when they get a load of him.
These links are interesting:
Donald Trump couldnt get elected the dog-catcher in Scotland following golf course fiasco
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/trump-couldn-elected-dog-catcher-scotland-article-1.2606893
AND
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/trump-fails-to-create-promised-jobs-and-investment-in-scotland-locals-say-a6801466.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/02/17/467036682/anti-trump-voices-grow-louder-in-scotland-after-development-rift
These articles aren't new but the Scots have long memories.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Never did
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)No political dignitaries will be attending, but, whatever they think about his politics, many locals are reportedly happy about the additional jobs the revamped course is bringing to the area. In preparation for his visit someone, seemingly less grateful than others, put up a Mexican flag right outside it. Good for whoever!
kairos12
(12,872 posts)cheyanne
(733 posts)any help firing people.
His kids are aware of how hopeless his candidacy is and this is a good time to claim "health issues".
By the way, Trump also fired another staff member today . . .
malaise
(269,157 posts)since the RNC want no part of the mess and corporations aren't biting.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)badly, and he could (but wouldn't allow it almost certainly) lose much of their inheritance to this campaign. I've read about potential big funders, and this change may have been precipitated by their desire for better management before investing. Erratic and unpredictable as he is, Donald can be motivated by money. We know that.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Never forget that
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)for many after all. May be able to do without two 200-foot yachts, but not affording even one would devastate an entire world view and where one stands in relation to it. On a scale of learning there was no god and no rightness anywhere.
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)Exactly what came to mind for me also, I figured maybe a health problem and needed to pull out for "health reasons".. He is mentally ill
malaise
(269,157 posts)for ReTHUGs. Must be something else
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)Possibly he came to and realized how stupid he has been
malaise
(269,157 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Just plain old dementia. Expect massive sympathy.
cheyanne
(733 posts)undermining Ivanka's husband Jared, who is essential to the "Trump Media Company", which is the next step after the candidacy. Jared has been quoted praising the idea that Trump could have his own media company based on his success in the primaries. Perhaps his kids want to move on the cash cow No. 2: media.
The grift never stops.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Thanks
Bucky
(54,065 posts)fucking clowns
Octafish
(55,745 posts)He knows he's nuts.
malaise
(269,157 posts)He will never be President
Octafish
(55,745 posts)In the voice of James Brown: "I told you so."
Trumps Self-Hatred Will Destroy His Campaign
by JOHN ESKOW
CounterPunch, AUGUST 14, 2015
To paraphrase Bob Dylan, even Donald Trump must stand naked, and like everyone else sometimes he winces at what he sees. Consider Trump stepping out of the showerforced to confront all that sun-lamped, over-fed, over-cologned flesh, and those hate-lines around his pout-shaped mouth, and, of course, that wildly asymmetric mass of orange-Kool-Aid-colored hair, still wet from the showeron one side of his head, it hangs down past his shoulder in a huge ragged curtain; on the other side of his head, there is nothing but bald scalp and sadness. He begins every day by engineering that combover, the equivalent of The Great Wall of China. Then he Spanxes up, re-colognes himself, puts on a red Trump necktie, and goes out into the world to proclaim his own greatness.
You dont have to be a psychotherapist to see that Donald Trumps loathing for others is just an offshoot of his loathing for himself. Do you know any confident people in their 60s who need to compulsively remind you that they attended a good collegeand got As? Do you know any truly-loved people who keep insisting, twenty times a day, that everyone loves them? Trumps dirty secret is that hes just smart enough to know that hes a fraud, and not smart enough to forget it. He knows in his bones that if he wasnt rich, not only would Hillary Clinton skip his wedding, but there would be no wedding to skipat least not to another attractive young blonde. And this awareness is what fueled the single most important moment in the history of televised political debates.
As CounterPunchs Mike Whitney wisely pointed out, Trump did America an enormous favor in that ten-second stretch of epic truth-telling at the Fox debatewhen he breezily admitted that Hillary Clinton had to attend his wedding, not because she cares about him, but because he buys, sells, and trades the Hillary Clintons of the world like a twelve-year-old playing Fantasy Football. In a sane America, Trumps forbidden truth would have upended the whole political dialoguebut CNN and MSNBC studiously ignored it and spent five whole days chasing updates on the Megan Kelly bleeding remark instead.
If Trump had real guts and visionand if he was serious about winninghe would make that Forbidden Truth the core of his campaign, and keep expanding it: Everyones angry that America is run by the 1%well, Im not just the 1%, Im the 1% of the 1%, and Im the only one who not only knows the tricks of the trade, but wholl let you in on all our dirty little secrets, and change all the rules The Tea Party and the leftists are both right: the whole game is rigged, and were going to blow it up and start fresh.
But he blew the moment, because he didnt realize what a profound insight hed given the American people. Instead, in one hilarious tweet that went beyond speaking-of-ones-self-in-the-third-person, he said that Roger Ailes promises that Trump will be treated fairly. I meanputting your own name in quotation marks? As the young people saywhats that about?
CONTINUED...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/14/trumps-self-hatred-will-destroy-his-campaign/
malaise
(269,157 posts)Thanks Octafish
eleny
(46,166 posts)... or some bull crap like that.
malaise
(269,157 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)It will be a relief for everyone, him the most no doubt.
..... But I so had my hopes set on Trump/Palin.
malaise
(269,157 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)What could go wrong?
Vinca
(50,303 posts)I do think this was a con that got totally out of hand. He doesn't want to be POTUS any more than I do. If he leaves it would most likely be in a flurry of lawsuits against the GOP for not supporting him. He would have to turn himself into the aggrieved party. At this point I hope he stays in. Hillary's favorability ratings are nothing to write home about so her only chance is to have someone as vile as "The Donald" as an opponent.
cali
(114,904 posts)will drop out. If he sees that he's going to get his ass kicked, I don't see him staying in to suffer that fate.
malaise
(269,157 posts)this far. He is a disaster
leftyladyfrommo
(18,870 posts)But I don't think the Scots like him very much.
malaise
(269,157 posts)that the Scots love him more than they love shortbread