The key to getting under Trumps's skin is to label him as mediocre.

[MrScorpio]

Play against his oversized ego. Point out his many, many failures. Treat his accomplishments as the garbage they are. Make sure that everyone knows that he'll fail spectacularly if ever put in charge.

He'll do the rest of the work for you.

[Chasstev365]

1. Yes: Failure to recognize his "sheer genius" really sets him off

Typical of a true narssist!

[Hortensis]

24. "Average," lol, would seem to work too.

He uses it a lot in some of those mighty "twit hits" that supposedly make heads spin.

[geek tragedy]

2. Little Donald nt

[Wounded Bear]

3. They're working on it...

Yeah, this has been pretty obvious all along. I think the reason it didn't work for the Repub candidates might be because they were more aware of their own hypocrisy and couldn't keep straight faces. Most of the Dems have been "through the wars" so to speak. Especially the Clintons, who have been hit with just about every insult in the book over the years, so they basically just slough it off.

If anybody can smile and say, "That all you got, son?" it is Hillary.

[Hav]

4. Don't forget his tiny hands

Rubio seemed to have hit a nerve with that one.

[kairos12]

13. That's why his threat of hitting someone at the DNC is no threat. Hands of tiny jello.

[dumbcat]

15. I thought we weren't supposed to

mock someone's disabilities? We made a big deal over tRump mocking the disabled reporter.

Oh, wait ..... he's a Republican.

[MrScorpio]

19. It's not a bug...

It's a feature.

[Qutzupalotl]

20. It's all in his head, though.

He probably has near-normal-sized hands, but he insists they're YUUUGE.

[Hav]

21. Small hands are a disability? Seriously?

Joking about small hands is comparable to mocking that journalist? To quote Biden, give me a break, that's a bunch of malarkey.
But maybe we need to add to DU's rules that we shouldn't mock Trump to not hurt some posters' feelings here.

[dumbcat]

34. It's OK, really

he's a republican.

[trueblue2007]

32. tiny hands = tiny you-know-what ??

http://images.memes.com/meme/912643

[backscatter712]

5. Trump is so low-energy! n/t

[unblock]

6. "mediocre" is not nearly negative enough, it's merely average

he's a loser, a fool, an imbicile, a moran. an idiot, a fraud, an ugly hater, a bitter old bastard whose ideas are america's worst nightmare.

i'd take a mediocre president over trump any day.

[MrScorpio]

8. The point is to accuse him of always trying to compensate for how ordinary he actually he is...

Create the impression that everything that he does and says is nothing more than a facade. That basically, the emperor has no clothes.

If you over-emphasize his negative aspects, he's going to take pride in being depicted as the bad guy. He can transfer his self-worth there.

Instead, relegate his life as that of insignificant. That he has no value added.

To him, merely average is the worst insult ever.

[TreasonousBastard]

11. This is true. Laugh at his "accomplishments" and he has no answer.

[smirkymonkey]

17. Yes, THIS!

I can't wait to see him completely meltdown. He will not be able to stand the heat now that the gloves are off!

[greymattermom]

33. He's a con man

and people who fall for a con man are....suckers.

[Ilsa]

7. I can't wait to see his head explode during the debate and town hall. nt

[madokie]

9. Spot on

tRump hasn't a clue what he's gotten himself in.

He'll grow to rue the day he decided to enter this race.

[Chiyo-chichi]

10. He would have to improve himself by several orders of magnitude to achieve mediocrity.

[JustAnotherGen]

16. This right here!

[hobbit709]

12. In reality, "mediocre" would be a step or two up for him.

[Javaman]

14. to make his head explode, treat him a irrelevant.

he is indeed a classic narcissist.

usually with a narcissist, they only stay in contact with someone as long as that someone continually feeds their ego. Once that person stops doing that, the narcissist stops dealing with them and moves on to the next lackey.

but he can't do that with the American public.

so just make him irrelevant. he will go crazy.

[Rex]

18. Right. Call him ordinary and just another commoner. That would piss him off no doubt!

Thousandaire Trump.

[LuvNewcastle]

22. That's a good place to hit him --

his net worth. I don't believe for a minute that Trump is a billionaire. In fact, I would wager that he is in debt up to his eyeballs. Call him a fraud and an incompetent loser. That should drive him absolutely bonkers.

[Rex]

25. Agree, I wouldn't be surprised to find out he just has a few million.

Just another silver spoon, I bet that would piss him off too. Remind him that he started off on 3rd base.

[Generic Brad]

36. He can easily prove otherwise by releasing his tax returns

But he won't. That would undermine his con of the American people.

[auntpurl]

23. This is exactly why Bloomberg pissed him off so much.

Bloomberg could buy and sell Trump several times over. And Bloomberg is known for loathing Trump because he is a classless buffoon.

[Rex]

26. One is a real billionaire, the other is too chickenshit to release his tax returns from past years.

Bloomberg will eat him up and spit him back out. Trump is a fool.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. You got it. +1. Mediocre businessman, amateur politician, average entertainer, ... and so on. . . nt

[liberal N proud]

28. Easily baited by calling out any failure he has had.

[no_hypocrisy]

29. Ordinary. Common. Average. Vulgar.

[superpatriotman]

30. NOT a builder either

He is not a mason, an architect, a designer...he makes nothing!

[MrScorpio]

31. All he does is slaps his name on the building and the stiffs the people who did the actual work. nt

[tallahasseedem]

35. Hillary should start comparing him to Bloomberg...

or say he's done an okay job in the real estate market compared to others. Guaranteed melt down will soon follow.

[KelleyKramer]

37. Just call him insecure

That seems to really drive him nuts

Carson said that about him and the next day trump went off on a hour and half tirade all about Carson. It was unhinged, a total meltdown