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Trump supporters are trying to elicit sympathy for the President by invoking that he's a "rookie".
This analogy, like so many of their other defenses for Trump, is not accurate.
Trump is not a rookie. It's an analogy that doesn't hold water.
A rookie in baseball played baseball before. In college or in the minor leagues. In football, the rookie played in college. In basketball, the rookie played in college or high school. In hockey, he played in either college or the minor leagues. In every sport, a major league rookie played that sport from the time he could tie his shoes until he became a pro. They learned their craft through skill, hard work, and practice.
Trump, on the other hand is a con man, blowhard asshole. It's like some piece of shit convincing the owners of a major league team to give him a contract because he tells them he can hit home runs, score goals, sink three pointers or run for touchdowns, but they never saw him do any of those things.
Trump's not a rookie, the people that supported him are assholes who fell for his line of bull shit and now need an excuse for their own mistake, just like a professional sports team owner who signed a con man to a 4 year contract who doesn't know the first thing about the sport he's playing.
Trump's a rookie like these 3 guys were rookies:
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)The guy on deck with zero experience, a danger to himself and everybody around him, has to be watched constantly so he doesn't screw up.
In other words trump(R).
louis c
(8,652 posts)Igel
(35,359 posts)One's baseball, one's cowboy.
Newbie. Novice. Beginner. Neophyte. Different terms for the same thing.
You know another one?
Apprentice.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)Bering Sea, notice I said "on deck" and "Danger".
No danger in baseball, lol.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,858 posts)If he doesn't know the laws, protocols and procedures that relate to the presidency and hasn't bothered to find out what they are, he has no fucking business being president.
GoCubsGo
(32,094 posts)Two years as a US Senator, several years as an Illinois state Senator, and many years as a constitutional law professor--not enough experience to escape their claims that he was "nothing but a community organizer." But, a syphilis-addled bully who has no* government experience, and doesn't have a goddamn clue as to how the government he is in charge of even operates? He's a "just a rookie"??? Fuck that. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.
*Zero. Zilch. Zip. Nada. None whatsoever. Not even fifth grade class treasurer.
louis c
(8,652 posts)Maeve
(42,288 posts)And putting someone with no governmental experience in it is the height of folly. Supporting such a fool in power is no better.
elfin
(6,262 posts)How quickly he and Ryan forgot.
JI7
(89,269 posts)Trump university and the birther shit.
Fuck him and those who still defend him today.