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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Thu May 21, 2020, 11:53 AM May 2020

Trump's entire reelection message amounts to an admission of failure

Given his monstrous narcissism and megalomania, it was only a matter of time until President Trump began campaigning for reelection on the notion that his own government has failed him.

Trump’s political advisers have hit on a new strategy to cope with the challenge of running for a second term amid the most severe public health and economic crises in modern times, the Associated Press reports.

That strategy is to run once again as an outsider, which requires using his own government as a foil. Trump advisers tell the AP that Trump will be positioned as the outsider relative to Joe Biden, which you can see in the new label that Trump propagandists have been applying to Biden: “swamp monster.”

But if you dig beneath the surface of this argument, it really amounts to an admission of failure on Trump’s part, if an unwitting one.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/21/trumps-entire-reelection-message-amounts-an-admission-failure/

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Trump's entire reelection message amounts to an admission of failure (Original Post) Zorro May 2020 OP
Projection. It's the only thing Trump can do to distract from his massive failings. sop May 2020 #1
He cares more only about gdp not the deaths of the Americans from CV kimbutgar May 2020 #2
Another form of denial. CaptYossarian May 2020 #3
Trump will lose, and lose big. ..Really Very Big.!!! Stuart G May 2020 #4
Big enough to avoid Civil War II? CaptYossarian May 2020 #7
he simply things everyone is as stupid as are MAGAts Skittles May 2020 #6
there's that fishface again Skittles May 2020 #5

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
3. Another form of denial.
Thu May 21, 2020, 05:05 PM
May 2020

Just like the pictures taken of him with people he never met.

Just like him saying he never spoke the words that were recorded.

He thinks the entire country is as delusional as he is.

66 million knew he wasn't a great leader or fit for office. He's had 4 years to prove them right. What will 2020's numbers be?

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