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View submission: Trump’s 60 Minutes interview once again reveals gross ignorance and wild dishonesty
Trump: *Okay. So I always used to say the toughest people are Manhattan real estate guys and blah, blah. Now I say they’re babies.*
Stahl: *Who’s the toughest?*
Trump: *They’re babies, the political people. This is the most deceptive, vicious world. It is vicious, it’s full of lies, deceit, and deception. You make a deal with somebody and it’s like making a deal with-- that table.*
Stahl: *Give me an example.*
Trump: *Well, I don’t want to give you an example. I’m not looking to — in the meantime, nobody’s been able to do what I’ve been able to do. Remember that. When you look at taxes, you look at regulations, you look at making deals with other countries. Nobody’s been able to do anything like this. Actually, most people didn’t even try because they knew they didn’t have the ability to do it. But it’s a very deceptive world. The other thing I’ve really learned is, I never knew how dishonest the media was. And I really mean it. I’m not saying that as a sound bite.*
Comment by Imapony at 15/10/2018 at 04:13 UTC
499 upvotes, 21 direct replies
One of the most frustrating parts of all this is that this fucking moron will go to his grave genuinely convinced he was the greatest president in history
Comment by WrongSubreddit at 15/10/2018 at 05:14 UTC
85 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Even when he lists his own accomplishments it's pathetic. Cutting taxes is supposed to be some kind of victory? It's pure short-sighted gratification at best. Making deals? What deals? Merkel had to tell him 12 times that he couldn't make deals with with Germany instead of the EU as a whole
Comment by Minion_of_Cthulhu at 15/10/2018 at 03:49 UTC
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Nobody’s been able to do anything like this.
That's true. Nobody has fucked shit up so often and so thoroughly as Trump has.
Comment by heckhammer at 15/10/2018 at 03:07 UTC
203 upvotes, 6 direct replies
What fucking deals? This guy is incompetent on a massive level
Comment by dshakir at 15/10/2018 at 05:45 UTC
42 upvotes, 1 direct replies
“Give me an example.”
Comment by zeCrazyEye at 15/10/2018 at 05:46 UTC
42 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Trump: They’re babies, the political people. This is the most deceptive, vicious world. It is vicious, it’s full of lies, deceit, and deception. You make a deal with somebody and it’s like making a deal with-- that table.
He doesn't understand that democratic leaders can't just make a deal unilaterally and that dictators will say whatever is convenient at the time. There is no higher authority to enforce "deals" like there is in the business world.
He thinks the soft power of the State Department can be replaced by him just getting people to make a verbal agreement that means absolutely nothing.
Comment by [deleted] at 15/10/2018 at 02:30 UTC
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Comment by POOP_TRAIN_CONDUCTOR at 15/10/2018 at 05:35 UTC
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http://interglacial.com/pub/text/Umberto_Eco_-_Eternal_Fascism.html
"14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. Newspeak was invented by Orwell, in Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the official language of what he called Ingsoc, English Socialism. But elements of Ur-Fascism are common to different forms of dictatorship. All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show."
Comment by [deleted] at 15/10/2018 at 05:48 UTC
17 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It is vicious, it’s full of lies, deceit, and deception.
Bor Gullet will know the Truth
Comment by redditorandcheef at 15/10/2018 at 06:34 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Just answer the fucking question
Comment by [deleted] at 15/10/2018 at 08:17 UTC
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nobody’s been able to do what I’ve been able to do. Remember that. When you look at taxes, you look at regulations, you look at making deals with other countries. Nobody’s been able to do anything like this. Actually, most people didn’t even try because they knew they didn’t have the ability to do it
How can a narcissist be this insecure?
Comment by carolined1 at 15/10/2018 at 09:28 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Stop giving him air time. He has nothing of substance to say. He won’t be held accountable for anything, so there is no point.
Comment by DerpyHooves17 at 15/10/2018 at 06:44 UTC
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Did... He learn a word from Kanye? Sound bite...
Comment by [deleted] at 15/10/2018 at 06:10 UTC
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Sounds like schizophrenic word salad.
Comment by aardw0lf11 at 15/10/2018 at 08:13 UTC
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I think Trump just gave away the farm with that part about making deals. Freudian slip.
Comment by Wh00ster at 15/10/2018 at 09:10 UTC
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Didn’t he run on being more clever than the politicians, as a Manhattan real estate guy?
Comment by [deleted] at 15/10/2018 at 11:08 UTC
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I've not watched the interview yet, but did she really ask for an example? If so I am so fucking glad. So many times he gets interviewed and says some dumb shit, and the interviewer just lets it go.
Comment by [deleted] at 15/10/2018 at 12:36 UTC
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The mental gymnastics of whining about how the deals you've made are rendered meaningless then in the next breath bragging about how you make the best deals. I'll never quite understand how this guy made it to where he is.
Comment by ReceivePoetry at 15/10/2018 at 08:06 UTC
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"I am exactly saying this as a sound bite, because obnoxious sound bites are all I love -- after myself, of course."
Comment by [deleted] at 15/10/2018 at 13:32 UTC
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I’m not looking to — in the meantime, nobody’s been able to do what I’ve been able to do.
Amazing how the stream of consciousness is really more like shaking up a 2 liter of pop and twisting the cap open.
Comment by [deleted] at 15/10/2018 at 14:57 UTC
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Actually, most people didn’t even try because they knew they didn’t have the ability to do it.
Anybody not yet familiar with Dunning-Kruger Effect, really must give it a quick google, no other condition is more befitting of Trump.
Comment by farfiman at 15/10/2018 at 10:13 UTC
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And every word is true.