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Trump's nickname.

From the amount of lies he tells, I like "President Pants of Fire".

He repeated the claim today that voting by mail is 'rife for fraud' and that CA admitted there were a million fraudulent votes in that stare in the 2016 election. Politifact has already awarded that claim as "Pants on Fire" but Trump just keeps repeating it.
 
DetectedMotion said:
Or we can call him Don Pinocchio.
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In one sense Pinocchio would be appropriate because Trump's lies are usually blatant and obvious. And his demeanor is wooden and contrived.

In another it would not, because Pinocchio ultimately learned that lying was wrong, and quit doing it.

I don't think that is an outcome we can ever expect from Trump.

Sadly, he will never become a real, live boy.
 
theprestige said:
I often wonder how closely President Trump's inner life matches the inner life imagined by his critics. It seems to me that he thrives on the conflict, enjoys the give-and-take of name-calling, and sees the abuse as evidence of his successful trolling. He certainly doesn't seem demoralized by it. Are you tired of all the winning? Because Trump isn't tired yet.

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The idea of imagining the inner life of a narcissistic, sociopathic, pathological liar with delusions of grandeur has never been an aspiration of mine. The ability to do so would imply a degree of empathy which I doubt I could ever achieve.

Not to mention that it might imply some degree of sympathy as well, the thought of which makes me ill.

I'm unsure how many people would actually be equipped for such an exercise.
 
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Stacyhs said:
From the amount of lies he tells, I like "President Pants of Fire".

He repeated the claim today that voting by mail is 'rife for fraud' and that CA admitted there were a million fraudulent votes in that stare in the 2016 election. Politifact has already awarded that claim as "Pants on Fire" but Trump just keeps repeating it.
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Since Pinocchio was a recent mention here, it is interesting to note that the WaPo gave those same claims (among other related ones) four Pinocchios, a level of deceit and duplicity rarely awarded even to Trump himself.
 
theprestige said:
Speculation about his inner life has been put forward repeatedly in this thread and others to explain the value of verbally abusing him.

I've lost track of the number of times some bit of abuse has been celebrated because it's really getting to him inside. Or some program of abuse is advocated because it's clearly going to make him upset inside.
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I guess I've lost track of them too, as in I don't really recall all that many. Unless you are referring simply to the references to obvious demonstrations of thin-skinned retributive behavior he engages in so regularly.

I'm not sure that counts as speculation about his inner life. It seems to me it is more like discussion of his outer life. But I suppose definitions can vary.
 
quadraginta said:
I guess I've lost track of them too, as in I don't really recall all that many. Unless you are referring simply to the references to obvious demonstrations of thin-skinned retributive behavior he engages in so regularly.

I'm not sure that counts as speculation about his inner life. It seems to me it is more like discussion of his outer life. But I suppose definitions can vary.
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You're attributing a cause to the effect. The cause is speculative.
 
Since Trump likes to give people nicknames, he may like traitor since it sounds more like "trader".
So I believe Don Pinocchio is one he wouldn't like, plus it has a good flow when saying it.
 
Trump, the Breaker of Spines.


Seriously, why does everyone think they can influence Trump by covering his ass in public?
 
Someone elsewhere was comparing Trump to Caligula. As many undoubtedly know, Caligula as a child accompanied his father in military service, he was nicknamed "little boots" and it stuck. I suggest for our current Caligula wannabe, "Manicula."
 
bruto said:
Someone elsewhere was comparing Trump to Caligula. As many undoubtedly know, Caligula as a child accompanied his father in military service, he was nicknamed "little boots" and it stuck. I suggest for our current Caligula wannabe, "Manicula."
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Like "bonespurs", but with less contemporary meaning and more obscure references to a dead language?
 
CORed said:
I still think Tillerson nailed it, so I'm sticking with "moron" with or without the f-word participle, depending on how polite the situation calls for.
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I would love to hear Tillerson's take on Trump. We know he thinks Trump is a moron, but I'm sure he has a lot more he could say. I think after Trump is out of office (hopefully in Jan.) we'll be hearing from quite a few people about what really went on.
 
Stacyhs said:
From the amount of lies he tells, I like "President Pants of Fire".

He repeated the claim today that voting by mail is 'rife for fraud' and that CA admitted there were a million fraudulent votes in that stare in the 2016 election. Politifact has already awarded that claim as "Pants on Fire" but Trump just keeps repeating it.
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I am partial to "that ****wit". Simple, straight to the point, descriptive, no explanation needed.
 
Stacyhs said:
I would love to hear Tillerson's take on Trump. We know he thinks Trump is a moron, but I'm sure he has a lot more he could say. I think after Trump is out of office (hopefully in Jan.) we'll be hearing from quite a few people about what really went on.
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Which of course really pisses me off because then it will make no difference whatsoever.
 
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