R_P wrote: 
And, seriously, instead of cartoons and bluster and memes and bullying - are there good responses to problems like this that would sway someone with an open mind. 

Not saying I have one, but still I notice a distinct lack of thoughtful responses to concerns like his. Lots of faith, lots of promises, lots of finger pointing that the other candidates are worse. Sigh. 

According to court documents, students at Trump University paid up to $35,000 and Trump never appeared. So my question is: how much is each of us willing to pay, right now, to have Trump never appear again? #priceless

Donald Trump's sole consistent trait: offering pricey, empty promises

It’s uncanny how much Trump’s sham university sounds like his campaign. Trump U salespeople were encouraged to pitch the three-day Gold Elite package to student-clients for the low, low price of $34,995 dollars, pushing clients to max out credit cards or tap other assets to pay for it even if it put them financially at risk. (The Silver Elite package ran $19,495, while the Bronze Elite dinged students a mere $9,995.) An early part of the pitch included the “blast phase” that focused on “giving your clients hope again”.

Don't blame Cleveland!
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-convention.html

‘I Can Watch It on TV’: Excuses for Republicans Skipping a Donald Trump Convention

A wave of prominent Republicans have announced their intention to skip the party’s national convention in Cleveland this summer, the latest sign that Donald J. Trump, who last week secured the delegates needed to clinch the Republican presidential nomination, continues to struggle in his effort to unite the party behind his candidacy.

The list of those who have sent regrets includes governors and United States senators — almost all facing tough re-election fights this year — and lifelong party devotees who have attended every convention for decades. Some are renouncing their seats like conscientious objectors.

 kurtster wrote: 
I think it's true that all Presidents lie. It's part of keeping the populace sedate. We all pick what things we don't tell others, and Presidents get called out on it more publicly than most.

But with each of those examples, none of those Presidents started by being overt liars, obviously untrustworthy, politically inept, and measurably under experienced.

So this is more than a one-note song, more than a single litmus test. That's what's so disappointing about his support: most of it is "he's not establishment." Well, neither is Paul Westerberg, but that doesn't mean I want him to run the nation. 

He holds the record.

Class, Trump, and the Election

Trump is a liar.  Hmmm.  Sounds very presidential to me.

I did not have sex with that woman.

You can keep your doctor.

I am not a crook.

Iraq has wmds.

and my all time favorite ...

we killed a million VC yesterday.

 

Protests backfire as anti-American images push undecided voters to Trump

 Steely_D wrote: 
Oh, I agree. DonDon's too low-energy to be manic depressive. Depressive, possibly yes: many depressives express their depression as anger and a persecution complex. Trump constantly tries to paint critics and enemies as driven by some personal grudge against him. 

Wow, you cannot turn around without bumping into another story of Trump's lies and deceptions. Trump's former employees are speaking out against him in court. Oh, and look: Trump is crying that the judge is biased against him because he's Mexican. Even though the judge was born in Indiana. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/us/politics/donald-trump-university.html

Former Trump University Workers Call the School a ‘Lie’ and a ‘Scheme’ in Testimony

(excerpts of article follow):

In blunt testimony revealed on Tuesday, former managers of Trump University, the for-profit school started by Donald J. Trump, portray it as an unscrupulous business that relied on high-pressure sales tactics, employed unqualified instructors, made deceptive claims and exploited vulnerable students willing to pay tens of thousands for Mr. Trump’s insights. 

...

Mr. Trump started the for-profit Trump University just as the overheated American housing market neared its peak, promising that its classes would impart his wisdom about real estate and moneymaking to the general public.

But dozens of complaints about the school rolled into the offices of attorneys general in Florida, Texas, New York and Illinois, officials said, prompting multiple investigations and, eventually, the lawsuit from former students in California.

Mr. Trump had fought Tuesday’s release of previously sealed documents in the case. In an apparent attempt to discredit the judge in the case, Gonzalo P. Curiel, Mr. Trump called him biased and a “hater of Donald Trump,” and he sought to draw attention to the judge’s ethnic background — “we believe Mexican,” Mr. Trump said. (Mr. Curiel was born in Indiana; he is of Mexican descent.)

 ...

 kcar wrote: 
To be fair, I think Trump's just a bully. I don't see manic-depressive.
OTOH, Newt Gingrich certainly seemed to be.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Manic-depressives often have destructive cycles of behavior. Looks like psychopathic narcissist crybabies do too. 

Why does Il Douche hate the truth so much? 

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 

 

 rotekz wrote: 
Socialist.

Donald Trump throws a temper tantrum and calls the media "sleeze" and "dishonest" for daring to ask about the money he promised to Veterans — and hilariously all the checks he points to as proof are dated the EXACT SAME DAY as the Washington Post article calling him out on it.

Boy, you think he's pissed at the press NOW? Wait'll they start asking President Trump where all that money Mexico sent us for the wall went...

~Jim Wright

Donald Trump is a miserable,  narcissistic, lying sack of shit.

 

Looks like Il Douche got his ass handed to him by the Chinese. And then he tries to lie about it and pretend he came he won. 

This loser is such a sad crippled child inside.




http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/us/politics/donald-trump-hong-kong-riverside-south.html

(boldface emphasis is mine:)

 Donald Trump Soured on a Deal, and Hong Kong Partners Became Litigants

...

“I beat China all the time,” Mr. Trump declared in a speech the day he announced his candidacy. “I own a big chunk of the Bank of Americabuilding at 1290 Avenue of the Americas that I got from China in a war. Very valuable.”

Mr. Trump does have an investment in the building, an office tower near Rockefeller Center. But court documents and interviews with people involved in the deal tell a very different story of how he ended up with it.

It began when a group of Hong Kong billionaires, including one who has been called the Donald Trump of China, helped rescue Mr. Trump from the verge of bankruptcy by investing in one of his properties in Manhattan.

...

But when his Hong Kong partners sold the property without his support, Mr. Trump waged a bitter, long-shot legal battle against them. And far from winning his share of the Bank of America building, according to court documents, he had to settle for it after losing in court. In the end, Mr. Trump’s alliance and eventual rivalry with some of Hong Kong’s richest men proved to be a tale of Mr. Trump at the extremes. It showcased his unflagging confidence in his ability to turn a bad financial situation around. But it also underscored his willingness to destroy a fruitful relationship with aggressive litigation.

...

But in the interview, Mr. Trump sounded almost wistful about his former partners, marveling at the money they had made together and at the fact that they no longer spoke. He acknowledged that his former partners might have gotten the best deal possible on Riverside South, after all.

“It’s too bad that this happened,” Mr. Trump told a reporter.

“If you speak to Vincent and Henry, tell them I think they are fantastic people,” he said. “You let them know that Donald Trump has great respect for them, O.K.?”
 

 Too bad the feeling isn't mutual, Don. 

 

 bokey wrote: 
Wait. That was Obama's fault? I'm sure he would apologize to you now.

Just laughing at the haters.Laughing hard.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Thank you for summing up Trump's outsider scam. Looks like Douchebag Don will be leaning heavily on the RNC to raise money for him. I guess that happens when you're not nearly as rich as you claim and are too scared to release your income tax filings. 

I was never a fan of Mitt Romney, but Mitt craps bigger than Douchebag Don. Trump is just a walking Ponzi scheme.  

 bokey wrote: 
You chillen's need to be quiet now.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
They do if they watch Fox News et al. The rest, a.k.a. "the liberal' media obviously lie about history, the climate, the amazing progress and nobility of wars, the terrorists under your bed, the immigrants stealing your jobs while living on welfare, the gays and other assorted freaks threatening your kids, and all sorts of other things that are extremely unpatriotic and outright ungodly.

Everybody knows only Donald The Messiah dares speak The Truth™ because he has money.