Kamala Harris gets it. Yes, we should fear Trump—but we should also mock him mercilessly, because it drives him nuts.
Donald Trump is in free-fall. Read this description from Sunday’s Washington Post of how the GOP nominee spent last week: “[A]ides did not want a situation where he was watching the convention every night, getting angry, and then just golfing all day and stewing, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private interactions. Trump also had grown annoyed with the news coverage that depicted him as not working as hard as his opponent, one person who talked to him said.”
If you didn’t know that the article was about Trump and you just read it cold without knowledge of the context, you might think it was a description of parents trying to figure out how to handle an ungovernable four-year-old. So they convinced Trump to get out of Bedminster and hit the road, trading suck-ups with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In the past, Trump has called Kennedy the “dumbest member” of the Kennedy family and a “radical left lunatic.” Kennedy has calledTrump a “terrible human being” and “probably a sociopath.”
This is not his Achilles heel. His Achilles heel is doubt. Populism depends on belief, and is inherently unstable. He started doubting. His people stated doubting. He is now going down, and the ridicule he always dishes out now also lands for him.
The mockery of him has been constant from day one.
Very good point. #TrumpIsACoward was trending on his “Truth Social” at the start of this month-- I’m assuming they’ve all been vocal “yes men” up to this point. I can see it rattling him and causing doubt.
That and the sinking sensation he no doubt got after the “JD Vance was a mistake” articles.
Maybe it’s hindsight being 20/20 but, it seems so obvious ridicule would hurt a narcissist
but we’ve been doing that since 2016
Wait, you’re telling me that the man that constantly calls people names and ridiculed his Republican presidential opponents can’t take the heat?
Why are they a month late? I feel like it has been a thousand years since we learned that calling the chuds “weird” was the magic bullet.
Um. Millinneals and zoomers figured this out the first time around, but they were too busy vote shaming us and squawking about emails to listen.
Seth Meyers and Obama scorched him long before all that. And even way back, SPY magazine was triggering him. That magazine was probably run by boomers.
You’re right! And also some of us gen xers did too, & never voted republican. & lots of boomers never turned their backs on their morals either. We didn’t get houses or careers or generational wealth…
It’s just really easy to pretend old people who aren’t rich don’t exist 🤷♂️But we sure fuckin vote . It’s the only power we have
& yeah we’ve been mocking this poopy pants Richie rich the whole time
I thought we figured this out way back when he was losing his mind over the “small hands” thing.
The establishment wanted to take the high road even though budget cuts meant the foundation hasn’t been repaired since Reagan.
Yup. He’s an old bully and absolutely cannot stand being made fun of. Watch his face when Obama and Seth made fun of this snowflake of a man.
I’ve been saying this for years. Trump is a LOSER, both literally and figuratively. His businesses hemorage money, he has lost in two presidential elections so far and in the one he won, he lost the popular vote, which is practically unheard of for a Republican nominee. He wears lifts in his shoes to fix his weird posture that he got from a life of physical inactivity, he sprays himself in orange to look like some bizarre version of tan to cover up his hideous pasty skin. His hair has always been bizarre. He is a born loser, who only “succeeded” because he was literally born rich and has skated on his daddy’s money ever since.
Call him what he is: a sad, ugly, weird little loser who people only tolerate in hopes they might pick up a few hundred dollar bills after he’s done wiping his ass with them.
and every reasonable, somewhat aware person has known these things since the 80s or 90s. Prior to 2016, the idea of Trump being president would’ve made anyone who has read a newspaper or magazine laugh their ass off.
In the modern era the gop usually loses the popular vote. GW won it in 04 bc of the war and that’s the only one since his daddy ended his term.
Before that I think the popular vote pretty much always lined up w the electoral college for both parties.
We’ve known this all along, but these are Democrats we’re talking about, so they have to try all the overcomplicated ineffective shit first.
As if it wasn’t the natural response
Trump doesn’t know how to handle people laughing at him because he’s never had anyone laugh with him.
They don’t even have to ridicule him. All they have to do is take every single thing he has ever boasted about and one-up him. That’s it. Get someone better at golf that Trump to play Mar-A-Lago and beat Trumps score. Get that person speaking at Harris’s rallies and talk shit about the course and how they got the best score ever recorded there. Never even mention Trump by name but rest assured he’ll hear about it and freak out.
Toxic masculinity always hates being laughed at. It’s that Margaret Atwood quote all over again. Too applicable when you consider complete abortion bans and project 2025.
don’t forget to ridicule 3rd party voting too
Sure thing. Fuck you, Bull-Moose party!
Know Nothing? No shit!
