ptbw forever
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Good to see that you don't like Democrat political tactics.Does Trump really believe Obama was born in Kenya?
Does Trump really believe Ted Cruz father killed JFK?
Does Trump really believe Trump University was a "school"?
Nuclear weapons should be spread around?
We could actually build a wall and get Mexico to pay?
The more I think about, the more I wonder. I just assumed they were all political conspiracies designed to inflame an ignorant and uneducated base. But I'm not so sure now. What do you think? Do you feel Trump actually believes his own moronic conspiracies? Is he that stupid?
Yes and no. Rump does fuel himself on self-delusion, as any hapless narcissist must. I'm sure he superficially swallows his own bullshit about being "very smart", having the "best words", being humble on a level other people are too stupid to understand, never having bankrupted or failed at anything, even believing that failures like Trump Steaks still actually exist. Of course with all that there's that deep seed of doubt that requires him to continuously make those bullshit points to try to convince himself. As well as to shout down anyone who challenges that illusion (Megyn Kelly... Serge Kovaleski... Rosie O'Donnell.... Cruz/Rubio/Bush/Fiorina/etc.... the owners of the Chicago Cubs... it's a full time job)
But that's all personal stuff. The fantasy rhetoric about the Birferism, the Cruz assassin, committing war crimes, building a "wall", "thousands and thousands" on a rooftop in Jersey City, shredding the First Amendment (not to mention the Fourth, Fifth and Eighth), setting up religion tests, not knowing who David Duke is, etc etc ad nauseum, I don't think he believes a single thing in there.
Rump is a bullshit salesman, and from the results a damn good one. He understands that "the best words" are those with emotional punch, and considers the veracity behind them to be irrelevant. That's why he can contradict his own statement within hours. It's his philosophy of Big Orange Doublethink. It's exactly how he "sold" the idea of customers signing up for
"Rump University" --- he sells the illusion, not the reality.
It's what he's always done and is still doing now. He's so good at it he can continue the same pattern for decades and the gullible don't even see it.