Deeply disturbed sounds about right. I get the sense he’s a chameleon, and also a total fucking coward (like most bullies). His bluster and birtherism were fine when he wasn’t sitting WITH Barry O. He doesn’t have the spine or intellectual ability to defend any of his positions when confronted with any reasonable…

I’ve had a boss in the past who acted like Trump in the way he was fine when his ego was massaged and you could manage him a bit like a toddler. Placate and use that to help pivot his decision making.

This, this, this. His positions are terrifying, his advisers are Nazis and he is dangerously unqualified, but by FAR his most defining characteristic this election has been a pathological need for love and attention. Democrats should organize like mad behind the scenes for the next four years to make sure he and his…

It’s likely a combination of his desire to be loved by everyone, plus being smart enough to know this isn’t his forte...and thinking HE is the best manipulator, and that Clinton and Obama are complete stooges catering to him & his new position, who he can take advantage of.

least not forget not impeaching him, so that pence doesn’t take head office. I’m not really a conspiracy guy. but I want to believe the GOP will impeach him to get the real president they want in office, without having him be elected.

I just keep hearing these lyrics from Hamilton in my head when I think about Donald’s 293802132130 positions in the week since his election:

“My point is that intelligent Democrats should realize that the most effective way to fight the Trumpists will be indirectly, through a combination of political and psychological manipulation”

I wonder if GW Bush would be willing to set aside his and his family’s personal(and understandable) issues with Trump for the sake of the nation and advise Trump, too, if Trump was willing to listen, and Bill Clinton asked Bush.

No joke. At this stage, if the last three ex Presidents would be willing to teach Trump and…

Yes! This. To manipulate Trump, compliment him, but ridicule Pence and Banning. Make them look inept, or even better, disloyal. Trump is an entertainer. He wants to be liked by his audience, wants to appear to be The Decider. He’ll tell his closest friend “you’re fired” if he thinks it will make him look good.

Obama is so brilliant. He is more upset than any of us because he knows what the job takes, and he knows Trump will undo everything he did in eight years. But by positioning himself as a trusted advisor to Trump, he’ll be able to influence his policies or at least keep some of the crazy at bay.

Chuck Schumer knows Trump better than anyone in DC right now. I hope he can play the games he’s been so good at in the past...

Be diplomatic with potential adversaries. He can’t bully and bluster his way through.

I refuse to watch Orange Hitler, but I read a summary of the 60 Minutes interview that said he made it clear he plans to try to get Roe v Wade overturned, but when Leslie Stahl asked him about gay marriage, he said he wouldn’t touch it because it’s been decided by the Supreme Court. Leslie Stahl then proceeded with…

probably not honesty. there entire support of trump was based around heavy amounts of denial. and they’ll stay in denial for the next 4 years or whenever he gets impeached. at which point they’ll try to impeach pense for getting the one man that cant do anything wronglalalalayourwrong impeached.

I don’t watch TV because of the subliminal messaging.

Hey, if Donald Trump is willingly to suggest that maybe his follows should think about cutting back in all the violent racist attacks while at the same time pretending they’re not actually happening, that’s good enough for me!

I watched this 60 Minutes interview tonight. When Lesley Stahl asked him if he still intended on instructing a special prosecutor to investigate her and throw her in jail, his response was:

Weed start-ups are prohibitively expensive.

Those people exist and there’s a term for them.

A former drug conviction could stop you.