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Trump, Finally Explained (Trump, A Dunce Like Reagan)
New York Times ^ | 12/03/2016 | Gail Collins

Posted on 12/03/2016 1:21:32 AM PST by goldstategop

Some of you may find it disturbing that one of Trump’s chief apologists was basically saying that he talks policy like a drunk at happy hour. Some of you may hear Trump constantly contradicting today what he said yesterday and decide he’s an idiot.

From now on I’m going to try to think of him as a little bit like my dog, Frieda. Frieda is extremely intelligent, but her memory is only good for about 90 seconds.

When you listen to Trump’s Inaugural Address, or his first State of the Union, keep reminding yourself that he’s reserving the right to forget everything he’s said as soon as he says it. No way we can believe him long term. Unless he tattoos it on his arm.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dunce; gailcollins; newyorktimes; reagan; trump
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Liberals have decided Trump, like Reagan, is a dunce. Like Chauncey Gardener in "Being There" - he is a simpleton when it comes to politics and high office. He doesn't know what he's talking about. From Hitler to the stump - liberals can't make up their minds about whether Trump is dangerous or whether Trump is a joke. They were all over the place about Reagan, too.
1 posted on 12/03/2016 1:21:32 AM PST by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop

Someone should write a piece entitled: “The New York Times, Finally Explained”....some 800 word essay which describes a weak marginalized newspaper without much going for it except some 100-year old legend status....attached to a Titanic-like publication that hit the iceberg and is in a year-by-year sinking period.

All of their reporters and journalists have lost their prospective on the nation and can’t really write much....so they continually go back to lobbyists and front-groups....asking for text that they can copy and paste.

As for investigative reporting? They haven’t done much of that since the 1980s, and even then....it was the powerful stuff you’d expect out of some Portland or Boise newspaper.


2 posted on 12/03/2016 1:29:39 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

So New York Times, what does it say about the rest of the media and political establishment, both Republican and Democrat, that a “dunce” could defeat the best candidates either party could muster and even swat away everything the media had in its arsenal?


3 posted on 12/03/2016 1:32:40 AM PST by apillar
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To: goldstategop

Sounds like the libs are doing what libs always do; projecting their shortcomings onto someone else in an effort to make themselves look superior. It never works and they never stop trying. It’s like a little game they play at this point.


4 posted on 12/03/2016 1:34:05 AM PST by Boomer
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To: apillar

Very good.


5 posted on 12/03/2016 1:34:51 AM PST by Justice
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To: pepsionice

A stupid man doesn’t run a multi-billion dollar business venture and he doesn’t know how win an election.

Trump did both - this is one of the stupidest op-eds to grace the New York Times.

Its also funny as hell - not in the contempt for Trump but that the fact liberals are dismissive of Trump.

Remember, these are the same people wasting $20 million in trying to unseat him through forced vote recounts and electoral college hi jinks.

As usual, they’re trying have it both ways. Hypocrites.


6 posted on 12/03/2016 1:35:42 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Boomer

“Sounds like the libs are doing what libs always do; projecting their shortcomings onto someone else in an effort to make themselves look superior.”

I swear to God, these jerkoffs are driving me to nothing but physical violence and profanity. I hate them and I hate hearing what they have to say. I am going to start swinging soon. They don’t listen to reason AT ALL. What’s left?!?!


7 posted on 12/03/2016 1:38:15 AM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: goldstategop

Safe bet is that Freida the Dog has a higher IQ than Gail Collins NYT reporter. The MSM is still clueless about Trump. Well the “brainiac” lefties have already and will continued to be schooled by Trump the “Dunce”.


8 posted on 12/03/2016 1:39:16 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: goldstategop

Just as they underestimated President Reagan, they are sorely underestimating President Trump. Good. He can probably get more done this way. Every time he pulls out a “win” they will be taken by surprise.


9 posted on 12/03/2016 1:40:24 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: goldstategop

How great it is for us unwashed commoners to be so blessed with such astute analysis by the brilliant, learned, enlightened elites.

Gail Collins... Trump could own that newspaper.. and you.. if he so desired, so sit down, grab a fork and dig into a plate full of STFU. You don’t matter anymore.


10 posted on 12/03/2016 1:42:51 AM PST by ScottinVA
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To: dowcaet

Obama is the smartest man in the room.

They never explain if he’s so smart, how he lost the trifecta.

Ditto for the smartest woman in the world, Hillary Clinton, who lost an election she should have won.

But Trump is a dunce out of his depth. That explains him.


11 posted on 12/03/2016 1:43:00 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: goldstategop; little jeremiah; Fred Nerks; 2ndDivisionVet; george76

Another hit piece from the NY SlimesÉ Trump has so powned them that they cannot figure him out. ( He is unfit, he can`t win, etc)

Then why is Trump polling show that the People think he is doing such a great jobÉ

The Slimes has devolved into a juvenile rag, out of touch, bog drilled , less than sophomoric propaganda showcase.

Propagandists who believe their own propaganda are less than even irrelevant, just a thrashing journalistic dinosaur, dead meat that is invested with blow flies and maggots , stink and rot,unworthy of use even as compost.

When this rag finally finishes dying its thousand deaths now ongoing, the world will no only breath a sigh of relief, it will celebrate to no end.

This article is symptomatic of a dying Democratic Party, in its death throws.We grin, smile and are jubilant that these liberal fascist prigs are now screaming and caterwauling their way into the oblivion that is the dust bin of history.

Freedom again reigns.


12 posted on 12/03/2016 1:45:06 AM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: apillar

Trump is so stupid he overcame rigged polls and a biased, lying media in the tank for his opponent.

They still don’t get him and why he won.


13 posted on 12/03/2016 1:45:59 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: goldstategop

How can they say he can’t remember what he says when almost all his stump speeches are mostly repeating the same pronouncements he’s said before?


14 posted on 12/03/2016 1:46:36 AM PST by JediJones (We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
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To: Boomer

The libs sure seemed to completely forget how they campaigned on traditional marriage up until a couple of years ago.


15 posted on 12/03/2016 1:47:25 AM PST by JediJones (We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
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To: goldstategop
The New York Times finally explained in one picture:


16 posted on 12/03/2016 1:48:48 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: JediJones

Trump pitched the same themes Thursday night he pitched during the primaries and general election campaign.

He knows what he is saying and what he is doing. Liberals haven’t been paying attention.

The American people have and they like what they hear.


17 posted on 12/03/2016 1:49:58 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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Let’s hope Trump is at least as successful as Reagan


18 posted on 12/03/2016 1:58:50 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: goldstategop

Only smart people rely on teleprompters. It’s a sign of intelligemce! /sarc


19 posted on 12/03/2016 2:02:56 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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I love how President Elect Trump has Leftist freaking out.

We were looking for a new Ronald Reagan. Well it’s been delivered.

The Leftists know it and this is why they are going crazy.


20 posted on 12/03/2016 2:05:59 AM PST by Enlightened1
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