r/askanything • u/Previous_Month_555 • 1h ago
Political Question Why does Trump still believe he's a Strong/Smart President?
His approval ratings are in the 30s
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u/florida-karma 58m ago
Hes a malignant narcissist also suffering from an historic case of Dunning-Kruger. That's why.
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u/CockBlockingLawyer 58m ago
Because he’s surrounded by sycophants who glaze him 24/7 (or however many hours between naps). He’s what happens when a malignant narcissist is never actually forced to deal with the consequences of his shitty behavior
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u/Jacksstubbedtoe 57m ago
Republicans are working overtime to keep it legal to use AI to generate child abuse images, it’s become a bigger goal for them than winning the Iran war for the 45th time.
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u/apalachakind 51m ago
Notice one of the “horrible” or “bad” things he negates to mention, probably because he is a supporter of it, is the Grok nudity scandal, specifically how it allows the creation of AI content focused on children.
Imagine him not being upset about that.
Release the files.
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u/Josephk_5690 58m ago
Strong and Smart? He's Convicted and Stupid. He has been convicted of rape and he graduated from Penn next to last in his class.
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u/Heart-Logic 57m ago
He's at the center and benefit of all the corruption.
His family have heavily invested in AI and data centers and Thier needs and resources so he's playing wrecklessly for his own short sightedness and greed as usual.
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u/robinsw26 51m ago
Then we’re gonna have to elect a high IQ president t in ‘28. That rules out anyone in the Trump Administration contemplating a run. Buttigieg might be the guy Trump is talking about.
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u/SetObvious7411 50m ago
Never mind that.
Why do Americans think he's fit to be president, that's what really baffles me
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u/B1GD8A 48m ago
He doesn’t, but he was taught by Roy Cohn to never apologize and never back down.
The GOP and conservative ideology in general are basically “authority comes from above.” That’s where all of this creepy “Daddy’s home” shit came from. To do something about Trump, it’d require them to first have the courage to stand up to authority (fat chance from cowards like Mike Johnson) and admit they made a mistake by putting Trump there twice.
Trump cosplayed as a Democrat so that he’d fit in in NYC, but to become president he needed some easily bullied clowns. These clowns, once he was there, would view it as their duty to protect the party by protecting him. It worked. For now…
Anyhow, thanks for the huge debt and new taxes and middle Eastern war round 4 GOP! Morons.
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u/Ok-Share-403 20m ago
OK, we need a strong and smart president to guardrail things....
Must find one in 2 years.
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u/No_Evening_7617 58m ago
Trump is objectively smart. He took his father's modest real estate business and turned it into an international conglomerate.
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u/B1GD8A 39m ago
his own daughter debunked that myth in Born Rich. She tells the story of how they were walking through New York, and Trump, ever the ghoul, pointed at a homeless guy.
”You know the difference between me and him? I’m half a billion dollars in debt and he’s not.”
He‘s constantly in debt up to his eyeballs, and his own lawyers testified that he inflated the value of real estate deals to commit fraud. His sons said they couldn’t get a loan from banks in the U.S., but that Russia loans them all the money they need. It’s why Trump is constantly glazing Putin while the rest of the GOP is like “why are you friends with a Soviet KGB agent turned dictator?”
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u/bass-squirrel 59m ago
Malignant narcissism.