Current Events > Temperament aside, why is Trump not liked?

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He's not much of a racist, he supports Isreal, and is fairly neutral towards lbgt folk (sans trans military). Moreover, his travel ban was created based on information gained from the Obama administration.

What exactly is it that he's done wrong? I dont get it.
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have you seen his hairline
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TC needs more subtly
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TDS
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To the kind of people who blindly hate him, being neutral on an issue is even worse than being against them on it.
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Im totally not trolling here. But none of you can provide a serious answer.
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He gives off the impression that he has no clue what he's doing, that he doesn't know how our government works and what a president is actually able to do. That wouldn't be a problem if he realized how little he knew and allowed other people to do their jobs. Yet he thinks he knows better then everyone else.

It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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HE'S AN IDIOT!

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JahnDixonUSA posted...

Im totally not trolling here. But none of you can provide a serious answer.

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If you don't know you're not a sentient human. Stop asking dumbass questions.
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JahnDixonUSA posted...

He's not much of a racist

"not much" implies theres a little there, which is utterly unacceptable for the PotUS in the year 2018
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JahnDixonUSA posted...

He's not much of a racist,

He's a Youtube commenter style racist

JahnDixonUSA posted...

he supports Isreal

This is bad

JahnDixonUSA posted...

and is fairly neutral towards lbgt folk (sans trans military)

That's not the only exception you have to make in order to believe that

JahnDixonUSA posted...

What exactly is it that he's done wrong? I dont get it.

- Gutting emissions standards at a time when every scientist is clamoring for reductions to carbon output so as to avert climate disaster
- Filling his cabinet entirely with his family members, crooks, and family members who are crooks
- Pushing a healthcare reform that would have resulted in 20 million people no longer being insured
- Pushing tax cuts that further enrich the already rich, exacerbating existing inequality.
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creativerealms posted...

He gives off the impression that he has no clue what he's doing, that he doesn't know how our government works and what a president is actually able to do. That wouldn't be a problem if he realized how little he knew and allowed other people to do their jobs. Yet he thinks he knows better then everyone else.

It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Impressions are one thing, but actual know how is another. You don't think he's aware of his what his voter base demands? And he's right to call out mainstream news, cause they're biased as he'll.

I can't watch CNN anymore.
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he's a complete moron
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

JahnDixonUSA posted...

He's not much of a racist

"not much" implies theres a little there, which is utterly unacceptable for the PotUS in the year 2018

Good luck finding a candidate who isn't. Even Sanders has shown slight racism a few times.
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MakoReizei posted...

TDS

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trump fucking SUCKS
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He refused to rent to black people until he was sued by the federal government
He called for the death penalty for the Central Park 5 after DNA evidence exonerated them
He repeatedly spread the ridiculous conspiracy theory that Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States
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I don't believe Trump is a racist. I believe he is a narcissist. He sees everyone as inferior to himself. Everything he does is to fuel his ego. Supporting Israel? That's because he's trying to please the people who support in in huge numbers, the religious right.
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Vote Trump 2020! He's Not Much of a Racist!
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catboy0_0 posted...

trump fucking SUCKS

Nah lol

Trump is thus far pretty amazing as POTUS.
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JahnDixonUSA posted...

creativerealms posted...

He gives off the impression that he has no clue what he's doing, that he doesn't know how our government works and what a president is actually able to do. That wouldn't be a problem if he realized how little he knew and allowed other people to do their jobs. Yet he thinks he knows better then everyone else.

It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Impressions are one thing, but actual know how is another. You don't think he's aware of his what his voter base demands? And he's right to call out mainstream news, cause they're biased as he'll.

I can't watch CNN anymore.

Too bad CNN has people who are paid to support Trump. They are not as against him as he claims. Turning people against the news media and claims of fake news shows he doesn't know our constitution and hates the second amendment. He wants the news to only say good things about him.
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He lies out of both sides of his mouth. More so than any other politician. And I'm not talking about lies that are opinion based, I'm talking about lies that are straight forward and easy to research. Like, there's no reason to lie that much, and yet that's all he seems to do.

But, I don't care (because I'm not a political guy) and I don't think it even matters who the president is.
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JahnDixonUSA posted...

Im totally not trolling here. But none of you can provide a serious answer.

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First of all, saying he's a moron doesn't count as an actual reason. I think Don Lemon is pretty dull, but it doesnt explain why.

As for reasons listed: he's far right so he'll back fossil fuel. I'm pro clean energy, but none of those concerns indicate incompitence. Unlike, for example, Obama choosing to pay Iran 1.3 Billion in interest. Now that's incompitence.
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HypnoCoosh posted...

catboy0_0 posted...

trump fucking SUCKS

Nah lol

Trump is thus far pretty amazing as POTUS.

oh man! I'm so high you're so right!
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JahnDixonUSA posted...

I can't watch CNN anymore.

That's good, you don't want to get infected with the liberal pathogen.
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Well the thing about Trump is that he doesn't think things out and doesn't appear to have long term plans on how to run the country. He just goes with his gut and when you're the leader of a powerful nation, do you really want them not analyzing the situation and just doing the first thing that pops into their head.

Also he doesn't believe in climate change. In the age of climate change, do you really want a person who makes things worse when it comes to climate change?
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He's an egotist, and he's not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. I know I could come up with more if I put some thought into it.
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HypnoCoosh posted...

Trump is thus far pretty amazing as POTUS.

Said no one of value, ever
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JahnDixonUSA posted...

As for reasons listed: he's far right so he'll back fossil fuel.

That's bad. He doesn't get a pass for being bad just because he is bad in ways that are common among his party.
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JahnDixonUSA posted...

As for reasons listed: he's far right so he'll back fossil fuel. I'm pro clean energy, but none of those concerns indicate incompitence.

you did ask why he's not liked and what he's doing wrong
refusing to accept climate change is real and caused by humans is both of the above
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Shut up SMAL
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HypnoCoosh posted...

JahnDixonUSA posted...

I can't watch CNN anymore.

That's good, you don't want to get infected with the liberal pathogen.

Or a conservative one. I think Rick Santorum is a disease in human form. He works for CNN to defend everything Trump says.
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He regularly tells lies about things that are easily verifiable.
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A little bit of "but hillary!" a little bit of "but jeb!"

creativerealms posted...

JahnDixonUSA posted...

creativerealms posted...

He gives off the impression that he has no clue what he's doing, that he doesn't know how our government works and what a president is actually able to do. That wouldn't be a problem if he realized how little he knew and allowed other people to do their jobs. Yet he thinks he knows better then everyone else.

It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Impressions are one thing, but actual know how is another. You don't think he's aware of his what his voter base demands? And he's right to call out mainstream news, cause they're biased as he'll.

I can't watch CNN anymore.

Too bad CNN has people who are paid to support Trump. They are not as against him as he claims. Turning people against the news media and claims of fake news shows he doesn't know our constitution and hates the second amendment. He wants the news to only say good things about him.

Watch Don Lemon state that the biggest terrorist threat in America are conservative white men, and tell me CNN isn't anti Trump. Please.

There's been a feud between them ever since CNN became the Clinton News Network.
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A substantial amount of people do like him considering he beat an established politician to win the presidency. Its just a vocal minority that hate. Most people are indifferent. Its no different than it was under Obama, Bush or Clinton

Goats posted...

The vast amounts of environmental regulation rollbacks we've seen under his watch persian

Yeah, but that's the platform he's running on. Just because I don't agree with the decision, doesn't mean I hate Trump.
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People really nees to chill with the climate rhetoric until at least all scientists can actually reach a consensus on how mucg effect man has on it.

JahnDixonUSA posted...

Yeah, but that's the platform he's running on.

That doesn't make it okay!
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He targets groups of people and turns them into scapegoats. He abuses the office of the presidency for personal and filial gain. He dehumanizes people whom he perceives to be different from him (and his base). He actively works to take away peoples rights.

Our military leaders dont think much of him. And they dont trust him.

He admires reprehensible people. He advocates for discriminatory policy.

He considers himself above the law. And flawless.

And more.
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Antifar posted...

JahnDixonUSA posted...

Yeah, but that's the platform he's running on.

That doesn't make it okay!

How so? It might not be the more popular option, but that doesn't make it wrong. Last I checked, the average consumer still drives a car powered by gas.
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>tells countless proven lies on a daily basis
>pulls back environmental regulations and thinks climate change is fake
>fucked up farmer industries and is now fucking up auto industries with his tarrifs
>wants to build a wall across the border and duped people into thinking Mexico would pay for it
>attacks the media constantly and calls it the enemy of the people
>wants to start his own news network to spread propaganda
>talks about locking up political opponents
>has racist history with black people (real estate, FBI investigation)
>has racist history with Mexicans (Mexican Judge cant judge his case because hes Mexican, other comments about Mexicans)
>wanted a muslim registry and Muslim ban (later downgraded to a travel ban to not be completely illegal)
>party conspired with Russia, with or without him
>encourages violence at his rallies
>has an anti gay vice president
>tried to kick transgender people out of the military
>talks about starting wars on Twitter
>shits on relationships with allies
>running up the deficit like crazy despite claiming he'd get rid of it
>likely a tax Dodger at best, outright fraud at worst
>insulted war veterans like John McCain
>on his knees for Saudi Arabia despite shitting on other presidents for working with them

I'm starting to get bored of writing but you get the point. You're welcome
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he's incompetent and unqualified
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JahnDixonUSA posted...

How so? It might not be the more popular option, but that doesn't make it wrong.

Pretending that climate change isn't real, or that it's some hoax on the basis of a singular blizzard is factually wrong. It is incorrect. It is not accurate.

Taking actions that will make climate change (a problem that is already contributing to so much suffering worldwide) worse is morally abhorrent, and in no way balanced out by temporarily cheaper gas prices.
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When I was in the hospital, one of the doctors who checked up on me occasionally was pretty funny. He would ask me simple questions just to make sure all the pain meds weren't making me too whacked out of my gourd, like what day or year it was. One day he asked me "Who's the president", so I told him Donald Trump. Then he asked "And what color is he?" and of course I told him orange, and he chuckled and nodded :3
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-Trump is an absolute hot mess on immigration. Familial separations, wasting taxpayer dollars on a grandstanding stunt with troops being sent to an area nowhere near the caravan, he's constantly pushing for his enormous waste-of-time-and-money border wall. All while giving excuses about Obama, under whom immigration law could certainly be pretty shitty, but nothing approximating what he was doing.

-Trump's trade policies are incredibly stupid. The aluminum and steel tariffs are entirely useless, harmful to us, and he's having to backtrack and pay out even more money for aid programs towards groups affected by them while getting not much more out of it than a small bolster to American steel mills (which are already our prime source of steel already) and the chance to play strongman big boy #1.

-He is perpetuating the do-nothing attitude that the last few presidencies have taken towards climate change, but going even further in the form of putting anti-environmentalists in positions of power in the EPA, trying to cut alternative energy programs, pushing anti-climate-change talking points (in flim-flammy ineffectual ways but still half-heartedly trying) and essentially just being a complete puppet of fossil fuel and mining lobbies.

Bonus round stuff that you might try to categorize under his "temperament"

-Trump is a wretched, embarrassing figure in terms of foreign policy. He is alternatively a laughing stock for most people and a useful idiot for right wing foreign regimes in terms of interactions with people abroad. Repeatedly making dramatic threats to pull out of NATO, getting openly laughed at while speaking to the UN, attempting to strong arm the president of Iraq for oil, cowing to Saudi Arabia in the most embarrassing ways possible, interfering with the war in the Middle-East in the most inflammatory attention-grabbing way possible... Trump has been an utter failure in every sense of the word in terms of foreign policy and abroad and has done nothing but damage our image in just about everyone's eyes.

The closest thing he came to a victory was with talking with North Korea, but anyone who has actually paid attention to North Korea over the past two decades knows that they will occasionally behave that way only to double back in some sort of weird strongman show and try to paint the US as a insidious party seeking to take over and westernize, and themselves as heroic and resisting outside influences. Basically, they outdid him because they've been doing the sort of hollow empty shows Trump excels at for faaaar longer than him.
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His tax cut just allows the corporate owners to get even more disgustingly rich than they already are while giving nothing back
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