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Crystalwheel - My Road To Now's avatar

I agree with you, Mary Trump… 100%… it’s difficult to imagine 78 million of our fellow Americans think he is fit to take out the garbage, let alone lead our country…

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Melissa's avatar

There is evil genius in that post: many if not most MAGA know they or their fathers are/were just like "Meathead"'s dad, exactly the kind of creatures "All In The Family" was caricaturing, making fun of.

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

I agree. And what genius to showcase the black family next door who "made it".

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claudia nelson's avatar

I'd like to see him do something as obviously "useful" as that [taking out the garbage]. But it won't happen. He knows nothing of the value and inherent rewards from doing even menial every day tasks.

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Ruth Sheets's avatar

Claudia, Trump sits in the white house pretending to work "really hard" while everyone around him does the actual work, whatever there is in their efforts to wreck our nation. The staff likes it that way. Get their Baby Donnie, their meal ticket to do any work and have to listen to his ranting about how hard he works and shouldn't have to do any more, would be beyond even their tolerance.

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Neal Rattican's avatar

The man has not done an honest day’s work in his entire miserable life.

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claudia nelson's avatar

He has not even a concept of real work. Look at how he's fired so many in the govt!! No respect for real work, tough-won accomplishment or true effort. His only idea of those things is getting away with things. Always a crook, a cheater and a nonstop LIAR.

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Jonathan Marsh's avatar

Yep. Usually that phrase is used as a trope, a spot of hyperbolic wordplay to make a point.

In Ol'Stinky's case I rather think that that is a forensically precise observation.

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Patricia Poohkay's avatar

I don’t believe for a second that trump actually does any work. Mary, in your book, you talk about him “hiring you to write a book about him. And you commented that you really did not know what he actually did.

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Sandra Lea (AI image)'s avatar

If I remember correctly, he didn't even cut and paste his own headlines. I think he had someone do that for him. lol Maybe he was schmoozing.

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Ruth Sheets's avatar

Sandra, that's Trump's gig, do nothing for yourself, but be sure to act as though you are the most hard-working guy around. Cheating, lying, gaslighting, pretending are four of the hallmarks of Trump's life. He gets others to do everything for him. He has been preparing to be a king for decades, and the American people or some of us said, "OK, sure we'll have this guy as a king, why not! He's a great businessman, right?"

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Sandra Lea (AI image)'s avatar

Donald has been living in a fantasy of his own glory all his life, one of them is being the great businessman with incredible failure rate of all his ventures.

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

I am astonished at people who think trump was a great business man. His business was always erratic and completely dishonest. He would make deals with mobsters and had no qualms about dirty money. Trump can shake your hand, eat dinner with you and refuse to honor agreements right after if it suits his goal. He tries to impress feared men which actually puts him in bad spots sometimes. But, that's the life of a crook desperate for attention.

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Pamela's avatar

Actually he sleeps while the talk and they all pretend they don't notice. Pathetic lot...all of them!

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Ruth Sheets's avatar

Pam, it is actually pretty funny, the cabinet members, for example laying on the BS about how wonderful Trump is and how great his ideas while Trump sleeps through it. They all know Trump has dementia and has lost it, but they have too much depending on his still being able to be used, so they just keep on doing it. It is great when it is caught on camera!

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Patricia Poohkay's avatar

Ruth - think of how incredibly remarkable our present would have been with Kamala Harris at the helm! I believe that if there was any stealing of an election going on, it was in the accusers camp. Kamala won. I’m waiting on the This Will Hold and other groups who are working on this, to discover the truth. This woman is phenomenal! I hope she runs again.

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Ruth Sheets's avatar

Claudia, Trump wouldn't even know how to do it. He had to practice quite a lot just to hold the French fries basked when he was posing as a McDonald's worker last year and didn't even get the serving window part right either, ye he won the hearts of rural America. Who'd have thought!

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Nana's avatar

They have nothing but great greed hate in our racist to the bullet stent to agree with the man that downgrades two human beings that gave more that’s done more for our country than Donald Trump has ever in his miserable little life given I hate that man I’ll be glad to see him either Die in office or forced to leave office and be arrested and tried for treason and as will as war crimes removed from office. He is a greedy piece of garbage along with the rest of his family. His supporters should be forced to read our Constitution and take a history lesson. They are as sick as he is

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

That lazy lump never took out garbage. The heaviest his fingers have lifted is a hamburger. And...Kamala won! Release the files. Vote Blue. Save Democracy.

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Patricia Poohkay's avatar

Absolutely Kamala won. It’s always about projection with them.

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Gregg Mackie's avatar

Seventy-seven million people don't give a rat's ass of what Trump is saying...they care about what he is DOING! Reiner got very vocal, and pushed the Russia Russia hoax, along with the other infested, TDS-infused Liberal's! Trump took a bullet, as well as another assassination attempt too, and it saddened you scumbags that he didn't die, so you took advantage of a security flaw, and murdered Charlie Kirk in cold-blood, and celebrated it! How ya like them apples?! 😡 🖕

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

Gregg...Nooooo! . Read the Constitution. It isnt very long at all. Russia is not a hoax dear American. Be mindful of your own value. You are on this substack for a reason. What do you hope to find here? Trump will pass naturally very soon. Who will you idolize then? We stand for a rule of law and peaceful transfer. We do not stand for any one man. Defend the Constitution. Not flesh that will go away as it came.

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Ruth Sheets's avatar

Sorry Gregg, but your comment is BS and I do believe you know it. Trump took no bullet. If he was injured at all it was from a tiny fragment of glass, no matter what Trump's "health" team says; they lie all the time as does their Baby Donnie. Charlie Kirk was a despicable human being whose hate flowed out from everything he said. He should not have been killed, but it was from someone more hateful than he, farther to the right than even he was. Rob Reiner, unlike your buddy Trump was a patriot and a hero, trying to make things better for the people in this nation who are ignored by Republicans, you know those who are working hard but being paid crap wages by super rich white guys' corporations. I don't know where you got your information, probably created it out of whole cloth as is usual for MAGAs, but the truth is nowhere in anything you wrote here. Grow up!

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Gregg Mackie's avatar

Awwwwwh, doesn't fit your shitty narrative? Meathead was always a meathead!! Archie knew shit when he saw it!

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Patricia Poohkay's avatar

It’s been well resourced and documented that the supposed “bullet” he “took,” had it been real, would have decimated his ear - DECIMATED buddy. Pretty much blown it off his miserable head! Not healed under the Kotex pad he wore, within a few days. Now THAT was a hoax. Give me a break. And besides flushing everything good about the US down the toilet, he - has - done - absolutely - NOTHING - of any account. Just saying.

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Gregg Mackie's avatar

Git the fuck outta here! C*nt!

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E. Jean Carroll's avatar

Egggzactly, Mary. Egggzactly. "No such thing as worst."

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Barry Peters's avatar

Worser and worser, worsing without end…..

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Stephen Burnett's avatar

The pool of Donald Trump's depravity has no bottom.

Every horror that he brings up from its depths constantly outdoes its predecessors in vileness and malignancy.

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Judy CZUBATI's avatar

Good quote..”Like flypaper, he has attracted to his side a coterie of detainees who fit the same psychological profile: warped fanatics, Kennedy, Miller, Vance, without exaggeration some of the very worse people in America.”

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Otto's avatar

I’d say beyond the pale, but he’s so far beyond that already.

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Gregg Mackie's avatar

Seventy-seven million people don't give a rat's ass of what Trump is saying...they care about what he is DOING! Reiner got very vocal, and pushed the Russia Russia hoax, along with the other infested, TDS-infused Liberal's! Trump took a bullet, as well as another assassination attempt too, and it saddened you scumbags that he didn't die, so you took advantage of a security flaw, and murdered Charlie Kirk in cold-blood, and celebrated it! How ya like them apples?! And by the way, you didn't deserve a dime from Trump, and you wouldn't have gotten away with it in any other State!😡 🖕

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Katie Davis's avatar

The despot "took a bullet" is one of the most comedic statements of the decade. What a joke.

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Gregg Mackie's avatar

No amount of evidence can ever persuade an idiot! Now pipe down, C*NT!

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Katie Davis's avatar

Such a big bad Marine representing your country with that mouth. I'm sure your mbustard. proud of that. But you are correct, even the evidence of a court proceeding with defense lawyers selecting a jury of peers who found your despot dear.leader guilty of felony fraud can convince idiot Mega MAGAs the man-child is one sick bastard.

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Katie Davis's avatar

I'm sure your mother is proud of your language about women.

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Gregg Mackie's avatar

Stfu!

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Katie Davis's avatar

Wait. Don't you MAGAs hate "cancel culture"? Again. What a joke.

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Gregg Mackie's avatar

No, we just hate woke Liberal's! You're a special kind of stupid!

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Sky Blue's avatar

The MOST CRIMINALLY IGNORANT PETTY MENDACIOUS INCOMPETENT and SADISTIC PRESIDENT in AMERICAN HISTORY!

trump IS a true disgrace to America.

VOTE ALL the GOP maga PEDOPHILE PROTECTORS OUT!!

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Maureen O'Malley's avatar

I agree he is all you said but AS A PERSON, not only as President. For Jeffrey Epstein to speak against him speaks volumes.

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Ruth Sheets's avatar

Maureen, you are so right! A rich person has to be truly beyond despicable for Jeffrey Epstein to say something bad about him! Yep, and Trump is that.

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Boss1's avatar

eh sweetheart, it's the democrats and your beloved arabs who make up the organized pedophile rapist gangs.

Us on the right, unlike you on the left, stand against the rape of our daughters

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June Fletcher's avatar

Then keep them away from T and his ilk. Remember E. Jean Carroll? Grab 'em by the pussy? Well documented friendship with Epstein, along with the recently disclosed pictures from the files of his face on condoms in a bowl on Epstein's island? The creepy pictures of his young daughter on his lap at Mar-A-Lago? The leering admission on radio that he liked to go backstage during Miss Teen America when they were dressing? The 24 women who have accused him of rape? The convicted pedophiles he has recently pardoned?

If any Democrat did even one of those things, you would go nuts. But because you have aligned yourself with what most of the country now sees as a despicable and dangerous man, you no doubt will dismiss, deny or rationalize all of these acts.

And before you complain that this is all a Democratic hoax, remember that most of these these acts happened BEFORE he was a politician.

Morally, you have tethered yourself to an anchor.

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

Sure you do. That's why you're here posting drivel, instead of calling out all the pastors and other "christians" who are being arrested and indicted for child sexual abuse.

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

Good. But we aren't looking for you and yours in those photos are we?. We are looking for depraved men. Depravity has no political party. Hideous compulsion has no age or nationality. Several Republican men including a few Christian pastors have been arrested in the last 4 years for CP and sexual contact with minors. Hegseth and Gaetz know all.about it. So, "we on the right" is meaningless. Some "on the right" evangelicals are pushing legislation to lower the age of consent to 14. If they get their way, your sons and daughters will not have a case for rape no matter how violent or vicious the attack. What 8th grade grad or high school freshman in America do you know who would see the harm coming? All the best protecting your young ones. Be aware that the man stalking young flesh may not be an Arabian Democrat from a blue state waving a pride flag.

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Kathe Randle's avatar

You do it yourse lves

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JimmyB's avatar

Don't hold back. How do you really feel???

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Judy CZUBATI's avatar

Truth is truth.

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T.R.'s avatar

I am completely devastated by the murders of the Reiners. Their horrific, senseless deaths and then fuckhead's response on top of it epitomize everything wrong with our backwards and upside down country. Speechless.

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June Kimmel's avatar

I’m glad someone else calls him fuckhead.

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T.R.'s avatar

Lol! I imagine we all do. ;)

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Jonathan Marsh's avatar

I call him lots of names and none are particularly complimentary!

But 'Fuck-Wit' and 'Festering' are reasonably accurate descriptions, I think!

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Judy CZUBATI's avatar

I usually call him Shitler.

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John Schroeder's avatar

I like calling him President STUPID and Dirty donnie Dimwit.

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Jena-Auerstedt's avatar

I prefer the fat orange fucking felon

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June Kimmel's avatar

That works

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Ruth Sheets's avatar

John, I tend to refer to him as Baby Donnie or Toddler-Trump especially when he "hangs out" with is "Toddler Pool" of whiny white boys and a few whiny white girls: Miller, Vance, Vought, Musk, Leavitt, Bondi (Trump's pseudomommy), and the rest. They act like really badly-parented 3-year-olds. I do not intend to insult toddlers, but 79 year old men who act like toddlers, then, insults are definitely acceptable in my book!

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Judy CZUBATI's avatar

Fine but Shitler seems to fit the best.

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Jonathan Marsh's avatar

It's a good'un!

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Gregg Mackie's avatar

Seventy-seven million people don't give a rat's ass of what Trump is saying...they care about what he is DOING! Reiner got very vocal, and pushed the Russia Russia hoax, along with the other infested, TDS-infused Liberal's! Trump took a bullet, as well as another assassination attempt too, and it saddened you scumbags that he didn't die, so you took advantage of a security flaw, and murdered Charlie Kirk in cold-blood, and celebrated it! How ya like them apples?! Also, Jimmy Kimmel is a dirtbag! 💩 😡 🖕

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Boss1's avatar

June, how is your relationship with your parents?

Not so good either I suppose? Get some help

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Marianne Klee's avatar

100% this. ...it is horrifying and tragic to begin with. But for the President of the United States to demean and blame the victims is utterly beyond belief.

Oh, but Hilary Clinton's email!

And Hunter Biden's laptop!

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Ruth Sheets's avatar

Marianne, then, there's the total ignoring of the National Guardswoman who was killed in DC. She was actually serving her country, crappy, illegal orders, but she was there. Charlie Kirk, a despicable human being who cared about no one and nothing but working to make this a "white nation," was lauded, eulogized, and nearly declared a saint by Donald Trump. There were no flags at half-staff for her. Trump will never improve as the dementia and other health problems increase. We do need to find ways to keep him from doing more damage. Senate Republicans could refuse to approve nominees for important government positions in bundles, today's, 97 of them at one time, no vetting, no thought, nothing. That should be illegal, but so are so many of the other things Trump and his toddler pool are doing, yet they are not stopped because Repubs have decided a crappy president is better than a Democrat. Truly despicable! So, it's not just Baby Donnie who is despicable, it's the whole Republican Klan, with minimal exceptions!

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Judy CZUBATI's avatar

It is everything, everywhere, all the time.

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Boss1's avatar

Guess who their son voted for in the previous election..

All the deranged vote Democrats and this is where you meet online (the days you're not in rehab or in mental institutions)?

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Debby's avatar

Mary you say it so well. Rob Reiner was a decent talented man. Such a tragedy he and his wife were taken that way.

I am proud to have dump derangement syndrome. It means I am sane and choose empathy.

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John Schroeder's avatar

Hi ! I think "Chose empathy" should be a great sign for the next protest. I'm keeping a pictoral collection of the ones I've been to. We are going to get our wish. He is going down and I predict it will envolve into a cell.

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Patricia Poohkay's avatar

Good on you getting out to protests!!

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claudia nelson's avatar

And it was NOT in any way a testament to being "all in the family!" Forgive me, but the sad irony there is an obvious readymade.

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Lis Ross's avatar

Thank you Mary for so clearly stating what an incredibly horrible narcissistic idiot the president is. So very well said!

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Denise Robbins's avatar

Thank you for continuing to speak the truth. ❤️

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stefhen bryan's avatar

what a sick MOFO! but even sicker, are the 78 million americans who voted for him. Now thats a LOT of sick people in one country.

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Norman Slaten's avatar

The worst part is that many of his followers STILL are not appalled (too tame of a word) by his UNBELIEVABLE response. What I wonder: isn't there anyone in his immediate family that are stunned by his insensitivity and let him know it??? I find it simply impossible to believe that his bonehead sycophants STILL haven't seen and heard enough! How about Barron? At 19 he certainly is old enough to challenge his OLD man's embarrassing behavior! Heaven, help us.

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

Unfortunately, Barron seems to have become a disciple of Andrew Tate and Tate’s abominable treatment of women. In that respect, he’s just like his father Donald.

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Patricia Poohkay's avatar

No Norman - I’m sorry but they’re all just like him.

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stefhen bryan's avatar

Barron cannot challenge his father. In fact, Barron cannot challenge anything. Have you not been paying attention? Barron is firmly on the Autistic spectrum. I'm a high school dropout, but that has been blatanly obvious to me since 2015. No doubt the result of his father's damaged sperm.

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Judy CZUBATI's avatar

Still shocked to see how many sick citizens reside in our country.

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Boss1's avatar

your mama is sick

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stefhen bryan's avatar

Thanks for your concern. Yeh, she died back in January 2003, but yes, she was indeed sick. She had a nervous breakdown in 1973 when I was 9 and I had to stay with my grandparents for a year. But which woman wouldn't have a nervous breakdown after being raped.......twice at 19 years old. So I was the product of one of those rapes. By the way, how did you know that? How'd you know she was sick? Were you her rapists? Wait a second! Are you......are you my dad? Dude, been trying to find you for 61 years now. Thanks for reaching out. Hit me up, dad. T'would be great to meet you. Lets do starbucks, or supm. Don't know where you live, but I don't live in america anymore, I moved to japan after voting for al gore.

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Irene warsaw's avatar

So sorry your name has to be Trump

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John Schroeder's avatar

Mary, only for you will I capitalize trump.

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Liz Grady's avatar

I fucking hate him so fucking much I can't take it. I have Tourette's for Trump. And I just came home from the most ZEN restorative yoga class. Breathing in calm, breathing out that motherfucking POS, breathing in peace, breathing out fucking grifter Erikkka Kirk, breathing in love, breathing out dragon-breath hatred for that POS. HA! Guess I need do do more yoga?

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Marianne Klee's avatar

Just before I read your post, I found myself trembling from anger over his response and the fact that something like this--yet AGAIN--is not a deal breaker.

He truly does bring out the worst in everyone....he brings out the worst in his supporters, and he brings out the worst in his opponents because we loathe him.

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Judy CZUBATI's avatar

Many of us never realized how much hate we could actually feel, did we?

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

I have to be careful and find things which distract me from my utter disgust for Trump!

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Judy CZUBATI's avatar

Shitler and his Flying Monkeys make us ill.

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

They do indeed.

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Judy CZUBATI's avatar

I give you credit for trying! He is loathed across the entire world..perhaps even thought the universe.

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Boss1's avatar

haha exactly as what Trump was describing then. If this film director was indeed anything like you Trump was 100% right to call him deranged.

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Liz Grady's avatar

You'll notice I added a "HA!" which means I can laugh at myself. Curious, why are you following Mary Trump if you support Donald?

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Linda's avatar

I definitely agree with you Mary. Rob Reiner was one of the most influential and admired film makers of all time!

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Tony's avatar

The way I read his post he was taking credit for having them murdered. He is after all a mob boss, having people whacked is in the job description.

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Paulette Copperstone's avatar

I feel really bad for their family and friends.

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Marianne Klee's avatar

How horrific to have to go through what happened to them AND to have the President of the U.S. blame and demean your loved ones on top of it.

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Patricia Poohkay's avatar

So very sick! So very cruel! So very evil!

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JP4M's avatar

The hint or ambiguity could indicate such a situation, and it does cross some of our minds. Instead though, I doubt it was intended as a confession or a credit. It seemed to me that it was still another pumping up of his own ego by blaming anyone, and particularly them in this instance, for not being for him as being worthless, and we all know the Reiners and many other people are especially admirable, honorable, good, and caring people.

If there was such a motive as seemed suggested, or whatever the situation was, I hope the right person will be found and that no innocent person is mistakenly found guilty. Having a person in custody is not proof of guilt. I feel so bad for their whole family.

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Tony's avatar

I realise this but trump is incapable of a rational response to any real event that does not include himself, and even then rational is a big stretch.

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Randy W's avatar

He was making it all about him, like always.

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Tina Pirlot's avatar

I honestly thought at first he was responsible. Almost not believing it's Nick.

There's another actor who was working on a documentary exposing the deaths caused by trump cutting USAID funding... who was found dead a week or so ago.

Like his staged assassination attempt, it feels like he's capable of murder for his own benefit.

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Tony's avatar

I have no doubt that he has had people removed in the past. These days he is openly a serial killer.

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Judy CZUBATI's avatar

His first wife ….Epstein…. There is a long hidden list…undoubtedly.

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Tony's avatar

Indeed Ivanka’s ‘accidental’ death due to blunt force trauma the day before she was to testify about trump’s business has always been on the nose. As for Epstein I have no doubt that trump had a hand in that. Epstein was due to testify as well.

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Ghostlyair59's avatar

It’s not odd to think that. Where there’s smoke there’s fire and we are seeing a lot of smoke. It crossed my mind initially as well.

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

I agree that morally, Trump would be capable of doing this, but for now, the police have probable cause to believe Rob and Michele Reiner were murdered by their eldest child, Nick. Nick has had drug problems for years. I am also affording Nick the legal presumption of innocence unless he’s proven guilty by a reasonable doubt. Trump’s response to the Reiners’ murder is just the sort of nasty and narcissistic response I’d expect Trump to make.

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Tony's avatar

I agree with you. My post was to illustrate that trump knows that he incites violence, he has done many times ie the two law makers murdered in Minnesota by a magat.

To me his post showed that he knowingly urges his followers to acts of violence just like he did on Jan 6. The legal term is ‘knowingly concerned’ from memory.

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

He definitely does, and in Trump’s case, he’s a sadist who loves to watch others commit violence on his behalf even as he keeps his tiny hands clean. It’s part of his sociopathy.

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Katie Davis's avatar

Psychopathy

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

Yep!

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Anne Rector's avatar

I had the same reaction, he incited this murder somehow.

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Amy Dalton's avatar

So many of the characteristics that define humanity are absent from Donald Trump, that he seems to be some sort of "less than human" beast. He proves this in the comments he made about the Reiners and their deaths.

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gayle gibson's avatar

I like Gavin Newsom's word "mutant."

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claudia nelson's avatar

I've long thought Trump clearly does not possess any of the basic aspects of a "human being." In the spirit of the season, just the other day, I came upon a simple homemade sign in a house window saying, "Radicalized by basic Decency." Hear, here!

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Patricia Poohkay's avatar

“BEAST” works rather well I think.

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Judy CZUBATI's avatar

His own mother did not love him…she realized that he was a true “Bad Seed.”

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Gabrielle  Warden's avatar

You are so right! This creature has no soul whatsoever, and doesn’t begin to comprehend anyone who actually has one. I really despair that any American could vote for him and agree with his appalling ideas.

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June Fletcher's avatar

I'm not religious, but he's looking more and more like the Anti-Christ.

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Marianne Klee's avatar

I have believed that for the better part of nine years.

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Judy CZUBATI's avatar

Me, too.

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Judy CZUBATI's avatar

I have said this for years. He is the Antichrist.

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Ron's avatar

I agree Donald Trump does not have a soul. The followers as Mary pointed out are not caring about American people.

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Judy CZUBATI's avatar

Obviously, this means that America is full of soulless creatures.

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Jody Mendes's avatar

Mary you are spot on as usual. He is truly horrific. The damage he has done will take a long time to heal and some of my former significant friends have been permanently lost to me because of him.

As a mental health professional I would like your insight into how/why he refers to himself in the 3rd person. It seems to be worse (like all of his appalling disorder-related behavior) as the dementia progresses and I understand that process. But WTAF is up with the 3rd person business?

I’m so grateful for your writing and the candidness in your books is amazing. You can be so proud to have made yourself the incredible person you are out of the insanity of your family. I SO empathize with your Dad (and with you as a child of someone who had alcohol use disorder). I was blessed by my parents’ commitment to therapy for myself and my siblings. My dad has been sober since the 1970’s. Thank you as always for your candor and insight.

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claudia nelson's avatar

There is some resistance to Trump Derangement Syndrome in the form of a growing nonprofit org called Leaving MAGA. Tell people to check it out!

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Patricia Poohkay's avatar

A group deprogramming?! Brilliant!!

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June Fletcher's avatar

I think he considers his public personae to be a different person--like a Frankenstein's monster he created., His outward personae is strong, blustery and fearless--his inner one is scared, insecure and knows he's a failure and loser.

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Maureen O'Malley's avatar

I've also found his use of the 3d person to be interesting. He does say "me" when he refers to "your favorite person- me," but that's it. Strange.

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Katie Davis's avatar

His sociopathy pushes him to want to hear his own name. So he says it a lot.

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Patricia Poohkay's avatar

Well said! I do like following his niece.

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Ann Parry's avatar

On my FB feed, a common post by Trump supporters to screenshots of his anti-Reiner psychotic post was: “Fake!”

My reply to them was:

“Will you still think it’s awful when you find out it’s not fake?”

Well, at least Trump’s small, bizarre post broke through the stupor of some MAGA, at least for now.

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