Trump Is a Snob Who Secretly Despises His Own Supporters

[mfcorey1]

Deep in a Politico report about President Trump’s attempt to build support for firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whom Trump loathes for recusing himself from the investigation of a campaign he was part of, is a striking artifact of Trumpism. The president’s swelling complaints against Sessions include the fact that he “doesn’t have the Ivy League pedigree the president prefers” and that Trump “can’t stand his Southern accent.”

Conservatives have spent decades depicting liberals as coastal snobs. Entire campaigns were built from this theme, from Michael Dukakis’s “Harvard Yard boutique” to various Democrats failing to display the requisite enthusiasm for Nascar. Every image of Barack Obama in the right-wing media cast him gazing downward imperiously, a pose that conservatives seemed to think captured his contempt for the good people of the heartland.

Given the attention they have lavished on such picayune details as John Kerry’s failure to order cheesesteak properly, it’s not even possible to imagine what they would do with direct evidence of a president disdaining his attorney general’s University of Alabama law degree and regional accent. Imagine one of those scenes from a ’90s action movie where the bad guys are wearing night-vision goggles in the dark, and then suddenly faced with blinding light.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/coastal-snob-trump-mocks-sessions-alabama-accent-degree.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. And in turn, Trump is rejected by America's "Elite", that is, Old Money.

He's tried, really tried to be accepted into their pristine ivied realms.

In the early 80s, he tried to apply to become a member of the Maidstone, an old and established tennis and beach club in Easthampton. The management even told him not to bother filling out the applicaton.

Trump built golf courses around the world in competition with other clubs, e.g., The Tuxedo Club, Shinecock, National, St. Andrews, etc.

Trump has never been invited to sit on ANY corporate Board of Directors.

Trump is not part of a the Elites' clique of socializing, although Ivanka would love to be part of it all.

Trump is someone the Elite have to tolerate but they abhor him as Trump abhors his "base" of supporters.

Great Gatsby on steroids.

[PJMcK]

3. The "elites" hate him

Trump has never been asked to be on a board of directors because real business people know that he's a fraud. If you were the CEO of a billion dollar corporation, would you want a board member who went bankrupt not once but 6 times? What would that say to your shareholders?

Besides, what advice could Trump offer? He always wants to be the boss and board members are never the boss.

[smirkymonkey]

4. +1000

He has been rejected by the nation's true elite, yet he turns around and snubs his nose at his WalMart adorers. He knows he needs them because they are the only people who will accept him, yet he is resentful that he has such a low-brow following. He wouldn't let most of these people sit on his furniture, yet he has managed to convince them that he is their stalwart champion and is 100% on their side.

What a con! And how stupid can his base be for falling for his bullshit.

[global1]

12. It Would Be Interesting If There Was A Tape Of Trump.....

laughing at his deplorable supporters and calling them suckers and mentioning how he takes advantage of them.

I'm hoping that Omarosa has a tape like that somewhere. I think that would be the straw that would break the camel's back. Trump dissing his supporters.

[Tipperary]

16. I agree. I think that a tape of him saying something derogatory about his base would make them

finally turn against him. I am sure he says things about them. One can only hope it comes to light one of these days, sooner rather than later.

[SDJay]

22. I Disagree

I think he could set a group of them on fire and the rest of them would still worship him. The truest thing he ever said was that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose a vote.

Worship is a dangerous thing, and these rubes worship him, they don't just support him.

[smirkymonkey]

31. Oh! Now that might just do the trick!

That would be perfect if there was such a thing. I am hoping that someone at some point comes up with such a tape because I think that might just break the spell.

[maddiemom]

34. That might have worked against Lonesome Rhoades;

Trump supporter probably wouldn't get the connection as applying to them.

[ailsagirl]

37. Perfect analogy!!!!!!

[PatSeg]

9. "Great Gatsby on steroids"

and minus any redeeming qualities whatsoever.

The truth is everyone except self-serving sycophants and his rabid base reject Trump. He will never be accepted by the people he wants to admire him, even though he is president of the United States.

[leftynyc]

27. It's because of his habit of slapping

his name all over the place. And we've all seen pics of his apartment in trump tower - so tacky and gross. He's never been part of what he would consider the "elites" in NY.


He owned the Plaza Hotel briefly in the late 80s/early 90s and wanted to put his name up there. The outrage was enough to shake Manhattan and then he was in financial trouble (the start of his money laundering for the russians) and had to sell it.

[maddiemom]

33. PLEASE don't compare him to the fictional Jay Gatsby...

who had an entirely different backstory in an entirely different era...ill-gotten fortune, or not.

[Cha]

42. 'Rejected by anyone with a brain and a heart.

Rejected by the majority in his home town.

[deminks]

2. Donnie is the poster toddler for this, but many GrOPers are snobs

Our own senator (Roberts) hasn't lived in Kansas for decades. He lives in Virginia. By his own words he only comes here when he has to run for reelection. Then he 'rents an armchair' from a friendly rancher out in the western part of the state.

[NewJeffCT]

5. His supporters don't care that he hates them!

As long as Donny hates black and brown people more than them, they're perfectly fine with it.

[The Genealogist]

6. He despises everyone but himself

Everyone in the world is a potential roadblock to power and money. He may pretend to like certain people, when it is in his own self interest, but it is as fake as his "tan."

[Corgigal]

7. I've had the unlucky life

of having to listen to Trumps b.s. since I was in my teens.

He hates all those red state people, besides Florida, because they can't take property under a bankruptcy. Thinks they are all suckers, and he's so much better them them. Religious people, ha! He's using them, he's never been religious or even republican till recently. I guess since he couldn't afford the installment payment to the Russians.

All of this history was so easy to locate. Worries us all on how quickly people buy into a act, when all the facts could be found. These are adults who sign contracts to live in America. To buy a house, car or even to open a credit card. Due diligence, they don't make the effort.

[athenasatanjesus]

8. Personally I think the most successful conservatives are the ones that hate their base the most.

Knowing how stupid their base is gives them the best perspective on how to exploit them.

[Nitram]

23. I don't think they hate their base. They just feel very superior to it.

[Squinch]

10. There is no question that he loathes and disdains his followers.

That's how he can lie to them constantly without turning a hair.

But they will never understand that.

[Racerdog1]

11. "I love the poorly educated"

Because they are a bunch of dumb asses that will believe anything the orange fuck wad says. As they go back to their miserable lives and jobs they voted for.

[rtracey]

13. yup

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[aeromanKC]

19. Another Clip: Those Morons out there

[flibbitygiblets]

14. They painted Obama, a kid raised by a single woman as an "arugula-eating elitist"

One thing Repugs are good at is smearing decent people, while painting actual elitists like "one of us" --like saying GWB is a guy you'd want to have a beer with or showing him "cuttin' some brush" like a good ol' boy, or showing Rump eating KFC.

The only other thing they're good at is giving money to rich people. And the rubes yell "that's fantastic, give us more of that!!"

[hibbing]

15. KFC

I always thought him and that stupid picture of him eating KFC (On his private jet) was a crock of shit.


Peace

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. Yet

Democrats are always "the elite"?

[Nitram]

20. I believe Trump strongly despises himself because of his own background.

He has spent his life trying to prove he is the equal of those from higher class backgrounds, but has never been accepted by the people he wants to impress the most.

[smirkymonkey]

32. Spot on!

I think this is at the core of what drives him to do much of what he does. He is still trying to get back at the real "elites" who have rejected him. They will never accept him. He is trash through and through.

[Thekaspervote]

21. I hope that didn't come as a revelation to anyone ... or NYMAG

[unblock]

24. he's a con man and a bully, and the only people he respects are other con men and bullies

the rest of us are all suckers and nuisances to be exploited and trampled on, used and discarded.

[Upthevibe]

25. Good article...

I bookmarked to read later today. Thanks for posting....

[NRaleighLiberal]

26. he visibly despises himself.

[DownriverDem]

28. His supporters don't care

His supporters are getting what they want out of trump: The courts and the end of Roe v Wade. Then of course the rich love trump.

[barbtries]

29. then it should be widely publicized

if it gets even 1 person off the trump train it's worth it to spread this news.

[elmac]

30. most fascists are

I worked with one years ago, high up in the party, he would make fun of all the religious nuts that supported his party, they are very good grifters.

[mountain grammy]

35. Gee, who knew?

Only anyone with a functioning mind.

[Initech]

36. They're his useful idiots.

They'll blindly support anything he says until the day he no longer needs them, and he'll start throwing them under the bus before too long, and it's already happening now.

[D23MIURG23]

38. If there is a tape of him ridiculing his supporters, that could be extremely useful

That might be the thing that finally costs him the 30 - 40% who still approve of him.

Republicans might not care about mismanagement or blatant criminality, but they get super triggered when you imply that they are stupid or unrefined.

[SWBTATTReg]

39. We are all looking for something that rump mocks his own supporters and the like...

It will happen soon, when he starts losing all of these upcoming elections to democrats right and left, and he'll soon bitch because his so called supporters didn't deliver.

The truth will hurt, when his so called supporters will drop him like a rock in a river, as he continues his idiotic ramblings and doings, none of which are truly in the public good.

[Cosmocat]

40. It isn't "Secret"

It is patently obvious he has absolute disregard for his base ...

[Cha]

41. Brawaaaa.. Fraud thinks he's too good for

trash that goes to his stupid Ass rallies.

[oberliner]

43. Secretly?

More like openly.