Finished Mary Trump's Book - I've been right all along

[JustAnotherGen]

I've stopped posting as much as I used to at DU in most part - because it forces to me to hang on Trump's every word. Like every single one. At points in the past year and a half, I almost started a thread just to make sure we had all of his lies, illegal activity, and destruction of our constitution in one place. Even that was too much.


Trump learned this behavior when he was 2 and 1/2 years old. His mother was sick for about a year - and that left him with Fred for comfort.

The thing is - Fred was a psychopath - for whom cruelty was the point. He encouraged bullying behavior, lying, and a killer instinct. This is how Trump gained favor with his father -eventually replacing his older brother as the heir apparent.

He has literally been REWARDED all of his life for this behavior. It's what he knows.

The biggest, the hugest, the most central, the center of attention, the spotlight.

Now I read he is going to start up his daily Corona-virus briefings again.

You know what WON'T happen? None of the networks will give free time to Biden to respond.
No one will fact check him real time.
No data that we can use will be shared with us.
No truthful detail regarding the state of the virus.


DUer's - I've been here a long time. Like a really long time. You seriously do NOT have to watch these. You don't have to post about it.

Know why - the Media will do a story about this daily. If they want CLICKS and papers sold and ears on the radio - they can report on it AFTER the fact. They can fact check every word - since their personnel at site with the exception of a few - refuse to call out Trump real time.

All we do when we watch 'real time' - is tell the networks that they should air it. We are feeding a beast for whom ATTENTION and WINNING at all costs is the ultimate prize.

Just by tuning in - he wins.



Don't let him win. Don't let him have your ears/eyes/attention when he has done nothing to deserve it. He lies and people die.


We aren't the media outlets. We saw how they continually said and wrote - we believe he is being Presidential. We saw how Morning Joe and Andrea Mitchell propped him up on MSNBC. You know why? Him calling in was 'good ratings'. He has not been Presidential, he won't be and the more stony faced and hardened heart we are -

The more rage he will experience.

That's all - but read the book.

Mary Trump has given Joe Biden a Big Book of Buttons To Push - to make Trump lose his mind.

[samnsara]

1. mine arrives today!!

[dmr]

35. Mine came yesterday. I'm on a break from reading just to check DU

to see if anything new is going on. So, after a couple threads, I'll be back in my recliner to read some more.

Enjoy your book!

[LizBeth]

2. I have yet to watch Trump in these 4 yrs. I listen from others what he says, read quotes from others

That gives me enough information, but no way I am watching him.

[iemitsu]

4. I hate his voice and face and

can't wait until he is gone from the airwaves.

[LizBeth]

9. What is funny, the only time I hear Trump voice is with Cooper? So now whenever I hear Trump

I see Sarah's face so kinda makes me chuckle every time.

[mjvpi]

38. Me, too!

I’ve got kind of an alpha woman crush thing going on, but she sounds like Trump. It’s messing with me.

[LizBeth]

43. +1

[grantcart]

31. He will not be gone

After he leaves the WH he will hold a Publix presser everyday and cry about the election and critique every word Biden says.

He will syndicate a Limbaugh type show.

He will hav a special friends club for 9.99

With 20 million idiots willing to pay he will make more money than he has ever made.

He will constantly stir the shit.

[mjvpi]

39. I know what you mean.

Hopefully will be hard to do from prison or a country without extradition treaties.

[smirkymonkey]

47. You know what? He's a one-trick pony.

He's a crushing bore. It's the same bullshit over and over with him. I think even his fans are getting sick and tired of his incessant whining. Sooner or later, they will tune out as well.

I think once they figure out that they have been duped by this huckster, they are going to move on. You can only burn with hatred for so long before it destroys you or before it just burns you out.

I really don't see him having a second act. He's the ultimate loser and more and more people are coming to this realization every day.

[barbtries]

8. ditto.

nt

[iemitsu]

3. Boycott the media to shut Trump down.

[a kennedy]

5. Thanks for your post........I used to make sure I watched him to laugh and make fun of him.......

not doing it at all anymore, won't give him the satisfaction of me watching and "giving him ratings". I turn to something else as soon as he opens his ugly mouth.

[JustAnotherGen]

15. We've never watched him - true story

We got our Uncle Ruckus - our Maltese in October 2016. He would literally howl and cry (puppy) when he heard his voice.

I've gotten Trump 'said' from other media - or when I'm listening to Sirius on my way to/from work.

Now Rachel Maddow - with her calm sonorous voice? She soothes him to sleep.

Not joking. Dead serious. And he sits up and 'watches' her and the guy who does the Allstate commercials - Dennis Haysbert.

Dog knows!

[a kennedy]

16. Ha ha, great story......

and what a good boy, eh??

[Danmel]

17. I have a cat who freaks out when she hears his voice

During one of the presidential debates in 2016, she jumped on top of the entertainment center and faced the wall when she saw him on our TV. I never saw her react to anyone or anything that way. I have a picture of her facing the wall. Unfortunately I'm technically challenged and don't know how to post it

[JustAnotherGen]

18. I'd give anything to see that

Poor little cat. He terrified her.

[Mike 03]

6. I love that she calls out the media for its unquestioning propitiation of the Trump myth.

Even in the NYT investigation into his taxes, it cites articles in the New York Times that helped build the myth, admitting that it bore some responsibility.

Of all the Trump books, this is the one I'd recommend to anyone interested in why we face this madness.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. My thoughts exactly

I at first thought - eh - I'll hold off. Maybe it's just trump-fuckery.

But then I saw her speak - and realized that her flashpoint was the abused, mistreated and neglected children in concentration camps at the border . . . she shares my 'heart'.

I downloaded it on Friday and flew through it by yesterday afternoon.

The media as complicit. That's why I've been harping on this for so long.

[Brainfodder]

7. We are exhausted by his griftcraft and persistent dumbfuckery?

Letting others highlight it is all we can stand now?

I feel bad for those still addicted to twitter, left there last summer for good.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. I've only had a twitter account

For about a year - and it's more focused on NJ State politics and activism. I've never followed the 'Trump' personality.

I have tweeted a few of the Trump Personality condemning tweets to the POTUS Account.

That one gets archived and is the official documentation for historical record.

Another thing - Twitter could technically shut him down tomorrow. Just tell him to use his POTUS account. He gets back the Personality Account after he leaves office.

But alas - the Twitter folks are in on it. He's good for their 'business'.

[SWBTATTReg]

12. Good advice...too often people will reproduce rump's ignorant remarks here on DU,

and this gets old, and simply propagates the PINO ignorant ranting and raving. He has nothing worth listening to, by any measure.

Your advice:

DUer's - I've been here a long time. Like a really long time. You seriously do NOT have to watch these. You don't have to post about it.

[hlthe2b]

14. Media had already started to pull away from his COVID-Spews, covering only when experts spoke

or when the media asked questions. They (CNN/MSNBC/NETWORKS) had likewise started real-time correction and fact-checking. This, months ago BEFORE his infamous Disinfection blow up.


Not defending all the coverage that preceded that time nor some of the idiots normalizing his behavior NOW, but it seems to me that the MSM has determined that COVID is far too serious and impacting far too many people to not call Trump on his BS now.

[wnylib]

36. Yes, covid IS serious. All the more reason

for rhe media NOT to cover his revival of political rallies disguised as covid "informatioon" briefings.

The guy is batshit crazy. Nothing he says about covid is worth hearing. I would not just boycott the airing of his covid political rallies. I would boycott the stations that air him.

[Mr.Bill]

19. If all the reporters

got up and left the room, or at least turned off the cameras as soon as Trump walked in the room, he would lose his mind. What there is left of it to lose, that is.

[erronis]

22. Great ideas. Played with their cell-phones, picked their noses, wear earplugs and don't ask

questions. Dump's voice does sound like the drone of a bagpipe. So annoying it could be used to torture prisoners.

[JustAnotherGen]

49. If only they would

Just leave those reporters who are there to carry water for him (Fox, Blaze, etc. etc. ) to ask questions.

[aggiesal]

20. ... Now I read he is going to start up his daily Corona-virus briefings again. ...

By taking away the reporting numbers from the CDC and hiding them,
he can now start his daily CoronaVirus Bull$h1t briefings and nobody will be able to dispute his numbers, because nobody will know what the real numbers are!

[CaptYossarian]

21. You've made some great points.

I was an MSNBC junkie--watched it day and night--during the Olbermann years. Then the ship made a drastic right turn, dumping Ed Schultz, Melissa Harris-Perry, and so on.

It's just as well I don't watch anymore. We can all figure out who the Worst Person is every day now.

One line that gave me chills, however, was that 2-1/2 year-old Donnie had Fred Trump for "comfort". That's like a hemophiliac wanting to hug a cactus. Maybe that's why he dry-humps a flag once a month.

[LakeArenal]

23. Harris-Perry was my favorite.

But I think I read she’s not so beloved anymore. Can’t remember why...

[CaptYossarian]

27. Phil Griffin probably thought she was too intelligent for him.

But then, who isn't?

[klook]

34. She kept doing her regular show

and refused to cover the presidential election as a horse race.

I loved her show and used to record it every week. Melissa H-P was a real bright spot.

[Sloumeau]

24. Trump's aides eventually begged Trump to stop showing up at those

COVID Press conferences because his poll numbers were dropping. Then, shortly after Trump stopped showing up, Trump canceled the COVID Press Conferences completely because he wasn't the star and his poll numbers still stunk. It will be the same as before. Biden doesn't need to reply. Trump will shoot himself in the foot again and again.

[onecaliberal]

25. I watch CNN certain shows and sometimes Rachel and Lawrence.

I can’t watch trump live or otherwise. I would have been dead from a stroke or coronary event.

[Evolve Dammit]

26. Good post, thanks. Mary Trump on Rachel was very credible, articulate and it took great courage.

The 22? boxes she gave to the NYT should be investigated by SDNY for more insight as to the origins of at least some of this mess and the criminality therein. But, I am sure they have full plates. I just hope we get to see what is for dinner at some point??

[JustAnotherGen]

29. Yeah -

I'm guessing the NY Times has those documents still. If not - there were two copies. One set for her, and one set for her brother.

Man - those two got cheated. The family fortune was '$30 million' in 1999'. I'm glad she played stupid with her Aunt Marianne about where the story was coming from. Auntie Dear had it coming.

[Bettie]

28. I had to take a break a little more than halfway through

it is too freaking depressing and anxiety provoking.

He has gotten away with everything all his life. That makes me anxious.

[lagomorph777]

30. "Donald Trump: A Pwner's Manual"

[JustAnotherGen]

50. I'm okay to steal this

For use on Social Media? Love it!

[lagomorph777]

51. Of course!

[JustAnotherGen]

53. Thank you -

Want to share in my NJ for Biden groups!

[kimbutgar]

32. You know he's going to use these briefing as a way to attack Biden because he needs his audience

I hope the networks immediately pull away when he starts politicizing.

Something tells me though the networks will start giving VP Biden more airtime since he is also giving daily intelligence reports.

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Not A Problem

I have aggressively avoided hearing anything he has to say.
I'm watching CNN. They go to show a clip of PINO speaking. I change channel.
I go back to hear the commentary about what buffoonish thing it has done now.

[AllaN01Bear]

37. ive seen stuff like this for most of my adult life where the news media always always

interviews the conservative first and they (conservatives ) scream libral media. phooey.thanks for your post .

[mjvpi]

42. The Reagan March to the right.

Liberal media
Government is incompetent
Trickle down economics
Welfare Queens. Etc, etc.....

[marieo1]

40. Never watched DJT

I have never ever watched DJT. The reason why....I can't stand to even look at him let alone listen to him. Why would I want to listen to him and have it ruin my day. This is why I will never buy the book. I could not read a whole book about him to confirm what I already know. Joe Biden is a respectable, decent man, I have watched Joe forever, I will be proud to vote for Joe Biden.

[Warpy]

41. I took 2 years off DU

for a lot of reasons. I came back because it's an election year.

I'll have to wait for an audio version to come out, and even then it's doubtful I'll read that book beyond excerpts. I'm from New England and I was only a few degrees separated from that orange disaster, having met some of the people he ruined over the years just because he could. There is a reason he did so poorly in that part of the country. That's it.

I've known for a long time what he is and what his family is. I don't buy Mary's premise that his mother's illness had anything to do with it, he'd have been dumped off her lap by baby brother Robert no matter what. I think he was born with loose screws and his father discouraged anyone from trying to tighten them. I do agree that Fred was the problem, but once a kid grows up and becomes an adult, problems like that turn into responsibility. Dumdum is what he is and he is responsible for it now: a liar, a bully, a cheat, an ignoramus, and a danger to us all.

When the press in general started to hang on his every word, I disengaged from them. When Comey threw the election to him, I was devastated because I knew the Republicans had long since devolved into a mob organization and would never remove him, no matter how he betrayed the country.

My tolerance for anything from that family is gone.

[live love laugh]

45. I took a break and may do so again soon.

It’s been almost two decades that I have watched the demise and it’s only getting worse. Don’t know if I can hang through the election.

[JustAnotherGen]

52. Amen -

Her credentials as a political psychologist - that's what gives her credibility.

He already had the narcissism and sociopath framework (inherited from his father). His upbringing did it.

And here's the thing - the ENTIRE family is this way. There have never been guard rails around any of them.

I think about how they shut out Mary's father because he didn't tow the line. They shut out his children.


Then I think about the older Trump Children trying to shove Tiffany out of the will. They will probably do the same thing to Baron.


I've got a feeling - Tiffany - after she gets through law school (he's paying for it) is going to pull away from her family. She knows he's probably already kept her out of the will as punishment for being Marla's child - she has nothing to lose by changing her last name to Maples and going it alone.

She's very lucky to have not grown up anywhere near these people.

[Warpy]

55. You mean Marla's FEMALE child

I have a feeling that marriage might have lasted a bit longer had she been born male instead of insulting a fragile man's masculinity by being a girl.

Mother Marla is certainly no prize, she knew damned full well Dumdum was married, his ugly mug was always in the news. Unless Tiffany lucked out and got an extremely wise and understanding nanny, I doubt she'll stray far from the fold.

I know if I'd been born with that name, I'd petition to change it on my eighteenth birthday.

[brer cat]

44. Great post, JAG.

I don't watch TV so I have never given him any attention.

[GusBob]

46. Corona briefings: remember why he stopped?

Bleach injections and UV enemas

He will blow it again

[Lock him up.]

54. The criminal sex-offender mob boss started yesterday...

... with a "wish her well" obvious "waving-a-pardon" crime.

He's not fooling 55% of US anymore. He's done.

RICO TRUMPS & ACCOMPLICES
BRING JUSTICE BACK AGAIN

[smirkymonkey]

48. I won't watch him either, however I will probably check in here to get the

run-down, since I am sure other DU'ers will be tuning in. It's kind of hard to turn away from a train wreck.

My copy of Mary Trump's book is arriving earlier than expected. It will be here Wednesday instead of mid-August as forecasted. I am looking forward to reading it and I hope every member of Biden's campaign does as well, since it will clearly lay out his weak spots and show them how and what to attack him on.

They should really get a few Psychiatrists on board to learn how to really go for the jugular.

[Mosby]

56. +1

[MoonRiver]

57. I finished mine a few days ago. Literally could not put it down except to eat, sleep,

and of course check DU!