A Trolling President?

A troll? Let's throw him under the bridge where the trolls hang out.

Pepperdoodle said:

Trolling on the internet refers to the deliberate act of posting inflammatory, provocative, or off-topic messages in online communities such as forums, social media platforms, chat rooms, or blogs with the primary intent of provoking strong emotional reactions, inciting arguments, or causing disruption.
The behavior is typically motivated by amusement, a desire for attention, or to manipulate perceptions, and often involves tactics like deception, where the troll may pretend to hold a belief they do not actually have to elicit a response.

Several thoughts...
Though some of it may be funny, is it a good thing?
Should a President, in this case, Trump, troll the public?

Please give some examples of a Democrat President trolling the public?

I didn't vote for Harris or Trump, so either side trolling seems unnecessary.
What is your opinion of a President trolling?

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He's sharing political humor created by others. Pretty much the same as political cartoons we see in respected news publications. One could easily say those are "trolling" as well.

The thing is though certain people are in default outrage mode over most anything the president says or does. He "trolls" them no matter what on a daily basis, simply by existing.

They complain about him acting like a king, but they also complain about him not acting lofty enough when he shares political humor.

Pepperdoodle said:

Trolling on the internet refers to the deliberate act of posting inflammatory, provocative, or off-topic messages in online communities such as forums, social media platforms, chat rooms, or blogs with the primary intent of provoking strong emotional reactions, inciting arguments, or causing disruption.
The behavior is typically motivated by amusement, a desire for attention, or to manipulate perceptions, and often involves tactics like deception, where the troll may pretend to hold a belief they do not actually have to elicit a response.

Several thoughts...
Though some of it may be funny, is it a good thing?
Should a President, in this case, Trump, troll the public?

Please give some examples of a Democrat President trolling the public?

I didn't vote for Harris or Trump, so either side trolling seems unnecessary.
What is your opinion of a President trolling?

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" with the primary intent of provoking strong emotional reactions, inciting arguments, or causing disruption."

Both sides do this .... ie "no kings" etc ... the entire Harris campaign was based on provoking emotions, in fact the democratic party as a whole is based on emotions not substance ... they rarely put forth actual plans of how to solve issues

Pepperdoodle said:

Trolling on the internet refers to the deliberate act of posting inflammatory, provocative, or off-topic messages in online communities such as forums, social media platforms, chat rooms, or blogs with the primary intent of provoking strong emotional reactions, inciting arguments, or causing disruption.
The behavior is typically motivated by amusement, a desire for attention, or to manipulate perceptions, and often involves tactics like deception, where the troll may pretend to hold a belief they do not actually have to elicit a response.

Several thoughts...
Though some of it may be funny, is it a good thing?
Should a President, in this case, Trump, troll the public?

Please give some examples of a Democrat President trolling the public?

I didn't vote for Harris or Trump, so either side trolling seems unnecessary.
What is your opinion of a President trolling?

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The liberal democrats have broken every rule in trying to falsely jail the commander and chief, and to talk about Trump trolling the democrats "Please"!

Trump has been the main theme on SNL for the past 10 years, CNN and MSNBC in outright lies, Russia gate and Jan 6th being just a few examples

I'm still smiling over the meme of Jeffries and Schumer in Sombrero's

Pepperdoodle said:

What is your opinion of a President trolling?

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A president needs to remember at all times that while in office, they speak not just for themselves, but for the office of the President of the United States. It is inappropriate for a president to troll on social media while in office.

There haven't been that many presidents in office during the era of social media, so I don't have Democratic presidents to offer as examples. Would Lyndon Johnson or Franklin Pierce have posted stuff on social media that was inflammatory or deliberately deceptive? Who knows? They weren't faced with that temptation.

Need i remind you all that the average age when kids live potty humor is six? First grade?
Unless you have the mental age of a first grader you should be angry and horrified.
The president might try imploding buildings next. (Oops, he just did that, too.)

There's a simple thought experiment people should do:
If Obama or Biden said or did the things Trump said/does would you be okay with it? Are you willing to excuse Trump for things you'd never excuse a Democratic president for?

Donald Trump is an absolute disgrace, not only to the office of the President, but to the entire country.

No it's not "orange man bad", put on a thinking cap and consider the actions--are the actions worthy of being defended or not?

I don't think Donald Trump is bad because "the liberal media" told me to not like him.
I don't think Donald Trump is bad because he has a weird spray tan, or because there's something about the name "Trump" I don't like, or some other silly superficial reason.

I think Donald Trump is bad because the things he says--the actual words that come out of his mouth which are frequently recorded on video and audio, and which he himself types out on social media--are horrible and rotten. I think Donald Trump is bad because the actual things he does are, in fact, not good. His words and his actions are sufficient reason for me to consider him an absolutely loathsome individual.

If it was a Democrat doing and saying these things, I would not be okay with it. This isn't about political party. This is about having and holding to an objective standard of morality, believing in an objective standard of truth, and subscribing to a Christian moral framework about not only how individuals ought to act (in particular, those who identify as or confess to be Christians themselves), but how a moral, ethical, and free society ought to function, how leaders ought to conduct themselves in such a way as to be accountable to the public they serve, and that the whole point of government and the function of the rule of law is to enshrine the sacred dignity of human persons.

If you were to ask me what I thought Trump supporters actually believe, morally and ethically speaking, my answer would be I have no idea. There does not appear to be any standard of morality that I can recognize. Morality seems relative, subjective, and entirely fluid--what is good or bad depends not on the goodness or wrongness of a word or act itself, but seems entirely contingent on subjectivity: Trump says X, so that's good, Trump contradicts himself and says Not-X, so that's good. Trump himself, is treated as the final arbiter of morality--he speaks and whatever he says is great, he acts and whatever he does is fantastic--there is no moral standard against which he can be judged or criticized, because he is himself is the ever-shifting, never stable, wibbly-wobbly platform of morality.

But then I'm also told that I can't believe what I see with my eyes, hear with my ears. It's an always shifting quicksand of never-truth but "always true", because "true" is whatever Trump says it is in that moment. And if Trump changes his mind 10 minutes later, then "truth" changes to match the beat. There can never be truth, there can only ever be what Trump says--but only what Trump says right now, because that could change at any moment. And I suppose what's "right" and what's "wrong" is just nodding whenever he speaks. Never having to develop a conscience, never having to have a moral standard, never having to rely on objective standards of good and evil, truth and lie, what is real and what is fake--just turn the light switch off and bobble-head yes to Daddy Trump.

-CryptoLutheran

Trump gets something that many miss: Those who voted for him enjoy the discomfort of the Left when he tweaks them and they jump on cue. Those who voted against the other candidate instead of for Trump enjoy it as well. I know an elderly couple who, on election night 2016, stayed up not for the returns but to watch the unhappiness of news anchors reporting the results. That was what they enjoyed seeing. They aren't alone. And that's how various mems about schadenfreude got to be a thing. The Left's not going to like what anyone on the Right does, anyway, whether they troll them or not.

Tuur said:

Trump gets something that many miss: Those who voted for him enjoy the discomfort of the Left when he tweaks them and they jump on cue. Those who voted against the other candidate instead of for Trump enjoy it as well. I know an elderly couple who, on election night 2016, stayed up not for the returns but to watch the unhappiness of news anchors reporting the results. That was what they enjoyed seeing. They aren't alone. And that's how various mems about schadenfreude got to be a thing. The Left's not going to like what anyone on the Right does, anyway, whether they troll them or not.

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That doesn't sound like evidence of what a healthy, functioning democracy should look like.

It's like walking down the street, seeing smoke coming out of a house, and instead of calling 911 you just take your phone out and record it saying "Yo man, that's wild".

This isn't good.

-CryptoLutheran

Pepperdoodle said:

Yes, the Left leaning are experts at trolling. But then think they have room to complain when the Right leaning do it.

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Yeah ... democrats can't stand it when republicans play the same games. I think that's called hypocrisy