Trumps ever changing narrative.

[KCfromNC]

Oh and look he's changed again, not even a week after he was yelling liberate....

Trump says he may extend coronavirus social distancing guidelines to early summer

What comes out of Donald's mouth - ignoring the random gibberish such as injecting lysol or whatever his latest nonsense was - it often just an attempt to repeat his best memory of the last thing he heard. Add in his inability to communicate and grade school vocabulary and it makes it at best an unreliable source of information. We just have to accept that this is how his brain works and do our best to route around the damage.

 

[variant]

What comes out of Donald's mouth - ignoring the random gibberish such as injecting lysol or whatever his latest nonsense was - it often just an attempt to repeat his best memory of the last thing he heard. Add in his inability to communicate and grade school vocabulary and it makes it at best an unreliable source of information. We just have to accept that this is how his brain works and do our best to route around the damage.

Actually I think it's not random or incidental at all. Trump is simply trying to accomplish several different things that all conflict with one another.

When he says his power is absolute he is pretending to be both a strong leader and in charge of the situation.

When he says the governors should decide he is deferring to federalism and hoping they will take the blame and ire for making tough decisions from the electorate instead of him.

When he is criticizing democratic governors for imposing too many restrictions for too long and supporting protests in their states he wants to rile up partisan support against such people.

When he is criticizing the republican governor of Georgia he realizes that that particular governor didn't get the signal and he only wanted to blame democrats, not actually prompt republicans to act in such a way that he, the president could be blamed for his positions.

When he talks about extending social distancing guidelines, he is deferring to the experts who keep telling him stuff like that.

So, in theory he wants to be seen as in charge, but ultimately he doesn't want to be blamed for taking any particular position on the tough decision of when to open the economy in any clear manner.

He wants to have power, and the way he has decided to go about it is to not show any leadership whatsoever.

 

[Albion]

Actually I think it's not random or incidental at all. Trump is simply trying to accomplish several different things that all conflict with one another.

It's nowhere near that complicated. Most of these criticisms of something the President has said concern speculation or references to things that might be possible. They were not firm policy positions, even though that is exactly what his critics want everyone to think.

Listen to what he said in reply to questions from reporters. He usually says (in effect) that here is something that has shown promise.

Or, I hope that X will work out.

Or he says that some experts have said X.

It's conversational.

And then CNN or Vice or MSNBC will rush forward and say "Trump announces that he believes X" or "Trump intends to do Y."

 

[rjs330]

Actually I think it's not random or incidental at all. Trump is simply trying to accomplish several different things that all conflict with one another.

When he says his power is absolute he is pretending to be both a strong leader and in charge of the situation.

When he says the governors should decide he is deferring to federalism and hoping they will take the blame and ire for making tough decisions from the electorate instead of him.

When he is criticizing democratic governors for imposing too many restrictions for too long and supporting protests in their states he wants to rile up partisan support against such people.

When he is criticizing the republican governor of Georgia he realizes that that particular governor didn't get the signal and he only wanted to blame democrats, not actually prompt republicans to act in such a way that he, the president could be blamed for his positions.

When he talks about extending social distancing guidelines, he is deferring to the experts who keep telling him stuff like that.

So, in theory he wants to be seen as in charge, but ultimately he doesn't want to be blamed for taking any particular position on the tough decision of when to open the economy in any clear manner.

He wants to have power, and the way he has decided to go about it is to not show any leadership whatsoever.

I'm glad you are so in the guys mind to know exactly what he's thinking at and given moment. You must have esp or something to know all of his reasons and motives.

Are you able to do that with everyone or just Trump?

 

[rjs330]

we should keep this updated, but it's facinating and scary how little regard for anyone he has.

trump has absolute power to reopen economy

trump will allow govenors to decide

trump tells people to liberate their states

doj and bar start making threats agaisnt states that are too strict or don't open too soon

trump praises kempt, and then 12 hours later says he shouldn't re-open.

edit 4/23 he now says may extend guidlines till june.

how can anyone have faith in him, he seems to change not based on whats best or smart, but what he thinks will help or hurt his election. He only now seems to care about georgia reopening because everyones saying it's a bad idea.

Oops posted this in news, and meant to post it here, so reposting.

I think we need links for each of these claims to support exactly what you claim. Or are you just following the true form of liberals who twist things to make them sound like something they were not.

 

[Tom 1]

we should keep this updated, but it's facinating and scary how little regard for anyone he has.

trump has absolute power to reopen economy

trump will allow govenors to decide

trump tells people to liberate their states

doj and bar start making threats agaisnt states that are too strict or don't open too soon

trump praises kempt, and then 12 hours later says he shouldn't re-open.

edit 4/23 he now says may extend guidlines till june.

how can anyone have faith in him, he seems to change not based on whats best or smart, but what he thinks will help or hurt his election. He only now seems to care about georgia reopening because everyones saying it's a bad idea.

Oops posted this in news, and meant to post it here, so reposting.

If you don't know what you're doing, talk crap. People who like to follow characters like Trump will re-interpret it to make some sort of temporary sense.

 

[loveofourlord]

I think we need links for each of these claims to support exactly what you claim. Or are you just following the true form of liberals who twist things to make them sound like something they were not.

Some are a bit hard to look up but I will try, like I had to go through like 6 pages of, "Trump attacks kemp." to find a single article discussing just hours earlier trump saying he was doing a good job.

 

[Albion]

Some are a bit hard to look up but I will try, like I had to go through like 6 pages of, "Trump attacks kemp." to find a single article discussing just hours earlier trump saying he was doing a good job.

What's the issue here?

Trump has felt that the governor has been doing a good job. But he took a dim view of his latest decision to partially re-open some businesses.

There isn't a thing about that which is unusual or contradictory.

 

[loveofourlord]

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[loveofourlord]

What's the issue here?

Trump has felt that the governor has been doing a good job. But he took a dim view of his latest decision to partially re-open some businesses.

There isn't a thing about that which is unusual or contradictory.

ummm....hours earlier he was praising him for reopening with no sign of issues, then hours later he's changed his mind?

 

[Albion]

Well, the governor's particular decree was open to second-guessing, if we are to be honest about this.

Had the specifics been different, I think the reaction (and not just on the part of the President) would have been different also.

 

[variant]

I'm glad you are so in the guys mind to know exactly what he's thinking at and given moment. You must have esp or something to know all of his reasons and motives.

Are you able to do that with everyone or just Trump?

I am speculating as to what sort of motivations might make sense, so I am giving him more credit than most who just think that he is incoherent.

 

[Pommer]

I'm glad you are so in the guys mind to know exactly what he's thinking at and given moment. You must have esp or something to know all of his reasons and motives.

Are you able to do that with everyone or just Trump?

It’s really not complicated.
President Trump desires all of the credit and none of the blame; but they are two sides of the same coin.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Who thought that being the President was so hard? Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, and Nixon made it look so easy.