Why Doesn't Anyone Stand Up To Trump To His Face?.....

[global1]

We hear talking heads on the news shows continually criticize Trump. We see the press ask Trump questions and never call him on any of his stupid answers and probe further. For example: when he says no one knows more about the tax bill or healthcare - why don't they ask him some detailed questions and make him eat his words because he doesn't have a grasp on the details. Why do the Repugs continually circle the wagons around this guy? Why do his staff always make excuses for him? Why is it the majority of Americans make fun of him and realize everything that comes from his mouth is a lie? Why do his lawyers placate him by only telling him what he wants to hear or he believes? Why don't his family confront him and tell him he is ruining his 'brand'? Why can't this guy realize he's only fooling himself? Why is it everyone else has to be politically correct and he doesn't? How is it he can blatantly break laws and keep getting away with it? How is it the guy keeps getting away with breaking laws? How is it he can't be stopped? Everybody knows he is taking this country apart piece by piece and we let him do this?

We all know this - yet he keeps on throwing crap in our faces?

I am so demoralzed. We are better than this. We are bigger than Trump.

How is this all happening in full view of the world - yet he still persists?

I just don't understand? HELP!

[RKP5637]

1. Someone/many need to stand up to him in front of his face and say FUCK YOU!!! I still say

many in the media and democrats are wimps compared to what they were when I was a kid.

[RussBLib]

23. At least call him a liar to his face

He claims he's passed more legislation than any president. Lie.
He claims the stock market has never risen this quick. Lie.

There are so many. All we hear are newscasters saying this or that is "false," but no one gets close enough.

[calimary]

37. That's for sure! Dan Rather wouldn't have caved to this guy.

[RKP5637]

59. Neither would have Jack Anderson, back in the day. n/t

[calimary]

61. No kidding!

Jack Anderson. Not one to be trifled with. There were a few. Heck, to watch trump have to deal with Sam Donaldson would have been a real treat, too.

[JHB]

2. Hell, just ask him what the nuclear triad is...

...and limit him to 3 words.

[kairos12]

45. He already failed that one.

[JHB]

57. Thats the point of asking...

...the certainty that he STILL doesn’t know.

[Takket]

3. he surrounds himself with yes men. no one can get close enough.

[exboyfil]

30. Why the interviews

It started with Matt Lauer. Even the debate questions were poor. The latest NYTimes travesty. You don't have to be insulting, but you do need to be prepared to challenge answers with intelligent follow up questions. Are these reporters just stupid? I would love to have my former debate partner ask him questions. He is moving up the journalism ranks now. He would leave Trump a quivering lump with just a few questions.

[Shipwack]

51. They dont want to hurt his feelings.

If they pushed back, or asked him “tough” questions, he’d get upset and won’t invite them to all the parties the cool kids go to.

This is the same reason other Republicans don’t (in general) get asked tough questions.

On the other hand, the Democrats aren’t vindictive little shits, so they are fair game.

[RazBerryBeret]

4. He's a mean, petty, vindictive bully

With a lot of crazy-ass followers. Power in numbers, and unfortunately bc of his office he has a lot of power.

[Binkie The Clown]

5. He's a classic bully. Everyone close to him is afraid of him.

He's large, loud, overbearing, and prone to violent verbal outbursts. He intimidates everyone near him, and those few who refuse to be intimidated, he fires.

[global1]

10. So How Do You Intimidate An Intimidator?.....

We hear that one needs to confront a bully to put the bully in his or her place. Why isn't anyone doing that to Trump? Why are people so afraid of Trump? He's got to have a weakness that we can exploit to put him in his place.

[Phoenix61]

6. The same reason no one

"stands up to" a two year-old having a temper tantrum. What he says is meaningless. No one listens to him. They do what they want and tell him he's wonderful and everyone's happy. Well, all the deplorables and repubs are happy. We are left scratching our heads wondering when the insanity is going to end.

[dembotoz]

7. think reporters like their paychecks

control of access is a powerful thing

keith oberman showed us the limits on reporters

best option we got is the nail the congressfools at town halls...and they have gotten more clever with their question selection...somehow i don't get called on anymore

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Ahhhh,

you just stated the real truth. Money and access,as well as the D.C. Social Circle. Ask people who have worked the Hill,this is one of their comments.

[Siwsan]

8. Have you ever tried to confront a narcissist, face to face?

Trust me - it is an exercise in EXTREME futility and leads to nothing but exhausting frustration. A narcissist will never be held to account or admit they are wrong, or accept responsibility for any harm they do.

I had a co-worker who showed pretty much every single trait of a narcissist. Trying to deal with her was like trying to swat a fruit fly. You ask a question, they deflect. You ask again, the deflect from their deflection. I remember our boss trying to get a straight answer out of her, as to why she was so far behind on her work, and I thought she was going to end up punching this individual.

One of the reasons I took an early retirement was that I couldn't bear dealing with her, any longer. You know how trump* targets people/associations for abuse? I was this individual's 'Hillary Clinton'.

[marylandblue]

14. Yes, I have done it with a narcissist and it is a worthless exercise

The only thing that worked was bringing everything to a crisis followed by an investigation. Narcissists don't do well under investigations because their usual BS doesn't work well with diligent investigators. I had everything well documented and told the truth, so I won. This is why I think Mueller will bring him down.

[Siwsan]

18. The one I worked with found loopholes where nobody knew loopholes existed

When I turned in my resignation, HR asked if there was anything, ANYTHING they could do to make me change my mind. I said, sure - fire this individual. The color drained from their face. So I told them, fine. They were losing a great employee because they didn't have the stones to fire a bad one.

6 months later they asked me to please come back for just 3 months to help with a massive backlog of work. My only demand was that this individual be warned to not even look in my direction. And she didn't. But, after I left, on my first day, she was seen hanging around my cubicle. The next day I discovered a whole lot of my notes, and personal items were gone. I have no doubt she stole them, just to make sure I knew she still had a target on my back. I didn't bother HR with this. What would be the point. They installed new locks on cabinets and overhead and I finished my stint.

[The Blue Flower]

47. AMEN

I've had to put a firewall between me and my sister. I refuse to be alone with her. I want witnesses to our interactions because she has smeared me with lies to all her friends.

[greymattermom]

9. He just walks out of the room.

I've seen that quite a few times when someone from the press asked him a question he didn't want to deal with.

[RKP5637]

11. Yeah, he posts the stupid look, as usual, on his face, says "Thank you very much" and walks

out of the room. The guy is a total failure and a huge loser! Problem is, a fair number in America are just like him.

[global1]

15. He Is Making A Mockery Of The Presidency, This Country And The American People......nt

[RKP5637]

20. How we went from Obama to this POS is startling. n/t

[global1]

22. If We Got To Where We Are So Fast And So Startling....

what lies ahead if this Trump can't be stopped?

[RKP5637]

39. Yeah, that's my greatest fear now. Will it stop and if not, how far will it go. And, could we

recover. As he stacks the courts with RW'ers, and possibly some seats on SCOTUS.

[bdamomma]

26. We are being isolated.

I bet Mr. Putin is very proud of himself, the way the Soviet Union was broken apart he is doing to the US, are we going to let him??? that is the question.

[exboyfil]

33. That is when you get in the gutter

By heckling in the most personal matter that you can think of. Question his manhood. Question his business ability. Question is one big claim to fame (getting a Russian and media assist over the finish line in the election).

[RKP5637]

41. IMO that's what the dems need to do. Get in the gutter with him, fight fire with fire. n/t

[global1]

13. Confront Him in A Situation That He Can't Walk Away From....

like a Lester Holt one on one interview. Really make him squirm. Make him look silly. I think even Trump has a breaking point - a weakness. We can't let him go on for another year in this position. We will never recover.

Aren't there any REAL patriots in the Repug Party? Aren't there any REAL patriots that work for him? Aren't there any REAL patriots that work for the press/MSM?

[exboyfil]

34. Why didn't the NYT Reporter do this?

You are right. Matt Lauer had the opportunity to make history. He should have asked the same four or five policy questions of each candidate, and one personal confrontational question of each at the end.

Can we shame reporters into doing this?

[smirkymonkey]

16. There is nothing I would love to see more than somebody stand up to him in public.

Well, besides him stroking out in public.

[janterry]

17. Because they take him seriously

They shouldn't. When a BS artist is spewing BS - just look over at them, shake your head sadly, and then report the facts.

They are always two steps behind because they are trying to make sense of nonsense. They invite Trumpster-lites on to make further clarifications. They shouldn't make sense of it - or invite those idiots on to 'explain' - just say it's wrong and then report the real facts.

There ARE real facts out there.......

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. My theory: His butt tastes just like cotton candy.

And there's so MUCH of it!

[RKP5637]

21. Yeah, and whipped cream too. n/t

[niyad]

24. because they are a gutless bunch of cowards, more interested in keeping their jobs

than in DOING their jobs

[bdamomma]

25. He is only one person

and we are many, what we do with our power when our country is being attacked is all up to us.

[tblue37]

27. Reporters and TV mouths are careerists. Above all they want access, and they

know perfectly well that the interview would be cut off the moment they did such a thing--and they would never get another chance to ask the idiot anything.

[loyalsister]

28. Maybe because it is in full view of the world?

One of the worst and scariest things about Trump is his lack of self monitoring. Not just because of what it means on the domestic front. What he says can have serious international complications. Is it possible that there is some effort to imposing some monitoring to distract him from saying shit that could start wars?

There is more to demonizing an incompetent president than satisfying the public. We've never been here. There are a lot of variables besides us and our opposition.

[Mike Nelson]

29. Money...

...a lot of staff, family, and Republicans are there for the money.

[samnsara]

31. I tweet him every day and call him a fat fuck..among other things...

[atreides1]

32. It's all about access!

If someone in the media actually were to stand up and call Trump a liar to his face, that network would lose its access, not only to the administration but to his allies in Congress!

[Turbineguy]

35. It's pointless

He thrives on creating conflict and chaos. Throwing it back in his face only shows him it's working.

He may bomb North Korea to see if it helps his ratings. He loves the attention. We're talking about him right now!

This is what the republican party gave the World.

[Orange Free State]

36. If you really want to get to him

Plant stories praising Mark Cuban Cuban is richer than Trump, Cuban is taller than Trump, Cuban this, Cuban that.....
Trump will stroke out if he reads enough of that. He really really can’t stand Mark Cuban.

[calimary]

40. Welcome to DU, Orange Free State!

Anything that hurts his ego is a beneficial thing.

I sometimes indulge in imagining that the collective press suddenly wakes up and realizes that all they're doing is reinforcing bad behavior when they cover him non-stop. He WANTS that attention. He WANTS to be the center of the universe. He WANTS everybody talking about him and puzzling over him and obsessing on him. So how 'bout we take the pacifier away? Put him on ignore for a day (or more)! And I realize that'll never happen. But it's a fun thought-exercise.

[Orange Free State]

49. Thanks for the welcome

Found another one. Cuban’s wife Tiffany is much much more attractive than Trump’s wives.

[annabanana]

60. He would HATE that!

Cuban's wife Tiffany make Milania look old..

[doc03]

38. They are cowards nt

[Soxfan58]

42. What we have is each other

And if we all vow to in some way support progressive candidates next november we can stop his agenda and maybe even remove him from office for his crimes.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

43. Al Franken was the man to do it and that is why he was the target of a right-winger hit job!!!

Thank-you Democratic leadership for covering for the pukes, what a bunch of dumb ass clowns!!!

[Oppaloopa]

50. This is true.

[dchill]

44. C O M P L I C I T.

[L. Coyote]

46. Holder and Yates:

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[LuckyLib]

52. These replies to the Dumpster need to be visible everywhere. Two very well respected law

enforcement individuals have summed it up in a nutshell.

What is mind-blowing is that they are talking about the pResident of the United States. Look how far our country has disintegrated into bedlam and political chaos. Thank you Republicans!

[Faux pas]

48. That's the only

way to get a bully's attention. I've never seen a bigger bunch of chicken sh*t a-holes in my life, and I ain't young. lol

[Skittles]

53. because they know he is a vindictive bully

[Laffy Kat]

54. I so agree. Even Schmidt's NYTs interview...

So may opportunities wasted. Schmidt did not follow-up with further questions or confront 45 with obvious contradictions. It would have been so easy.

[Leith]

55. There Was Only One Person Who Could Interrupt chumpy

talk over him, keep him on track with the difficult questions: Chris Matthews.

I'm not any more fond of tweety than anyone else here, but he's our fire to fight chumpy's fire. I don't want to link the whole interview, but you can find it on YouTube by putting "Chris Matthews Donald Trump interview" into the search engine.

But, probably after that interview and chumpy having to take back and "reinterpret" his answers to those questions, he will never consent to another interview with Matthews in this lifetime.

[WyattKansas]

56. It is the same everywhere in the country...

This country worships the dollar and people don't want to risk losing their gravy train they are clinging to.

[AlexSFCA]

58. democrats dont want him to resign

make no mistake dems are only calling on trump to resign knwoing he won’t do it. He is their best weapon against reps for 2018 midterms. If you are a dem politician, this could be the best time politically short and long term. It’s similar to how media market works.