Fire and Fury: Trump cannot converse in a balanced back and forth conversation

[iluvtennis]

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no social discipline or decorum..spot on

[mr_lebowski]

1. Well, color me surprised to hear THAT ... not (n/t)

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. He is also the biggest failure in the history of business, by a mile.

He has lost billions, all of his businesses go bankrupt or if not bankrupt are propped up with russian oligarch blood money.

He also has the brain and maturity of a 6 yr old. I say 6 because I know 7 yr olds who I would more trust to run the country.

[CincyDem]

3. Trump would have been 3x better off if he put his inheritance in the S&P500...

From Forbes.

Trump’s net worth has grown about 300% to an estimated $4 billion since 1987, according to a report by the Associated Press. But the real estate mogul would have made even more money if he had just invested in index funds. The AP says that, if Trump had invested in an index fund in 1988, his net worth would be as much as $13 billion.

The S&P 500 has grown 1,336% since 1988.

Other billionaires’ net worths have beaten the stock market’s growth in that time. Bill Gates, for example, saw his grow increase 7,173% since 1988 to $80 billion. Warren Buffet’s wealth grew 2,612% in the same time period, to $67.8 billion.

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He should have dumped the money in the market and played squash (or bridge or donkey kong) all day. And this includes the effect of the whipsaws of 2000 and 2008.

He's such an asshat.

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. He doesnt have any money that isnt blood money from Putin.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Worse. Not certain he is an actual billionaire. Big reason his tax returns are hidden. . . . . nt

[GusBob]

4. Short attention span, common trait among people who watch too much TV

everything about television defines his life

[EffieBlack]

6. Chauncey Gardner without the charm, wit, guilelessness or kindness

In other words, just a mean, petty, empty nothing of a person.

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. Thus, if you do not share his opinion, the ol' my way or the highway, try to

express a different view, then, watch out, here comes the PERSONAL attack..no back and forth in a conversation...the inability to move beyond the "it's all about me"....my opinion is the only one that matters.... to hide his ignorance, he attacks....

[iluvtennis]

13. Exactly.

[PatSeg]

8. Reminds me of people I've known

who talk endlessly without listening, unless you are talking about them. Then they become very present and alert, at least for a short time.

[iluvtennis]

14. Indeed.

[Wounded Bear]

18. They tend to claim they can talk and listen at the same time...

It's how they justify talking over others.

[PatSeg]

19. Oh that is rich

My experience was that whatever they were saying was more important than what anyone else had to say. It is like someone turned on a switch and they seemed incapable of turning it off.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. In "Adventures in the Screen Trade," William Goldman (who wrote "Princess Bride" and

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," among others,) describes people like Trump as a "star." A star is someone whom could be described as "a person who, from the morning they awake until the moment they fall asleep, never has a single person tell them 'no.'"

[PatSeg]

20. That certainly does seem to describe Trump

He has claimed that he hasn't changed much since he was a small child and that is apparent in his behavior - a spoiled, willful child.

[FakeNoose]

10. About posting passages from published books

Iluvtennis, I'm so glad that you've shared this passage from Fire and Fury.

I would have posted this myself except I was unaware that we were allowed to do this. I'm reading the book right now and so far I've seen several things I would have liked to share and discuss on DU.

Now that I know it's allowed on here I will also post a small passage or two, just as you have. Of course it would be a few paragraphs or maybe one page. Thanks!

[iluvtennis]

15. FakeNoose, I don't know if its allowed, but my post seem to stand, so guess we are okay

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Are you reading it? I am - but trudging. He's hard to read, to me. What about Trump

not being able to comprehend Powerpoint presentations ! diagrams??

There's a piece in the book that talks about Gen Mattis and how he came in with a war approach diagram and Trump didn't get it - said the general was BORING and wanted him fired. Then changed his mind when he heard others liked him - but made aids promise to never set up a meeting with him again.

[iluvtennis]

16. I'm reading it, but it's been a slow process with all the news to keep up on. With the attention

span of a gnat,doesn't surprise me he would call the General's powerpoint boring. Remember,Trump knows everything , so if you come with something he doesn't know, it's insignificant and boring in his little mind.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. Bottom line it means other people are running our country huh nt