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sagesnow

(2,887 posts)
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 09:47 PM Feb 2019

Why Trump Wants Us to Mock his Typos Daily Kos

Easily corrected with auto spell check, his errors are a deliberate appeal to his base. The scolding from teachers and liberals makes his followers feel like he is really one of their own.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/01/30/1830864/-Why-Trump-WANTS-Us-to-Mock-his-Typos

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kimbutgar

(27,198 posts)
2. What a terrible role model to children to show that the potus is an ignoramus who is illiterate
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 09:53 PM
Feb 2019

The POTUS should be a role model that kids emulate to be not some rich asshole jerk who disrespects people.





Sigh...I miss the smart gentleman President Obama.

JI7

(93,530 posts)
3. no, he really is a dumbfuck. stop trying to make like his fuck ups are part
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 09:56 PM
Feb 2019

of some strategy.

sagesnow

(2,887 posts)
9. But, apparently he has to deliberately over-ride the spellcheck on his phone
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 10:48 PM
Feb 2019

in order to make some of the mistakes.

SammyWinstonJack

(44,316 posts)
10. Lazy MFer can't be bothered to utter a complete sentence nevermind spelling correctly.
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 10:52 PM
Feb 2019

Intellectually lazy and willfully ignorant just like his Deplorables.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
4. I've thought that for a while, but I don't see it stopping
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 09:56 PM
Feb 2019

Too many people like to make fun of their enemies, and Trump knows it.

Brawndo

(535 posts)
6. It's anti-intellectualism. A lack of qualifications is viewed as a virtue to these people
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 10:06 PM
Feb 2019

I would encourage them to apply that "thinking" to all areas of their lives, such as picking a surgeon or managing wealth. See if those things go better with a total lack of competency.

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
11. You're giving him way too much credit.
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 11:15 PM
Feb 2019

I just think he's pretty illiterate overall. I doubt he's done much writing throughout his life. Tony Schwartz confirmed he didn't write a single word of The Art of the Deal. He's misspells those words because he's bad at writing. He's an intellectually lazy buffoon, not some criminal mastermind.

KayF

(1,345 posts)
20. in case anyone missed this author's homage to Marco Rubio
Sun Feb 3, 2019, 07:54 AM
Feb 2019
So let’s dispel once and for all with the fiction that Donald Trump doesn’t know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing.


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