These "Trump smells" threads are getting on my nerves.

[Ms. Toad]

My daughter smells too, or did until just before her 5th birthday. She had undiagnosed ulcerative colitis, which gave her uncontrollable bouts with diarrhea. I'd been fighting with her doctor who insisted nothing was wrong with her for most of a year by that point. And diapers are not much of a match for ulcerative colitis in an almost 5-year old.

She may smell again - she was hospitalized for most of a month this year while they debated removing part or all of her colon. Ostomies are much easier to handle than they used to be - but there are still ill-fitting bags, or the occasional leak.

My grandma smelled too - until she died at 101 from c. diff. A disease that gave her repeated bouts with uncontrollable diarrhea, in a nursing home that is (as most of them are) chronically understaffed.

My mom at 92 smells too. She has IBS and uncontrollable flatulence.

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Franklin Roosevelt (paralyzed from the waist down) smelled.

To be blunt, shit (and flatulence) happen. And they stink. It's a part of life, and it is more a part of life of those who are elderly, or living with disabilities that make it impossible to completely control our bowels and their output.

What are we - 12?

At the risk of sounding like a broken record - When you make fun of Trump for a condition that many people share (probably including a bunch of folks reading these threads) you are telling those people exactly what you think of them, and it ain't pretty.

Ridicule him for something other than a medical condition shared by a lot of folks we love.

[msongs]

1. you have diagnosed his medical condition? what is it? or he could just benefit from a bath once a year nt

[LeftInTX]

6. Trump used to do this to Larry King. "Your breath is very bad"

"Mind if I sit away"
Trump was BSing.

&ab_channel=AllBrevard

I think Trump stinking is probably BS. But if forces Trump to deny it, which is the funny part.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Remember he always accuses others of what he does/is

[LeftInTX]

13. Trump was 43 years old here. He was still married to Ivana.

[Ms. Toad]

21. I haven't seen any posts suggesting it is simply a bathing issue.

Well more than half suggest it is incontinence. Inability to control one's bowels a medical matter - regardless of which specfic condition caused it.

[getagrip_already]

83. If he disclosed it like a normal candidate..

Than sure, we should ignore it.

But he claims to be superhuman. He has doctors backing him up.

So no medical condition. None.

He just stinks. His soul is rotten and it can be smelled physically.

He deserves no discretion.

[SoFlaBro]

122. Pol Potbelly stinks like a shithouse rat due to b.o. and lack of personal hygiene. No medical condition. All mental.

[NJCher]

2. Rule One in Life

Don't take it personally.

[brush]

4. Excellent advise. This is about trump, and it's campaign gold.

[womanofthehills]

10. Campaign gold if you are five yrs old

Do we really need post after post of this. A gazillion other reasons not to like him.

[brush]

16. Dems should attack this monster from every angle.

From him smelling like crap, to his 4 indictments and now being a criminal suspect, to him wanting to suspend the Constitution, from him wanting to be a dictator for a day, from him using Hitler phrases about vermin and poisoning the nation's blood...from every angle.

Politics is not tiddlywinks. You damage the other guy when the opportunity presents itself.

It's our democracy at stake.

[TwilightZone]

19. Getting distracted from the real issues by silly reports that he smells...

is a monumental waste of time.

We get obsessed over the dumbest things. Compared to everything you mentioned in your post, this couldn't be more of a non-issue. It's silly and dumb, nothing more. It also just makes him look like a dope instead of the dictator-wannabe he actually is.

The assertion some are making that this is going to be a significant campaign issue is laughable.

[Ponietz]

58. Not distraction

Controlling the narrative

[Ms. Toad]

22. So it's ok to call him the "N" word, or gay to insult him?

Regardless of who using those two as insults also harms?

That's not a political movement I have any interest in being part of.

The indictments, being a criminal suspect, his intention to be a dictator or suspend the constitution are all fair game. But things like (dis)ability, obesity, etc. should not be.

[brush]

33. What are you going on about? No one said anything about calling obviously racist trump the "N" word...

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or gay. You're pretty far afield with that.

[Ms. Toad]

41. The principle is the same.

You are using personal characteristics as an insult.

[brush]

88. Personal characteristics as an insult, huh? What do you think trump calling immigrants and POCs "vermin"...

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who are poisoning the blood of the nation is?

Hard to believe someone on this board is defending that wannabe fascist creep.

[dem4decades]

102. Is not changing a dirty diaper a disability?

Just asking

[Ponietz]

81. Just the mental age I'd guess of his most rabid supporters

[debm55]

91. His most rabid supporters most likely smell too.

[Ms. Toad]

20. So it's perfectly fine to use the "N" word, or gay, or -tard as an insult - and then to tell whoever complains about it

Not to take it personally?

[NJCher]

107. you're reading more into this than is valid

which is surprising to me, because I've always enjoyed your highly intelligent posts, especially about legal matters.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Speaking against ableism is difficult here. Thanks for doing so. K&R.

[Blue Owl]

5. You do you

But if this albeit somewhat shallow and superficial issue is what brings tRump down, then I'm fucking piling on!!!

[TwilightZone]

11. It's not going to bring him down.

It's kind of hilarious that people think otherwise, though, and that this is what people have chosen to fixate on and obsess over. That's actually funnier than the reports.

We insist that the oddest, most insignificant things will surely be the end of Trump. Alas, no.

[Ms. Toad]

23. Do you really think it is a superficial matter to those on the left

who have similar issues? what does it say to him that you are screaming to high heaven about how he smells - when they know they are only one smell away from a similar attack by you - for something which is beyond their control.

[Freethinker65]

7. Yep. I also mentioned this in an earlier posted thread.

Trump could really help people with medical conditions resulting in strong body odor, halitosis, or gastric issues by coming forward, if true, and proving one can survive and thrive with such conditions. Kind of like Biden has done with stuttering issues.

Instead, it appears it is something to be ashamed of and ridiculed because of, and therefore seem worthy of coverups and denials. I detest Trump's racism, sexism, vindictiveness, cruelty, attacks on women's and minority rights, xenophobia, and other behaviors. I would much prefer the media concentrate on those behaviors and Trump's actual self serving policy proposals.

FYI: I personally suffer from UC and may very well need an ostomy some day. I practice good hygiene, and so far have been quite lucky managing my flare ups. Even so, there have been times that I may have "smelled" for a bit.

[Ms. Toad]

25. Thank you.

My daughter's hospitalization this fall was a wake-up call. She's lived with it for 30 years and this is the first time she's had a symptomatic flare. All of the doctors were appalled that her doctor had not been planning with her for the removal of her colon, given that at 30 years into the disease most people have had multiple hospitalizations and their colon is on its last leg. (That's a whole other story - their refusal to believe my daughter until two of her own doctors stepped in and confirmed everything she had told them)

I remember between her 4th birthday and her 5th birthday when went went to a ball pit/net climbing/etc. place. She was not yet diagnosed because her doctor was a jerk, wearing diapers (and about to head into kindergarten in diapers), and had an explosive BM in the middle of the ball pit. Other kids in the pit with her got fecal matter on them before the staff could close the area off. I remember being in a stall in the bathroom cleaning her off as another parent stood at the sink area (unaware I was there) berating any parent who would bring a not-yet-potty-trained kid to the common play area.

The inability to guarantee she could make it to the toilet on time, as well as reactions like that parent's, changed my child from one who cried when I picked her up from daycare because she wanted to stay into one who cried when I was going to be out of her sight.

[captain queeg]

8. I had a brother who was narcissist. I didn't take issue with people who described tfg is that manner.

It’s not an attack on someone you know who may share some traits. Personally I think it’s funny, right up there with him not being as rich as he portrays himself.

[LudwigPastorius]

12. This Trump Stinks meme is kind of like the ads the Lincoln Project puts out.

It may get under Trump's skin, and make us feel good, but it will do little to sway someone in the voting booth come November.

If anything, it's eating up bandwidth and portraying Trump as primarily a buffoon, which he is NOT. He is first and foremost a very, very dangerous criminal.

[Ocelot II]

14. Assuming it's really true that he smells bad, we still don't know why.

If it's because of incontinence or some other health problem, it seems cruel to make an issue of that, as the OP points out. But maybe it's just because he's a slob who doesn't bathe.

[debm55]

94. Or wears the same suit for five years.

[vercetti2021]

15. And?

This piece of shit is no fucking exception to getting ridiculed these dumb fucks always make fun of Joe for being sleepy or have a dementia what the fuck does it matter if we say that Donald Trump stinks he does stink

[Ms. Toad]

28. Well -

The vast majority of the comments suggest explicitly or implicitly that he is incontinent and wearing diapers. That is a medical matter - and using someone's medical condition as an insult is offensive in my book. I don't see insulting someone because of a disability (real or perceived) as any different than using any other characteristic as an insult (like being trans, gay, non-white, etc.)

[claudette]

80. Except

he is an adult he has the ways and means to wash himself, change his diaper more often or find an efficient way to eliminate odor

[Sogo]

17. Americans expect to know the health status of their President and, by extension, their

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Presidential candidates.

Their health, or lack thereof, can most definitely factor into a person's vote.

[Ms. Toad]

29. There is a difference between considering it as a factor

And using it for ridicule.

Should Roosevelt have been disqualified because he was paralyzed from the waist down and, at least part of his life, unable to go to the bathroom without assistance? In my opinion that is not a disqualifier for being president.

But whether it is in your mind or not, considering it in determining capability to be president is different from flinging it at him as an insult.

[brush]

101. Oh, please. Ridiculing people is trump's stock in trade. That's all he does to opponents.

Are you for getting "little Mario", "Sleepy Joe", "Low Enery Jeb". "Crooked Hillary.?"

Why are you defending the king of ridicule?

[Srkdqltr]

18. WE dont know if this is true .... Could be he dosnt ... This is not going to bring him down.

Just makes you all sound stupid.

Getting on my nerves too.

Lately these ops have gotten juvenile to the point of being unreadable.

[JI7]

27. Trump claims he is the healthiest and fittest person in the world

You describe cases of medical and health conditions people have.

What does that have to do with Trump ?

[Ms. Toad]

31. If he is, in fact, incontinent (as at least half of the posts about it suggest),

claims aside, he has a medical condition that causes it.

and using a medical condition as an insult is offensive. When you insult Trump because he stinks, I know exactly how you feel about my my daughter, grandma, mother, and anyone else who has bodily odors they are unable to control. I've been in the room plenty of times when someone used gay as an insult, because they didn't realize I was listening; or suggest that a rape victim asked for it - because they didn't realize I was listening; trashed native americans as drunks, because they didn't realize I was listening. No matter what those people said later, I knew how they really felt about me - because of the things they said about me when they didn't know I fell into the category they were trashing.

[0rganism]

30. Plus, it's a weak attack that could easily backfire

The further we all go down this road, the more damage done if President Biden so much as farts outdoors. Eventually, if anyone in Biden's cabinet or immediate family flatulates publicly, it will become front page news and an audio clip of said release will find it's way into every podcast and morning zoo radio show, because that's how the media treats Democrats and their families -- if we pretend otherwise, we'll pay the PR price.

It's a foolish and cruel line of attack, coming complete with the seeds of its own destruction. I hope it recedes within a week.

[Aussie105]

32. The simple truth:

Old people who don't look after their health tend to smell.

If your kidneys can't cope with the diet you had in your youth, volatile organic compounds are excreted through your skin.
And farts, if your gut biome is off balance.
And that smells. Wafts of sewage works.
No matter how many showers you have in a day.
And you won't feel very healthy while oozing stink from every pore in your body.

But . . . if you are a narcissist, think you are immortal and hell bent on revisiting the White House as the head occupant, you are going to live in a state of total denial.
So I'm guessing Trump stinks at times. If so, he needs to take notice.

(I'm old. Given up any form of meat, try to avoid greasy foods. I feel better and smell less. Wife still tells me I stink. Thanks, dear!)

But let's be honest.
Trump has done 101 (at least) things that should have knocked him out of the ballpark as far as being a serious political candidate.
And it hasn't happened yet.
So all that is left is . . . personal attacks! Hoping he will throw a big sulk and just GO AWAY!

[not a texan]

34. I will take it if it works

His lack of tax returns, we still haven't seen them
He rapes women
He gives security secrets to the Russians
He ties to overturn an election
He enriched himself from foreign governments while president
and so many more, if this is what takes him down so what. Nothing else has hurt his chances of being president again. Remember a joyous expression took down Dean after winning the New Hampshire primary many years ago. I will go with whatever removes this shit stain from public office forever

[muriel_volestrangler]

56. Thank you for reminding us he's a rapist

That is a fundamental reason he should be rejected by everyone - and it was decided in a court of law, by a jury. That should be something we constantly use to describe him.

[texasfiddler]

35. This thread is why DU irritates me and why I keep coming back

I love America and democracy!

[Pototan]

36. I'm gonna guess that your daughter does not...

...make fun of or abuse others who may be disabled or have other appearances that may make them subject to social ridicule. I'm sure you and your daughter are people with kindness and empathy for others.

Donald Trump does not. Fuck him.

[Ms. Toad]

43. Not the point at all.

When you say or type scorn and ridicule about someone because they smell, you are proclaiming to anyone who reads or hears them what you really feel about anyone who smells.

How Trump behaves is completely irrelevant - it is YOUR choice to use personal characteristics as insults that targets everyone with those characteristics.

Find something other than his odor (or his weight) to criticize him. It's not like he is a perfect person. I'm sure there are one or two other things you can find to criticize him for.

[BeyondGeography]

54. Oh but it is like he is a perfect person

Just ask him.

[kcr]

113. Sorry, but it is very much the point

[Orrex]

37. I've struggled not to mock him for it

Part of me feels like he should be attacked and ridiculed with every weapon available to us, and that includes his age, his health, his weight, his intellect, and so on. He certainly would make use of such insults, and indeed he has done so many times before. In that sense, it seems not unreasonable to mock him by those same criteria, tarring him with his own brush.

But about two years ago a friend called me out for using ableist insults. I truly hadn't realized that I'd been doing it, but once I was made aware, I couldn't help seeing myself doing it, and I hated it.

Better to attack someone's actions and their thinking and their statements. In most cases they have control of these, so it's fitting to go after things that they've done by choice.

But a medical condition? Or diminished physical or mental capacity? Absolutely off-limits.

If we want to be better than Trump's ignorant KKKult, we have to be better than his ignorant KKKult.


Disclaimer: if he's simply maintaining poor hygiene and has no relevant medical condition to explain it, then the gloves are off.

[Ms. Toad]

48. Same here -

There are things I say that I just don't recognize are racist, ablist, etc. If it is not my lived experience. I am always grateful when it is pointed out to me (either by a direct conversation or at times when I see the expression on someone's face and I try to reconstruct what I just said).

The problem with taking the gloves off if it is unrelated to a medical condition is that at least half of what is being said ties it explicitly or implicitly to incontinence. Incontinence is always the result of a medical condition. It would be hard to draw the line separating out "it's just hygeine" from the barbs about him being incontinent.

[Easterncedar]

79. I appreciate your speaking up

I’m very sorry for what you and your daughter have suffered.

I daresay you have opened some minds.

[tinrobot]

38. We are not 12 - but Trump acts like a 12 year old, as does many of his followers

If this is the one thing that gets under their skin, then so be it.

[Ms. Toad]

47. You should have stopped at We are not 12.

If we are not 12, then we need to stop acting as if we were.

[tinrobot]

97. But it is not about us.

You're not going to sway most 12 year olds with reasoned and nuanced discussions of policy.

Sometimes "that guy stinks" is more effective.

[nowforever]

39. Personal hygiene is critical

Trump is a vain imbecile and his failure to even notice his malodorous state puts at question his functionality and mental ststus.
I want his followers to be aware he soils himself and is incapable of recognizing or remedying his smelly condition. It's another indication this indolent fetid fraud deserves to be eliminated as a candidate for President.

[Ms. Toad]

45. Because soiling ones self is horrible, right?

My point is that it is not. It is the result of a medical condition - whether temporary or permanent. It is not a thing of shame.

Treating it as if it was, and using it to ridicule, makes it harder for people - especially those with chronic conditions that make continence impossible and/or unpredictable.

There is plenty of evidence that his mind is not capable of managing all of the affairs he must as president, without ridiculing what is (if true as alleged) is a medical condition.

[Goodheart]

119. I think it is, yes, for a certain orange man who has made a campaign of mocking other people.

It's horrible for trump. Nobody is disparaging your daughter.

[BootOutTheGoons]

40. I wish I could feel the same but I can't

I would love very much to "kill 'em with kindness" and play nice with these goons. I do feel for what your daughter went through. Don't get me wrong. It's impossible for me to show any sympathy or compassion for Dolt 45

That compassion and sympathy is all going out to the people being harmed and threatened by this madman. Ol' Boots has many people that they care about who will be gravely hurt by TFG should he seize the White House again. I'm far more worried about them than by Groper Don's ego or his cult's feelings

As Wes Unseld once said "For 48 minutes you and I were going to knock heads. If you had something weak about you I was going to exploit it and make it weaker.

If we need to throw dirt in their eyes so be it. We must win and sadly we can't get caught up on playing nice. Too much is at stake and too many will suffer if we don't win.

I wish it weren't this way

[Ms. Toad]

42. This has absolutely nothing to do with killing Trump with kindness.

It has to do with not killing innocent bystanders with your scorn when you use personal characteristics (weight, race, gender identity, medical conditions) as an insult. When you use these things to throw dirt in their eyes, you also throw it in my eyes (as the daughter, mother, and granddaughter of people who smell), or as an lgbt person, etc. I'm sure you'd say you didn't mean "me" but once it has flown from your fingers, it is too late to take back the scorn I have already felt when you weren't aware I was listening.

[BootOutTheGoons]

44. "Trump stinks" isn't about your daughter or anyone but Trump

It's about Trump and only Trump. Nor is finding a new instrument to bludgeon him with the same as his constant threats against his targets

[Ms. Toad]

46. But it is.

I can't tell you how many times I have sat invisible in a room while people used my own personal characteristics as an insult - without knowing they were doing it. Virtually none of them would have done so had I been wearing a label (gay, rape survivor, etc.). I know that because I make it a point of having a conversation with many of them after the fact. I'm also sure you've been in a room when someone said something derrogatory about race, gender, medical conditions, then realized someone in that category was there, turned, and said, "But of course I didn't mean you." It happens all the time - and the speaker did mean me - or they wouldn't have tried to take it back when they realized their foot was in their mouth.

If you wouldn't say it when you know I'm there, you shouldn't be saying it at all.

[pfitz59]

49. His stench is a legitimate issue

for a man who will meet other heads of state, and national political leaders. If his stink is a distraction, it will undermine negotiations. If he does have a treatable medical issue, he has the opportunity to use 'the bully puppet' to educate others and improve their lives. By all means get to the bottom of it (pun intended) and clear the air (ditto).

[Ms. Toad]

51. Hmm . . .

You're acting as if he didn't already spend 4 years meeting and negotiating with other heads of state.

[pfitz59]

52. and do you recall their expressions?

universal dislike. and distaste.

[Goodheart]

120. Correct.

[Hekate]

50. I think it mostly makes the board & its members look childish, & it grates. But your points are well taken too.

[canetoad]

53. Yes, the threads are distasteful and tiresome

But like every other hot topic on DU, they will pass with time.

While it's a hot topic, I'm prepared to cut a bit of slack. I know the comments are not directed at people suffering gastro-intestinal illness. I believe there is no cruelty intended EXCEPT to the ego of Donald J Trump.

How glorious would it be if, despite his treachery, his alliances with facists, his attempt to undermine American democracy, he was brought down by a very basic physical complaint - the inability to control his bowel movements.

As I write, I'm battling nausea, headaches, diarrhea and fatigue - side effects of an immuno-suppresant medication. As supposedly educated adults, our job is to parse these comments to decide if they are an insensitive, broadbrush comment denigrating all people experiencing the same condition....or...

Are they celebrating, and I think reasonably, any affliction suffered by Donald Trump in return for the damage he has inflicted on America?

[czarjak]

55. Had a co-worker once who must have had a chemial imbalance.

Just had a funky odor to himself even after you knew he had just showered.

[FakeNoose]

103. I've known people who shower regularly, but don't use deodorant

It's not always about cleanliness, because the b.o. smell follows them everywhere. It's on their clothes, even when their body is clean. It happens regularly and they aren't aware that they smell. As a matter of fact I've been to Germany on several occasions and I can tell you that many Germans don't use deodorant, despite the fact that cleanliness is important to them.

In Chump's case, the smell may be adult diapers that he doesn't bother to change often enough. Or maybe it's some other reason, I don't know. But he's apparently oblivious to the smell, and he's the only one.

This is someone who should not be chosen to lead our nation if his awareness level is that low.
It's ONE MORE SIGN that he needs to be permanently retired and out of the public eye.

[hlthe2b]

57. I can understand and am sorry this is causing you so much distress.

[lanlady]

59. Trump, a modern-day Louis XIV?

Louis the "Sun King" apparently bathed only 3 times in his adult life out of fear of catching diseases. There were accounts of people fainting in his Royal Presence, not because they were awed by his magnificence but because he stank so bad. Quelle odeur!

According to this article, Louis' stench filled up Versailles:

https://dkmc194.medium.com/louis-xiv-was-the-smelliest-king-of-all-time-a81458b435be#:~:text=Louis%20XIV%20was%20said%20to,to%20his%20already%20reeking%20body.

[Ponietz]

60. 100 million Ids follow him

The Ids lack critical thinking skills, don’t care if he’s a rapist, but will understand that he reeks. Gloves are off.

LIVES ARE IN DANGER.
HELLO?

[mopinko]

61. it bothers me that for all the things he's done, this is the 1 that will sick. but

i think it has legs cuz of the reason- long term drug abuse.
and it’s just the ultimate “emperor’s new clothes”. it goes back decades. and it shows how much fealty ppl show him.

[Scrivener7]

68. Yes. But this IS the one that will stick. And I say, keep it going.

The defendant is not a child with a medical condition. The two things being compared are not the same.

[mopinko]

72. i'll take it, fersher.

but how the hell did he keep it a secret for at least a decade?

[Scrivener7]

75. He didn't, really. The guy who worked on the Apprentice came out with this before 2016. It's just

what the media allowed to get through.

I imagine this time it helps that the one saying it was an elected republiQan.

That's another reason why this is effective, though distasteful. The powers that be in the media will not be able to stop it once it gets to a certain level of social media saturation.

[North Shore Chicago]

62. Personally, his royal stinkiness posts are hilarious.

I am guilty of being childlike but not childish.

It's okay to laugh at this, it really is. All of these immature posts are quite necessary for my mental well being.

[Glamrock]

63. We are dealing with a narcissist. Vanity overrides this personality type.

We need to throw everything including the kitchen sink at this asshole. You know as well as everyone else, he’ll have an absolute meltdown over this. His vanity will over rule all logic. His court cases, his candidacy, everything will fall wayside to defending whether or not he smells like shit. It’s time to bring guns to the knife fight because our democracy hangs in the balance. The “if they go low, we go high” approach has been proven not to work. We ARE dealing with “12 year old” attacks. We have to fight them at their level. This thing has legs and we need to use it to knock him off his game.

[Zambero]

71. Absolutely. "If Joe stutters, it shows he's senile"

Michelle Obama's "going high when they go low" worked at the time, but it's a different universe these days. Either we fight back relentlessly and battle on the same field of perception or allow MAGA to control the narrative and reap the benefits of their fake equivalency. There is no disrespect intended for those who suffer from health issues such as incontinence. This is targeted toward an individual who has elevated himself by tearing others down, as individuals and as entire demographics. Atop his high horse, he stinks to high heaven in more ways than one. Let it be known.

[ProfessorGAC]

64. Oh Brother!

Finding an insult we know bothers a person whose game is insulting people is not an issue over which to get offended.
Just silly to make the connections to your family.

[Goodheart]

117. Indeed.

[Autumn]

65. If only there was some way of not seeing those irritating pesky threads.

[North Shore Chicago]

66. Hah!

[Doc Sportello]

76. Welll done! n/t

[ecstatic]

67. Thanks for sharing, but those threads are not about your loved ones.

They are about the biggest online bully in the history of the planet. Someone who spends every day and night insulting others. A so-called billionaire whose recklessness and incompetence has killed at least a million people. Someone who signed up for public life and has inserted himself into every hour of our lives.

The problem with hall monitoring posts is, where does it end? Will the next request say to stop mocking his constant lying and narcissism? Or that we shouldn't mock his 91+ felony charges? After all, there are good narcissists and good people with indictments.

But I would encourage everyone to stay on task and focus. We are fighting for our lives here. Republicans attack us from every single angle and we have to try to do the same. The threads about trump are not about you, your family, or good people. They are about trump specifically. Save your pity for people who actually deserve it.

[Emile]

70. ++++++++100000

[Ferrets are Cool]

69. Is it a medical condition?

Or is he just to conceited to know that he smells to high heaven? The posts don't bother me at all. And if they did, I would just hide them.

[pwb]

73. What a stretch.

Come on man. Trump smells and farts and shits himself just to offend people. He is a Pigman in every way.

[BannonsLiver]

86. The OP is very on brand with this one.

That is all.

[ismnotwasm]

74. Trump is an evil motherfucker and I take absolute joy in any humiliation he is subject to.

He is also a POWERFUL evil motherfucker who has caused pain and suffering all over the world. He is an expert at marketing his name brand. He turns his most heinous behavior into profit.

The reaction to the idea he stinks is not something easily used that way and can cause real damage to his campaign.

I am completely here for it.

[claudette]

77. It is most likely

NOT a medical condition or we would have heard about it. It is poor hygiene which is a deliberate character flaw in a world where soap and water are plentiful

[Think. Again.]

78. trump stinks.

[Earth-shine]

82. To complain about the mention of a thing, is to again mention that thing.

Ironically, you are helping to keep the Trump smells meme alive.

My wife and I were joking last night that one of the things that makes ours a happy marriage is that we laugh at each other's farts. I further joked that I sneak extra beans into her dinners.

[bluestarone]

84. When i see threads i dislike, i

Just stay away? That's how you should handle it. EVERYONE is different right?

[BannonsLiver]

85. Nobody's talking about your daughter.

Calm down. 🙄🙄

[Silent Type]

87. Vileness stinks. But understand your point.

[Firestorm49]

89. If you don't like "stink" posts, don't open them.

[apnu]

90. Its petty shaming, and we are better than that.

We, liberals and progressives, claim the high ground.

Body shaming of any kind is not what we are about. Its what the Right is about.

[Earth-shine]

110. Seems to me the OP is doing the petty shaming. It's par for the course with that poster.

[LuckyCharms]

111. C'mon already.

[kcr]

114. Agreed

100%

[Marthe48]

92. if he smells bad it is on purpose

He won't adhere to any other standard of human decency, why observe something as basic as hygiene?

[gulliver]

93. No concern whatsoever.

It's a completely separate issue. The ridicule of Trump helps us laugh at him, and, as human beings, we're allowed to laugh. We all smell. Well, you all do. I have no odor.

[Yavin4]

95. As always, if you don't like a thread topic, you can ignore or trash it.

Not everyone is going to like every thread on every topic.

[BannonsLiver]

99. So now Trump is disabled?

GMAFB

Poor poor Don with all the meanies on the internet making fun of his funk. It’s sooooooo sad and wrong.

🙄

[treestar]

104. It is not a disability

With trump. It is his choices.

[TheBlackAdder]

98. There is definitely an air of putridness to them.

[nilram]

105. It's indirect. His smell is a result of his addictions.

And his addiction(s)—really, being untreated and in denial—is what makes him unsuitable to be President. I’m not one of the people making fun, but I’m glad to see it discussed in the media since it’s part of this larger picture.

I agree with you, that we are better people when we accept the things we (it others) can’t change. I really don’t care that what’s-his-name looks like a turtle, or what’s-her-name has a pronounced Adam’s apple. I care about the evil, evil policies that they stand behind and the ugliness that’s apparently in their hearts.

[Melon]

118. What are his addictions?

What are his addictions that would cause you to smell? I know drinkers that smell but Trump doesn’t drink..

[nilram]

121. Adderall, reportedly

[usedtobedemgurl]

106. I totally get where you are coming from.

If everyone doing it out of meanness and being bullies, I would jump on your bandwagon.

I have not seen anyone joyfully acting like a bully over this. Instead, u think people are celebrating karma. The guy who is so superficial he would throw out a friend or spouse if they had an odor, is experiencing what he would ostracize others for.

One of my sons had problems when he was in grade school. He always had extra pants and underwear: it was hard for him. If people were being bullying about it, the way Drump always is, I would be the first to step up and tell everyone to knock it off. When it hits so close to home, it is sometimes hard to separate this stuff and not take it personally. Maybe I missed the horrible stuff but if I read anything of a bullying nature, I would have stepped up and asked what board I am on…check my post history, I have done it before. At least for me, this is about his narcissism and how karma is slapping him in the face with it.

[brewens]

109. Roger that. It's in the real of he/they have it coming to them. No slight on anyone else that would have such problems

they cannot help. They are not claiming to be the "Chosen one" or have millions of followers that fall for that. I would think God would endow his "chosen one" with the ability to control his bowel movements and clean himself.

I can say one thing. If I was out of shape and put myself in front of a crowd in a Trump costume, I might not smell so great either after a while! LOL
It would only be that kind of gym thing when you bust your ass before a shower. Not a poopy stench! LOL

And BTW. I'm 62 and work up that kind of sweat exercising every other day at least.

[sop]

108. By your impossibly high standards saying anything derogatory about anyone, even though richly deserved,

would be wrong simply because someone else might be offended. Yeah, that's a bridge too far for most people.

[kacekwl]

112. President Biden trips every

now and then and stinky and the media say he's to old to be president. This guy can't control his bowels his mouth or his criminal actions but he's just trump being trump. Maybe he should step aside and let the next fascist step up. Fuck him.

[tenderfoot]

115. Oh well.

eom

[Goodheart]

116. Wait... we're supposed to equate a man running for President (of all things), who mocks everybody else in sight,

who frequently asserts that Joe Biden is too feeble and demented for the job, with a 5 year old in the hospital and a 92 year old in a nursing facility?