So much for Trump pivoting to the middle / left.

[joshcryer]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. He can't help himself. He has no political strategy

because he thinks he's smarter than anyone else and therefore doesn't need one. He's a rank amateur and has no idea how completely incompetent he is - and this means he'll keep doubling down on his racist and otherwise obnoxious statements because that's who he is: an asshole.

Please proceed, asshole.

[joshcryer]

2. I underestimated his ego, if you can believe it.

I thought he at least could use common sense but it's like he has no filter at all. The Exodus from the Republican party is going to be swift.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. It's been suggested that he has narcissistic personality disorder.

A really, really bad case of it. But it fits, based on a few narcissists I've known who showed a lot of the same characteristics, though not as extreme.

[PJMcK]

9. Mark Cuban's comments about Donald Trump

Another real jerk, Mark Cuban, had a couple of great quotes regarding the Republican presidential candidate.

Asked in an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront" last month how smart he thinks Trump is, Cuban replied: "Probably not as smart as he thinks he is."

Cuban said he likes his "thin-skinned" fellow billionaire businessman but said Trump "has absolutely zero self-awareness. None. Zip."

The Donald is completely detached from normal life, acknowledged facts and human empathy. He clearly suffers from some kind of psychological disorder that causes him to act in unsocial ways. It could be very ugly when he hits the brick wall of reality.

[Chasstev365]

3. To paraphrase Anne Richards

Donald can't help himself; he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

[meow2u3]

7. Donald wasn't born with a silver spoon in his MOUTH

He was born with a silver spoon up his ass! It rattles every time he flaps his (anal) jaws.

[Hortensis]

4. To the middle/left/right? The man's

head is spinning. As usual.

[joshcryer]

6. He's so out of his league.

Being surrounded by reality TV execs for so many years melted what little brain he had, I think.

[TeamPooka]

8. In the tale of the scorpion and the frog, Trump is the scorpion. nt