Do you think Trump can be contained/maintained/trained????

[skip fox]

I don't.

He may never speak about the judge again, but Trump's main reason for having a stage is to brag. He will only discuss ideas, propose solutions, and demand actions in order to puff himself up around these proto-issues.

It's not in his nature in his nature to care more about such issues than about himself. He will not subordinate his sense of his male superiority to matters of the moment. He is his own raison d'etre.

[tonyt53]

1. Nope. Not a chance in hell. Hillary will make him explode during their first debate too.

[bigwillq]

2. No (nt)

[annabanana]

3. He would be miserable trying to be "good".. Check out his record of

submission to authority to figure out his chances.

We should takes bets on how long he "behaves"

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. And Trump, he's a full-tilt diva, right? He wants flowers, he wants parades. He wants a monument

built to the skies with this name plastered on it.

To paraphrase Tony Stark.

[mainstreetonce]

5. No

and even if they muzzled him through the campaign with scripted speeches, what happens if he were to reach the WH?

He is dangerous, not because his finger would be on the button, because he uses bigotry and hatred as weapons of political power.

[malaise]

6. No no no! n/t

[Arkansas Granny]

7. No. He has too much ugliness inside him to keep it contained.

Sooner or later, he'll blow.

[DetlefK]

8. Nope, because they have no leverage over him.

How can his trainers possibly punish him if he steps out of line?

What is there to maintain when he changes his positions constantly and those he doesn't change are toxic?

How can Trump be talked into behaving differently when he attributes his success to himself instead of political climate and luck?

[redstatebluegirl]

9. Giving him some downers might work.

[Doctor Jack]

31. He would just throw out racist tirades slower

But beyond that, it wouldn't change anything

[tavernier]

10. No.

Not even for money.

[tanyev]

11. No. What I want to know is whether GOPers saying he can are merely lying to us,

or whether they are also lying to themselves?

[patricia92243]

12. NO! It is not that he won't, it's he can't. He has mental problems that

way proceeded the GOP. I've wonder if he has always been quirky, but with age has become totally nuts. (I'm older than he is.)

That speech last night was so obviously not his, but I would think the writer would make some effort to make it sound like Trump.

He cannot and will not stick to a script. He knows best - just ask him!

[etherealtruth]

13. No, his opinion of himself is way too high

[Johonny]

14. If he is contained...won't that hurt his brand? Without the Wall, deporting Muslims, etc

He'd have to talk about issues and policy. He has no issues or policies. It's not like people are going to forget he's a racist and certainly Hillary isn't going to let them forget so I don't see the upside for him. He won by being a racist sexist *. If he tries not to be that guy he's likely to alienate the voters he has left all to win who? Sure everyone needs to win the independent undecided voter (I.E. really stupid people) but they never break for candidates until September-October. That means Donald has to put on an act for months! Based on that I think its safe to say after a mild period of the new Donald, he will breakout the racist rants again. It is who he is and more importantly what got him the nomination.

[meow2u3]

15. Not a chance

tRump is too far gone to change and he's like FrankenGOP: a monster of the repukes' own creation that will sprial out of control if he gets his fingers on the nuclear code. God help all of us should that happen.

[TeamPooka]

16. apply the questions to Godzilla. Same answer as Trump. nt

[bullwinkle428]

17. He'll go "full asshole" on some brand new thing within the next week.

Stone-cold lock.

[hatrack]

18. He turns 70 next week, and he's a raging belligerant narcissist . . .

If he hasn't mastered some modicum of decent human behavior by the age of 70, inhabiting the Oval Office, or capturing the GOP nomination will have precisely zero influence on his non-existent impulse control and shouty ass-hattery.

He's a shit-stained, infantile force of human nature.

[gratuitous]

25. That's my thought: If he's not housebroken yet, he ain't gonna get there in a month

Besides, bluster and bombast have gotten him this far in life, one step away from the presidency. He's suddenly going to sit down and listen to some political adviser tell him how to act? If the adviser's so great, why isn't he running for president?

[skip fox]

19. I have a feeling we're all right on this.

But I think he might behave for up to 2 weeks.

[Greywing]

21. The only way he can behave is to stay off tv and that is something he just won't do

After all that is how he speaks to his "base".

[mcar]

20. No

And I welcome the implosion.

[HuckleB]

22. No. It's just a game to him.

It's all about "reality TV."

[gollygee]

23. No

And he'll resent having people tell him what to do. Even if they get him buttoned up, he'll eventually tire of it and want to mouth off again.

[GulfCoast66]

24. does not matter

Did you see him trying to use a teleprompter? The dumb asshole has made fun of a skill he can't master!!!

He was, if possible, even worse than the unhinged trump. And it is an ad that writes itself. Have him making fun of Obama using a teleprompter while giving the speech of his life and then show trump trying to do the same and looking like a, well like he looked last night..

I am a very good public speaker when speaking about a subject I know well and using bullet points. But it takes a sharper mind than mine to use a teleprompter. That is the irony of beating up someone for using one. Using one of those things is an indicator of a sharp mind. The few time I tried to use one it was infuriating. And I am not a politician...I am in Agriculture!!

[larkrake]

26. no

[notadmblnd]

27. I think we're going to see a more scripted Donald in the future

[deaniac21]

28. He is going for

all the people that are fed up with the status quo. Low info independents. This is uncharted territory, who knows what can happen. Long way to go.

[ailsagirl]

29. A thousand times NO!!!

Apparently he has always bulldozed, bullied, and lied his way through life with positive results (i.e., getting his own way). I don't think he has ever been sorry, or would ever admit he's wrong, in a million years. I just don't think he's geared that way. He'll go to his grave a selfish, self-centered, loud-mouthed, racist, misogynistic boor

If ever there was a face in need of a punch, his is at the top of the list!!

[Albertoo]

30. "He is his own raison d'etre"

Most narcissistic candidate ever in a field rife with prime donne