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In reply to the discussion: How Long Have You Hated Trump? [View all]RVN VET71
(2,690 posts)It was the blatant racism of his efforts to discredit Obama that turned my stomach. Prior to that I regarded him as an egotistical douche bag who made a lot of money in NYC real estate and who screwed up royally in Atlantic City. His attack on Obama showed his nasty, foul and racist nature.
His taking credit -- if you remember -- for surfacing Obamas actual birth certificate (as if that was the reason he pursued his racist vendetta against a man who is more articulate, better educated, more intelligent and witty and physically healthy and athletic than he) signaled to me that was mentally disturbed.
I never watched the Apprentice show but all the while it was on I actually thought it was just cruel side-light to his brilliant endeavors in the business world. Yes, I said brilliant which shows how little I knew at the time.
I now despise him as a racist xenophobe, as an authoritarian wannabe, as an inept leader who nevertheless has a certain evil genius in his ability to stir up crowds of bottom feeders with a rambling speech and get many top feeders to kiss his ring with promises of greater and greater wealth to feed their greed.