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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: Trump To America: "Trust Me!" Trump To 4-Year-Old Son: "Don't. Trust. Me. Ever." [View all]Mc Mike
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He told his kid "Everthing I say is true. This statement is a lie."
You don't send a 4 year old to school, junior. You don't worry about the 4 year old falling in with the wrong crowd, or smoking, drinking, and doing drugs. And your little life story shows you ARE a loser, just like your old man. I mean, it's deeply touching and moving and all, really humanizes your dad to the rest of the world, offers us a great insight into his genius in both business and parenting terms, etc. But in the end, your garbled lie of a story shows you're a loser flim-flam man who spins lame, lying stories. Just like poppa dRumfenfuhrer. A real chip off the block.
Incidentally, one of my favorite conversation starters with little kids is this: when I'm interacting with any kid relative of mine, who is just in the early stages of talking and thinking, I like to ask them "Hey, do you know what?"
It's interesting to watch the gears turning in their minds from the expression on their faces, when they know I'm asking them a standard form question, but don't know "what" it is. They've got well developed cognitive processes, that haven't translated over to vernacular speech yet. They try to bring all their experienced memory and knowledge and conversational interactions to bear, and display a combination of highly mobilized intellectual pondering and confused suppositional rejection, that alternates from moment to moment. Their faces offer a fascinating and edifying show.
None of them ever get hurt or mad at me for it, though it is a bit rotten. But it's not daddy drump level rotten.
Sometimes, some of the precocious little s.o.b.s will just say "What?", and blow the whole show out of the water. My fallback position is to say "Oh, you know that one", and leave the conversation at that.