I was wrong about Trump
American Thinker,
by
M.B. Mathews
Original Article
Posted By: pros7767,
7/27/2022 9:43:18 AM
I recently wrote a column about why I believed Trump should not run in 2024. I was wrong. I allowed my distaste for Trump’s personality to override his virtues, which are considerable. Some people want Trump without his vices. I was among them -- until yesterday, when I watched and listened to Tom Klingenstein’s speech titled “Trump’s virtues.” It was masterful and shamed me that I did not make the distinction between Trump's character and his virtues, the former being deeply flawed, the latter being almost perfect. I need to man up in my defense of the former President's virtues.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
hershey 7/27/2022 9:55:49 AM (No. 1229956)
Sorry but there is not a damn thing wrong with his character..he love America and Americans....and despises the leftists running amok...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/27/2022 9:56:15 AM (No. 1229957)
When asked to describe her father, Ivanka said “he is blunt”. Blunt is defined as “uncompromisingly forthright”. That is not a failure of character. We are plagued with far too many among the voters and our politicians who prefer appearing to be “nice” to being straightforward. To calling persons and situations as they see them. Those who fussed and clucked about his tweets apparently missed the fact that the media. the Dems, and the Uniparty Republicans turned his words against him when he was quoted. So he decided that putting out his own “news” in his own voice, his own words. was the only way he could get his messages out without distortion.
How quickly we forget. As for this guy, he woke up and realized what a good life he’d had with Trump and how awful it had become when Biden took over. His epiphany and that of the person who “inspired” his change of heart occurred because they realized how petty they had been. What they had lost.
President Trump’s “character being deeply flawed”? How so? That’s a heavy accusation. Explan what you mean.
I could not be bohered reading this twit.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
FLCracker 7/27/2022 10:15:58 AM (No. 1229987)
When you watched the movie "The Dirty Dozen", did you root for the title characters?
How many of them would want living in your neighborhood?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
broken01 7/27/2022 10:18:10 AM (No. 1229988)
I often ask my leftist democrat Biden voting relatives what was their main issue with PDJT. They say the usual dimwit CNN talking points but what they say right off grip is that he's harsh, blunt or abrasive. To that I say he was the President of the United States who during his time in office put AMERICANS first. Not illegal alien criminals, not rogue nations bent on doing us harm, not taxpayer money slobbering political hack democrats and RINOs but us. He's not your friend and if you want that buy a dog or in a leftist's case a gerbil. The author of this piece found that out. Too bad a vast majority of people still don't get it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Moritz55 7/27/2022 10:18:25 AM (No. 1229989)
Excellent article. Thanks for posting.
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Another milquetoast writer finally sprouts a pair. Perhaps he will learn to do his own thinking. Right.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/27/2022 11:02:02 AM (No. 1230052)
My bidet voting daughter always says, per MSNBCNN, that it was his mean tweets! I believe she's starting to appreciate mean tweets and $1.79/qallon gas!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
raspberry 7/27/2022 11:11:34 AM (No. 1230062)
Why cannot these stupid people learn to separate policy from personality??
I do not want a nice guy as my general or my President! The presidency is not a popularity contest.
It is all about policy and accomplishments.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
vinegrower 7/27/2022 11:17:48 AM (No. 1230075)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-GAw1lLWJA&ab_channel=TomKlingenstein
Listen to the speech
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/27/2022 11:21:35 AM (No. 1230083)
Poster#2- I really think you did yourself a disservice by not reading the article, in my humble opinion!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 7/27/2022 11:32:41 AM (No. 1230098)
#2, I love your posts and understand your reticence re this article.
But I encourage you to read it. (See #12).
I think you will find it encouraging — and even uplifting.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/27/2022 11:59:31 AM (No. 1230133)
I love Trump's Get-In-Their-Face personality. Some of our 'esteemed' Democrats do it all the time and their public loves it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/27/2022 12:35:49 PM (No. 1230161)
My formerly hardcore Dem granddaughter cut me off a few years ago because I had her on my mailing list for conservative articles. Then one day in 2016 I got an email from her, telling me that she was all in for Trump and that her town in the Central Valley (CA) was loaded with Trump signs. She then kept telling ME how great Trump was!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/27/2022 12:39:42 PM (No. 1230166)
OK. I read it.
I haven’t changed my opinion of this Milquetoast. Now, how will he get his Biden vote back? And what will educate him that personality quirks are not “character”? Maybe he’ll convince someone, but why did it take him so long?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/27/2022 1:03:49 PM (No. 1230181)
Those TaliBiden and Never Trump people are the same ones who had no issue at all with Bill Clinton’s character. In fact, they flatly stated that character didn’t matter in a president.
I’m perfectly fine with Trump’s character. He’s a fighter who doesn’t pull his punches and that’s what we need in a president.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 7/27/2022 1:38:22 PM (No. 1230194)
I’m especially thankful that President Trump saved our country from President Hillary Crooked Clinton. Too many states were turning in to one party controlled states. Thanks to Trump and now Biden, most people can see the difference between control your own life v we know better and will control you.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 7/27/2022 2:03:04 PM (No. 1230210)
I have been saying similar things for years, with one significant exception, there is nothing wrong with Trump's character. The only people he attacks are people who attack him. Then he attacks to win. He went after the media, labeling them "Fake news". Almost 90% of those now polled think the media is NOT credible. That's an astonishing correlation to Trump's accusation. Yet, at the time, with media smearing him nightly, many thought Trump was "mean" to unreservedly go after media. Note, he did not try to do anything politically against them or sic the FBI on them, he accurately labeled them and let them spin themselves into near oblivion. Harsh, perhaps. Deserved, absolutely. You can't defend yourself OR THE COUNTRY from rabid dog progressives by being polite about it.
Further, I doubt there has ever been a president that has been all sweetness and light. You can't be a Pollyanna and run this country, especially in the heated political times of today.
The complainers that went after Trump did so because they couldn't assault his obviously successful policies so they fell back on their preferred method of attack, character assassination. It is to many people's disgrace that they fell for the garbage.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
cedar 7/27/2022 2:04:41 PM (No. 1230211)
When people say "I like Trump but do not like all the mean tweets", I often reply "but he says things that we think but don't say" and he stands up for us.
In the TV series "The Americans" about foreign spies living in plain sight and often next door, one of the spies made the observation that "The Americans are weak". Donald Trump is not weak and that is why he has a huge base. And, that is why the swamp hates him -- because he is relentless in fighting for his people and for America.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rinktum 7/27/2022 2:13:10 PM (No. 1230218)
I don’t get it. So Trump is a clodhopper but the lying democrats who say the most outrageous and cutting things are offended because he speaks the truth? Donald J. Trump doesn’t offend them, it is the truth that triggers them! No one has ever spoken to democrats, Rinos, and the dishonest media like PDT does and they deserve every mean tweet and off the cuff comment. Look what they have done to this country and tell me that Trump is unworthy of the office. We have a lawless cabal of American communists attempting to destroy us. Pardon me if I can’t dredge up an iota of sympathy for these evil monsters. Give me Trump, at least he fights for what he knows is right.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
red1066 7/27/2022 2:34:54 PM (No. 1230246)
Unless your weak and don't like his tweets, Trump is just fine. My concern is the MSM attacks that will follow any announcement of another run for pres. While the MSM will try REAL HARD to deny Trump any positive publicity, the comparison between what people have witnessed over the last two years with the demosluts and Biteme in charge, as compared to what the country was like when Trump was in charge, is like night and day.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
danu 7/27/2022 4:29:06 PM (No. 1230322)
I should think ppl would be deathly ill from listening to slick liars, phantasists, pervs, and thieves
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Hermoine 7/27/2022 4:54:22 PM (No. 1230337)
Policy over Personality. Fighter over Nice Guy. It's really that simple.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Omen55 7/27/2022 6:26:41 PM (No. 1230390)
Trump is the political Patton.
So I don't care about his faults I just want him to grease the treads of our tanks with dem.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/27/2022 6:38:37 PM (No. 1230403)
Donald Trump’s worst personality traits are far less offensive than that desiccated corrupt pervert Joe Biden’s best.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/27/2022 7:07:24 PM (No. 1230443)
The whole "mean tweet" meme as a Trump virtue is nonsensical. I detest Twitter and the idea of governing via tweets, even polite tweets with sugar on top. I voted for Trump twice in spite of his fascination with Twitter and many here who also aren't Twitter mavens and apologists have indicated that they would vote for him again, should he be the GOP nominee in 2024. Whatever causes a certain segment of our population to hate Trump should not have gasoline poured on it. However entertaining some may find that, if it contributed to installing Biden then it should be avoided if there is a round 3.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/27/2022 9:55:25 PM (No. 1230573)
I understood why he tweeted. Why do others have so much difficulty remembering what was going on?
As for his not being a nice guy, he was known to be kind - except to his enemies.
I hope the cluckers don’t show up this time around. Those who were like the busybody biddies in “The Music Man”...
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A great analysis of the importance of President Trump in this time for our country.