Trump the Chump (Part 1)

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Thatā€™s useful, thanks!

In the States, too, if the government owes you money and the check became void because it was written too long ago, technically you are supposed to be able to request a replacement. No idea how well that would work right now, though.

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Whose test is that?

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Ah, sorry, thought it was clear that itā€™s a joke example of trumpā€™s results. This being the Trump the Chump thread and all.

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Ah, thanks! I did think that was likely, based on the other results, but didnā€™t want to assume.

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I guess the tiny hand should have given it away, but I was also confused.

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Hah!

Allow me to share some frank thoughts about the president:

The orangutan in the White House is less refined than a savage. He is a fool, an irresolute, vacillating imbecile. He is an idiot, of low intellectual capacity. He is a barbarian, a yahoo, a gorilla ā€” the original gorilla ā€” and an unshapely man. He is horrid-looking, a scoundrel, a creature fit, evidently, for petty treasons.

He is dishonest. He is unjust. He has no principle, no respect for law. In his administrative madness, on his unconstitutional crusade, he uses the power of government to crush. His presidency is despotism, a dictatorship, a monstrous usurpation, a criminal wrong and an act of national suicide.

The American people are in no mood to reelect a man to the highest office whose daily language is indecent. His speech is coarse, colloquial, devoid of ease and grace, and bristling with outrages against the simplest rules of syntax. His silly remarks are flat and dishwatery utterances. It wouldnā€™t be easy to produce anything more dull and commonplace ā€” awkwardly expressed and slipshod, so loose-jointed, so puerile. Lacking in dignity or patriotism, his words would have caused a Washington to mourn and would have inspired a Jefferson, Madison or Jackson with contempt.

A leader of incapacity and rottenness, he has taken us on a wicked and hazardous experiment. He lacks practical talent and capacity for government. He is an old joker. He is weak as water, a man of canting hypocrisy. He sickens us. If he is reelected I shall immediately leave the country.

The administration thus far has not met public expectations. He has brought on us national humiliation, leaving the cheek of every American to tingle with shame. After four years of usurpation, of lawless, reckless misgovernment, he should be removed from office.

He is ultimately to be classed among the catalog of monsters, of foolish and incompetent kings and emperors. He will go down as the man who could not read the signs of the times, who couldnā€™t understand the circumstances and interests of his country, who failed without excuses and fell without a friend.


At this point, I should mention that the president these words refer to is Abraham Lincoln. They are examples of contemporaneous criticism of the Great Emancipator from the newspapers of the day, strung together with minor changes. Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer of Hunter College, author of ā€œLincoln and the Power of the Press,ā€ provided me with many of the quotes; several others came from Michael Burlingameā€™s Lincoln biography.

I put them together, omitting telltale references to Honest Abe and 19th-century colloquialisms, so that readers could test for themselves the veracity of President Trumpā€™s claim at the Lincoln Memorial Sunday night: ā€œI am greeted with a hostile press, the likes of which no president has ever seen. The closest would be that gentleman right up there. They always said, ā€˜Lincoln ā€” nobody got treated worse than Lincoln.ā€™ I believe I am treated worse.ā€

Only a man of Trumpā€™s peculiar sense of victimhood could believe that he has been ā€œtreated worseā€ than a predecessor killed by an assassinā€™s bullet. And a review of press criticism of Lincoln confirms, as expected, that Trumpā€™s self-pity is as silly as it sounds.

But the review produced something unexpected, too: As wrong as Lincolnā€™s newspaper critics were in judging the 16th president, they were eerily prescient in anticipating the failings of the 45th.

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ā€œHis mother was a hamster and his father smelled of elderberriesā€ belongs in there somewhere, but it would have given up the game.

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Those 're the best words! No one has ever seen such words! Others could wish for words like these! :wink:

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Thatā€™s a keeper!

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Soā€¦ are they going to tear mine (and humanities) worse than when I gave birth? Cause healing that up sucked ass.

Also, men are going to be shocked, but women will deal.

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Ouch!

You have my sympathies; I was lucky enough to avoid any tearing or needing to be cutā€¦ but upon exit, Girlizmatic did leave behind some internal abrasions that the ob-gyn nurses jokingly call ā€˜skid marksā€™ā€¦ and even those fuckers hurt like hell.

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Giving birth always leaves scars. We all suffered to bring new life into the world.

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True, though he skid marks healed eventually.

The stretch marks, howeverā€¦

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Margaret has found heā€™s less stressful when lying, and stops gesturing when he gets mad.

Makes sense. Lying is his natural state.

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Huh - thereā€™s pork in the treetops- I agree with the federalist.

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Yep. The longer he goes without oneā€¦

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Or, we could consider that ā€œa look of determinationā€ doesnā€™t mean jack for oneā€™s ability to lead. Itā€™s one of the easiest things to fake.

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