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In my opinion the master of insults just made one of the biggest mistakes of his short and unconventional political career. Elizabeth Warren baited him by calling him out on Twitter and Trump took the bait hook, line and sinker. The insults are still flying back and forth between the two and I expect that Elizabeth wont let up. By engaging Warren (the hero of the liberal wing of the Democratic party) in a Twitter war, Trump is sure the stir up the animosity from many who were Bernie Sanders supporters who are also among Elizabeth Warrens biggest fans.
A common refrain among media talking heads has been, No one will turnout Democratic voters like Donald Trump. In a very crafty move Warren is using Trumps proclivity to insult any and everyone who in any way attacks him to unite the Democratic Party and left leaning independents behind Hillary Clinton in a way no one else can.
Here's a link:
Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump go after each other on Twitter
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)Let's hope he makes a lot more like this one.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)I say that as a huge Elizabeth Warren fan who does not want another RW Clinton presidency.
The Don f*cked up.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)every one of them would call him out publicly for speaking that way to one of their members.
The Donald will find out the hard way, I guess.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)The Moran and the professor.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)The Brain and the Comb-over.
The Adult and the Man-child.
The Can of Raid and the Cockroach.
ffr
(22,681 posts)You have to have the mentality of a 3rd grade tease or bully to identify with such a strange person. He represents nothing of what a leader should embody. And yet, something is compelling his followers to want to stand next to him as their roll model.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)He's so rad...so kewl. I'm gonna be richie rich just like him!
And when I am, I can say whatever I want! I no loner have to hide my irrational hatred of people who aren't me!
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]He's no 3rd-grade bully and a pretty intelligent person, so I couldn't understand and asked "Why? How?!" His response was, "I don't care if the President is an asshole, as long as he gets the job done."
My next question was, "What, in your mind, is 'getting the job done'?" No response other than repetition of the same line. I think he was actually afraid to reveal his shamefully self-centered focus.
As I learned more about him, I found that it was all about the money - his money. He's wealthy, a good part of it inherited. He complained about taxes all the time and complained especially bitterly that he had to pay capital gains on the sale of a commercial property, while homeowners get an exemption.
He's actually a Libertarian identifying as a Republican and his primary, self-stated goal in life is to "play" - but it's perfectly okay with him that other people have to struggle 24/7 just to survive. "Luck of the draw," he says.
Trump's racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, hate-mongering aspect? "It's just an act to stay in the news."
War Pigs
(252 posts)same asshole that cuts you off in traffic, tailgates you etc. right out of faux news and talk radio. i love watching these types get the crap beat out of them
DinahMoeHum
(21,839 posts)I hope corrupt Hillary Clinton chooses goofy Elizabeth Warren as her running mate. I will defeat them both.
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 6, 2016
Lets properly check goofy Elizabeth Warrens records to see if she is Native American. I say shes a fraud!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 6, 2016
Goofy Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clintons flunky, has a career that is totally based on a lie. She is not Native American.
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 6, 2016
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Warren's career is based on whether she's a Native American or not?
Alrighty then!
I love too how she's "Hillary Clintons flunky". More like the other way 'round.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Senator Warren does not need to provide me with her birth certificate, or genome coding.
I'm from the North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia border area and I claim the Cherokee, blood or no, as my own.
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TheOther95Percent
(1,035 posts)Questions. Questions.
greiner3
(5,214 posts)She's 1/32 Native American and he 1/2 orangutan and the other half Nazi (via his father
TheOther95Percent
(1,035 posts)Thanks for clearing up these genetic mysteries!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Nothing he does is a screw up.
War Pigs
(252 posts)the 65 million+ votes it will take to win. he's lived in that wealthy white man bubble his whople life- no changing an asshole's true colors at 70!!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I predicted he'd lose Iowa and drop out, so I am in no position to make any predictions at this point.
CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)...who are very pissed at the Republican Establishment
He won't find the waters of the general election quite so inviting.
CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts),,,it doesn't matter that he has an overall plan into which his extemporaneous remarks are supposed to fit, he is going to screw up, and badly, occasionally. Some of Trumps major SNAFU's.
Example 1 - His failure to disavow David Duke's enforcement immediately
Example 2 - His remark that women should be punished for having an abortion which cause instant condemnation from both the left and the right.
Example 3 - Not ignoring Elizabeth Warren tweets and thus calling attention to his battle with her. (See my reasons why this was a huge mistake in the OP.)
And this is by no means a definitive list of his screw ups.
The nice thing is that he is going to screw up again, many times, between now and November.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I thought that would be the end of his campaign.
CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)Will I said the list was not definitive