Donald Trump declined to say Tuesday if he's been in touch with Vladimir Putin since he left the White House but said it would have been smart if he had.
    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      22·
      28 days ago

      successfully conning people might mean the victims are stupid, but it in no way whatsoever means that the con man is smart

      • orclev@lemmy.world
        10·
        28 days ago

        If ever there was proof of that, Trump is certainly it. He’s an absolute moron yet somehow still a highly successful conman, at least going by the metric of morons that believe him if not by actual money conned out of people (although he seems to have been depressingly successful at that as well). If there’s a silver lining in all this it’s that Trump is so stupid and incredibly bad at business that he seems to burn through money as fast as he cons it out of people.

        • solsangraal@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
          4·
          28 days ago

          pretty sure his lifelong motto is “why spend your own money when you can get some rube to spend theirs”

          it is mind-boggling, how many decades he’s gone notoriously skipping out on his bills and people still deal with him

  • youngalfred@lemm.ee
    66·
    28 days ago

    That didn’t happen.
    And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
    And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
    And if it is, that’s not my fault.
    And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
    And if I did, you deserved it.

  • cdf12345@lemm.eeEnglish
    28·
    28 days ago

    A Nacarsist’s prayer

    That didn’t happen.

    And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

    And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

    And if it is, that’s not my fault.

    And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

    And if I did…

    You deserved it.

  • CLOTHESPlN@lemmy.world
    12·
    28 days ago

    So he put himself in the position of “I’m not smart” or “I talked to Putin”? Imagine putting yourself in checkmate like that

  • EtherWhack@lemmy.world
    6·
    28 days ago

    Trump’s lawyer: Hypothetical excuses are bad. They can ruin the credibility of your defense. M’kay?

    Trump: (to the media) If I did do it, it would have made it a smart concept, and therefore it would make me a genius.

    Trump’s lawyer: …