The question is why is Trump really running for president again at such an old age?
 

Wouldn't he rather relax with family and play golf for the remaining sunset years of his life without any stress or pressure of the high demands required to be a useful and effective president of the most powerful country in the free world? 

 

Then the question is if he is really running for president or if he is simply running from the law and all of his pending federal criminal indictments?
 

And is he thinking that the presidency will shield him from prosecution and provide him the power to take further vengeance upon his adversaries? 

 

It seems the answer is somewhere in the middle, but more on the side of ego and self preservation than anything else. And perhaps he doesn't even really know why he's actually running anymore. Like Heath Ledger as the Joker in the Batman film when he said "Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it! Y'knnow, I just do things."

 

He seems too cognitively jumbled and confused about what he's doing or saying at any given moment and that he simply wants to be the most powerful autocratic leader on the planet to feed his catastrophically, narcissistic ego. So, in one way or another, it's only about him and not about wanting to be the best public servant he can because he's mentally unfit to even be a presidential leader anymore. 

 

He certainly doesn't care about the American people or about making America a better country for Americans either because, if that were really true, he would simply pass the baton to someone else younger and smarter from his own party (like Biden was brave enough to do), and that would be someone who is far more suited than he is to be the next commander in chief. 

 

Thus, if he really cared about America, and all those hillbilly Americans who turn up at his rallies in support of his confused and unhinged rantings, then he wouldn't even be running at all. 

He needs the money. Inflation.

He has broken the law to suit himself in his personal and business life for years. His wealth protected him.

 

When he moved into politics he continued to do so, but his wealth no longer protected him. In fact his wealth was exposed as something of a paper tiger, yes he has assets but they are so leveraged that he can no longer raise cash on them - he is effectively bankrupt.

 

So now he is running because his political activities allow him to raise cash, delay his legal problems, keep him out of jail for the time being and in the hope that if he wins they will go away.

 

He is running for himself, and to stay out of gaol.

Edited September 7, 20241 yr by herfiehandbag

3 hours ago, Yagoda said:

He needs the money. Inflation.

He does indeed, he has huge legal bills to pay.

If you have to ask that question, then you simply don't understand, and it can't be explained to you.

 

 

Why does soap taste weird?

 

Because the Russians haven't let him off the hook yet.

I think it is because he loves his country and thinks he can make a difference. 

 

Why does the left hate him so? 

 

Convicted on bookkeeping charges. 

43 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

I think it is because he loves his country and thinks he can make a difference. 

 

Why does the left hate him so? 

 

Convicted on bookkeeping charges. 

He loves the illiterate rubes giving him money.

 

Because he is a liar, thief and sexual predator.

 

Convicted of election fraud.

we here at the farm in NK know why.

4 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

He loves the illiterate rubes giving him money.

 

Because he is a liar, thief and sexual predator.

 

Convicted of election fraud.

There there poor lefty, let all that hate out before it eats you alive. Let a bit of love in, it won't hurt you. 

4 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

There there poor lefty, let all that hate out before it eats you alive. Let a bit of love in, it won't hurt you. 

Yes, there are poor and Trump will do nothing for them.

 

Not letting go of the hate until it eliminates Stephen Miller and his ilk from the public stage.

 

Love for the hate filled, racist, misogynistic thugs in the GQP? So not happening.

 

Another lame attempt to normalize the unthinkable.

Just now, cjinchiangrai said:

Yes, there are poor and Trump will do nothing for them.

 

Not letting go of the hate until it eliminates Stephen Miller and his ilk from the public stage.

 

Love for the hate filled, racist, misogynistic thugs in the GQP? So not happening.

 

Another lame attempt to normalize the unthinkable.

Trump helped the poor the most since 1959.

2 minutes ago, maesariang said:

Trump helped the poor the most since 1959.

Yes, I heard in 2019 he made water run uphill, and is now promising to make the sun come up in the west.  Give me a freaking break susanlea. 🙃🤣

Data released by the Census Bureau today show that 2019 was a historic year for raising Americans’ living standards. Real median household income reached a record high, and poverty reached a record low. Improvements in income and poverty were the largest in over 50 years. Minority groups—including black, Hispanic and Asian Americans—experienced the largest gains.

 

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/incomes-hit-record-high-poverty-reached-record-low-2019/

Likely to avoid jail time. He is a career criminal, and it is finally catching up to him. He should have been convicted 89 times, decades ago. 

 

 

15 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Likely to avoid jail time. He is a career criminal, and it is finally catching up to him. He should have been convicted 89 times, decades ago. 

 

 

 

 

Y'all wondering why America and most of the EU is in total shambles, just read the drivel of a whiny liberal...

 

The left loved Trump right up until the moment he beat Hillary. 

3 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

The left loved Trump right up until the moment he beat Hillary. 

Not quite YT. The left has seen through the lies and deceit Trump has been putting out since The Apprentice. Here is one reason why. 

 

5 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

The left loved Trump right up until the moment he beat Hillary. 

 

the view fawned over him back in the day. even gave him hugs i think. 

5 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

The left loved Trump right up until the moment he beat Hillary. 

The right hated him when he was a democrat. Many still do, even now.

1 minute ago, marin said:

Not quite YT. The left has seen through the lies and deceit Trump has been putting out since The Apprentice. Here is one reason why. 

 

 

what's this from ? 

a. He already saved us from the decrepit Biden....

 

now....

 

b. He will save us, once more, from Harris

 

 

So...

 

a + b = c

 

 

53 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

the view fawned over him back in the day. even gave him hugs i think. 

Along with many others. Right up until 2016, not sure What happened to change things🙄

10 minutes ago, luckymitchell said:

Along with many others. Right up until 2016, not sure What happened to change things🙄

Same with Elon, he was a darling of the left, right up until he got out of lock-step. 

 

They even loved them some Putin back in the day...

2 hours ago, maesariang said:

Data released by the Census Bureau today show that 2019 was a historic year for raising Americans’ living standards. Real median household income reached a record high, and poverty reached a record low. Improvements in income and poverty were the largest in over 50 years. Minority groups—including black, Hispanic and Asian Americans—experienced the largest gains.

 

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/incomes-hit-record-high-poverty-reached-record-low-2019/

Thanks to Obama. 
Trump just rode the already lifting wave after Obama rescued the country from the most serious financial meltdown since The Great Depression. A meltdown caused by Reagan, perpetuated by Clinton but still under the previous Bush GOP government. 

2 minutes ago, johnnybangkok said:

Thanks to Obama. 
Trump just rode the already lifting wave after Obama rescued the country from the most serious financial meltdown since The Great Depression. A meltdown caused by Reagan, perpetuated by Clinton but still under the previous Bush GOP government. 

Obama had 8 years. Failed to get unemployment low. Covid was just as bad as gfc.

Edited September 8, 20241 yr by maesariang

3 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

I think it is because he loves his country and thinks he can make a difference. 

 

Why does the left hate him so? 

 

Convicted on bookkeeping charges. 

 

Is former VP Dick Cheney a leftist?

 

And no those were not book keeping charges. It was  fraud.  34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a pornography worker who said the two had carnal relations.

 

Edited September 8, 20241 yr by Patong2021

Just now, Patong2021 said:

 

Is former Dick Cheney a leftist?

 

War monger.

2 hours ago, maesariang said:

Trump helped the poor the most since 1959.

Forum rules dictate you back up your claim with data I think, or do different rules apply to right wing trolls?