Even if he didn’t have a weapon
No theory of mind and no self-knowledge either. Trump now is telling us he “really believes” he would have run into MSD School even without a gun, because he’s so brave and awesome and everything.
Donald Trump was unable to serve his country during the Vietnam War due to his crippling bone spurs. He has spent his life since then proclaiming his love of the military that his affliction prevented him from joining (or sometimes using his love of the military as political cover). Today, Trump told a meeting of governors he would have stopped the Parkland school shooting had he been an officer on the scene. Indeed, he would have charged the shooter if he had no weapon: “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon.”
Oh, well, if he really believes it, then there’s no more to be said. Ivanka Trump claims she believes her father’s claims that he never did assault or harass any of those women, so that settles it. Belief=truth as any fule kno.
Trump is frankly disgusted, yes disgusted.
“I really believe I’d run in there, even if I didn’t have a weapon, and I think most of the people in this room would have done that too,” Trump told a gathering of US governors at the White House.
Signaling more than one sheriff’s deputy was at fault, Trump said they “weren’t exactly Medal of Honor winners” and said “the way they performed was frankly disgusting.”
It’s not something he’s ever going to be tested on, is it. He has protection now and he’ll have it for the rest of his life. For him it’s just a woulda. For the deputies in Florida it was the real thing.
Theory of mind? Trump only has one theory; the Theory of Mine Mine Mine!
Hey, Donny Two Scoops is a brave man. While others his age were fighting in the jungles of Vietnam, Don was braving it out in the discos of New York. And he’s got the battle scars to prove it, apparently including untreated syphilis affecting his brain.
All part of the family business. His unqualified and inexperienced daughter is doing diplomacy in state that could be the front line of a nuclear war, he’d rush in, untrained and unarmed, to stop an armed gunman. I believe that. His skull is impervious to reason; he must be bulletproof too, though it’s bad form to blow your cover by revieling your super power this way.
Some of us think it’s disgusting that he’s referring to the policemen as disgusting when they were there, on the ground, risking their lives.
I’ve seen a video of him panicking on a podium… Steel bearings he has not.
His delusions of grandeur have reached the point where he’s like the Super Fans from Chicago on the old SNL sketches from the 90s.
“Mr. Trump, if you played tennis against Roger Federer, what would happen?”
“Trump. 6-0, 6-0.”
“What if you had to play left-handed with a wooden racket that was missing strings.”
“How many strings?”
“Let’s say two.”
“Trump, 6-2, 6-2.”
“What if you also had 40-pound weights attached to your ankles, and were only allowed one serve?”
“It’d be close, but I’d still take him in three sets.”
I doubt Trump is fit enough to even run.
AoS, he’s the best runner. Tremendous runner. Everybody says he’s one of the best runners ever. Some people say he could be an Olympic medalist.
Actually, I think I got the order wrong. Trump braggadocio is like conjugating a verb:
First person initial: slightly ridiculous, e.g. I am good at X.
First person expanded: clearly ridiculous, e.g. I am very good at X.
Third person universal: so ridiculous that he won’t even make the claim himself, e.g. Everybody says I am one of the best at X.
Third person vague: so extremely preposterous that another layer of distance is required, e.g., Some people say I am the best at X.
Trump run? Hasn’t he got bone spurs on his heels or something? Or did the end of the Vietnam war suddenly heal those?
Also, I’m sure Trump would much rather have a dead cop or two he could laud as hero’s than a live cop…
Crippling bone spurs??
WTF? People actually bought that? (Does a quick Google. Good lord.)
He had bone spurs in his heels in his twenties that were crippling? I call foul.
Firstly, bone spurs are usually caused by osteoarthritis and occur in the joints. You can get something called heel spurs but they are usually painless in and of themselves. They are associated with a condition called plantar fasciitis which I was diagnosed with in my thirties. PF is caused by the foot rolling abnormally (over-pronation) and applying torque to the plantar fascia that runs the length of the underside of the foot. It makes walking very painful. The likely causes in my case were a recent pregnancy (that causes all your joints to loosen), and being overweight while doing a job that involved walking around all day.
The treatment? A set of orthotic insoles that force your foot to roll more normally. Which, if Trump really did have this condition, he would already have been supplied with – or he wouldn’t have been able to play football. And as he got fatter, the condition would have got worse. It doesn’t go away.
Amazing what you can get out of if you bribe… sorry, employ an expensive enough doctor, isn’t it?
And if the Florida deputies HAD crashed into the building and shot a few children, or each other? Training trends, which always react to the previous disaster, have shifted towards the Dirty Harry fantasy lately. These guys may have been using previous playbooks.
Fortunately. Dirty Harry never really cared how many citizens he killed, as long as he at least shot at the bad guy. He was shoot first, ask questions later. So you miss the shooter, but kill everyone else. Bad plan.