Trump Disaster Watch 2016 - Making America Great Again, one controversy at a time - General

In one month we'll see the end of the wildest ride in a while, so this thread is dedicated to the conductor of the crazy train: Donald J. Trump. [t]http://i.imgur.com/lZC0Upa.png[/t] [I]"Trump, a powerful right-wing reality star, was burnt when the Mother and Father, Clinton and Sanders were put into the sun."[/I] ----- A few highlights, in no particular order: [B]Donald Trump Says U.S Should Start Thinking About Racial Profiling[/B] [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1523608[/url] [QUOTE]"It's not the worst thing to do" Donald Trump on Sunday said the U.S. will have to consider the use of racial profiling in the wake of the Orlando nightclub massacre, defending the surveillance practice as “not the worst thing to do.” The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who last week renewed his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country in the days following the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, said America should look “seriously” at racial profiling. “I think profiling is something that we’re going to have to start thinking about as a country,” Trump said in a telephone interview with CBS’ Face the Nation. “You look at Israel and you look at others, they do it and they do it successfully. And I hate the concept of profiling, but we have to start using common sense and we have to use our heads.”[/QUOTE] [B]Trump pulls out of charity debate showdown with Sanders[/B] [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1520343[/url] [QUOTE]Shortly before taking the stage in San Diego, Trump issued a statement ruling out a one-on-one debate with second-place Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders, who was also in California, killing off a potentially high-ratings television spectacle. The suggested debate, an idea first raised during a talk show appearance by the New York billionaire, would have sidelined likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton but given Sanders a huge platform ahead of California Democratic primary. A day after saying he would welcome a Sanders debate, Trump called the idea "inappropriate," declaring that he should only face the Democrats' final choice.[/QUOTE] [B]Trump on torture: "We have to beat the savages"[/B] [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1509407[/url] [QUOTE](CNN)Donald Trump is casting aside any doubt about his position on torture: He's in favor of it because "we have to beat the savages." Trump vowed on Friday that he would never instruct the military to break the law -- appearing to flip on his previous promise to bring back waterboarding and more severe forms of torture. But on Saturday he said repeatedly, during a rally and a late-night news conference, that he would seek to "broaden" the laws to allow torture, including but not limited to waterboarding.[/QUOTE] [B]Trump urges Russia to hack Clinton's emails[/B] [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1528460[/url] [QUOTE]PHILADELPHIA — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday said he hoped that Russia would hack into Hillary Clinton’s email server to find “missing” messages and release them to the public. “Russia, if you’re listening I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press,” Trump said during a press conference at his Doral resort in South Florida on Wednesday.[/QUOTE] [B]Trump spokeswoman: Obama probably caused Khan's death[/B] [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1529359[/url] [QUOTE] Donald Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said President Obama, who took office in 2009, may be to blame for Capt. Humayun Khan's death in 2004.[/QUOTE] [B]Trump tells NFL player to quit US[/B] [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1532753[/url] [QUOTE]NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick should "find a country that works better for him" said Donald Trump after the player's national anthem protest. The Republican presidential nominee weighed in on the San Francisco 49er's decision to sit during The Star-Spangled Banner in a pre-game ceremony. Mr Kaepernick said he will continue to sit out the national anthem until he sees improvements in US race relations. Mr Trump called the quarterback's controversial stand a "terrible thing." "I think it's a terrible thing, and you know, maybe he should find a country that works better for him," Mr Trump told KIRO radio in Seattle. "Let him try. It won't happen."[/QUOTE] [B]Trump used $258,000 from his charity to settle legal problems[/B] [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1535085[/url] [QUOTE] Donald Trump spent more than a quarter-million dollars from his charitable foundation to settle lawsuits that involved the billionaire’s for-profit businesses, according to interviews and a review of legal documents.[/QUOTE] [B]Trump Details Immigration Policy in Phoenix, AZ - We WILL Have a Wall, and Mexico WILL Pay for It![/B] [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1532897[/url] [QUOTE]Donald Trump gave his long-awaited immigration speech in Phoenix tonight after touching down in the U.S. following a surprise visit to Mexico. As he spoke about the "beautiful" wall that he wants to build along the southern U.S. border, Trump reiterated his earlier claim that Mexico will pay for the wall. The wall was a flash-point this afternoon since Trump said in his Mexico City press conference today that he and Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto "didn't discuss" the payment plan. Later, the Mexican president tweeted that he made it clear during their closed-door meeting that Mexico will not be paying for the wall. Yet in tonight's speech, Trump was confident that he would come around. "Mexico will pay for the wall. Believe me. A hundred percent. They don't know it yet, but they're going to pay for the wall," Trump said. [/QUOTE] [B]Trump: I’d Use ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ to End Violence in Black Communities[/B] [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1535283[/url] [QUOTE]During a pre-taped “core black issues” town-hall interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump revealed Wednesday that he would like to see “stop-and-frisk” policing enacted nationwide as a way to end violence in black communities. “I would do stop-and-frisk. I think you have to,” he reportedly said in response to an audience member’s question about stopping “black-on-black” crime. “We did it in New York, it worked incredibly well, and you have to be proactive and, you know, you really help people sort of change their mind automatically.” Despite studies showing the practice wasn’t all that effective in making cities safer, and widespread criticism of its race-based tactics, Trump continued to extol stop-and-frisk’s virtues: “In New York City, it was so incredible, the way it worked.”[/QUOTE] Trump’s Doing Worse Than Romney Did Among White Voters [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1536767[/url] [QUOTE]Donald Trump’s strategy in this campaign has been fairly clear from the beginning: Drive up Republican support among white voters in order to compensate for the GOP’s shrinking share among the growing nonwhite portion of the electorate. And Trump has succeeded in overperforming among a certain slice of white voters, those without a college degree. But overall, the strategy isn’t working. Trump has a smaller lead among white voters than Mitt Romney did in 2012, and Trump’s margin seems to be falling from where it was when the general election began. Four years ago, Romney beat President Obama among white voters by 17 percentage points, according to pre-election polls. That was the largest winning margin among white voters for any losing presidential candidate since at least 1948. Of course, even if Trump did just as well as Romney did, it would help him less, given that the 2016 electorate will probably be more diverse that 2012’s. And to win — even if the electorate remained as white as it was four years ago — Trump would need a margin of 22 percentage points or more among white voters. But Trump isn’t even doing as well as Romney. Trump is winning white voters by just 13 percentage points, according to an average of the last five live-interviewer national surveys. He doesn’t reach the magic 22 percentage point margin in a single one of these polls.[/QUOTE] [B]Trump Tax Records Obtained by NY Times Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Nearly 20 Years[/B] [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1536380[/url] [B]Trump Suggests That Soldiers With PTSD Aren't "Strong"[/B] [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1536553[/url] [B]Donald Trump to Howard Stern: "It's Okay to Call My Daughter a Piece of Ass"[/B] [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1537138[/url] [B]Trump in newly leaked 2005 audio says he tried to "fuck" a married woman "like a bitch"[/B] [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1537037[/url] >>[B]Donald Trump Is stumped, GOP effectively cut him off, will try to salvage House and Senate[/B]<< [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1537164[/url] I didn't add any quote to the last ones here because I urge you to read the entire articles linked in the threads. --- But it's not all that bleak! [B]Coming soon: 'The Apprentice' White House Edition if Trump is elected[/B] [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1531923[/url] [QUOTE]Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reportedly discussed with an NBC executive continuing “The Apprentice” reality show from the White House if he were elected president, long before he launched his bid. The anecdote was reported in June by Vanity Fair contributing editor Sarah Ellison but appeared to go largely unnoticed until she was interviewed on "The Takeaway" podcast over the weekend. “[NBCUniversal Chief Executive Steve Burke and Trump] outlined, presumably fantastically, that Trump should run for president; and on the off chance that he won, he would continue to star in ‘The Apprentice’ from within the White House,” Ellison wrote about a 2011 conversation between the two.[/QUOTE] I've probably missed a shitton of other things but I cba to look them up, feel free to post them and I'll *try* to update the OP accordingly. Grab some popcorn.

This is gonna be a great thread to hang out in while watching the GOP sink like the Titanic. I can't wait for the second debate to see how terrible Trump does.

I just want to say though, if you [I]still[/I] support Trump for president, then by all means keep it up as long as your support is [I]genuine[/I].

[QUOTE=Limed00d;51174768]I just want to say though, if you [I]still[/I] support Trump for president, then by all means keep it up as long as your support is [I]genuine[/I].[/QUOTE] Can we even be sure what is and isn't irony anymore -Edit- Thread Music: [video=youtube;oIscL-Bjsq4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIscL-Bjsq4[/video]

Oh hey somebody actually made one. Well I guess it'll be fun to have a huge list of his gaffes. We need one of those automatic Facebook memory videos.

All I have to say is, if Gary Johnson can't get at least one state after all this, the Libertarians deserve to fail. He's going up against literally the two most hated candidates of all time, the GOP has abandoned their candidate, and yet he's not even polling better than third place in his own state? This ought to be the year the Libertarians displace the Republicans as the right-leaning party, but instead it looks like the sum total of its accomplishments will be handing New Mexico to Hillary. Trump might be a train wreck right now, but the real failure is in the third-parties failing to take advantage of this.

Tomorrows gonna be good, I get to watch my favorite NFL team play, then watch Citizencon and finish it all off with the GOP crashing and burning on live TV.

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[QUOTE=Limed00d;51174768]I just want to say though, if you [I]still[/I] support Trump for president, then by all means keep it up as long as your support is [I]genuine[/I].[/QUOTE] I'm legit curious how much of his support on the internet is genuine and not just trolls/people wanting to be contrarian for the hell of it.

[QUOTE=Whomobile;51175015]I'm legit curious how much of his support on the internet is genuine and not just trolls/people wanting to be contrarian for the hell of it.[/QUOTE] or sheltered children who does it because hillary is a hip target of hate and also memes

The worst part about this is that ~40% of americans are still voting for him, according to the POLLS.

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;51174766]This is the most entertaining election ever.[/QUOTE] I just want for it to be over. Although it has moments like 1st debate and this recent Trump scandal, I'm just burned out with these elections since Primaries were in last month.

Well im certainly not worried about the toxx i did after seeing this

[url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1528957[/url] dont forget this incident where he said 'he made many sacrifices by creating jobs' when rebuked by Khizr Khan's father

I never thought I'd go from so nervous for the outcome to the American election to fucking bamboozled this quickly. I'm legit upset I'll be at work during the debates, I cannot WAIT to see what happens :v:

[QUOTE=ZestyLemons;51175752]I never thought I'd go from so nervous for the outcome to the American election to fucking bamboozled this quickly. I'm legit upset I'll be at work during the debates, I cannot WAIT to see what happens :v:[/QUOTE] im so lucky I work an office job, I'll be watching them all of tomorrow

Not strictly relevant, but I just wanted to post this: [t]http://www.theshirtlist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Donald.jpg[/t]

Can't wait for tonight's debate, which Trump will most likely "win" despite being "rigged"

[QUOTE=gman003-main;51174823]All I have to say is, if Gary Johnson can't get at least one state after all this, the Libertarians deserve to fail. He's going up against literally the two most hated candidates of all time, the GOP has abandoned their candidate, and yet he's not even polling better than third place in his own state? This ought to be the year the Libertarians displace the Republicans as the right-leaning party, but instead it looks like the sum total of its accomplishments will be handing New Mexico to Hillary. Trump might be a train wreck right now, but the real failure is in the third-parties failing to take advantage of this.[/QUOTE] yeah you'd think if you're a libertarian this is literally your year to quash a major party because Johnson has been talked about as being an alternative person for conservatives yet he's doing super poorly to get his platform across. He should be at least polling in NM tho that's so weird like honestly, the GOP and DNC are on the brink of collapse and the other parties can't even seize the day on that

Google "sexual predator" in image search and look at the first and seventh result

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;51175282]The worst part about this is that ~40% of americans are still voting for him, according to the POLLS.[/QUOTE] The polls haven't updated since the news broke. Polls usually are run over several days, and are published several days after completing. The polls currently don't have any data at all from Friday.

What about the mocking of a disabled journalist? Or was it false?

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;51175915]yeah you'd think if you're a libertarian this is literally your year to quash a major party because Johnson has been talked about as being an alternative person for conservatives yet he's doing super poorly to get his platform across. He should be at least polling in NM tho that's so weird like honestly, the GOP and DNC are on the brink of collapse and the other parties can't even seize the day on that[/QUOTE] New Mexico is polling at 16% Johnson, 36% Trump, 47% Clinton (remainder undecided or fourth-party), according to 538's polls-only composite. (I prefer polls-plus but it makes some assumptions about third-party voters switching to main candidates) The GOP may be collapsing, but the DNC is not. They're suffering from a dearth of senior politicians, because for a long while they did extremely poorly in individual states. This is a problem for them but not a fatal one.

[QUOTE=The bird Man;51176138]What about the mocking of a disabled journalist? Or was it false?[/QUOTE] [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/nov/26/donald-trump-appears-to-mock-disabled-reporter-video"]It's true.[/URL] He's also stated that vaccines cause autism. He can go fuck himself, for all I care. Spiteful, evil man.

So apparently there's a LOT of [URL="http://imgur.com/a/4wstT"]Hillary pepe's being made now[/URL]

[QUOTE=gman003-main;51176168]New Mexico is polling at 16% Johnson, 36% Trump, 47% Clinton (remainder undecided or fourth-party), according to 538's polls-only composite. (I prefer polls-plus but it makes some assumptions about third-party voters switching to main candidates) The GOP may be collapsing, but the DNC is not. They're suffering from a dearth of senior politicians, because for a long while they did extremely poorly in individual states. This is a problem for them but not a fatal one.[/QUOTE] DNC may not be collapsing publicly but they are slowly falling apart just in a non-private way, the new young voters are not aligning themselves with DNC policies and many of them identify as democratic socialist or bernie tier people, DNC has failed to convince many young americans to back Clinton

[QUOTE=gman003-main;51174823]All I have to say is, if Gary Johnson can't get at least one state after all this, the Libertarians deserve to fail. He's going up against literally the two most hated candidates of all time, the GOP has abandoned their candidate, and yet he's not even polling better than third place in his own state? This ought to be the year the Libertarians displace the Republicans as the right-leaning party, but instead it looks like the sum total of its accomplishments will be handing New Mexico to Hillary. Trump might be a train wreck right now, but the real failure is in the third-parties failing to take advantage of this.[/QUOTE] Friend of mine theorized that both third parties gain legitimacy in the eyes of their base in being "different" and "third", meaning they intentionally have views outside both main parties. The result of this is that neither candidate will gain more votes without having a more mainstream appeal and policy platform. Stein can't do that, and Johnson may have but lost his chances ages ago.

[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;51176178][URL="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/nov/26/donald-trump-appears-to-mock-disabled-reporter-video"]It's true.[/URL] He's also stated that vaccines cause autism. He can go fuck himself, for all I care. Spiteful, evil man.[/QUOTE] I thought he was pro-vaccination? I read somewhere he wanted to jail anti-vax people or something. I think there was even a facepunch thread about it. I could be mistaken. I could be thinking of Putin.

[QUOTE=Megadave;51176926]I thought he was pro-vaccination? I read somewhere he wanted to jail anti-vax people or something. I think there was even a facepunch thread about it. I could be mistaken. I could be thinking of Putin.[/QUOTE] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Donald_Trump#Vaccines]Trump believes that childhood vaccinations are related to autism, a hypothesis which has been repeatedly debunked. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Autism Speaks patient-advocacy group have "decried Trump's remarks as false and potentially dangerous." In 2010, the Donald J. Trump Foundation donated $10,000 to Generation Rescue, Jenny McCarthy's nonprofit organization that advocates the incorrect view that autism and related disorders are primarily caused by vaccines.[/url] Now maybe Trump did say to jail anti-vaxxers, he contradicts himself constantly, but that doesn't stop him from being an anti-vaxxer himself.

You guys think this election is going to lead to major realignment for the GOP?