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Old 07-29-2024, 11:36 AM   #17462
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EDIT: I think the "I'll be a dictator on day 1" quote is very similar. Watch the context - he's clearly joking. Yet it's a far more alarming joke coming from him than it would have been coming from John McCain or Mitt Romney.
I am obviously not a psychologist, but I am pretty sure Trump has some kind of pathological thought processes that make him very good at manipulating people to his will. I don't think he is overly intelligent or has a systematic plan, but I think it just comes naturally to him. I see the use of humour as a way to test support for ideas without having to seem committed to them and as a way to warm people up to ideas that would otherwise be quickly dismissed. Humour is a technique a lot of people use to make people more comfortable with ideas that are scary.
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