This is a relatively minor point, but since quirks of speaking style get more attention than they should in politics anyway, here goes:
Has Donald Trump ever just kinda sorta disliked something? It seems like most of the time, if he has something negative to say, he phrases it in this kind of over-the-top language. These are all quotes from the forum:
- [Other countries] are just taking advantage of us like nobody’s ever seen before.
- [Iraq] has absolutely been a disastrous war, and by the way, perhaps almost as bad was the way Barack Obama got out. That was a disaster. (Here I suppose he’s right on the first part — Iraq was a disastrous war.)
- I think under the leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble.
- And then when President Obama took over [Iraq], likewise, it was a disaster.
- But he came in. He said when we go out — and he took everybody out. And really, ISIS was formed. This was a terrible decision.
- I mean, the fact is, we have had the worst and you could even say the dumbest foreign policy. Our results are so bad.
- And it just seems to me that what they said President Obama and Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, who is another total disaster, did exactly the opposite.
- I think it’s very sad, when he lands in Saudi Arabia, and he lands in Cuba, and there aren’t high officials to even greet him. This is the first time in the history — the storied history of Air Force One.
- You look at what’s happening to our country, you look at the depleted military. You look at the fact that we’ve lost our jobs. We’re losing our jobs like we’re a bunch of babies.
- Hey, Matt, again, she made a mistake on Libya. She made a terrible mistake on Libya. And the next thing, I mean, not only did she make the mistake, but then they complicated the mistake by having no management once they bombed you know what out of Gadhafi. I mean, she made a terrible mistake on Libya.
- And right now, we are not strong. Believe me. We have a depleted military. We have the greatest people in the world in our military. But it is very sadly depleted.
For the record, that’s at least three “disasters” and two “terribles,” plus our foreign policy is “the worst” and “the dumbest,” the military is “depleted,” the generals are “rubble,” things are happening “like nobody’s ever seen before” and for “the first time in the storied history of Air Force One,” and we’re “losing our jobs like we’re a bunch of babies” (whatever that’s supposed to mean — I’m pretty sure most babies don’t have jobs to lose in the first place).