Do you think Donald Trump is charismatic?

[Extraterrestrial1999]

Yeah, no question

Nah

Something like that

[WhiteSteve]

Not at all. I find him very off-putting. And I say this without even factoring in politics (hate him, cards on the table). Like he just seems creepy, kind of lecherous, definitely shady, and he’s as charming as eel (🎶Mr. Griiiiiinnnnnccccchhhhhh🎶😂). I remember seeing him in the early 90s as a kid and I was just kind of naturally repulsed by him.

There’s kind of a thing going around about “why are conservatives so bad at comedy?” My old man used to watch this show on FoxNews with this guy Greg Gutfeld, and it was SO FUCKING BAD. And I’d give it a chuckle when warranted, even if I didn’t necessarily agree with the sentiment behind it. I’m a comedian at heart, I have all kinds of room for edgy jokes. Comedy is the space for it. But unfunny is just unfunny, and the Gutfeld guy in particular was WHACK.

The right wing just doesn’t really have a ton of funny comedians, and even more than that, just their laypeople just seem to be very bad at determining what funny “is.” It’s like they’re so desperate to hear something where their side of the issue or they themselves aren’t the butt of the joke that their standards for the actual comedy is on the floor.

It feels like they’re the kind of people to say to the cashier “Guess it must be free!” if their item price won’t ring up at the register, it’s “holy shit”-level stupid and you can’t believe that they aren’t aware of how foolish it makes them look.

So with all that said…. one of the biggest things I don’t understand —again, HONESTLY, on my mother’s ashes, with politics completely out of the equation— is how anyone thinks he’s “funny” or entertaining. Like that’s kind of an indictment of someone’s sense of humor to me. I’m not offended by what he’s saying as much as it’s just not funny.

Hand up, I liked “Meatball Ron”, about DeSantis, lmao. It doesn’t make sense, it’s probably better served for a fat guy like Chris Christie, but I’ll give it a little credit because “meatball” is kind of a funny word.

And quick sidebar— THAT right there is a big part of the science of comedy, choosing the right word, the one that “sounds funny.” Your punchline isn’t “…and I woke up in New York!”, it’s “…. and I woke up in Albuquerque!” It’s a funnier word, in a vacuum.

“Sleepy Joe”…. meh…it’s alright. Not worth the amount of laughs it gets. Also, it doesn’t help that they beat it to death all day, everyday for years and wear it out. “Crooked Hillary”…miss. “Lyin’ Ted Cruz, miss. “Bird Brain Nikki Haley”…miss. “The Failing New York Times”, “MS-DNC”…miss. “Shifty” Schiff…come on, man, that’s elementary school work.

He’s a rambling speaker, he’s predictable…everything is “like no one has ever seen before” and “the radical left”…. he’s a very boring and uninspiring orator. Not to mention it’s mostly just him sucking himself off in his speeches, lmao. My dad, a Republican and a reluctant Trump voter says “he has the vocabulary of a third grader.”

Overall, I’m SHOCKED that people actually think he’s a great showman. I come from a place of funny people, I like to think I’m fairly funny myself, and that I certainly know funny when I hear it.

I’ll always remember a coworker of mine (also a funny guy) went to a wedding in I think Tennessee, and some of the involved folks were midwestern, Kansas or something thereabouts. So one of the guys he met down there, he told me about how he was the groom’s cousin or something, SUPER nice and by our standards kind of soft-and-sweet, and I guess he would just occasionally make a lightly sarcastic joke, and people thought he was funny but also a kind-of-edgy, borderline-asshole.

And to us, this kid is like Butters from South Park or Kenneth from 30 Rock, just wicked nice but wicked naive, and leave me shocked that anyone like that could exist in real life, lmao

https://www.youtube.com/embed/PDLRxY8spAAhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/G1cHLOktJkU

So I wonder if that’s just what the rest of the country is like outside of the Northeast sometimes, haha. Like meanness is a novelty. So they take Trump’s lame nicknames and such as hilariously irreverent insult comedy. I’m almost surprised he’s not too much for them, and I think he might be if he weren’t a politician promising him them things.

But they seem to eat it up, and I’m honestly pretty embarrassed for them. The whole situation is sad for comedy, if I remain apolitical about it, and sad for America if I don’t.

[WindAtMyBack]

Just the opposite. Even most conservatives I know think he's an asshole, says stupid shit, and has no filter whatsoever on what he says.

He is anything but charismatic.

Obama was Charismatic.
Clinton was Charismatic.
Reagan was extremely charismatic.

The last president before that who was charismatic was Kennedy. It was during Kennedy that I learned what the word charismatic meant.

[Anonymous]

He belongs in a psych ward inside a prison. That is where the rest of his sort is until he releases them too

[Agape93]

No he's entering early dementia. Dude rambles all the time

[NaultD]

Easy 100%. don signing in the ovel office taking responsibility of said office and having one question between signature super casual was extremely personable.

In reality if you transcribe everything don said and joe said and have it spoken by the same narrarator. Then ask who's better at speaking? Joe would win every time.

[DrPepper12]

He's is a world class never to be beaten best ever con man. His marketing instincts are unparalleled.

Charismatic? No. He's barely literate, speaks at a 5th grade level and dolls himself up like a demented orange 🤡

[Anonymous]

doesn't matter if Trump is charismatic or not

if he is charismatic, you'll have to give him credit

if he's not, he still gets credit of winning and shows that the vast majority of the public can't be fooled by emotional manipulation because Trump isn't charismatic enough to pull it off but instead they can use logic

it's a win-win either way

[exitseven]

I do not think that anybody else could have pulled off regaining the presidency like Donald Trump. I was never a fan but he really was a good president and I expect Trump 2.0 will be better.

[Anonymous]

No. I think Trump is just a case of the opposition is just really that bad.

[Anonymous]

No. h e is just a far rather stupid loudmouth asshole.

[Apple1996]

He has no rizz

[beefcakebradybatson]

To his brain-dead groupies !!!

[Pterodon]

If he was charismatic he’d have much more support

[zombiewoof]

Likes to hear himself talk

[princeofromance]

I think he is.

[valentina4eva]

nooooooo😵