One of Trump’s Oldest Tactics in Business and Politics: I’m Rubber. You’re Glue.
www.nytimes.com
Whenever Donald Trump is accused of something, he responds by accusing his opponent of that exact thing. The idea is less to argue that Mr. Trump is clean than to suggest that everyone else is dirty.
  • teft@startrek.websiteEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    It’s called DARVO. He learned it from Roy Cohn.

    https://stephanievolin.medium.com/king-of-darvo-456217a7e10b

    The reality is that Donald Trump — like narcissists and psychopaths everywhere — is a practitioner, a devotee, of DARVO. DARVO refers to behavior by a wrong-doer after they’ve been called out for their misdeed: “Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.” Simply put, it means that once confronted, an abuser will vigorously deny it and claim to be the actual victim. “I know you are, but what am I?!”

  • doingless@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    Always was. It’s how he got elected. Go way back to his debates with Hillary.

    Trump: the system’s rigged

    Hillary: you don’t pay taxes

    Trump: it’s because I’m smart. Your friends & donors use the same rigged system

    Also, the system is still just as rigged.

    • jballsEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Remember the “No puppet! You puppet!” What a tool.

    • soviettaters@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      To be fair, plenty of anarchists on Lemmy advocate for not paying taxes. A better example would be the fact that he’s admitted to sexually assaulting women and passed it off as being something that everyone in Hollywood does.

  • Bwaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    Maybe not exactly related to the original post, but do we REALLY know whether anyone has seen Trump’s ACTUAL birth certificate? The REAL one, not that countrfeit one that FOX News threw together some years ago? I’m just asking questions

  • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    No puppet, no puppet. No, you’re the puppet!

    Yet he was still voted in after that eloquent retort in a presidential debate.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      The 2024 election is about to heat up, so it’s important to reiterate this kind of thing.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    It muddies the water of any discussion and forces focus on others. If everyone does it, it’s not wrong, right?

    Obviously that conclusion is false, but from the lack of consequences we continue to see, many people aren’t understanding.