This sort of story is dumb. Is that really the reason you wouldn’t vote for someone? There must be more compelling points. So who is this for?
I think it’s just circle-jerky “the team I hate also smells icky” stuff, like when Alex Jones said Obama and Hillary literally smelled like sulfur.
Okay, but think about the person who would vote for him because he’s powerful, won’t succumb to that prissy woke-ism, etc.
Like it or not, but people vote on vibes all the time, and thinking he’s a cool guy who will drain the swamp (by cutting welfare and social programs) is better for him than being kind of a smelly loser. It undercuts the strongman narrative that Republicans are selling.
It is a valid line of inquiry if you consider that not taking care of basic personal hygiene is a symptom of mental incompetence. We do not want to elect a mentally incompetent leader. By all visible evidence, the man has working arms and hands that should presumably be able to reach to wash himself. So if he goes around smelling like a toilet dumpster then something is mentally wrong there.
Of course there have been numerous other indications of such issues beyond the reports of stench.
is a symptom of mental incompetence. We do not want to elect a mentally incompetent leader.
I would prefer a person with a some disorders which sometimes have such a downside to a “normal” person, other things being equal.
Also people may “take care of basic personal hygiene” and still become stinky 5 times sooner than healthy people, have you considered that?
Ableism is bad.
I’ll take “Things you don’t believe” for $200.
I would prefer someone who didn’t try to overthrow an election be in charge of our country, and sadly Trump absolutely fails that very simple litmus test.
“ disorders” like being a malignant narcissist? Raging and flailing in wrath and desire for vengeance? Maybe not the best idea.
Indirectly, it’s a strong indictment of Trump’s mental health. A politician’s strongest weapon (and a conman’s, which he also is) is their image, and Trump knows it. If he’s letting himself go to the extent that his odor deserves note, then you can be assured that he’s let go of everything else that he considers less important than his image (i.e. everything else that exists) at least as much as he’s let go of his hygiene, probably more.
The Donald J. Trump that debated Biden was a bad choice for a set of reasons that did not include becoming incapable of caring for the most important thing in his life. The current DJT has added that reason to the list.
I think it’s more indicative that he doesn’t listen to or care about the opinions or feelings of anybody around him, which is a bad quality in a leader unless you want your country run by a despot. Mao never brushed his teeth and reportedly had breath that could raise the dead.
yeah this is a comment that makes sense coming from an account named “anticolonialist”
I agree. Absolutely disgusting. And people are even campaigning for Donald specifically so he can “finish the job” in Gaza with the same fervor that he dropped bombs on Yemen. There is no depth to how awful MAGAs can be.
Especially disgusting are the MAGAs cosplaying as leftists. It’s repugnant that they pretend they are against genocide when they want pogroms. They see this blood libel conspiracy against Haitian people in Ohio and they want more. They are sick racists actually excited for more killings of the groups they hate.
It is dumb, and not the reason anyone should not vote for him. That said, someone who foreign leaders don’t want to be in a room with could present a problem.
I hope this article doesn’t convince people, but instead they are convinced by the many, many others showing he is criminal and selfish. It is somewhat satisfying to have someone you really dislike have other undesirable qualities.
Another way to think about it, at some point even at McDonald’s you’d get fired for poor hygiene if you constantly showed up to work smelling awful. That standard should especially apply to a diplomatic role in government.
But yeah, this is bottom tier reason not to elect him.
This is the going low we’ve spent a decade arguing over. Well informed voters with strong morals are all either voting dem or holding out for the Dems to go left. This is us appealing to the common jackass who voted on vibes and thinks strength is more important than policy. The people who think strongman is a compliment. We aren’t even caring if they vote dem, we’re trying to kill their enthusiasm to vote for trump. Because appealing to Americans better nature didn’t work
In 2016, up to Election day, I was reasonably confident Clinton would win. I didn’t like her, and I thought she was too right-wing, but the other side was objectively terrible and filled with awful people. I betted on American decency…and lost.
This year? If it takes saying the shitgibbon literally smells like shit to convince people to not vote for him, then let’s start pointing out the shitgibbon actually smells like shit (and other unsavoury stuff).
It’s unfortunately how you win these days. Campaigns in the past tried to take the high road when Trump went low. That doesn’t work. So this is what we get.
you’re getting voted down, but yeah, “taking the high road” didn’t do shit, so here we are.
Highly recommend folks check out the podcast Behind the Bastard’s episodes “How The Liberal Media Helped Fascism Win” for more information on this topic.
No, I don’t think stories like this have anything to do with trying to convince voters to not vote for Trump because he smells bad. There’s a pretty strong smear campaign going against him right now, and he doesn’t realize that he’s the critical piece to the campaigns success. Every time he insists that he isn’t weird, or insists that he doesn’t smell, suddenly half of the shit that he’s talking about ends up being trying to defend his image on the public stage. The reason that silly little things like “he smells like ass, ketchup, makeup, w.e” are actually important right now is that Trump might see it. Someone related to Trump might see it, and suddenly the thought is living rent free in their brain.
Trump can’t help himself, he has to respond. What kind of strong leader spends all their time whining about what other people are saying? He could smell like a fucking dumpster as long as he leads the country correctly, no?
Not only that, if they aren’t Trump, they could probably make money off of interviews about whatever other weird shit surrounds Trump. It’s a strategy that makes them (Magats and Trump) start to point fingers at one another, and honestly that’s exactly what needs to happen if we want to prevent a conservative win in November.
One is weird shit based on fairy tales that is obviously made up. The other is entirely plausible and consistent with other reports I’ve read about how he smells. It may be frivolous but it’s not the same.
Also we’re talking about someone who would be expected to meet world leaders and other noteworthy people in person on a regular basis. If he’s physically disgusting, that’s a very bad look for all of us.
