Opinion: Nobody's ever talked the way Trump does. It's like no one before. Or so it seems

[Dulcinea]

(LA Times) Of all Donald Trump’s rhetorical predilections, one that goes largely unmentioned is his addiction to superlatives. No one has ever seen anything like virtually everything he brings up. Why does he do this? And what does it reveal?

Much of the disinformation in Trump’s nonstop perjuries comes in the form of gross, almost comic exaggeration: He has the largest crowds anyone has ever seen (while his opponent’s are nonexistent, generated by artificial intelligence); the Democrats are not just pro-abortion-rights, they’ve made executing babies legal in six states; as well as whatever it was he said today.

A quick look at Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention in July shows that his dependence on superlatives has overtaken all his other oratorical habits. He used them to describe almost everything he discussed. The criminalization of political disagreement is “at a level that nobody has ever seen before.” The “inflation crisis” is “crushing our people like never before. They’ve never seen anything like it.” As for the “illegal immigration crisis,” well, “Nobody’s ever seen anything like it” either.

When discussing his own presidency, Trump said, “We had an economy the likes of which nobody, no nation had ever seen.” Also under Trump, “We had the most secure border and the best economy in the history of our country, in the history of the world.” That takes us halfway through the speech.

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[GreenWave]

1. Insurrectionist gonna insurrection.

[claudette]

2. That's a sign

of mental illness. He is out of touch with reality

[Irish_Dem]

3. Classic narcissist and sociopath language.

Always embellishing and lying to make himself look good and to con others.

[FakeNoose]

4. When others TRY to talk like Chump, they get shot down immediately

It's the American news media that has allowed this ...

Now that they've created this monster, they're stuck with him.

[Genevra]

5. Have a look at Joe McCarthy

He was a pathological liar and evil human just like Trump. Many of Trump's insane attacks echo McCarthy's. McCarthy led vicious blackmail campaigns against his enemies and led to suicides of Lester Hunt and Robert LaFollette, both senators that stood against him. Trump's playbook echos McCarthy's, but is 100X more evil.

[dalton99a]

6. Trump is the worst traitor in U.S. history.

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[Aristus]

7. He's just basically a used car salesman.

That is undoubtedly what he would be if he hadn't inherited millions of dollars.

There are hierarchies in used car sales; good salespeople and not so good. Trump would be selling from what is known in the trade as a 'pot lot', a squalid patch of asphalt somewhere away from respectable businesses, no manufacturer affiliation, no credit (or else very shady credit vendors), and the worst of the worst in used car sales; slimy, unsavory hucksters trying to use every superlative in the book to get you to buy the forlorn piece of automotive rust they're hyping.

An endless litany of 'the best', 'the greatest', and so on, with a heaping helping of flop sweat to go with it. Give him a firm 'no', or even an 'I'll think about it', and he goes into high gear with a jittery 'they're eating the pets!' desperation.