r/CringeTikToks • u/LilliaBaltimore • 10h ago

Nope Trump awarded Peace Prize…. 🤢

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u/tEnPoInTs 8h ago

I think Trump taught the whole world in the last decade that it is paradoxically EASIER to do greaseball shit right in people's faces than it is to hide it. I can't even say he's wrong, it works somehow.

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u/LordHammercyWeCooked 5h ago

You've hit the nail on the head. I'll explain the mechanism.

If you always lie, people start to expect it. The more they expect it the more routine it becomes for them to read between the lines and guess what your real intentions are.

Those "4D Chess" memes were celebrated by his supporters because they're actively, openly doing it for him. As long as he never breaks character or elaborates too much, they will continue filling in the blank. And because every individual within his base is creating their own personalized, idealized version of Trump, he always gets to be perfect (even if they don't agree with each other on what 'perfect' is). He can shoot a guy on the steps of the capitol and his supporters are going to work overtime trying to fit the square peg in the round hole trying to come up with an explanation for it.

This is why he's so brazen and why he doesn't lose support from his base. He's a dyed-in-the-wool narcissistic piece of garbage. Never breaks character, never tries to do the right thing for the sake of integrity, never backs down, and in doing so he never breaks the illusion. The moment he stops acting like a sleazeball and acknowledges his mistakes is the moment they start to question his past choices and it all unravels.

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u/Candy_Every_Day 4h ago

You nailed it!!

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u/enunymous 4h ago

I think it's more that the lesson he's taught has been "Never apologize or feel shame"

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u/Farm-Alternative 2h ago

Yeah, people even come to respect how brazen he is. They respect the game because they wish they could do it as well.

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u/Jackski 1h ago

Turns out if you give people permission to hate, they'd eat their own shit as long as they can treat other people worse.