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kentuck

(114,543 posts)
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 04:21 PM Sunday

If Donald Trump was a 10-year old kid, what would you say to him?

What would you tell him to do?

Since he is now a 79-year old kid, who acts like a 10-year old, shouldn't the same thing be said to him now?

I don't know why someone doesn't tell him that he needs to go to his room and no TV or I-phone for a week?

If that doesn't work, take away his ice cream and Big Macs.

People should treat him like a ten-year old. He has to have boundaries set for him.

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If Donald Trump was a 10-year old kid, what would you say to him? (Original Post) kentuck Sunday OP
What's the matter Donnie? Democrats got your tongue? taxi Sunday #1
This message was self-deleted by its author LuvLoogie Sunday #19
If only some one had told him that 60 years ago... Wounded Bear Sunday #2
It doesn't work that way when you are president of the United States. Ms. Toad Sunday #3
Neither of his parents did these things when they had the chance FakeNoose Sunday #4
Recommended. H2O Man Sunday #5
Meet you behind the school. rzemanfl Sunday #6
AGREE!!!! mikewv Sunday #15
Good, you do it. n/t rzemanfl Sunday #22
Given his anger management problems, pathological lying and bullying, karynnj Sunday #7
Sit down and shut up! A Brand New World Sunday #8
Sit down and shut up Bayard Sunday #9
Sorry kid, we're putting you up for adoption C_U_L8R Sunday #10
W. C. Fields BarbaRosa Sunday #11
Enjoy the next 11 years, then throw yourself off a tall building. (nt) Paladin Sunday #12
Time out in the corner for the rest of your life. ananda Sunday #13
Donald, you are not bright. You are nowhere near as bright as you think you are. Walleye Sunday #14
"You're a bad boy, we're sending you to reform school." Vinca Sunday #16
Nothing Progressive dog Sunday #17
Shut the fuck up Donnie, you're out of your element. Nt Fiendish Thingy Sunday #18
Give him a ball and tell him to go play in the freeway. n/t Whiskeytide Sunday #20
Do your homework, and go to bed. LuvLoogie Sunday #21
Lay down on the train tracks JanMichael Sunday #23
I don't believe in spanking, but this time I Emile Sunday #24
Star Trek already covered this scenario in the 70s maxrandb Sunday #25
I think age 10, whether then or now was too late Marthe48 Sunday #26
"Do you know why America doesn't have kings/queens?" jmbar2 Sunday #27
Your dad was a Nazi collaborators who should be shot for treason JT45242 Sunday #28
Go stand in the corner. Turbineguy Sunday #29
Sit your fucking ass down and... ZDU Sunday #30
To quote Little X: "Shush your mouth." Ritabert Sunday #31
What I'd say B.See Sunday #32
If you keep making that stupid looking face it's gonna get stuck that way. 2MuchNoise Sunday #33
What would I say to him? hamsterjill Sunday #34
Just look at the mess you've made! Mossfern Sunday #35
shut up + exercize fatass. pansypoo53219 Monday #36

Response to taxi (Reply #1)

Ms. Toad

(37,624 posts)
3. It doesn't work that way when you are president of the United States.
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 04:28 PM
Sunday

Just as it didn't work that way during his first term when far too many on DU imagined there would be someone who would prevent him from doing something like starting a nuclear war, or would take his cell phone away from him, etc.

The office of the presidency doesn't come with a parent. Generally, most presidents wouldn't have needed one anyway.

FakeNoose

(38,475 posts)
4. Neither of his parents did these things when they had the chance
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 04:28 PM
Sunday

... and that's why he's like this now.

mikewv

(193 posts)
15. AGREE!!!!
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 05:02 PM
Sunday

I would have beat his ass. I was definitely a bully when I was 10. His ass would have been grass!

karynnj

(60,504 posts)
7. Given his anger management problems, pathological lying and bullying,
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 04:33 PM
Sunday

I think, in fact, this WAS the 10 year old Donald his parents dealt with by sending him to military school. Although he actually used his military school as an asset in 2016, it was essentially a reform school for rich uncontrollable boys whose families could not deal with them.

I wonder if there was a psychological program that could have tried them to get to the root of his anger. It seems he may have felt unloved and his parents were dysfunctional. He was clearly a troubled kid who unfortunately is now creating havoc for the whole world.

Bayard

(26,794 posts)
9. Sit down and shut up
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 04:38 PM
Sunday

Said in a growl, with a glare that would boil water. Worked for my Mom.

C_U_L8R

(47,975 posts)
10. Sorry kid, we're putting you up for adoption
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 04:41 PM
Sunday

or maybe just ditch that bad seed at a ramshackled roadstop in the middle of a nowhere.

Unfortunately, he'd then become someone else's problem.

That's our quandary, can't live with him / can't get rid of him.

Vinca

(52,616 posts)
16. "You're a bad boy, we're sending you to reform school."
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 05:02 PM
Sunday

How about the Riker's Island Reform School?

Progressive dog

(7,524 posts)
17. Nothing
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 05:04 PM
Sunday

The only thing that might have worked would be to sit him in a corner for the rest of his life. Even at ten, it was probably too late.

Emile

(37,175 posts)
24. I don't believe in spanking, but this time I
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 05:24 PM
Sunday

make him pay his back taxes and have a surgeon fix those bone spurs once and for all.

maxrandb

(16,782 posts)
25. Star Trek already covered this scenario in the 70s
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 06:32 PM
Sunday

Portrayed by the incomparable William Campbell in "The Squire of Ethos" episode.

After watching this clip, don't you just dream of slapping the shit out of Donnie Dipshit like Captain Kirk?

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Marthe48

(21,649 posts)
26. I think age 10, whether then or now was too late
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 06:43 PM
Sunday

It would've been better if he had never been born. But if possible to alter his development, it might have worked if someone had tried before he became a physical clump of cells.

I read some information during his first term that he when he was under 10, he hurt a younger kid, and at least one animal. Also bullied at least one kid at the military school. So he was always cruel, bent, whatever you want to say. No one stopped him, no one influenced him to be different.








jmbar2

(7,262 posts)
27. "Do you know why America doesn't have kings/queens?"
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 06:44 PM
Sunday

I used to have this private discussion with kids who were being self-centered and demanding when I was a substitute.
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Do you know why people don't really like kings?

Kings don't really have friends. Either people are afraid they will get hurt by the king, or they are hoping to get some of his riches. Kings don't play fair - they don't do any work, they make everyone else work and then keep all the stuff. They have way more stuff than they need, but don't share with people, and don't care if other people are hungry or cold.

Nobody really likes the king. They are happy when he goes away.

Don't act like a king. Nobody really likes a king.

JT45242

(3,591 posts)
28. Your dad was a Nazi collaborators who should be shot for treason
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 06:51 PM
Sunday

Along with all the rest of the America first Nazi traitors.

That's what happens to traitors you self entitled shit stain of a barely literate baboon.

ZDU

(704 posts)
30. Sit your fucking ass down and...
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 07:36 PM
Sunday

Shut the fuck up before I turn you over to the authorities

B.See

(6,327 posts)
32. What I'd say
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 08:00 PM
Sunday

is a far cry from the words I'd have for "little" Donnie. He's no fkn kid. He knows what he's doing and knows it's PURE EVIL.

2MuchNoise

(450 posts)
33. If you keep making that stupid looking face it's gonna get stuck that way.
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 09:11 PM
Sunday

See! I told you so!

hamsterjill

(16,431 posts)
34. What would I say to him?
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 09:41 PM
Sunday

Nothing. I’d kick him in the nuts as hard as I could. It would be the only thing he understands.

Mossfern

(4,292 posts)
35. Just look at the mess you've made!
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 11:29 PM
Sunday

Now go to your room and stay there for three and a quarter years..
I'm taking away your phone and your computer. .

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