Donald Trump was raised and schooled to be a manipulator. His father, his mentor Ray Cohn and any number of vile men he’s tried to emulate drilled the lessons into him: Do whatever you want. Ignore the wishes of others. Flout the law.
Prior to committing a despicable act, accuse your intended victim of committing the same act. If anyone objects, double down. If they persist, destroy them—if slander fails, sue them out of the water. If that fails, keep appealing till you end up before a judge whom you’ve bought and paid for.
Never, ever admit defeat.
This is how Donald Trump lives his life. One might say it’s genius. It is not. There’s not one shred of intellect, no reason here; it’s pure rote. The way any predator acts.
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NUTTY PUTTY
And the ultimate payoff for a man leading such a life? In Trump’s case, it’s as shallow and transparent as every other aspect of his raison d'être. He’s merely an emotional adolescent desperate to feed his insatiable lust for attention.
We know Donald Trump. He’s made quite sure we do. But the scarier thing is, so do men like Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu. Say what you might about such tyrants, but both these men have shown themselves to possess some emotional and intellectual depth. Both are capable of insight, nuance, managing complexity and strategic thinking.
Trump has none of these capacities, and these clever despots know it. In fact, they know Trump better than he knows himself. They know how wretchedly insecure he is, how gaudy and artificial the ruse of his power. And how easy it is to manipulate him.
If your schmear hits eight figures—I appoint you to my cabinet.
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There are two kinds of “deals” Trump makes. First is what I’d call the kiss-my-ass deal. This is the kind he makes with the little people in his world, the Rudy Giulianis, the Mike Lindells. Oh, and also with his gutless Trumpublican lackeys in Congress: You brown-nose me and I hold off on “primarying” you or shitting all over you in the media. You’re soiled in my feces, but I let you survive.
Even if you’re a nobody like those MAGA goons he incited to desecrate the Capitol on January 6, as long as you commit your crimes in my name, you’re off the hook.
The second kind of Trump deal is the “business” deal. You give me something I desperately want—praise, campaign funding, my name on a new building, women…and, oh, I don’t know…the Nobel Prize—and I let you stand near me at the inauguration, share state secrets with you, maybe even—if your schmear hits eight figures—appoint you to my cabinet.
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This ninny presents no less a threat to our national security
than 19 radical Muslim terrorists at the controls of four
commercial airliners.
SACRED BUST
Donald Trump has put the sacred trust with which this country has endowed 45 presidents up for sale to the highest bidder. He’s not just hawking influence, not just feeding his ego, but monetizing national-treasures. Everything’s up for grabs: endangered wildlife and habitat, the National Parks, even the White House itself, branded with his gaudy, fools-gold veneer.
Most often, the deceit enriches him and his little tyrants-in-training, Don Junior, Eric and Ivanka. But blood bonds aren’t necessary to claim a slice of the pie; million-dollar bribes-cum-campaign donations will do just fine.
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• his push to reward Putin for his aggression against Ukraine
• his “deal” to honor Netanyahu’s Gaza genocide in exchange for Trump’s “ownership” and commercial development of Gaza
• his pardoning of Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman’s gruesome murder of an American journalist to keep the wheels greased for the $50 million in business deals struck by the Trump family cartel
• his acceptance of a $400 million-dollar bribe—a Boeing 747, no less—from shrewd Qatari leader Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
Meanwhile, as Despot Light counts his coins and compliments, the real heavyweights laugh it up over the easiest exploitation they’ve ever wrangled. It’s like some young hotshot chess cheat taking on Garry Kasparov; they’re wiping the floor with him.
OUTRAGE TO ACTION
This ninny and his warped transactional MO presents no less a threat to our national security than 19 radical Muslim terrorists at the controls of four commercial airliners. Thoughtful Americans must unify, as we did after 9/11, in confronting the threat. He must be stopped.
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