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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Donald Trump sees himself?
He sees himself as a producer and a director of a TV show. Each day is a new episode for which he must have a new script.
(His many years of running 'The Apprentice' TV show gave him great insight and experience in understanding how the media works. Although he is ignorant in many areas, this is not one of them.
His trip to the DMZ was already scripted. That was likely the content of the last letter he received from Kim? Everything must be scripted. He is a control freak.)
He sees himself as one of the great leaders and "businessmen" of the world, second only to Vladimir Putin, with deference to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Nobody is smarter than he. He will listen to advisers, but if he is familiar - even slightly - with the topic discussed, he will go with his own opinion.
(He knows how to get the attention and support of the Republican Party, including its leaders in Washington. "Divide and conquer" should be his motto.)
He knows that money talks and bullshit walks, and sometimes, bullshit talks and money walks. Money is his god. He knows that sometimes he has to pay people off, and sometimes, he has to put people on...
malaise
(268,976 posts)Rec
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)For him, it's not what you are, it's what people think you are. There is so much of his energy wrapped up in conceit that there is no time to care about anybody else.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It is what he has based his entire life on. His whole life has been one big, long con-job and his presidency is exposing the fact that there is no substance behind the carefully crafted image.
Trump is one of the world's greatest poseurs, it is amazing how he has been able to get away with his lying, cheating, stealing and grifting for so long, but we can only hope that this family's disgusting con-game will come to an end soon.
rampartc
(5,407 posts)trump sees himself as the star. Reagan's "producer/director" was deavor, and trump has one, or probably a team.
trump knows that money talks, but that he can turn bullshit into money.
something is planned for the 4th of july. it should be interesting.
kentuck
(111,089 posts)He definitely sees himself as the 'star'.
mnhtnbb
(31,386 posts)and say there is no more need for The Constitution.
Who has stopped him? Nobody. He's running concentration camps at our border, his staff are ignoring subpoenas from Congress, he goes into meetings with Putin without a record being generated, he has decimated most of the major Departments of the government, he has declared the free press the "enemy of the people", he has alienated our allies and sucked up to dictators...
What would happen?
kentuck
(111,089 posts)As if that is not enough to convince the oldest rock in the universe.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)You're only a citizen paying his bills (and where is his salary going these days?).
watoos
(7,142 posts)He is a con man.
He is a shitty businessman who spent all of daddy's money bailing him out.
He then had to turn to criminals to make a buck. Deals with the mob, laundering money for despots.
He is such a phony that he was good at the Apprentice, so they tell me because I never watched it.
Without the Apprentice who knows where Trump would be today, certainly not president of the United States.
kentuck
(111,089 posts)What was his name?
rampartc
(5,407 posts)but otherwise a good analysis.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,311 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)kentuck
(111,089 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)But those are his only two talents. In every other area, he is a complete failure.
He might be a halfway decent golf player, but he is a notorious cheater, which cancels out whatever native talent he might have.