Trump always hires "the most qualified"...

[kpete]

https://twitter.com/nxthompson/status/728203714373267456
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/05/19/trump-solo

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. The most telling, prophetic part of this 19 year old piece:

"Of course, the “comeback” Trump is much the same as the Trump of the eighties; there is no “new” Trump, just as there was never a “new” Nixon. Rather, all along there have been several Trumps: the hyperbole addict who prevaricates for fun and profit; the knowledgeable builder whose associates profess awe at his attention to detail; the narcissist whose self-absorption doesn’t account for his dead-on ability to exploit other people’s weaknesses; the perpetual seventeen-year-old who lives in a zero-sum world of winners and “total losers,” loyal friends and “complete scumbags”; the insatiable publicity hound who courts the press on a daily basis and, when he doesn’t like what he reads, attacks the messengers as “human garbage”; the chairman and largest stockholder of a billion-dollar public corporation who seems unable to resist heralding overly optimistic earnings projections, which then fail to materialize, thereby eroding the value of his investment—in sum, a fellow both slippery and naïve, artfully calculating and recklessly heedless of consequences."

In short, the Donald Trump of the 80s and 90s is the same Donald Trump of the GOP primaries, who will be the same Donald Trump of the general election, and--God forbid--the same President Donald Trump if we are so cursed.

He was an asshole back then, he's an asshole now, and he'll be an asshole until the day he dies.

Anyone who thinks he'll moderate his ways if elected and won't be as bad as we feared is seriously deluded.