Man in the Middle: Arrogant
Spoiled Narcissist Out of Control
The following from Salon.com is a super excellent very in-depth analysis
of Trump the man – the man we now call president.
I note: It is
about the best I have seen to date just short of an actual officially-approved
medical professional view of him.
My
concerns are just like those raised in the Salon article about the fears,
doubts, uncertainties, documented statements and video clips of Trump in his
own words, the well-known and documented facts about him, and about all the
suspicions many people still hold about him when asking “how will Trump
govern.” Those concerns are valid and now in plain view while still developing
practically on daily basis, and they are not pretty.
A few highlights from the
Salon article written by Digby are in this short introduction (my emphasis added):
“President
Donald Trump is overseas right now, doing personal appearances at his
properties and making a fool of himself. So far, he's asked Japanese car makers to start making cars in
the United States, apparently ignorant of the fact that three out of
four Japanese-branded cars and trucks are already manufactured in America.”
“And
he hawked U.S.
military equipment as if he were selling Trump steaks on YouTube.” That wasn't the worst of it.”
“He also
told American and Japanese troops that no
nation should underestimate American resolve. Then he quipped: Every once in a while, in the past, they underestimated
us. It was not pleasant for them, was it?”
“Trump's
previous foreign trips have also been embarrassing, but he seems more
off-kilter than usual this time. That's obviously because of the pressure he's
under back home, with the indictments of his former campaign officials by
special counsel Robert Mueller. That pressure has once again brought out into
the open the authoritarian impulses that are becoming more and more pronounced
by the day.”
“Back when Trump took out full-page ads calling for capital
punishment and allowing police to brutalize citizens, he was
just another tabloid blowhard.”
“And during
the presidential campaign, when he endorsed
torture and war crimes and made racist comments about a judge's Mexican
heritage, people assumed he was just being hyperbolic.”
“When he
repeatedly declared his opponent guilty of crimes, even spitting out the nasty
jibe: If I were president, you'd be in jail, said to Hillary Clinton in a presidential debate,
nobody thought he actually meant it.”
“But after
more than nine months of his presidency, it's become clear that Trump truly has
no respect for the rule of law.”
Story continues
at the above Salon link.
Thanks for
stopping by.
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