My theory is that he's pretty well tuned to a certain market, which is why he gets his twisted reality from cable news and websites run by old and angry white men rather than policy experts trained to do their best for the commander in chief. He knows enough that those experts pretty good at getting facts, but branding is not about facts rather the appearance of reality. Trump knows he can get savaged by the press as long as his core is happy with his performance, and they are. They see his attitude as uncompromising masculinity when he's a 70 year old man who still wants to be desperately loved and remembered by random people and would actually do things utterly contradictory and baffling with just a hint of suggestion. Trump is very good at what he knows (marketing and being a sleazy POS) but that's pretty much all he cares about. The details are left to his subordinates.
Trump’s Know-Nothing Tour de Force https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-11/trump-s-know-nothing-tour-de-force
based on comments he has made he definitely did not realize what a difficult job being president is. but i think the OP is giving trump way too much credit wrt his knowledge of past presidents and his ability to draw any insight from history. to even say he has a casual interest in united states history would be an overstatement. he is a genius at self-promotion...beyond that he is a f***ing moron...a man-baby with very limited intellect or desire to learn.
I posted this previously, in a different thread, but it fits in well here. George Will very eloquently spells out the "Trump is an idiot" argument and then explains why its dangerous. http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...tory-comments-show-lack-interest-america-past
Trump is all about controversy. At this point, I am beginning to think that his plan is to follow up his most recent controversial statement or action with something even more controversial, and then to follow that up with something even more controversial - all in the hope that people forget about what was originally controversial in the first place.
A torture soul that doesn't know what happiness is. Never ending seek for external approval and would lies and distort own reality for it. I can know everything about nuke in 1.5 hours. Sick mind.
I don't disagree with this. He keeps trying to get people to forget about the last screw up by making more screw ups...though they don't think they're screw ups and are genuinely surprised that everyone everywhere isn't praising his every move. It's really a strange time we're in. Many from the "he speaks his mind" crowd are now wishing he would shut up a bit. For f***'s sake, he told a reporter that he made up the term "prime the pump" just a few days ago. Why would he say something so easily to prove otherwise? He has no sense of history at all. It's amazing and frightening how little he knows about this country...and he's leading it.
This could describe Carter, Hoover, Andrew Jackson or even John and John Quincy Adams. Trump is just a rich jerk who got bored, and has investments in a naturally expanding industry (real estate in New York) that never entail challenges complex enough that they couldn't be handled with a bigger check, and spent his adult life in a vibrant enough media market in a decadent enough era that he never had to temper his behavior due to a lack material or social consequences.
Here is my theory, which is better than starting a new thread. Trump is detached from the reality of everyday people. This is a guy that flys wherever he wants, eats whatever he wants, buys whatever he wants, and states whatever he wants. This is a dangerous person to have making decisions for regular working people. That includes those poor stiffs that have to live on less than 500,000 a year. He has no connection to these types of people. Look at who he hired as his staff, very few if any regular working people. There is not a voice in the room to say, hey this is the reality of the people. Even if there was that person would be drowned out by the billionaires in the room laughing at the simpleton that is not rich so they must be an idiot. He has never had to deal with the fear that your power might go off in a couple days. He does not know what its like to have to skip meals for your kids. He has never had the experience of not being able to pay for medical bills or declaring bankruptcy because you have to rather than because it makes you more money. Plain and simple this guy does not get everyday life for anyone posting on this site. The thing is, I see people who think he is going to change laws to make it possible for everyone to be rich or more successful. I am sorry but he knows that there is only so much money to go around and it is not going to the scum that he does not associate with. Why do you think all of the tax breaks are going to the wealthy? These are the only people that he knows. He can empathize with them. He can not fathom what it's like to live in a 1200 square foot house that you rent for your family of 6. He has never had to deal with that, so he just assumes it's the fault of the person. I would have a little more faith if the guy started under normal circumstances, but he did not. Trump has known nothing but a charmed life of ease. Sure he made a few good investments, but it's not like he has really beaten the market. He is behind the market. His investments have earned him less than if he had just invested in the stock market and let it ride. Yet this is the guy that thinks he can fix everything. He has never really had to work for a living. Like, get into the dirt and work with your hands. The people that do that are the ones he screws over with nonpayment and lower wages. Sadly that is the majority of the united states. That is how he views us. Look at how he has treated his contractors if you want to know how he would treat you. I also do not think he will every figure that out. He can't, he is 70. . . . . as much as I love my grandparents they were not changing their mind about anything at 70. I especially don't see a narcissist being self-reflective enough to understand what we the people go through every day.
Nixon's downfall was the Watergate cover up; for Trump, it appears that it's the Russian-gate cover up. Nixon had his "I am not a crook" moment on 11-17-1973 Trump had his "I never worked for Russia" moment on 14 Jan 2019, after explosive reports that he had taken interpreter's notes after a meeting with Putin and instructed a linguist not to brief anyone else in the administration about what the former KGB master spy and his US-based useful idiot had discussed during their closed-door meeting.
I agree w i this whole heartedly. Also i was gonna say i don't think an American of average intelligence should understand you can't ram your agenda through our political process without compromise but really a lot of Americanss may not understand this. That being said Trump seems to do things just to say he did it for show understanding some things wont fly with Congress.
GWB's premature / convenient declaration on Iraq signaled the beginning of the fall of his presidency likewise, the dotard's premature declaration on ISIS foreshadows the downward spiral of his presidency in Dec 2018, Trump declared victory over ISIS. , only to be contradicted by every leader of his intelligence team, as well as US allies
ISIS isnt the same as a problem as Iraq was We dont need to be in Syria for Isis or to fight Assad It isn't our problem.
