What an overload of Trump news in the last 2 weeks!! Things are coming in furiously from the left, right, front and center.
All the comedy channels cannot keep up, having to retape/add new segments as new revelations appear in real time. Just when you think that we have hit a new low, we get surprised again.
First, we have more Stormy Daniels revelations, then more White House resignations, followed by the tariff bombshell. All the American TV channels were up to their eyeballs focusing on Trump-related news full time. Trump says that there is no chaos, that people are always lining up to join the White House and that he likes conflicts.
I have been writing about this subject previously, trying to understand the man behind the image. Some commentators even used Steve Job’s “reality distortion” effect to try to explain how Trump can convince himself that all the stuff he says is the absolute truth and then feeding the BS to his faithful fans.
Things seem to come together earlier this week for me, after watching the final episode of the documentary series “Dirty Money : The CONfidence Man” in Netflix (see link below) which was about Trump the con man.
In the early nineties, Trump was desperately broke and his empire was collapsing under the weight of heavy debts from his gambling properties. He started to realize that the Trump name branding image had a value which people will pay for. Grabbing any job that he could get his hands on, he was doing everything. He even advertised for cereal commercials.
With the easy money, he became slopping with little due diligence on new opportunities and dubious underworld monies started to attract themselves to him. This was also the time where Russian funds began to channel themselves via the Trump organization. For US$5 million a pop, he did not care if they were from Hitler himself. He was in survival mode.
All this is coming back to haunt him now. He is the reluctant president that was astonished he had won, the pawn in the Russian big picture game that was cultivated over the last 20+ years that eventually hit the billion dollar jackpot for his puppet masters.
Mueller’s investigation is closing in on him and his past associates are flipping against him fast and furiously. All the past dirt from under the carpet will slowly be revealed. The noose is tightening around Trump’s neck.
He is not one to back down, nor does he have a choice but to just double down and fight back. Hence the urgency to “fulfill” campaign promises like the latest tariff push, damn the trade wars, screw the advisors and even GOP. He has to entrench himself with his core supporters ASAP so that he can reflect any heat from Mueller.
Like a cornered animal, he is likely to further lash out at any and everyone that stands in his way. We are probably going to see more crazy things happening in the coming weeks. Let’s hope he does not start WW3 in the process before the disaster is being shut down by sane people standing up and saying “enough is enough !”
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