Donald Trump

No president has been as divisive as Trump in the time I have lived in the US. I watched Watergate hearings when I came home from high school, as there was nothing else to watch. The president was a crook. Not a very good one. I did not need to vote for one till after Jimmy Carter. It was confusing to see some of the “hippie” ideas coming main stream. But that did not last long, we had young Republicans. We had Reagan who planted the seed of “government is bad.”

Trump or his staff capitalized on the evil government and “foreigners” and other plans that really have failed to materialize. He finally is pushing something that seems to go with his billionaire status, tax cuts. Most rich people are not really like us. And Trump is not, despite the bucket of chicken and Diet Cokes. Trump is now supporting a tax bill, a holy item for Republicans. They ultimately only want two things: smaller government and less tax. Yet they have to support a big military and Jesus. Otherwise they would not be elected at all. Jesus is sometimes disguised as “family values” and really aims to appoint judges that remove abortion.

Trump does not really fit into this very well other than the taxes. As a narcissist, he only needs people around him that praise and applaud him. The wealthy class is willing to tolerate him as long as taxes are cut. But the praise will disappear and Trump will be looking more and more to the racists that voted for him to support and like his tweets. He really has almost no clear agenda. His plan was merely to erase Obama. Obama was an embarrassment to Trump at a White House correspondents dinner years ago. Trump only responds to either insult or praise. He likes to count wins. Winning apparently gets him status and praise. Well, the wins amount to very little. Starting at the latest in 2020 most of Trump changes will be erased.

I had some thoughts about Trump being possibly a weak president from the start. But as it turned out he forged ahead as if his election was some kind mandate from the masses, even though he lost by 3 million votes. He was not going to be held back by that. I realized that on inauguration day. He was going to be Trump no matter what, and be a one term president if that is how it came out. However, as he wants to be adored by crowds, he has to act as if he were running for re-election. He may even do that if he is up to it. The Republicans will lose with him, but they will lose even worse with anyone else.