DOES DONALD TRUMP REALLY WANT TO BE PRESIDENT?

…A mad Mr. Trump

 

The RNC’s actions have caused the party’s support of a candidate like Donald Trump.

 

Donald Trump decided to run for president, but he continues to “opened mouth, inserted foot.”

 

He says he doesn’t challenge any states where he has won a primary, (of course he won’t!). However, instead of taking the time to understand how each state runs their primaries, Trump charges through with his noisy grand-standing.   All this as Senator Ted Cruz out-Trumps, Trump…..and all Donald can do is yell “Foul”.

 

Trump lost the delegate-selection process to Cruz in both Louisiana and Colorado, only because he was ignorant about how those states primary’s worked.   When Cruz out-smarted him, Trump’s henchmen yelled that “There will be demonstrations and riots!!!!  Trump’s surrogate then said, “We will disclose the hotels and the room numbers of those delegates who are directly involved in the theft. If you’re from Pennsylvania, we’ll tell you who the culprits are. We urge you to visit their hotel and find them.”

 

Sounds like the response of a spoiled brat to me.

 

The Republican Party has always been a strong “states-rights” party.  On the other side, the Democrats have a very undemocratic process that offers those, "un-elected Super Delegates."  One of the difference is that the GOP lets every state decide for themselves how to structure their primaries.  Some even have a state caucus instead of a primary.  Some have winner-take-all primaries, some have proportional delegate awarded primaries.  It’s all up to each state, and it’s up to each candidate to figure out how to deal with each state’s primary. 

 

Donald Trump is a newbie on these things.  He has admitted that multiple times.  But now that he has been “out-Trumped” in a couple of states where Cruz has lost in popular votes to Trump, but Cruz has out smarted Trump in getting more delegates.  He's done it just by knowing how each states assigns their delegates. (And Cruz has an excellent ground-game in each state, Trump doesn't.)

 

Trump has lost in a delegate-selection process he should have known about when he first announced, but he or his team did not prepare for it.  On top of all this, Trump has a genuine contempt for the profession in politics he says he wants to join.  He is also the one that is doing his best to make the profession of politics appear shabby and cheap. He is acting very much like the former bullying president, Richard Nixon, who also tried and failed to conceal how he felt.  Trump has made it very clear that he will do whatever it takes, legal or not, to become president.  That is, whatever it take besides hiring a competent campaign team, or opening a state’s briefing book and making any real preparations for actually being an American president.

 

With all the states Trump has won, all he has needed to do is to act like a normal candidate.

 

But instead of being even a bit presidential, what does Trump do? 

 

He uses Twitter to attack the wife of his main opponent Ted Cruz, and takes another stupid swipe at the Fox News female anchor, Megyn Kelly.  He then gives MSNBC’s Chris Matthews an answer on abortion that showed that he had never really thought out his answers to the question of abortion.  All he ever says is “I am now pro-life”, but it’s obvious that he never took the time to decide what that statement actually means to him.  He has shown a complete lack of preparation on understanding each states Republican primary system.  And when he screws up, he then launches into a full-scale assault on the credibility of the Republican primary process which he says is “absolutely rigged”. 

 

Trump blames the Republican National Committee (RNC), when it was all due to his complete ineptness and lack of knowledge of how the GOP primary system works.

 

The conservative opinion writer Michael Gerson has written the following about Trump: “The task [of running for president] required of Trump was not hard: Avoid being an insufferable, unstable, whiny buffoon for a few weeks. So why did he fail?  It is possible, of course, that Trump simply lacks impulse control. At this level of compulsion, we usually don’t grant people the nuclear codes.”

 

I think I agree with Mr. Gerson.

 

Actually, sometimes I don’t think that Trump really wants to be the American President.  I think being the US president would mean that Trump would no longer be the total controlling CEO he has been for years. As president, he would be someone that would have to deal with compromise for all the things that he wants to do.

 

Mr. Gerson wrote, “…there may be something different and deeper going on. In psychology, there is the concept called “self-sabotage” — behavior that undermines a long-term goal. For most people this might involve procrastination or substance abuse. For Trump, it seems to come in the form of rambling public monologues and a late-night Twitter addiction. Trump’s recent behavior provides enough evidence to raise some questions: Does he honestly want the nomination? What is his real endgame?”

 

Trump is a narcissist, and narcissists love receiving all the public’s attention.  And Trump never admits that he is wrong.  He makes statements about what he says he would do as president, when any sane person would know that there is no way in hell that the “powers that be” would let him do all the things he promises.  But then, the GOP has been making promises to their members, and breaking those promises for years, so what’s the difference?  However, Trump doesn’t seem to understand that the United States is a democracy, not a dictatorship or oligarchy.

 

It would not surprise me if at the Republican National Convention, if Trump didn’t get his way, Trump will just say “It’s my way, or the highway!”  Then he will grab his ball and fly home in his private 757 jet.  This would be the perfect way of him not having to run for president and for getting him out of the game.

 

Trump today is sounding like he expects that if he has the most votes, (not the most delegates) the Republican National Committee Chairman, Reince Priebus, will bring him the nomination on a silver platter in the billionaire’s Cleveland hotel suite.

 

But if Priebus doesn’t do this, which probably won’t happen, Trump will play the victim which is Trump’s most comfortable pose.  Maybe, deep down, is this the role he really wants?

 

In this way, Trump can “say he was robbed of the nomination” and this will send him on his way.

 

I would sincerely like to see Trump go away.  Unfortunately, the RNC’s history of making promises to their members that they couldn’t keep, the end result is that they have a presidential candidate called Donald Trump.  The Republican Party brought all this upon themselves.

 

Copyright G.Ater  2016