THERE WILL BE MORE TELL-ALL BOOKS ABOUT TRUMP'S WHITE HOUSE

…The White House today should be called the “House of Chaos”

GOP leaders are today engaged in intentional deceptions.

 

 

If Donald Trump thinks that Michael Wolff’s book, “Fire and Fury”, will be the last tell-all book about the Trump White House, he’s fooling himself.  That’s because Trump himself and his administration will continue to offer any number of damaging memoirs and leak-filled exposés in the coming months and years.  Wolff’s book may be the latest of these, but surely it’s not the last.

 

The point is that we, the public, do not require those published, behind-the-scenes looks at Trump’s instability, his childishness and narcissism.  That’s because he provides those revelations about his state of mind nearly every day. Trump is continually being damaged not by sabotage, but by his own self-revelation.

 

Just think about the following that has occurred over the past few weeks via Trump’s many tweets.  And these are not exaggerated or “fake news” issues, they are the real thing:

 

·       Trump actually took credit for fewer airline crashes.

 

·       Trump urged the jailing of Hillary Clinton’s long-time aide, Huma Abedin.

 

·       Trump falsely stated that the Deputy Director of the FBI was “racing the clock to retire with full benefits”.

 

·       Trump attacked his own, what he called the “Deep State Justice Department”.

 

·       Trump called for the firing of two New York Times journalists.

 

·       Trump claimed that the nation’s cold wave was proof that “Global warming is a hoax.”

 

·         Trump then claimed “his Nuclear Button was bigger than North Korean, Kim Jong Un’s  

       Nuclear Button.”

 

·       Then Trump tried to stop the publication of Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” book about the Trump White House.

 

·       Trump finally insisted that he is “like, really smart” and “a very stable genius.”

 

To my thinking, Trump’s use of Twitter to provide his up-dates of whatever is on his mind brings on a key question: “Is the president reaching some kind of psychological breaking point?”

 

Trump is providing us a set of his compulsions and delusions that are basically about his entire adult life. Trump seems to be losing a grasp on reality that he never really possessed. What is most striking is not the disintegration of Trump’s reality, but the utter consistency of his lack of reality.

 

Just think about it!

 

The American public already has too much data on Donald J. Trump for assessing his stability and fitness for the office of the president.  The transparency of Trump’s transgressions is astounding and it’s basically mind-numbing.

 

If any other US President would have threatened the jailing of a private citizen for any reason, that would be a major scandal, but it was not for Trump!  It was just another thought off the top of the mind of the most powerful human in the world.

 

Basically, the most easily alarmed among us have come to just discount Trump’s outlandish and offensive comments or actions.

 

So, what have we learned from this tell-all story that Trump himself continues to author?

 

Well, the president’s defenders, in their pursuit of the brighter side, they argue the value of Trump’s perceived unpredictability in his leadership. But Trump is not that unpredictable. He is predictable in different ways that make him vulnerable to major exploitation.

 

First, consider that he is easy to flatter, easy to provoke and thus it make him easy to manipulate. The Chinese have made an art of this.  As one journalist put it, “The Chinese ushered Trump into regional irrelevance on a red carpet.”  “I like very much President Xi,” Trump has said. “He treated me better than anybody’s ever been treated in the history of China.”

 

Contrast this with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has treated Trump like an adult with her political arguments and her criticisms.  For this president, that was a big mistake.

On top of all this is Trump’s total lack of understanding of how the presidency works.

 

Trump apparently thought that being president was more like his position as the CEO of his privately owned company.  Trump thought the power of the president was more like that of dictators and authoritarians, and he was surprised when he realized he had to deal with the democratic check and balances of the independent Justice Department, the Congress, and the Federal Courts.

 

As an example, Trump mistakenly said: “I have [an] absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department,” he insisted. “Libel laws are very weak in this country,” he argued. “Rivals are not only to be defeated; they should be imprisoned. Critics are not to be refuted; they should be fired. Investigations are not to be answered; they should be shut down.”

 

Trump’s supporters point to the absence of actual action regarding Trump’s statements as proof that these concerns are overblown. But protecting people and our institutions from this executive’s assault has been the constant vigil of the past year, and it will continue to be for the next three years.  Today, we are depending on the strength of those institutions, not the self-restraint of the president, to safeguard what has become our fragile democracy.

And for this country’s elected Republican’s, this could be a problem.  Early on, they could engage in wishful thinking about Trump’s overall fitness. Now they should be aware that perhaps, Trump is not emotionally equipped to be the US President.

 

No, there’s no way the Republicans are going to admit that to the general public, lest they would be accused of letting down their highly partisan team. Therefore, the GOP leaders are instead engaged in an intentional deception.  They are pretending that the president is a normal and capable leader.

 

But even though I empathize with their political dilemma, they will eventually be exposed.

 

And by then, the country will probably not be in a very forgiving mood.  But only time will tell.

 

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