OUR PATHETIC AMERICAN PRESIDENT

…This is the “fake” TIME cover found in Trump’s golf resorts and hotels.

 

President Trump uses the excuse of “Fake news!” to conceal his jaw-dropping ignorance.

 

I have to admit that the president's propensity for lying is getting to be even more interesting.  As an example, President Trump tweeted that Time magazine was contemplating naming him the “Person of the Year” for a second year in a row, but he stated that he pulled himself out of the running because he didn’t want to participate in an interview and photo shoot.

 

As is usual, this is all a bunch of horse manure

 

An editor for Time responded to Trump’s comment by saying that the call was not for another, “Person of the Year” cover.  Time just wanted an interview and photo shoot.  It was added by a former Time editor that Trump surely still had copies of his made-up, “fake”, Time Trump cover issue somewhere in storage that he could take out and admire.

 

More and more I am beginning to believe that along with Trump’s narcissism, the president is developing a serious level of dementia. 

 

You may recall that one of the few times that Trump has ever apologized for anything, was when he went on national TV and admitted to what he had said in the Access Hollywood video about grabbing women’s genitals.  Yes, he admitted that he said it, and then he apologized.  Now Trump is saying that he thinks that video was a “fake”.

 

What normal and sane person, has fake Time magazine cover photo’s made up and displayed in their hotels and businesses?  Then they admit and apologize for blatant sexual harassment on national TV, and later say that what he had apologized for didn’t even happen.....?  (BTW: Representatives of Access Hollywood went on TV and quickly assured the public that the video with Trump and Billy Bush was real, and because of it, Billy lost his job at AH.)

 

So now, President Trump says that he has pulled out of the running for another “Person of the Year” cover because he didn’t want to participate in an interview and photo shoot.  I would suspect that he doesn’t want to answer the type of questions that would come from a Time Magazine interview.  This man never turns own the opportunity to be presented with the pomp and circumstance that comes from this kind of publicity, especially like a Time Magazine cover.  But he has lied so much over his first year in office, the Time’s editors would obviously go for some answers to all those lies.

 

It wasn’t that long ago that the Washington Post's David A. Fahrenthold first showed the fake Time magazine cover that he confirmed was being displayed in at least two of President Trump's golf resorts.  Later reports said that the fake Time covers had quickly disappeared from both the golf resorts and from other Trump buildings.

 

Seriously, just imagine a self-described billionaire, a man who beat the odds and won the American presidency.  A man who is now the most powerful man in the world, but he feels he has to make up a story to explain why he says he won’t be allowing a magazine to give him a cover story. That’s how needy Trump is, even as president of the United States.

 

Trump has long been obsessed with having his face on the cover of magazines and even all those lurid supermarket tabloids, but Trump especially idolized the Time magazine covers.  (If you ever have seen pictures of his office in Trump Towers, it is a sanctuary to Donald Trump with every magazine or newspaper cover and his awards and golf trophies on all the walls and shelves.)  He has compared himself to being a “supermodel, except for him, it’s supermodel times 10”.  Many of his golf resorts are decorated with these same covers, including up until recently, the fake March 2009 Time cover that featured the real estate developer and proclaimed: “TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS . . . EVEN TV!”

 

Before he became our president, no one cared about this man’s narcissistic self-regard.  But given this individual’s loathsome character, is the danger that his total self-absorption poses to the presidency.  Also, to the country, to our democracy and to the West.  This nation is now in serious jeopardy.

 

 

Trump’s bottomless well of insecurity makes him a sitting duck for authoritarian leaders such as Vladimir Putin who are well-versed in the art of "Trump Flattery".  In addition, Trump’s self-absorption make him incurious about anything other than in himself.  As someone who asserts he knows more than anyone else, he cannot and will not learn from others who are smarter or well informed.

 

Trump’s personal defects make him unwilling to give up on his grudges, he is also unable to let go of small matters such as those NFL athletes kneeling, or the size of his rally crowds.  He is also totally unequipped to control his anger and unmoved by others’ expectation that he should show them any loyalty.  But he demands total loyalty from all those around him.

 

Trump’s tweets today are a form of his personal therapy as he babbles on and on about his obsessions, fears and resentments.  He doesn’t realize that this trait is making him the object of even more ridicule and total contempt.  Even more than 80% of his polled voters and supporters, they have said they would like for him to stop tweeting and to concentrate on completing more of his campaign promises.  Ain't going to happen.

 

Donald J. Trump is making a comment made by the former First Lady, Michelle Obama, more true than President Trump would ever want to admit.  That comment was: “Being president doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are.”  We now know exactly who Donald J. Trump is…..and it ain’t pretty.

 

One Washington Post writer put Donald Trump into the proper perspective when she wrote: “He [Trump] never bothers to concentrate on intellectual pursuits or to learn from others before; he’s a know-it-all, know-nothing, who relies on his aides to clean up his gaffes and he deploys the excuse of “Fake news!” to conceal his jaw-dropping ignorance. Unfortunately, Trump has virtually no redeeming qualities to counterbalance all his inadequacies.”

 

Some people say that Trump’s troubles have only just begun, but it appears that he has no concept of what trouble is headed his way.  This is especially with the potential charges facing former campaign personnel such as Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Mike Flynn, Mike Flynn Jr., and George Papadopoulos.  And let's not forget his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

 

Stay tuned, as the song says, “It’s Only Just Begun.”

 

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