What's Next: I have no idea.
Ask Conway or Bannon
(Or follow me on Twitter)
The purpose of this post and
indeed of this blog is to provide good information that I have condensed from numerous sources as much as possible and links to those sources also as much as possible.
Let's face, information on and about Donald J. Trump fills the
pages of hundreds if not thousands of places, and he loves the attention – he thrives on the limelight.
I try to put things into
simple easy to follow analysis sometimes succeeding sometimes I suspect, I miss by a country mile. That may happen with this post as I try to lay out what I think about Donald J. Trump and why I think what I think about, which I might add it not a easy feat.
What he stands for and what he intends to do while in office, or more likely will actually do to (not for) the
country and indeed the globe is the great mystery to say the least.
Do I want Mr. Trump to succeed –
yes, indeed I do. Just as I want everyone in the Oval Office to succeed and indeed everyone in every branch of government, elected or appointed servants of the people. Otherwise why are they there if not to provide good things for the country and everyone of us while maintaining some sort of global balance as well.
Will he succeed? That is a different question. It will
greatly depend what he does, what laws he gets passed or rescinded and how
those two things impact the daily lives of everyone and hopefully not just favor a small
segment of society that he wants to appease or return favors for their support.
He like anyone in office I strongly
believe must serve the whole; not powerful select parts to help at the expense
or deterrence of the less-fortunate or minority of Americans (racial or
other minority I mean).
The last thing we need is for Mr. Trump and his family to use the power of his office to constantly market the
Trump name and brand at the expense of working Americans, poor or needy
Americans, sick or ill Americans, or newly arrived immigrants who want to become
Americans.
Policy will be measured by
the harm it does and not by the good it should always be aimed to do as a
routine matter – fix things that need fixing or that is broken or not working,
but not the sake of raw politics or narrow special interest requests for favors
down the road. As doctors say: First, do no harm. A good thing to remember.
Having laid that out, what is
Donald J. Trump’s core philosophy and beliefs? That is if he has any core at all.
The way I and many others see him is like this: He thrives on creating turmoil and
uncertainty and then blames others for the turmoil and uncertainty just before
he comes forth with a plan to fix the turmoil and uncertainty to claim single victory
as the “great problem solver.”
Keep in mind, that what he does always, and I mean always, comes with a stiff price (philosophical or monetary) and it is always on his
terms and conditions. Those terms and conditions are the ones he developed all
by himself for himself and never for anyone except those who are with him 100
percent – watch him and see. Call it “Art of the Con.” (That may sound harsh but that is how he comes across).
Added to that is this short synopsis
of him from various other places who also watch and track him closely like his recent
and sudden embrace for another nuclear arms race. Then we watch his staff
scrambling to find ways to explain his words and to minimize the fallout from
his M.O. [modus operandi]. Figuring him and that M.O. in all honesty is hard
for anyone, even medical experts.
As many say: He intends to govern by chaos.
Trump seems to revel in
tossing firecrackers or more so, lately, hand grenades like in the case of the “let’s
have a nuclear arms race (again).” He uses Twitter to offer
domestic and foreign policy proposals that are provocative pronouncements that
he wants to implement after January 20th.
He then leaves the debris for
others to clean up and to flesh out and present reworded snippets of what “his
true intentions were (we call that the spin), like “Oh, he really was saying
this or that and not what you think he said or what you want to make it look
like he said,” (even though we heard him say that in his own words).
A simple wow is insufficient
to even try and explain this new form of propaganda – but the big lie theory
comes to mind quickly.
And no, his team is not Nazi-like, and Trump is not Hitler-like, and Kellyanne Conway is not Joseph Goebbels-like. But, you do
have to question the validity of their well-scripted spin and then piles of
lies on top of piles of lies with more spin on top of the old ones, except a
few new words and snippets to further try and help define who Trump and his
words are. That is the challenge no matter how one tries to define him.
Examples just recently:
1. Trump has publicly pitted two
military contractors against one another (AF-1 and jet fighter);
2. He has sown confusion about
the scope of his proposed ban on foreign Muslims;
3. He needled China following
its seizure of a U.S. underwater drone, which they returned;
But nothing has created more
consternation for many foreign policy experts than Trump’s assertion on Twitter
(naturally by Tweet) that the country should “greatly strengthen and expand our nuclear capability.
Then the very next day, even
after his staff had tried to temper that tweet, Trump doubled down telling a
television talk show host (Coffee Joe) that in an arms race against any
competitor, the United States would “outmatch them at every pass.”
So, my definition of Donald
J. Trump is simple: “He is a chaotic, unpredictable, turmoil-driven, center
stage attention seeking despot with no core principles or common-sense values.”
I fear for what lies ahead.
My view of course – yours may be 180° opposite. And that’s fine to not agree, – so how do you define
Donald J. Trump?
Thanks for stopping by –
leave your comments and assessment of him… I would like to hear about them. And, as
always, stay tuned.
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