By Steven Jonas
A variety of words have been used to describe
Donald Trump and Trump's White House/Presidency. They are being used
with
increasing frequency as various "inside the White House" books, like
those of
Bob Woodward and Michael Wolff, and "pretty close to Trump" books, have
come
out. Among them are "deranged," "unhinged," "chaotic," "crazy,"
"bordering on senile," and "mad." Trump is often described as
"uncontrolled and
uncontrollable." Now it may be true that
he is really off-the-wall doing a combination of meandering through and
charging through his Presidency without much direction other than
"responding
to his base." Certainly, from time-to-time
I have thought so. But the more I have
watched what this man has actually accomplished, the less I think that
he is
just lurching through it all, and the more I think that he knows exactly
what
he is doing (at least most of the time).
That is, my answer now to the question I raised in the title of this
column is "yes." And here's why.
Trump has a particular way of acting, very well
known to everyone, that all started in the way he was brought up,
particularly
by his father (and I am not about to say here anything that any
objective
observer doesn't already know). He is a
bully. He is poorly educated and doesn't
care that he is. He is highly
opinionated, without too much dependence on fact for his opinions. He
is a racist from his youth. He is a faker/liar from the beginning,
e.g.,
indeed he went to the Wharton School (likely with a paid-for entry-form)
but
there is no evidence (to my knowledge) that he received its graduate
degree. And so on and so forth.
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Source: OpEdNews.com
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