Billionaires have become billionaires without being a president and can hold way more sway and power over things than being a president and without being held to short terms.
there are many easier ways to self serve.
So if you thought this was a play : He’s doing it hard mode and unsustainably so.
he’s suffering with dementia. Do not confuse malice with simple stupidity.
It’s kind of both. Trump is a moron and some of what he does is failing and he doesn’t understand why, but some of it is also working exactly like he planned. Trump is and always has been a conman. He is not a businessman, he is a conman. That’s a very critical thing to understand. Everything he does is a grift of some kind, it’s his default operating mode.
Every action he takes he intends to either enrich himself or attack someone he doesn’t like. He never does anything that will benefit someone else unless he sees some way in which he can also benefit. He will always opt for the scummiest solution to any problem because he likes to feel like he “tricked” someone or got one over on them, that it somehow proves he’s a brilliant businessman. He genuinely believes that scammer and businessman are the same thing.
I don’t doubt he thinks it is some sort of 5 d chess. But he’s still suffering with dementia and a healthy dose of narcissism making him completely useless. Even the people he is playing puppet to are going to get fucked hard and it’s not even the plan. It’s just how dementia works and how fools who think they are using someone (and it is elder abuse) are really the creation and fall of their own making. They stupidly thought he was just a hype man with stern dad energy.
They had no idea they were playing with pure chaos.
He genuinely believes that scammer and businessman are the same thing.
which actually, if you look at how “great businessmen” from history had amassed their fortunes, isn’t that far from the truth. It’s not exactly right, but it’s not exactly wrong, either. Someone was always getting fucked in the process, it was usually just their employees instead of their business partners.
Billionaires have become billionaires without being a president and can hold way more sway and power over things than being a president and without being held to short terms.
there are many easier ways to self serve.
So if you thought this was a play : He’s doing it hard mode and unsustainably so.
he’s suffering with dementia. Do not confuse malice with simple stupidity.
It’s kind of both. Trump is a moron and some of what he does is failing and he doesn’t understand why, but some of it is also working exactly like he planned. Trump is and always has been a conman. He is not a businessman, he is a conman. That’s a very critical thing to understand. Everything he does is a grift of some kind, it’s his default operating mode.
Every action he takes he intends to either enrich himself or attack someone he doesn’t like. He never does anything that will benefit someone else unless he sees some way in which he can also benefit. He will always opt for the scummiest solution to any problem because he likes to feel like he “tricked” someone or got one over on them, that it somehow proves he’s a brilliant businessman. He genuinely believes that scammer and businessman are the same thing.
I don’t doubt he thinks it is some sort of 5 d chess. But he’s still suffering with dementia and a healthy dose of narcissism making him completely useless. Even the people he is playing puppet to are going to get fucked hard and it’s not even the plan. It’s just how dementia works and how fools who think they are using someone (and it is elder abuse) are really the creation and fall of their own making. They stupidly thought he was just a hype man with stern dad energy.
They had no idea they were playing with pure chaos.
which actually, if you look at how “great businessmen” from history had amassed their fortunes, isn’t that far from the truth. It’s not exactly right, but it’s not exactly wrong, either. Someone was always getting fucked in the process, it was usually just their employees instead of their business partners.