We wholeheartedly agree with the mainstream American citizens who declare that President Donald J. Trump resides in his singular, out-of-touch-with-reality bubble. However, in the interest of accuracy, we would add the empirical adverb “mercantile’ to the descriptive observation.
It is not unreasonable to fantasize, a large. old-fashioned golden cash register with its familiar [“Tching”] sound as included in the conceptual bubble. As we perceive the egoistic and merchandising head of State, his sole concern is his aspiration to be seen as a “winner” and revel over perceived “losers.” The cogent measuring rod relative to such neurotic aspiration is money, the latter, his systemic blood supply and reductive scoreboard. In the many years since his bubble floated up to the surface from his status as real estate gonif and amaturist host of a low-brow game show, at no time has the orange-boy wonder ever indicated any doctrinaire or political point of view. Trump lacks the opportunity for “useless political or economic points of view, his time being fully subscribed to his efforts to be publicly seen and admired as a monetary winner; indeed, the elements of propriety, moral compass, objective fact, responsibility, empathy, loyalty, prudent wisdom and conscience are entirely “Trumped” by such reductive and neurotic goal.
Such) reductive view of humanistic aspiration ubiquitously affects his behavior in his roles as husband (he is in his third marriage, to dare), real estate entrepreneur (why should I pay my contractors), and currently as President of the United States, (raising money for my campaigns, tariffs, complaints about NATO, and the like.)
In his perception, money is the singular measure of success (i.e., “winning”) and eternally exist as the sitting judge and selected jury regarding choices of ethical propriety; all other considerations, thought moral or appropriate, are for “losers,” shamefully inclusive of young American soldiers and sailors killed in the Second World War.
Such skewed and reductionist persona of Donald Trump underlies his sophomoric and dystopic decisions regarding both National and International matters. In his reductive incapability, the Nation is suicidally charging other Nations, including our closest allies, greater tariffs to bring in more money to the Nation and assert its status, as he conceives it, as “winner.” The adverse effect of such a Trump-inspired sophomoric program is already harming the Nation.
It boggles the mind to observe the dystopic picture of an American President shamelessly, evoking the archetypical picture of a common peddler of merchandise by his bizarre and inappropriate solicitations of retail sales to the public, of such items as, vodka, “golden sneakers,” Bibles, cologne, steaks, and other relevant shopping mall merchandise. Is it rationally possible, by comparison, to conceive of Calvin Coolidge selling T-shirts, Linden Johnson hawking sneakers, Teddy Roosevelt selling whistles, or George Bush, Sr, selling cologne?
The starkly inappropriate feature of a “Shopping mall President, ” added to the other personal “blessings” of Donald J. Trump, make fit as a subject for caricature, not a President of the United States. This egoistic darling of the National populist underbelly is empirically and unexplainably remarkable in his sublime incapacity in the role of American President, but, simultaneously and ironically, capable of irreparable damage to the Democratic Republic.
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