Loading ...But he gets things done, in a commercial world. The art of the deal is all about understanding psychology, not being smart. Second hand car salesmen, real estate agents, drug and arms dealers all understand this. All good salesmen do, really. Politicians are not generally smart, all they have to do is promise to spend more of everybody else’s money than their rivals to get the vote. Trump didn’t do that, he worked his psychologies on the population tapping into their desire for change from a dynamic character. Winning that race against two seriously stupid bland opponents wasn’t difficult.
What’s disappointing is that he doesn’t seem to have learned from the first time around. Lots of talk, then a watering down of appointments, DOGE sounds fantastic with an image of Elon carrying a sink in your mind and we’ll know in a week if it stands a chance but worst of all there’s a lack of substance in his recent actions, especially $TRUMP. This is not the way a serious statesman operates. It occurs to me that in the one day before his inauguration he’s fleeced people of $6bn (the 20% float of the coin x its $30bn ‘valuation’) which is multiples of what Brandon scammed in half a century.
The smart thing to do would be to let his appointees get on with their jobs. I doubt he can do that, it’s not part of his personality not to interfere. Very controlling. Appointing RFK and then entertaining Billy boy shows he’s in two minds about health; or, maybe, he has no idea at all. He didn’t the first time around. So it looks like it’ll be Trump the loose cannon again.