The Truth About Trump
Note — this is not an article meant for publication yet. It is just an early sketch to compile some notes. Please disregard.
The defining feature of this past decade has probably been Donald Trump.
More ink has been more spilled over him than just about anything else, by several orders of magnitude.
So, we’re not going to uncover anything new to add here.
What I want to do instead, is speak to the people who have been swept up.
He has had the benefit of one of the most powerful PR machines behind him, which has managed to create an entirely alternative reality. It’s astonsihign what you can do when you are prepared to just lie.
But underneath all that, is the reality. And that’s what I want to try and present.
We’re going to look at the things this guy has said and done, in his own words. Not what the lying media has said, what he’s said.
And then at the end we can try and make a judgement about what his intentions are.
becasue I know there are a lot of good people who have been swept up by this military grade propaganda. Which has cleverly made them think that they are the ones who see THROUGH the propaganda. they think he cares about people, and women, and is fighting billionaires, and child traffickers, and is fighting against a stolen election.
And as this train comes crashing off its rails, a lot of people are going to be confused and hurt about how the man they thought was a hero can turn out to be a charlatan.
So I think it’s important to tell the story. Of how a dodgy real estate developer became a messiah in so many people’s eyes.
becasue a lot of the world is divided on one single lie at the moment — was the 2020 elecgion rigged.
For 300 years they’ve had these elections, 46 presidents. And every single time the loser has said ok, fair neough.
Until 2020. Donald lost, and said it was stolen.
And we’re all living in the wake of that lie.
So, did everyone lie,o ro did he. That’s the question we’re going to try and answer.
Cos that has huge ramifications.
So, his dad was a huge property guy.
First project was restoring the commodore hotel.
Then set his eyes on Trump tower.
Was only going to be workable if he didn’t have to pay tax. Got a $75 million break.
Started a casino in Atlantic city — Trump Plaza, then another one. Then the Taj Mahal, which he seetn bankrupt.
flies around in private jet to his country clubs and golf clubs
To understand where this particular narrative is coming from, we need to go back to 2016. Donald Trump was running for President. Despite being handed millions of dollars and the keys to a property empire, he still managed to bankrupt a casino. His business model in the beginning was largely based on projecting an aura of wealth, while refusing to pay tax, and stiffing contractors wherever he could. After numerous nefarious deals went bad, Russia bailed him out. But by the end of the 90’s, he had largely faded into irrelevancy. Then a man named Mark Burnett came along with a show called The Apprentice, and meticulously crafted Trump in the image of a mogul. It was a literal TV set, but TV is powerful, and it convinced a lot of people that was in fact a successful businessman. And that might have been it. He could have happily gone off to play golf, while taking pot-shots at politicians on twitter.
Why woudl he give that up? the closest analgue is Jafar at the end of Aladdin, who craved the phenomenal cosmic power of being a genie.
But like Jafar at the end of Aladdin, he was not satisfied to be a sorcerer. He craved the phenomenal cosmic power of the presidency. So, he ran.
He essentially embodied the idea that rich white men should just be able to do what they want. To women, to the environment, to the economy. An overt nationalist, blatant misogynist, and a classic capitalist. And he did not appear to be bound by political norms. He enjoyed saying the quiet part out loud, and thrived on the controversy that followed. Which presented an opportunity to shift the Overton Window way back over to the far-right. So, there were plenty of Americans who wanted him to be president.
steve pieczenic was one of them,
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Got into office anyway, cos Steve bannon is a honey badger, and they managed to make people think that Hillary Clinton was eating babies under a piazza restaurant
As president, Trump bragged to the Boy Scouts about knowing a guy who had sex parties on a boat, made the airforce use his resort in Scotland, publicly took Putin’s word over the US intelligence services’, and spoiled Santa Claus for a 7 year-old girl.
ANWR
Just bragging about how great he was, by doing this horrible thing
To be fair, that is an absolutely hilarious thing to do, but it’s not what I want the president to be doing.
Pure ego.
But what about epsiten and child traffickers?
covid:
Sharpies instead of just admitting he got it wrong,
Again, an objectively hilarious but objectively insane for a president to do
Less hilarious, is openly shilling for a foreign leader:
Just so fucking useless
what could make someone think this guy is a man of the people?
The answer is a willingness to break with political convention, disregard norms, and an unprecedentedly powerful propaganda campaign that lies so much they can create an alternative reality.
his staff called him insane
then we come to the election. The one he specifically said he wouldn’t concede if he lost.
We’ve never seen that before. The founding father were not prepared for what to do if a president jsut decided :nah
watch the speech. You can see it’s based on nothing. He comes out, says we won these states, so you know what, we won the whole thing.
Just brazen lies. Just standing up and lying out his fucking ass.
Here’s another one, his call to the Georgia Secretary of State.
He says he won by hundreds of thousands of votes, but that’s obviously not true, cos that’s exactly why they’re having the conversation. They were 11,000 votes short.
What he’s saying there is, yes we don’t have the votes, but you can just SAY we have the votes, because I heard a rumour, wink wink, so go on, please, let me overturn the election. And that Secretary of State, even though has a republican, was enough of a patriot to say no.
Saying the words peacefully and patriotically doesn’t magically erase all the rest
He waited 3 hours and did nothing while it was stormed. If he’d wanted it peaceful he would have called them back when it was breached. they were there cos he wanted them to be there, and because they wanted to see if it could work. Chris Miller was making the calls about the defence
You can watch it yourself.
Since then, he’s only gotten worse.
