So much of Trump is hype and bullshit, it’s hard to see why people get so worked up about him, either way. SLL’s take on Trump is that he’s in it for power, which he got, and ego, which he has in abundance. Not too different from most politicians. From Erik Wallbank at theburningplatform.com:
Trump is no constitutionalist, nor an admirer of the Bill of Rights. He’s a would be, self-proclaimed, king wanting to be announced when he enters a room as “His Majesty – Donald Trump”, with musical accompaniment, ‘Hail to the Chief’. He is the sole decider. He’s the guy W Bush wanted to be. Now Trump is that guy . . . make no doubt about it.
I’m under fire from some readers who used to see me as their curly-haired boy. Back when I was giving it to Obama/Biden, there was seemingly nothing separating us. Issues with mRNA, from those dumb enough to sign up, but clarity brought us to terms. Now, it’s Trump. Any who ever saw themselves in a MAGA hat now view me askance. Why? Because I’m in that ever-diminishing middle, with greater numbers of true believers on the left and right. I truly disliked Obama. I may end up disliking Trump as much, except he saved us from python-squeeze globalism. For that I’m forever grateful. That said, we find ourselves in a Constitution/Bill of Rights shakedown, conducted without the safety of due process and constitutionality, at the hands of ‘His Majesty’.
Trump jettisoned the JCPOA (i.e. the Iran nuclear deal) as part of a bigger plan to neuter “the resistance” – Russia & China. Like the Minsk Accords, the JCPOA was a ruse, plotted for Iranian regime change.
Anybody not seeing Trump’s resemblance to American Revolution, King George, is not watching closely. We fought for independence because we were being taxed without representation. Those were same conditions as now. Tariffs are a tax, only to be imposed by Congress (constitutionally). Now Trump is taxing the hell out of Americans. Congress (in its infinite stupidity), under Jimmy Carter (1977), passed the “International Economic Powers Act”, allowing the president to impose tariffs or sanctions in an emergency (the same well thought-out way they now allow presidents to conduct endless war). The word that matters is “emergency”. Just as FDA/CDC used “emergency” to destroy the immune systems of millions, Trump is using emergency (where none exists), to apply tariffs (that he in no way understands) across the globe. In fact, if Trump’s tariffs came to be under deliberative congressional scrutiny, they would suffer wrath/ridicule.
