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Virus Numbers Shooting Up, Dow Shooting Down: Trump Tweets: ‘It’s a Beautiful Thing to See’

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This guy.

I assume he is talking about the people that live through this, that they will eventually be stronger than ever before, but that is far from guaranteed. One could say the exact same thing about the businesses that are suffering in this period – those that do survive might end up being stronger than before, but not all will survive.

I get what he’s trying to do, he’s trying to be the leader, the man who keeps the nation’s resolve together. He’s trying to be Churchill. It is his FDR moment, the only thing we have to fear is … the mother fff  in the White House. It just doesn’t work for him.

Trump has two modes; Anger, and gloating. His default mode is anger, it’s his raison d’etre, spread his anger and punish those with whom he’s angry. Every once in a while, his anger will subside due to a victory over someone else and he will transition into gloating. He is not “happy,” so much as that he “happy” to see someone else defeated.” Donald Trump cannot conceive of a world where everyone wins and is happy together. He would be miserable in that world.

Thus, he is not well-suited for the job of national cheerleader or unifier. In fact, he sucks at it. Moreover, because Trump needs to be surrounded by people he can control, people just like him, there’s no one in the administration who can step up and perform that role, either. Kellyanne? Mnuchin? Ben Carson? Ivanka? Please.

See? They are all like him – none of them could inspire people and rally the country. Perhaps early in the administration, when real adults populated the White House staff, some might have been able to do it, James Mattis? Kelly? Hell, even Secretary of State Tillerson might have had a “can-do” CEO type of attitude with which he could have rallied people. But those were the adults in the room, the real leaders, and the real leaders are gone.

It doesn’t help that this “everything is so beautiful” tweet comes out just hours after he re-tweeted his real thoughts:

So well unified.

That is the guy we know, that’s the real Don, and why he can’t pull off any other tricks.

 

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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