I honestly wouldn't count on it. His mind is so twisted and riddled with years of drug abuse and more than a few mini-strokes that he can't comprehend losing. What I mean is in his mind everyone loves him, and if someone says otherwise they're wrong, they've misinterpreted their own opinion of him.
He certainly has: he's presided over quite a large number of failed businesses and financial losses. In each case, he's found ways to make others pay for his mismanagement, and hidden or obfuscated the failure from the public to try to maintain the image of success. His ego endures, because he's able to rationalise every failure as somebody else's fault: the ultimate abdication of personal responsibility, and the polar opposite of what is supposed to be the Republican ideal.
Let's be clear: This obese man with a heart condition received treatment for COVID-19 that would have cost any uninsured citizen one hundred thousand dollars, then bragged that he didn't really need it and he recovered because he's "a perfect physical specimen". (Those are his exact words.)
I think it was Art of the Deal or one of "his" other books, but I remember part of his personal philosophy, in so much such a grand term can be applied to him, is a human is basically a battery. It has a set amount of energy and effort at birth, and something like working out drains that energy and it never comes back. Also a person has all the knowledge he will ever need in his brain already. And if he doesn't know something, its either not worth knowing or isn't real. That's why he thinks he's the smartest in the room. And I know people say he's very cowardly and insecure, but I don't see that. I see an ego the size of Everest. He literally thinks he's the smartest human ever born and everyone else is just wrong.
Yet reality keeps asserting it was here first. On some level, Trump knows he's not smart, that he's a terrible manager and businessman, that his efforts to continue looking young aren't working. That's why Trump is so quick to lash out at the slightest perceived insult. It's like impostor syndrome, minus the syndrome.
Actual confidence doesn't require lashing out and trying to puff himself up. It doesn't require so much of that image stuff. That's the cowardice and insecurity
TBH, I tried to do that at the start of 2017. It was the kids in cages that started me being abrasive again. Id understand if you revert a few years in
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He literally didn't. He let in thousands of Chinese alone every month since March. Also, my country shut down flights way more than the US and about a month earlier. Most countries were earlier and more stringent. The US was lax and behind
He's pretty much beyond that sort of character development. Remember that he's already taken a massive beating before, when his failures of the late 80s and 90s became public. But he was still vastly rich, and it didn't stop him. He's lost this election but he's still a billionaire, he'll still be a billionaire if he is done for fraud and has to sell a load of assets to pay back his loans. And whilst he still has all that, he's not going to change.
Stephen Miller is a white nationalist who engineered the family separation plan and has also attacked legal immigration, making it even harder to get into the country legitimately.
Attorney General. Has done everything in his power to make Trump above the law while also directing resources away from law enforcement monitoring right wing extremists and domestic terrorists.
Pyramid scheme heiress who wants to abolish public education and replace it with private schools, mostly of the Christian variety.
Press secretary and inveterate liar. Evangelical, so she's always ready, willing and eager to nail herself to a cross the instant anyone disagrees with her.
Spokescobra. Coined the term "alternative facts." An even worse liar than Kayleigh McEnany, and if her daughter is to be believed, she also abuses her kids. That last part has nothing to do with policy directly, it just indicates the quality of her character.
Treasury secretary. Former financial sector vampire. 'Nuff said.
