Trump doesn't give a shit about his base. To him they're disgusting, muddy, stupid peasants whom he wants nowhere near him or his luxurious palaces like Mar-a-Lago. They're the losers who put themselves in harms way for their country. They're rubes. Fools to pack stadia and cheer him, and turn out to vote for him on empty promises. Trump has one, big skill: he can spot a sucker a mile off and trick them into handing over their money (or in this case, votes).
This is truly the saddest thing about the Trump base. They put so much stock in a man who has nothing but contempt for them in return.
Did you see Michael Moore's 3 minute cut of "Trumpland"? In context, he is saying voting for Trump may feel good for a few days, but as his regime gets underway, that feeling will go away.
It is accidentally the most electric pro-politician speech I have ever seen.
Did that good feeling go away?
In another thread, I posted the exuberance still in Trump's base. That when it doesn't even matter, he got a ton of primary votes matching all votes for all Dems combined. He keeps saying, "Promises made, promises kept."
Immigration;
The Economy;
That he should win the Nobel Peace Prize for being the most anti war POTUS since maybe Eisenhower;
No more hallucinating Judges;
Improve our international trade deals;
and more.
I've thought the guy has problems since the 1980s he went on a talk show to say he wrote "Art of the Deal" in part to let some people know they should never bother to even try. But his actions as POTUS get him better than average marks.
Sounds like this, "Trump used US tax law for best results to himself" story will not have legs.
If he's an outsider then why is literally every Republican happy to go along with everything he does? Even the ones who's wives he called ugly are willing to overlook it because they support literally everything he does.
The "legacy media" plays to the crowd. Electoral colleges might make it possible for less popular candidate to win but ad revenue still relies on raw numbers. That's why the "legacy media" will focus more on the dumb offensive shit that he does rather than the stuff that's actually damaging to society. They know they're sabotaging attempts to discredit him. The "legacy media"sfree publicity played a huge role in getting him elected. In the first place. You have to either believe that everyone in the media failed to grasp that or accept that they did it on purpose. The "legacy media" has to pretend that there's any side opposed to neoliberalism and corporate welfare. Trump is still very happy to give all your money to billionaires. And has been doing it all this time. He is as corrupt as any president you've ever had, he's just less subtle about what a garbage person he is.
You still have a lot of high profile "never Trumpers" in the Republican party. Some spoke for the DNC. In fact, the DNC seemed to want to woo them more than their own Bernie Bro wing.
There's also word of a "Pied Piper" effort by HRC and her obedient legacy media subordinates. They wanted Trump to win the Republican Primary as they thought he'd be easy to beat. Whoops.
Was it MSNBC or CNN they caught with reporters complaining that higher ups would not even allow them to do stories unless they were bashing Trump?
It's not all bad.
Under Obama, an obedient legacy media slumbered as he won the Nobel prize while upping international wars, weaponized the IRS as a political weapon, is now involved in the FBI weaponization scandal. At least with Trump, they're doing their watch dog job.