And suddenly, a lot more things make sense. Not about the war, though. Nuts. The war doesn’t make sense. The reason Trump is being so ridiculous is all about him. That’s normal for Trump. Still, when you tie everything together, it has one purpose and one purpose only. It’s emphatically *not* for America. With gratitude for AlterNet:
Over the course of his second term, President Donald Trump has been fixated on his wide-ranging D.C. construction projects, from his much-demanded ballroom to his 250-foot-tall arch to the Reflecting Pool debacle, and more. While he has claimed it is all part of an effort to clean up the nation’s “dirty and disgusting” capital, according to one leading psychologist, Trump’s motivations are more ethereal: the president is attempting to create his own post-death mythology. This is according to neuroscientist Frank George, who posted a video on Tuesday explaining Trump’s desire to “redesign history.”
Hmmm. Things are making a lot more sense now. It explains how his ballroom grew to the size of 999 guests and became bigger than the White House. He wants to go down in history for it. No wonder he’s so fixated on these things. Mine, mine, mine. “See what I did?” And he automatically assumes any failures, any problem, are everyone else’s failures, not his. He never does anything wrong, including “acing” a cognitive test three times. They have told him time and again that you can’t “ace” one of them, and he won’t, of course, listen.
“Trump no longer seems content to be remembered as a successful president,” asserts George. “Increasingly, he portrays himself as something much larger: founder, savior, timeless hero, even the embodiment of the nation itself.” As George explains, “Architecture is a symbolic communication. Throughout history, rulers have understood that buildings tell stories long after speeches are forgotten.” “This isn’t about construction,” warns George. “They’re attempts to make mythology tangible. Trump doesn’t want to occupy history. Increasingly, he’s redesigning history to occupy him.”
Ugh. How many of us would like to forget about him? A lot. He’s certainly made his mark on the country. Just as we remember 9/11, we will remember the J6 riot. That’s what it was, not this nonsense that Trump keeps spewing. We know he can’t admit what it actually was, because of Jack Smith’s final report. (Need to get back to reading that.) Trump ran to get elected to stay out of jail. And once he was there, he set about wrecking the country, and now this. Billions of taxpayer dollars spent, all for his vanity. Unbelievable.
George wasn’t the only one with such thoughts on his mind on Tuesday. Jim Geraghty, senior political correspondent for the highly conservative magazine The National Review, posted a quote from Maggie Haberman, whose recent bestseller Regime Change exposed a slew of embarrassing secrets about Trump and the White House. “If you looked at, like, a chart of [Trump’s] mind share,” said Haberman, “as 70 percent of it would be on his renovations.” “You don’t have to buy Haberman’s figure,” Geraghty responded, “but it’s undeniable that President Trump spends a lot of time thinking and talking about the White House ballroom project, the Reflecting Pool renovation, and his ‘independence arch.’ That possessive word is deliberate; in October, when a reporter asked whom the arch was for, Trump responded, ‘Me.’”
Me, me, me. That’s all Trump cares about. And he may want to be remembered as a great president, a great man; look at all he did. Hooey! That’s not what he’ll be remembered for. It’s going to be J6, the Iran War, ICE/CBP killing people, sending immigrants to CECOT because he was going to be tough on illegal immigrants, the decimation of law in our country, the extortion of law firms and schools in the name of “woke”, and so forth. The list is much longer. Let’s not put a full list together because it would be too bloody depressing.
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