By Philip Yeung
Trump is a bully. We all know this. But we must know what makes bullies tick.
Bullies go for quick fixes.
I bet in bed, Trump only does quickies. He doesn't do foreplays or the gentle art of seduction. Power is his pill or Viagra.
Bullies go for first-round knockouts but are useless in a battle of attrition. In a 12-round bout, they can't outfox their opponents with high fight IQ.
The Iran war has exposed Trump's fatal shortcomings.
He thought that Iran would fold, Venezuela-style, with a surprise decapitation bombing. But Venezuela's vulnerabilities stem from its remote geographical distance from its allies, Russia and China. Besides, Venezuela is untested in battle and unprepared for war.
But Iran is a different kettle of fish.
It is battle-hardened and bristling with missiles and killer drones. It also sits smack in the middle of a volatile geopolitical region, with its intricate network of allies, adversaries, and swarms of players, while China and Russia hover nearby.
It also controls the chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz, with capability to wear out its opponents. The Venezuela-like hit job is turning into a giant quagmire.
Despite his ghost-written book on the Art of the Deal, Trump is no dealmaker. His deals are all leverage-laden, tilted in his favor where he dictates play.
Donald Rumsfeld famously said: weakness is provocative. You should never suck up to a bully as European leaders have learned the hard way, getting slapped around while kowtowing to Trump.
Bullies don't reciprocate. So far, the only country that knows how to read and tame Trump is China.
In his world, relationships are not reciprocal. Trump only visits countries where he can grab global attention. He won't set foot in middle-power Canada or France. Canadians naturally have a hysterical hatred for Trump who makes no bones about annexing Canada. Vocal protestors will turn Trump into an embarrassment to himself and his host.
Trump only visits countries that matter to his ego, to Britain for its royal fuss and flummeries, to China to stand next to its paramount leader, to meet Putin or North Korea's Kim Jong-un for sensational coverage. The rest of the world is almost invisible.
Speaking of Canada, its leader is a stark contrast to Trump. He is the ultimate unTrump.
Where Carney is cerebral, cool-headed and unruffled, Trump is all noise and bluster. One is a big-picture strategist, the other mentally lazy and reactive. Carney is a no-fuss-no-muss leader, while Trump musses up everything he touches. Trump has no use for allies or friends, only lapdogs and playmates, like Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump cunningly uses distractions to escape humiliation. The illegal Iran war was launched as an expensive way to distract attention from the jaw-dropping revelations of the Epstein files as Israeli intelligence breathes down his neck to join Netanyahu's war.
If the war goes sideways, Trump will find yet another distraction. He is already bragging about invading Cuba, as the Iran trap sucks him deeper. Trump will stoop low to stay alive.
The world's supreme leader is a crackpot, a narcissist and a predator. Like a true-blue bully, he never concedes defeat or admits guilt.
Trump's moral and executive shortfalls should have disqualified him for office. He has little patience running anything that requires discipline. His Trump University folded ignominiously, sunk by a shallow anti-intellectual who was only out to make a quick buck.
Trump is book-shy, semi-literate, and dim-witted. He is unqualified to be in any hall of learning, let alone running it. Trump targets elite American universities like Harvard and Columbia because they are an embarrassment to his failed intellect and university. He hates Ivy League universities at the gut-level.
Trump the self-styled business genius has somehow managed to bankrupt a casino, an automatic money-maker. If he can't even run a casino, how is he fit to run the mightiest empire in history?
An ignorant, anti-science politician is in the driver's seat, a climate change denier, with no interest in saving the planet, only in saving his own skin and power base.
His ignorance and flat-out incompetence overlaid by a thick layer of criminality, with a rap sheet that would embarrass a gangster, should have kept him out of the White House.
Corrupt to the core, he is shamelessly using the presidency to enrich himself and his family. You can buy your way into his inner circle by buying his bit coins or buy him a luxury aircraft for quid-pro-quo favors or making a mega-donation.
The presidency has become a giant ATM. He isn't making America great again. He is running it into the ground.
Bullies don't play by the rules. Trump tells the world, he obeys no laws but his own morality, as the January 6th riots, Venezuela abduction or Iran war attest. Not even kings talk or act with such utter abandon.
Here is the puzzle of the century: why is such a horrible human being twice elected US president? The answer is simple. It's time people wake up to the wickedness of Wokeism.
For years, the lunatic left holds a stranglehold on US values and the legislative agenda. People are told not only to accept LGBTQ, but to embrace them. Even little kids are taught gender values. Trump may be the most unchristian leader, but this over-sexed man is the antithesis to liberal lunacy.
American toilets for the disabled are sometimes called facilities for the "differently abled", because "disabled" sounds politically incorrect. The only trouble is that this linguistic twist actually draws more unwanted attention to the disability.
The toilet-access fight is getting smelly. A man with a penis can go into the woman's toilet simply by declaring his gender identity as a woman. It is this kind of outrage that has driven the far right into Trump's arms. For the pendulum to swing the other way, Trump is the answer to their prayers.
With the surge of crime wave in America, it is all too tempting for Trump to fan the flames of animosity towards colored immigrants, legal or otherwise. Xenophobia is an easy sell, as Trump peddles simplistic solutions. Isolationism and American exceptionalism make a toxic brew.
That’s why despite his criminality and amorality, Trump still commands a hard-core 40% voter support.
The inescapable conclusion: no LGBTQ or DEI, no Trumpian backlash. Trump is best understood as a tidal-wave sociopolitical populist backlash, as one extreme swings into another.
Trump's insanity is merely the symptom of a bitterly divided society. But the world is footing the bill for this madness.
Where will Trump take us next? We should be worried. Hopefully, the mid-terms will allow America to impeach its way out of calamity for itself and humanity.
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