President Trump – Emperor Trump
by digby
“We should’ve kept the oil … maybe you’ll have another chance,” President Trump tells the CIA about Iraq pic.twitter.com/RNFVWioqRF— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) January 21, 2017
“Trust me, I’m like a smart person,” President Trump tells the CIA pic.twitter.com/FhliMHrOEL— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) January 21, 2017
I guess this should be expected. He said throughout the campaign “to the victor goes the spoils.”
He doesn’t believe in much, not really. He believes the death penalty is not used enough, that law enforcement have been restrained from using necessary police power and that foreign countries are disrespecting and taking advantage of America both economically and militarily. This is his core philosophy. There’s nothing more to it than that.
He is an authoritarian thug and that’s ALL he is. He’s not a populist — he just adopted populist themes based on what was in the zeitgeist. He cares nothing about health care, education, free markets, civil rights, civil liberties, freedom of speech and religion or even, frankly, the second amendment although he’ll probably keep that one on his agenda as long as it’s white men carrying the guns. None of that matters to him. What matters to him is “law and order” and American military and economic supremacy. Those things are not matters on which any other country or the citizens are to have any say.
I wish I understood why people see this as populist and isolationist but it is anything but. “To the victors belong the spoils” is the most imperialistic statement any American president has made in … well, maybe ever. It’s at least right up there with Manifest Destiny. Don’t be fooled.
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