They don’t have to work
Trump says working for him is a gloriously easy job, because he’s a dictator.
“It’s very easy, actually, to work with me. You know why it’s easy? Because I make all the decisions. They don’t have to work,” Trump told reporters last Friday as he explained why being his national security adviser, in his mind, is now a low-key post. Trump fired his third such adviser, John Bolton, last week, and he named a new national security adviser on Wednesday morning by tweet.
No worries! President Pinhead makes all the decisions, from out of his very own rotting brain, so his people can just kick back and watch ESPN all day.
To outsiders, it’s felt like watching an increasingly unbound, or unleashed version of the Trump presidency.
But to many Trump allies, aides, and longtime observers, the president is showing the world the way he’s always operated.
Yes but the way he’s always operated in the past was as a rich but small-time real estate hustler. Now he can do damage on a global scale, all by him tiny greedy piggy self.
There is little policy process left as the White House faces consequential decisions on Iran, North Korea, China, trade and the economy, even as the president intends to use the last-named as a major selling point for his reelection bid.
“You can’t just turn the economy on and off. These are big, slow-moving machines. And he’s operating under this major fallacy that he can keep telling the market things, and they will keep believing him on China or whatever else,” said one adviser close to the White House. “And that he can just all of a sudden turn things around with a China deal or whatever it is and it doesn’t work that way.”
Quite so. He operates under a lot of major fallacies of that kind – the kind that tells him he has magic powers. It’s a bad combination: a deeply stupid man who thinks he has magic abilities and has access to vast powers.
It’s the same point made over and over — and yet voters stick by him. Trump must appeal to the political version of the armchair quarterback, the ordinary citizen who has always thought they could do a whole hell of a lot better than all those jackasses in Washington, those pointy- headed experts who have educated themselves right out of common sense. Solutions are simple: just do this here, and that there. What’s missing is having the gumption to not play all the politically correct games.
And here’s someone who agrees — who goes by their own experience and trusts their gut! I think Trump is probably a kind of Mary Sue figure in the fantasy government game going on in some people’s heads. Hence the loyalty.
I would think, though, another thought would pull in the opposite direction – to wit: daaaaamn, I wouldn’t want to have to do that job. On the one hand grump mutter I could do better with my eyes closed, on the other hand yes but then again I sure as hell wouldn’t want to.
Also, most of us ordinary citizens work for bosses, and he is transparently a HIDEOUS person to work for. You’d think that would make a difference, along with all the gold plate and the bragging about being more elite than the elite because of all the gold plate.
@Sastra I have often thought that’s a large part of his appeal. All the Trump supporters I know on any personal level are exactly the type to think they have everything figured out and, even when they’re directly opposed to expert opinion, they believe they’re on the obviously correct side. Trump represents them well because Trump represents common sense* over education and expertise.
*’common sense’ to them is whatever the hell they happen to believe on a particular topic, often for no concrete reason whatsoever