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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This just is Trump's 'negotiation' methodology.

Its either:

X is great, they're the best, nobody was ever like X, absolutely tremendous.

or

X is gonna do what we want, they have no choice, we'll make things very painful for them if they don't.

or

X has gone absolutely crazy, just awful, the most terrible things that have been done in terms bad things, they must pay!

... dementia riddled mob boss tactics.

The rhetoric is always 110%, but the underlying tactic just flips around like a weather vane in a hurricane... because Trump literally is not capable of long term, strategic thinking.

He's just good at bullying people.

tl:dr; Trump is almost always bullshitting and saving face at the same time, because he doesn't understand or believe in anything other than the appearance of wealth and power.

He is the manifestation of the id of the American ruling class, a ravenous, screaming toddler that only wants MORE, with none of the carefully crafted corpo-chic lingo that makes them seem intelligent and respectable.