Seventy-three-year-old Donald Trump has bluffed, lied, and bullied his way through countless mostly self-inflicted personal and business crises throughout most of his adult life.
Trump has defrauded myriads of marks, refused housing to those who dared to have the wrong color skin, stiffed creditors, employees, and investors evaded taxes and filed oodles of lawsuits to avoid paying legitimate debts owed to banks, contractors, suppliers, and vendors.
He’s lied through his teeth to regulators, reporters, concubines, ex-wives, and their attorneys, conned voters into electing him to the highest office in the land, and, now, he’s managed through stunning incompetence and deceit to bungle America into the worst crisis in our history.
The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted Trump’s notorious craving for approval and praise, mind-boggling compulsions to blame anyone and everyone else (think President Obama), distortions of history and law, contempt for professional expertise (think World Health Organization), and his embarrassing unwillingness to entertain even the slightest suggestion that anyone might know more than he claims to know.
Ever since Trump announced nearly five years ago that he would run for the presidency, Americans of all political persuasions have wondered, some openly, many not, what the cost would be in terms of blood and treasure if Donald Trump didn’t have the character, courage, and temperament to honestly confront and defeat a severe threat to the nation without doing what he’s always done . . . bluffing, lying, and bullying his way through?
Although we don’t yet know the exact numbers, what do you think?
How many lives and how many trillions of dollars will America have to sacrifice to protect Donald Trump’s dainty ego?
Any ideas?