Understanding Trump?

I remember reading this interview from the man who wrote trump’s book the art of the deal for him and how he now hates the man he basically helped create.

he agreed to break his silence and give his first candid interview about the Trump he got to know while acting as his Boswell.
“I put lipstick on a pig,” he said. “I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is.” He went on, “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.”
If he were writing “The Art of the Deal” today, Schwartz said, it would be a very different book with a very different title. Asked what he would call it, he answered, “The Sociopath.”
 
“I was shocked,” Schwartz told me. “Trump didn’t fit any model of human being I’d ever met. He was obsessed with publicity, and he didn’t care what you wrote.” He went on, “Trump only takes two positions. Either you’re a scummy loser, liar, whatever, or you’re the greatest. I became the greatest. He wanted to be seen as a tough guy, and he loved being on the cover.” Schwartz wrote him back, saying, “Of all the people I’ve written about over the years, you are certainly the best sport.”
 
“Trump has been written about a thousand ways from Sunday, but this fundamental aspect of who he is doesn’t seem to be fully understood,” Schwartz told me. “It’s implicit in a lot of what people write, but it’s never explicit—or, at least, I haven’t seen it. And that is that it’s impossible to keep him focussed on any topic, other than his own self-aggrandizement, for more than a few minutes, and even then . . . ” Schwartz trailed off, shaking his head in amazement. He regards Trump’s inability to concentrate as alarming in a Presidential candidate. “If he had to be briefed on a crisis in the Situation Room, it’s impossible to imagine him paying attention over a long period of time,” he said.

This year, Schwartz has heard some argue that there must be a more thoughtful and nuanced version of Donald Trump that he is keeping in reserve for after the campaign. “There isn’t,” Schwartz insists. “There is no private Trump.” This is not a matter of hindsight. While working on “The Art of the Deal,” Schwartz kept a journal in which he expressed his amazement at Trump’s personality, writing that Trump seemed driven entirely by a need for public attention. “All he is is ‘stomp, stomp, stomp’—recognition from outside, bigger, more, a whole series of things that go nowhere in particular,” he observed, on October 21, 1986. But, as he noted in the journal a few days later, “the book will be far more successful if Trump is a sympathetic character—even weirdly sympathetic—than if he is just hateful or, worse yet, a one-dimensional blowhard.”
 
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But Schwartz believes that Trump’s short attention span has left him with “a stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance.” He said, “That’s why he so prefers TV as his first news source—information comes in easily digestible sound bites.” He added, “I seriously doubt that Trump has ever read a book straight through in his adult life.” During the eighteen months that he observed Trump, Schwartz said, he never saw a book on Trump’s desk, or elsewhere in his office, or in his apartment.

- the New Yorker ( full interview in the link )

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all/amp
 
You just need to look at those protesting to see why he was voted in.
They are asking why they can't buy grass seed, go fishing, get their hair done etc etc. These are self-entitled, desperately selfish idiots who don't like doing what they are told for the benefit of the many. They feel disenfranchised, but the reality of the starkly larger death toll in ethnic minorities, the real disenfranchised ones who drive their buses, work in their supermarkets and other low paid, customer facing jobs will be lost on these gun toting idiots. There is a video of a black hospital worker in Michigan who is stuck in the jam created by the protesters and he calls them out on it.
Then you add in the gun issue and by extension the hunting lifestyle and you can see that there is a division between those in rural, low infection areas and those in metropolitan areas where the infection is far more likely to spread.
The United States is actually an oxymoron because they are more divided now than at any time since the Civil War and the baby in the Whitehouse is pushing those buttons for his own end and damn the death numbers.

 
Trump’s people (his election team) realised very early on in the campaign that his best strategy was to “be more trump” ( they actually used the term), as they knew that appealing to his base was the key.

As the crazier he got (lock her up/the wall) the more support he took from his base.
 
He is a reflection of the majority of its people, its thrown its global respect and any semblance of integrity, he may inadvertantly change the USA for the better in the long run but I doubt it. We do have much the same here tbh and exactly the same awful people.
 
No we don’t, there is nothing even remotely close to trump in this country I get people don’t like Boris etc but they are still politicians that have served their community ( for better or ill) whereas trump is basically a dictator that has never run so much as a town hall meting before stepping foot into the Oval Office.

A man who basically hijacked the Republican Party ( there very little evidence to show he is even a republican or has ever been in fact he was famously a fund raiser for the democrats a few years ago) for his own ends to serve his ego and feed his sociopathic tendencies.

for proof of this how many of his “team” his executive ( cabinet in all but name although the us doesn’t work like that) are still in situ?

sec of state ?
defence sec?
chief of staff?
head of fbi ?

Not many...
 
FartingGnome said:
Pretty much the same as people voted for their best pal, "Boris". Get [insert buzzword here] done.
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Again not the same

I am no fan of Boris but he’s a politician at least he stood on policies and was elected Democratically on them ( trump never win the popular vote remember) and he didn’t appoint his unelected son in law as de facto deputy pm did he ?
 
zorro_mfc said:
Again not the same

I am no fan of Boris but he’s a politician at least he stood on policies and was elected Democratically on them ( trump never win the popular vote remember) and he didn’t appoint his unelected son in law as de facto deputy pm did he ?
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Did Johnson / the Tories win the popular vote?
 
Under our system yes ( I’m not talking headcount as that’s a different issue) I’m not getting into electoral reformDebate on here

but as it stands all our constituencies hold an equal value the party that gets the most wins. You know that isn’t the case in the us.
 
zorro_mfc said:
Under our system yes ( I’m not talking headcount as that’s a different issue) I’m not getting into electoral reformDebate on here

but as it stands all our constituencies hold an equal value the party that gets the most wins. You know that isn’t the case in the us.
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Well why demean the US democracy for their system? More people voted for parties other than the Tory party so perhaps remove your 'Like' suggesting otherwise above.

The UK and the USA both stand out as relatively poor examples of 'democracy'.
 
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