Trump — fickle, obtuse and often strategically idiotic — remains his own worst enemy — but we can still hope

12 February 2025

Admittedly

I am not betting on the Orange Man's crusade to save the United States from its own corruption. President Trump is not likely to change anything 'American Slime' from bad to better.

Tragically, his moral and intellectual flaws probably outweigh his few virtues.

And yet . . .

Philosopher King, Trump is not

Ancient Greece's Plato emphasized the necessarily elevated character of a desirable Philosopher King.

In statistically relevant regard, we might (very roughly) note that only two people, in this planet's human history, are sometimes listed as symbols of philosopher king quality. Rome's Marcus Aurelius and Magahda's Ashoka the Great.

Not great odds for a flawed Trump-directed American turn-around.

Bad odds (for Trump) examples

The following two examples are lifted from our current Pit of American Despair.

The first illustration is minor. But it is also blazingly indicative. Trump's presidentially absurd focus on drinking straws.

The second sample will be significantly larger and taken from US foreign policy.

Gaza demonstrates the uninterrupted uniformity of American evil — to which President Trump so eagerly and naively contributes.

Example 1 — drinking straws

The following incident illustrates President Trump's often-demonstrated inability to prioritize and energetically focus in effective fashion.

Having started major Constitutional battles on several fronts — involving the Executive Branch versus metaphorically everyone else — (in the Corruption Scheme that is the present-day United States) — President Trump regularly manages to throw in unnecessary added battles — like the following one about re-introducing plastic drinking straws:

On Monday, President Donald Trump waded into the issue when he signed an executive order to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws, declaring that paper straws “don’t work” and don’t last very long. Trump said he thinks “it’s OK” to continue using plastic straws, although they’ve have been blamed for polluting oceans and harming marine life.

The environment is littered with single-use plastic food and beverage containers — water bottles, takeout containers, coffee lids, straws and shopping bags.

Every year, the world produces more than 400 million tons of new plastic. About 40% of all plastics are used in packaging, according to the United Nations.

Summing the meaning of Example 1

Talk about lacking a sense of presidential priorities — especially in the few golden weeks that presidents are allowed, before the obligatory political death vultures descend on them.

Notice here, that we pseudo-elected a guy in 2020 with literally no brain (Biden). And now we replaced him (in 2024) with another arguable 'mental' case, who has no apparent ability to control his persistently toddler-like impulses.

Trump's (divided focus and enemy-making) drinking straw interference exactly parallels his own self-damaging stirring of the judicial pot — during his lost court battle with E. Jean Carroll.

In short, President Trump just cannot seem to shut his chaotic Id Self down long enough to accomplish anything notably important.

How is this tendency toward missed focus going to turn out, as Trump tries to tackle the overwhelming levels of corruption in American Government?

Second example — Israel and Gaza

Here we have an explicit example of President Trump blowing himself up in a completely unforced error.

Notice that Trump credibly took credit for accomplishing a Gaza cease fire. That remarkably occurring, during the waning days of the Dead Brain Biden administration.

With this pleasantly surprising achievement borne aloft, Trump then — almost immediately — lit a match to the same agreement by saying that America is going to own Gaza, turn it into a riviera, and force Palestinians into neighboring nations that do not want them.

This absurdly unachievable series of statements taking place, while President Trump was also raising tariffs on virtually the entire world.

In short, the Orange Man has managed to unite the entirety of the planet, including American Vassal Europe, against the United States.

This represents a laughably damaging achievement that even Dementia Joe and the Deep State, who puppeted him for four years, did not quite accomplish.

There seems to be no bar set too low for the narcissist element in Trump not to compete in an effort to 'win' by further lowering it.

So, now

I am sadly awaiting to see how Trump tries to dance his way out of the easily avoidable mess, that he so blabber-mouthed foolishly created for himself and the rest of us.

Here, you might note that I am not one of many Trump-oriented excuse-makers, who saw in this Trumpian Slapstick something elegantly devious and productive.

President Trump is (arguably) not smart, well-meaning, informed, or self-controlled enough to pull something that clever off.

This assessment remains so, despite my respect for his astonishing tenacity — when interminably confronted by his maniacal, murder-inclined opponents.

The moral? — A thoroughly lost nation?

If someone — with even half of any one of the United States Founders' competence — were to appear on our time horizon — that person's arrival would emulate the coming of a metaphorical god into the United States' crazed den of psychotic gutter monkeys.

Absent the arguable Philosopher Kings of the Founders' types, we have become a hurricane sea of consistently self-destructive stupidity.

Yet still — even with all of the above having been said — I wish President Trump the best, in his effort to reduce the American Deep State's hellish levels of corruption.

Philosopher King, Trump may not be. But I would happily settle for his effort to become known as a Flawed Someone, who restored the United States to something not so blatantly self and Liberty-destroying.

Thus, I think of President Trump as a very crude from of chemo therapy.

With chemo, it is always a race between how quickly and completely we kill off cancer cells — as opposed to the simultaneous, and almost equally fast-moving, slaughter of good cells.

It may not take a Philosopher King to pull this figurative race against tyranny successfully out of its chaotically chemo-messy bag.

There is, after all, nothing elegantly inspiring about a sledgehammer.

In essence — and exactly like chemo therapy — we are calling for a tyrant mildly outside The System to enter and destroy the tyranny within it.

How this winds up, is likely to be just as messily perplexing, as it began.

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Trump — fickle, obtuse and often strategically idiotic — remains his own worst enemy — but we can still hope