Are President Trump's character flaws undermining him and us, again?

08 April 2025

Flawed character, ruinous policies?

Orange Man Bad has the planet in an uproar.

That might have been a good thing for the United States, had the American president thought through a point-by-point plan for restoring some of America's former strength (in at least attenuated form).

Instead, Chaos's Chief Miscreant contents himself with bluster and cudgel-waving.

According to President Trump, tariffs will magically seed the American ground with returned manufacturing from sea to sea.

Just how this long-term undertaking is supposed to work — and where the money, expertise and niche-trained labor force to sustain it will come from — has not been, and almost certainly will not be, mentioned.

How is a purportedly free and undirected American market going to avoid making the same mistakes — in frittering away its most basically necessary assets — that it has for many decades?

If We the People's representatives — supposedly located in the Three Branches of Government — do not choose and intelligently monitor a national course direction, we will continue to sail haplessly along according to multinational oligarchs' (do-whatever-they-like) currents.

Recall that over decades, the United States single-mindedly offshored its industrial base, according to unregulated, globalist market principles.

And in that mindless fashion, we eagerly destroyed the power-enhancing foundation that had previously created a materially sound middle class and, simultaneously, a virtually impregnable national defense manufacturing capacity.

Ideologically captive to actually monopolistic 'free market' nonsense, evidently no one in American Government foresaw that allowing Rich Parasites to loot the nation's backbone just might come back to bite us.

Globalists' free-ranging (lowest wages possible) avarice parasitized We the People's former wellbeing.

Nothing in Trump's Tariffs War is going to change this form of self-destructive stupidity — absent the creation of a strategically detailed plan to avoid repeating the past's nation-weakening mistakes.

In short, President Trump should have persuaded us that the Good of the Whole could replace globalist oligarchs' avarice.

And only after that foundation had been laid, would the president have implemented his tariffs.

Those tariffs, along with an incentives and requirements plan — ideally to be mandated by Congress — might have encouraged the building of a more viably beneficial national economic and security infrastructure.

Exactly as Russia and China have done in their own nations' names.

Unfortunately, an authoritarian oligarchic mentality like Trump's — as well as that of the rest of his Fat Cat Class — is not capable of conceiving of a combination of capitalism and the centralized planning. Both of which are necessary in achieving genuinely sovereign economic and military security.

In consequence of this mental void, Trump's chaos-creation theatrically substitutes attention-getting disorder for all wiser selections of direction.

Pounding foreigners, for the American public's entertainment, is not going to magically change the collapsing state of the United States' economic and military decline.

Trump's Tariffs War might have been a great thing — in retreating from the destructive financialization that has long looted this nation — had it also plotted a workable course to realistically reshaping the United States' debt-dependent, preponderantly un-productive economic order.

Carelessness characterizes Trump's doings

Yesterday, Paul Craig Roberts captured Trump's reckless impulsivity — here in excerpts:

Trump should have held his horses and let DOGE provide more and more detailed evidence of the US budget used to promote ideological agendas and enrichment of insiders and favored people and groups.

With accumulated evidence, Trump should have addressed on national television the House and Senate and presented the evidence that Democrats and Democrat-sponsored NGOs created fake entities to which grants were given by USAID, National Endowment for Democracy and other federal budgetary entities.

This would have given Trump the high ground.

Instead, his piecemeal attacks have given the high ground to the “victims” of his budget cuts.

If Trump had proceeded in a thoughtful organized way, the corrupt Democrat judges, not Trump, would be on the defensive.

Trump’s position on tariffs is [also] problematical for many reasons.

[T]he way to success is for Trump to sit down with the offenders and explain that the situation is not working for us. How do they propose to rectify the inequality?

This would have given Trump the upper hand.

Instead, he is portrayed as issuing threats not only to China but also to American allies.

Retaliation has become the game, and this itself raises another serious consideration.

With Wall Street predicting a recession caused by Trump’s tariffs, not by the tariffs of other countries, the Federal Reserve has cover to cause the predicted recession, and thereby, to restore Democrat majorities in the House and Senate in the midterm elections and terminate Trump’s renewal of America.

The first time the American people tried to put Trump into the presidency, the chosen one did not know what he was doing and appointed his enemies to his government.

The second time, his election was stolen.

The third time he behaves instinctively without thought and design and undermines his opportunity to succeed.

Can a lost country really be renewed?

Perhaps, but not by a haphazard approach to the task.

The moral? — US leadership has settled upon a destructive spectrum . . .

. . . that narrowly courses from dementia — in the Deep State's puppeted Joe Biden — to recklessly narcissistic impulsivity in his successor, Trump.

'Destructively pillaging lunacy' describes American leadership.

Ain't no Phoenix going to spring from that swampy fecal pile.

It would be a pity, if all of this had not been blatantly evident for at least a generation. National stupidity, arguably, eventually gets what it deserves.

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Are President Trump's character flaws undermining him and us, again?