"Forget What You Hear: Our Narcissist President Is Winning
By William L. Gensert
I first became aware of Donald Trump in the late seventies. I was not impressed. In fact, I didn't like him. I thought he was a braggart and a man who went out of his way to disrespect women. I wouldn't have said so at the time, but he was clearly a narcissist.
Growing up in an Italian neighborhood in the Bronx, I have been around men like him all my life. They're going to do this; they're going to do that. They have this; they have that. I took him to be a person so full of himself that his company would be unbearable.
I didn't give him much hope of winning the presidency, either, but as election day neared, friends would ask what I thought a Trump presidency would look like. Forced at that point to think about it, I would say that as a businessman, at least he would make quality appointments to the power positions in his administration – you can't run a successful business without being able to delegate authority to a strong team of employees.
As far as Trump's narcissism, I'm not sure that hurts him as a president. Sure, he could show better discretion with what he says – he does seem to have an almost Plaxico Burress-type dedication to shooting himself in the foot (see L'Affaire Comey). Yet I think you need to have a certain amount of narcissism to be a successful president, although it doesn't guarantee success.
Just look at our second-most recent president, a solipsist so narcissistic he actually thought his mere presence would slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. Barry took narcissism to a new level, seemingly believing himself some kind of god, a belief fed by the nearly total hagiographic coverage he received from the Fourth Estate, our once nationally treasured free press, reduced to sycophantic (more like "sycofanatic") exaltation of the "light bearer," the man with the "crease."
The difference between Barry's narcissism and Trump's is this: Trump is the guy who looks at the most beautiful girl at the party and says, "I can get her number." Barry would look at the same girl and say, "She wants me." Trump would then pursue the girl, and Barry would walk away, because obviously, she is not good enough for him, and besides, someone told him there's a mirror in the next room.
In any case, while I didn't hold out much hope of Trump winning the election, I wasn't exactly terrified of a Trump presidency.
Of course, Trump could cure cancer, and the New York Times headline would be "Millions Die before Trump Acts." The newspapers (newspapers were something people used to buy on their way to work in the morning before Barry, back when there were jobs) have no use for Donald Trump, therefore you will never hear a word of credit given to the man for anything he ever does, no matter how efficacious. It will never matter how much he succeeds; to the media, he will never be a success.
Yet I have to admit I am impressed with what he has done since assuming the mantle of the most powerful man on the planet.
He restarted the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines, a surefire signal to the fossil fuel industry that they are no longer the enemy. Reversing another of Barry's foolish policies, he has opened the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as well as the Arctic Ocean to fossil fuel exploration. In addition, he has shown rightful skepticism for global warming religious cultism, which demands we destroy our economy today to prevent something that may or may not happen in a hundred years.
He appointed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and deftly allowed the Democrats to burn themselves to the ground, negating any possibility they might have ever had of stopping his next Supreme appointment.
Just as Obama talked up illegal immigration, Trump has talked it down, resulting in an astounding reduction in illegal border crossing. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said, "We've seen a dramatic reduction in illegal migration across the southwest border. In fact, March apprehensions were 30 percent lower than February apprehensions and 64% lower than the same time [last] year."
Unlike that petty scold Barry, Trump understands that onerous regulation stunts business growth. Using his pen, his phone, and the Congressional Review Act, he has cut costly business regulations implemented in the frenetic closing days of Obama's reign here on earth. He also established a rule whereby for every new federal regulation implemented, two existing regulations must be eliminated.
In early May, the House of Representatives passed legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare. The measure still has to go through the Senate, but at least the process to rid the nation of Obama's crowning achievement has begun.
He has proposed tax reform, with key points being:
A reduction of the corporate tax rate from 39.1% to 15%
Year one total expensing of most equipment purchases
Special one-time tax on repatriated monies held overseas
Establishment of a territorial tax system eliminating double taxation for American companies
Reduction of the seven current tax brackets to three, 10%, 25%, and 35%, as well as doubling the standard deduction
The elimination of the Estate Tax
Elimination of the deduction for state and local taxes, while keeping the charitable contributions and mortgage interest deductions
Repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax
Repeal of the 3.8% Obamacare Tax
Just a word about number 3: A tax-free, one-time repatriation of after-tax monies now held overseas by U. S. corporations hiding from the 39.1% additional tax they would now pay bringing that money home is something we conservatives have been urging for years. Today, companies feel it's better business leaving cash earned and taxed abroad, overseas, out of Uncle Sam's confiscatory understanding of corporate profits.
Some say this figure is as high as 2.5 trillion dollars, and enticing business to put that money to productive use here in America would juice the economy and create jobs by empowering businessmen to do the investing, unlike with Barry's stimulus, which was more of a reward for unions and "Friends of Barack."
Democrats believe that the government knows best how to spend our tax money – certainly better than any businessman, who during the eight years of enlightened progressive leadership has become synonymous with evil.
My personal favorite on the list of Trump's successes is how he has behaved internationally.
On April 6, while having dinner with the Chinese premier, Xi Jinping, Trump ordered a cruise missile attack against the Assad regime in Syria in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack that killed women and children.
China led by Xi considers itself a potential military peer-level competitor with America. Xi has been pushing poor Barry around for eight years.
There Xi is, his fork full of chocolate cake frozen in midair halfway to his mouth, a brown smudge of icing on his chin, staring into space as an aide whispers in his ear, telling him the U.S. has just attacked Syria.
Trump, with the hint of a smile says to him, "Enough about us. Let's talk about you. How do you feel about our attack on Syria? Another piece of cake?"
You have to admit that was the best use of 59 cruise missiles in the history of cruise missiles. In one fell swoop, Trump sent a message to Russia, Iran, Syria, China, and North Korea. Immediately afterward, China halted the purchase of North Korean coal, the Hermit Kingdom's only source of hard currency, and started to move troops to the border between itself and North Korea.
It also showed the world that Barry is history, that there's a new, stronger American president, unafraid to use military might in support of the nation's interests. No more bowing and scraping, and no more apologies.
I thought I would never say this about Donald Trump, but...brilliant!
The reception, red carpet and all, Trump received in Saudi Arabia was nothing short of revelatory, demonstrating how little respect the world had for Barack Obama and how much respect they have for a man of action. Remember that the last time Obama went to China, they made him deplane from the rear of Air Force One.
The $100-billion-plus arms deal Trump signed during his visit is historic. Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir declared, "We expect that these investments over the next ten years or so will provide hundreds of thousands of jobs in both the United States and in Saudi Arabia. They will lead to a transfer of technology from the US to Saudi Arabia, enhance our economy and also enhance the American investments in Saudi Arabia, which already are the largest investments of anyone."
Can anyone recall Obama ever in his eight years of being our president creating even one job?
Yes, Trump may be a narcissist, but he's our narcissist. I'll take that any day over Obama, who was more of a world citizen acting as if he was doing us a favor being our president."
The way the author views The Witch From Hell, her enablers and her synchopants is worth the read all by itself.
"Donald Trump Has Done An Amazing Job At His Most Important Job
Kurt Schlichter |Posted: May 22, 2017
Looking at it objectively, as a guy who opposed Trump until he dispatched Ted Cruz, I have to consider all the facts and ponder the evidence carefully before awarding Donald Trump the grade of A+. He has done an incredible job of doing exactly what I had hoped he would do in the off chance he defeated that naggy harridan and her corps of gender indeterminate hipsters, coastal snobs, race hustlers, aspiring libfascists, media scum, and wussy pseudo-conservatives terrified that a Hillary loss would mean people might expect them to do more than wear bow ties and go on NPR to prattle about Burke in their high-pitched, nasal voices.
There can be no serious debate. Donald Trump has done a truly outstanding job of not being Hillary Clinton.
His not being Hillary Clinton was and remains my sole expectation of Donald Trump’s presidency. Nothing else matters in the end; it is enough that Trump foiled Felonia von Pantsuit’s creepy scheme to subjugate forever the deplorable mass of normal people she despises. The Obamacare repeal, tax reform, plus appointees of the quality of Gorsuch, Mattis and McMaster, and his lower court appointments – the inexplicable and damn-well-better-be-corrected-if-Trump-doesn’t-want-a conservative-rebellion omission of Justice Don Willett not withstanding – are merely icing on the red velvet cake of Trump’s not-being-Hillaryhood.
In fact, the only thing keeping me from giving him an A++ is that Trump has unforgivably failed to point toward his zipper and invite the liberal establishment and their panty-twisted Fredocon houseboyz to “Obstruct this!”
Now, that is not to say there have not been challenges, but we must be careful not to confuse the lies of the media and their Democrat masters, repeated by the Never Trumper geek chorus, with problems Trump himself caused.
Here’s the brutal reality: No matter what Trump does, he will always be evil, awful, criminal, and/or treasonous. It doesn’t matter if he does something good. It’s doesn’t matter if Obama famously did the same thing – or worse. It doesn’t matter if it’s an outright and obvious lie. It will never stop. The soft coup plotters’ plan is to generate a constant barrage of bullSchumer designed to eventually browbeat the weak-hearted among the GOP into going along with their impeachment scheme as the first step on the road to the left retaking power and consolidating it so that we normals can never again have our voices heard.
If you want to blame Trump for the phony “controversy” surrounding him, ask yourself – what actions could he take that would stop the liberal feeding frenzy? Be nicer and gentler and act like “the bigger man? Worked great for W.
Puh-leeze.
You fall into their trap when you buy into the characterization of Trump himself being responsible for what is an organized conspiracy to delegitimize him. They want you to think that. They want you to think that where there’s smoke there’s fire. They want you to think “Gosh, Trump has to be doing something wrong if so many of the conventionally pretty TV people and my dying morning newspaper keep saying he is.”
But it isn’t true. It’s nonsense. It’s a fraud. It’s a steaming pile of Harry Reid.
Ask yourself: If Trump did not collude with the Russians, what would happen? He’d deny it – Trump has. He’d hit back – Trump has. And no evidence of actual wrong doing would leak out after nearly a year of investigations – and none has, as even that wizened crone Diane Feinstein and that gold standard of stupidity Maxine Waters have been forced to admit.
Now ask yourself: If Trump did collude with the Russians, what would happen? Well, we’d see a zillion leaks about the damning evidence from the intelligence community, and currently unemployed nut job James Comey would have been pressing for indictments. Those things haven’t happened.
Gee, the facts are perfectly in synch with these allegations not being true, and utterly at odds with the allegations being true. Since liberals believe in science and evidence and stuff, I guess there’s only one rational, reasonable conclusion we can draw:
'TRUMP IS A TREASONOUS TRAITOR OF TREASON AND HE MUST BE IMPEACHED AND STRAIGHTFORWARD FROM HERE HILLARY MUST BE SWORN IN AND THAT UNICORN IN MY CLOSET KEEPS WATCHING ME, JUDGING ME!'
'GET OUT OF MY HEAD!'
Just watch how Robert Mueller becomes part of the conspiracy when he comes back with nothing on the President. The left will 180 its attitude toward him even faster than it did toward Comey when that towering dork got canned.
There are things Trump can do better, like getting some appointments made of loyalists who share his vision. His loyalists been shut out, and the Never Trumpers have been invited in. Apparently their high principles lasted until Election Day when they finally accepted the fact that Jeb! was never going to be president of anything except his extensive stuffed bunny collection.
Allowing his friends and conservatives to get shafted is a grave error. It will haunt Trump. His embrace of enemies by giving them a chance to betray him will dishearten and drive away the loyal. For example, why are Trump and every single White House rival of Reince Priebus getting trashed by leaks to Maggie Haberman & Co. at the New York Times, but never Reince? I guess none of those disloyal anonymous leakers ever says anything bad about Reince because he’s so gosh-darned squared away.
Yeah, that’s it. Or every night Reince lies in his bed on his tummy wearing a floral bathrobe with a One Direction poster on the wall, kicking his feet in the air, holding his pink rotary dial phone, exclaiming, “Hey Maggs, do I ever have some dish for you!”
Trump needs to start rewarding loyalty while punishing disloyalty, do some housecleaning, and get himself a competent Chief of Staff who is focused on running the staff instead of running his mouth to the enemy. Otherwise, the President needs to simply drive on. Every day Trump stays in office is another day Hillary is not in office.
And that’s a win."
We're only four months in to his presidency and the next election is 18 months away.
Be patient and ignore all the garbage the msm wants you to swallow. The Dems and the msm are attempting a coup, which can only succeed if we listen to them and go wobbly!
It's the Trump agenda vs the media...I think the voters will come through again, especially if the Dems continue to go to extremes with their childish obstructionist actions.
I agree completely.
The blue collar working men and women, whom The Witch From Hell ignored and hates, will be big winners over the next year-and-a-half due to Trump's policies and decisions.
People vote their pocketbooks and things are already looking up. Today it was reported that Household Income has reached a twelve year high.
It will continue to improve.
Call me when Trump is setting the agenda. Until then, he's in quicksand.
How is he not setting the agenda when all the msm and the Dems can do is react after he's done or said something?
Keystone Pipeline: Check
Dakota Access Pipeline : Check
YUGE reduction in the number of illegals trying to enter the USA: Check
"If an agency adds a new regulation, they must eliminate two regulations:" Check
Cancelling and/or eliminating dozens of Obama's rules, regulations and onerous requirements: Check
Neil Gorsuch: Check
Lower Court Judicial Appointments: Check
59 Cruise Missiles while having dessert with China's leader and thereby sending a YUGE message to Russia, Iran, China and that little fat boy in North Korea: Check
MOAB: Check
What's not to like?
Freegigglygirl, the fact that you think he is destroying your so-called "progress" is all I need to know...he's definitely winning !
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I like the vast majority of what he has done. I just don't think it's enough.