This diary started from a comment I made In another diary, Trump's latest, racist, dehumanizing attack on immigrants: 'These aren't people. These are animals', written by Laura Clawson.
The comment from Aquest was:
The more evidence that comes out about the variety of crimes that trump is involved in, the more vitriolic his rhetoric becomes.
He has only his base of haters and the only thing he can think to do is inflame their hate.
I started my response with, that's all he's got left to give them but I expanded the remainder of my response, especially when it comes to how he's betrayed his Christian base.
Lets review how he's follows the Ten Commandants.
1. You shall have no other Gods before me. The only one he truly worships is himself and possibly money.
2. You shall make for yourself any idol, nor bow down to it or worship it. Look how every building of his has to have his name. Then there is the fake painting of the March 1, 2009, Time magazine cover which hangs in Mar-a-Largo and Turnbury.
3. You should not misuse the name of the Lord your God. I don't know about this one. I haven't heard him use God's name in vain but if so, I'm sure there's plenty of witnesses.
4. You shall remember and keep the Sabbath day holy. Can we say Golf!
5. Respect your father and mother.
From a Politico article, The Mystery of Mary Trump:
For so long, Donald Trump has talked often about the profound influence of Fred Trump. “That’s why I’m so screwed up, because I had a father that pushed me pretty hard,” he wrote in his 2007 book, Think Big.
He wasn't particularly close to his mother. In the book, Think Like a Champion , he misspelled his mother's maiden name. And in the 1990, Ivana Trump was asked by Mary Trump , "What kind of son have I created?" He's tweeted out advice that he got from her, "Trust in God and be true to yourself". Draw your own conclusions on if he's followed her advice.
6. You must not commit murder. With the reaction to the opening of the US Embassy, we all know he has blood on his hands.
7, 8,9 and 10 You must not commit adultery, You must not steal, You must not give false witness against you neighbor, and You must not covet your neighbor's wife, his house or his good's. With 45, these tend to overlap, so I put them together.
He hasn't given the majority of his followers a noticeable tax cut. He hasn't helped the farmers with the on and off again tariffs and he might have affected the harvesting of their crops, with the deportation of immigrants. He hasn't helped the coal miners regain their jobs. He hasn't helped you, if you're a machinist with the on and off again of the steel and aluminum tariffs. About the only middle class people he may have helped out, is construction workers and that is if your company has enough employees without the missing immigrants. Many construction and related companies are hurting, because their crews are short staffed and they can't find enough help to fulfill the good contracts, so they end up going after smaller jobs.
This all boils down to helping himself, by either enriching himself, directly and indirectly. The tax cuts were a way to help himself and others like him, make more money. Then the tariffs were due to him not fully understanding trade and to also please Putin, which benefits him indirectly (proof of his conspiracy doesn't get uncovered immediately and some money might flow his way). Going after immigrants is his sick and twisted way of showing others how he thinks of himself, as a superior person, plus it stoke’s his ego and he thinks everyone else should see how superior he is, too. Other world leaders have seen this and they sometimes make use of this. The Saudis with their sword dance and President Macron with the invitation to review the Bastille Day parade.
45 is a shell of a man, who tries to fill up his core with the most of two things, money and admiration. His love of money is a given but look at how his pursuit of women has went. He's just trying to fill up the void even if he ends up paying a price monetarily. He has rallies to fill that void, too.
What hasn't really sunk in, this time it's different, it could (and should) cost him his freedom. He's lead a charmed life without being charming himself, unless he can get something from you. One day he's going to wake up and is going to be faced with the fact he's used and abused the other people in his whole life and it's payback time.
Ten of Swords, Rider-Waite
McGovern did a diary titled Trumps Near Future, Tarot (enjoy), on Daily Kos, did a tarot reading of him. His card was the Ten of Swords, which shows a man with ten swords stabbing him in the back. I couldn't think of a better illustration of what's probably going to be his demise. Not actual swords, but with everyone having a go at him, from different legal angles, this will be fought out through the courts. It's starting to happen already. Just read the news, nearly every court case, whether it's his administration or himself personally, he hasn't been "winning". He says the Mueller investigation is a "witch hunt". They only thing he doesn't know, is the witch's name is Justice Karma.
Justice Karma is gaining helpmates along the way too. The Women’s Marchers, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Special Proscutor Robert Mueller, U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson, Federal Judge Ann M. Donnelly, U.S. District Judge James Robart, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis, U.S. District Judge William Orrick, U.S. District Court Judge John Bates, U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte, Stormy Daniels and her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, Justice Kimba M. Wood, Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare, Rowan Farrow of the New Yorker and many more joining each day.
I found this in an Atlantic article, titled The Mind of Donald Trump, by Dan P. McAdams.
In Trump’s own words from a 1981 People interview, the fundamental backdrop for his life narrative is this: “Man is the most vicious of all animals, and life is a series of battles ending in victory or defeat.”
He just hasn't realized who he's up against.
