I own you all now, so listen up!
I have admitted freely in the past that some of my ideas for diaries come from some very insightful comments that I received in a previous diary, and I always like to give full credit to the source of my inspiration. This time is no different. Yesterday I put out a very well received diary (Thank you all!) about Mein Furor flipping off the neo-Nazis. In response to one of the comments, fellow Kossack flavor411 posted the following comment, a part of which set bells off in my head immediately. flavor411 said;
How can people be so gullible as to actually think Trump is sincere? I think he enjoys pulling one over on people, it probably gives him a sense of power as in ‘he is smarter than the idiots that take what he says as sincere’. Scamming millions of people must really inflate his ego and make him feel REAL BIG. His idea of heaven.
If flavor411 is not a clinical psychologist, he or she damn well should well be. It just rings so true to me that it blows my mind! This one comment opens up a new avenue into the twisted mind and soul of The Orange Julius, and it sounds right on target. And as most of you who have read my diaries know, I spent 18 months chronicling almost every word that came out of his lying, pathetic mouth.
For months now, we have all fixated on two traits in Trumpenstein, his narcissism, and the fact that he’s a con man. God knows that I’ve written repeatedly about both of them in the past, it’s obvious to anybody who watches him. As for narcissism, look at his need for adulation and applause, constantly bragging about the size of his crowds, sometimes exaggerating them to make himself feel more important and loved, and blaming fire marshals when the crowd wasn’t large enough. We all assumed that was all he needed to feed his voracious ego. But what if it goes deeper than that?
Long before there was Trump the politician, long before there was “The Apprentice”, there was Trump the real estate mogul, showman, and con man. Back then, he had to content himself sitting in his gilded tower and thinking to himself “tee-hee-hee-hee-hee” about conning some dumb property owner out of his land, or conning some banks into backing his next project with little or no risk to himself, or stiffing contractors just because he could, or conning the public with his rich shitpoke lifestyle, complete with personal phone calls to reporters, acting as his own press agent to spread the news the way he wanted it to be perceived by the great unwashed. Even the con of masking “The Apprentice” as reality television. The only reality there was that all of the participants were breathing! Other than that, it was a WWE event with people wearing suits and fawning over him in a stage boardroom.
I’ll be honest here. I’ve pulled a few cons in my time myself. Never criminal, never for profit, always for personal revenge. And the payoff is always the same, it’s that deep, personal satisfaction of having tricked someone into doing something that was against their own self interest, and made them look stupid and foolish in the process. As the old saying goes. “revenge is a dish best served cold”.
And now, the Tiny Fisted Diktator has done that to tens of millions of people. I agree with flavor411, the rush for him must have been incredible. I’ve been a stand up comic, and if I had a few hundred people laughing and falling out of their seats, it felt like the god Zeus, on crack, with a winning football pool in his pocket! Think of how it must have felt for Trump, standing there behind his podium, looking out over that crowd of screaming supporters and basking in the thought that he had just perpetrated the greatest con in this nations history. You imagine the rush, my tiny mind can’t even conceive of it..
And this is the man that in 23 days we will entrust to deal with Russia, China, North Korea, Syria, Iran, and all other nations great and small. Not only that, but he’ll have the nuclear codes. I guess we’re all about to find out just how good of a con man he really is. Pray for us. Seriously.
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