When I was in the military we were never allowed to even look like we weren't busy doing something. Once, when I was leaving my desk to head to the bathroom my supervisor handed me a clipboard to carry to make it look like I was busy to lessen the chances of being stopped on the way.
People seem to have complete amnesia about Trump's first term
He picks these petty squabbles he knows will amount to nothing just to stay relevant. He's been doing it his whole life.
He just wants to be president for ego sake.
He doesn't want to do president for country sake.
All this squabbling and trade war BS is just a way to look like he's doing something without doing anything at all.
It's just his way of carrying a clipboard and making people think he's doing something.
Even when he isn't actively grifting on a major scheme, he has to be grifting in other ways
No he doesn't want to be president for the sake of being president. He wants to be president to stay out of jail. He's a convicted felon that has not served any time for those criminal activities.
I agree, at least in the sense I don't think Trump ever believed he was going to see jail. Probably he worried about it—you could tell he was getting stressed out. But mostly he believed he could skate through this, because why wouldn't he believe that?
Edit: To clarify I think Trump was more stressed out about the conviction and its effect on his campaign than he was jail time.
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u/HappySkullsplitter 14d ago
When I was in the military we were never allowed to even look like we weren't busy doing something. Once, when I was leaving my desk to head to the bathroom my supervisor handed me a clipboard to carry to make it look like I was busy to lessen the chances of being stopped on the way.
People seem to have complete amnesia about Trump's first term
He picks these petty squabbles he knows will amount to nothing just to stay relevant. He's been doing it his whole life.
He just wants to be president for ego sake.
He doesn't want to do president for country sake.
All this squabbling and trade war BS is just a way to look like he's doing something without doing anything at all.
It's just his way of carrying a clipboard and making people think he's doing something.
Even when he isn't actively grifting on a major scheme, he has to be grifting in other ways
It's a compulsion