I’m still trying to sort out which television appearance was more disturbing, the interview with the Sun or the presser in which he dubbed an American outlet “fake news” and refused to answer questions from them, while exhibiting clear favoritism to the American version of Sputnik international.
They are selling mini Trump baby ballons on Amazon. Allegedly 1/10th size, a little under 24 inches. As well as a wide variety of T-shirt designs featuring the ballon.
It’s easy enough to find if you search Trump Baby Ballon.
I have come to a realization of Trump’s psychology. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this before. Follow me on this journey, y’all:
Trump is not a traitor.
Hang on, hang on, stay with me here: he’s not a traitor, in his own mind. “Well, duh,” you reply, “no person ever thinks he’s the bad guy in the story.” True. But hear me out.
Trump is not a traitor in his mind, because I don’t think he really considers himself American. I mean, he spends so much time doing business with foreign clients and foreign banks, building projects in other countries, grabbing foreign women’s vajayjays, I think that, long before he ran for president, he considered himself a “citizen of the world,” not particularly tied to any country. Russian help during the election wasn’t collusion with a foreign government, it was just business the way he usually does business.
When you remove the premise that Trump thinks of himself as an American, it explains a lot.
My search on Amazon and on Google comes up empty; do you have a link?
ETA: Ah, I got it… you have to search for “ballon” not “balloon”. And it’s hideous. It’s a drawing of the balloon design that they then put on a balloon.
Citizens of the world still consider themselves to have a duty with “their people”, it’s only that the definition for that is humanity. Trump considers himself beholden to nobody; it’s quite the opposite.
I doubt Trump has ever thought about any of what you described. Thinking of himself as an American or a citizen of the world would require him to think of himself as a part that’s greater than himself. And that’s not his nature.
I think Trump just sees the world in terms of power. The stronger man gets to tell the weaker man what to do and the weaker man has to do what he’s told. He doesn’t see things like laws or rules or promises or social conventions as having any meaning in themselves; to him they are all just things that some strong people can impose on some weak people. Powerful men don’t have to obey the law because nobody can make them do it. And Trump thinks he’s now the most powerful man on Earth so he can do anything he wants.