“Any doubts about the fact that he issues these threats just to get headlines?”
Not just for headlines, unfortunately: he introduces these ideas to get them into the American mainstrean political discourse, then enacts them about 6, 9, 12 months down the road.
The company which tried to blackmail me into working without a permit was a pharmaceutical; when the HR manager investigated, she discovered that on any given day, about 1/3 of their foreign employees were working without a permit. The company systematically refused to provide us with the letter we needed in order to renew the permit. Over 90% of RnD was foreigners.
You’re right; the Kims lie (and have lied) freely with no fear of contradiction. Here where the press is at least still nominally free (where they’re not obsessed with ‘keeping our access,’) Trump is encountering some skepticism—not to mention disgust.
Good point—‘blooding’ the populace by gradually introducing more and more depraved cruelty, is a technique urged on Trump by both Bannon and Miller, I gather. And of course it fits Trump’s own predilections.
But even in the short term, Trump would be attracted to the “building suspense” aspect of declaring that it will all still happen in two weeks, unless everyone hops to the task of pleasing him.
It’s also a great tool of distraction. If more women come forward with assault allegations (not unlikely), or court action hints that more of his finances will become public, or he suffers more humiliation from bad polls----he can just trot out the current count-down number. Six days until families are dragged into vans and deported!, etc. Great way to change the subject.
