No, he made a deal. And if you’ve read his magnum mendacium, The Art of the Deal, it is very clear exactly how he will function as President.
“I play it very loose. I don’t carry a briefcase. I try not to schedule too many meetings…I prefer to come to work each day and just see what develops.”
“I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole.” (pg. 58)
“I don’t hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don’t trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.”
“What the bulldozers and dump trucks did wasn’t important, I said, so long as they did a lot of it.” (pg. 214)
“I fight when I feel I’m getting screwed, even if it’s costly and difficult and highly risky.” (pg. 236)
“I dealt with Qaddafi. I rented him a piece of land. He paid me more for one night than the land was worth for two years, and then I didn’t let him use the land. That’s what we should be doing. I don’t want to use the word ‘screwed’, but I screwed him. That’s what we should be doing.”
“Most reporters, I find, have very little interest in exploring the substance of a detailed proposal for a development. They look instead for the sensational angle.” (pg. 340)Seriously, everything you want to know about how Trump is going to ‘govern’ for the next four years (or however long he lasts before he terminally screws Congress and gets himself impeached, or gets bored and resigns) is in this book.
But be warned; it’s basically the Necronomicon of political/business treatises, and you’ll lose 1/1D20 SAN just for skimming through it.
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