Is Trump really pro anything or just a money hungry narcissist who loves the attention? Ultimate stooge it seems when most of the American people aren't much different.
* I'm not pro or against Trump it just seems like a charade to me.
I would very much second
@PurpleUrkel 's comments on Trump as a person. I think it is spot on. Not Trump the President, not Trump the candidate, just Trump the man.
@PurpleUrkel nailed it.
I remember first hearing about Trump back in the 1980's. Who was this man, the media talked about, that wasn't much older than my own parents and was so wealthy and famous. It really caught my attention. Then he had the bankruptcy hearings, and the Atlantic City fiasco, and he was all over the TV, Newspapers, nonstop. Remember, this is LONG before the internet and growing up in the country we on good days had three channels and many days only had one channel that would come in on the TV. So, when he was finally on TV, so I could see and hear this mysterious man, it was so disappointing. He just came off like a fraud, at least that was my opinion of him when I was a child. I could see through him, that he just bragged about himself, and his beautiful women, and his wealth. And my take away from it was, if that is what it takes to become very rich, I have no desire to be like that. As a child you have instincts, you may not know why, but you know if something is good or bad instinctually. And he just came off bad.
The more I saw of him, the less I thought of him over the years. And throughout the 1990's he became more of a fixture on TV and I just avoided it. It didn't consume me, I just had no desire to listen to him or watch him. Eventually, he got his own TV show, which I watched for one season and thought was pretty hokey. And he was a celebrity in the sense of a TV personality and not just a businessman. He came off like Mark Cuban, before Cuban went batshit crazy. Just a blowhard and someone that I would never aspire to be like. Life is about more than having nice things, it is about growth, sharing, learning, protecting, providing, and defending what is right. To me, Trump just seemed to be about having a lot of trinkets and bragging about it all. So pointless to me. If you have that much stuff, why not never work again and go champion a real cause and really motivate people to do more with their life, a true purpose. But that isn't who Donald Trump is. Donald Trump is defined by his trinkets and that is it.
When he ran for president and came down the escalator, my thought was "dude, this country is in terrible shape, people are hurting badly, we don't have time for your bull**** right now. Go away idiot". Then he gave his first interview with Katy Tur and he knocked it out of the park. To hell with it, he is better than anyone else running, and I got on the Trump train.
What I learned in all this is our instincts are VERY powerful. Listen to them. In a given situation they might save your life. In this situation, it just allowed me to no longer care about politics and see it for the fake show that it really is.
