Smart
And speaking of the worship of Peak Bullying, Trump is still flattering his tits-out hero.
Donald Trump chose a rally in Georgia on Saturday night once again to praise Vladimir Putin, calling the Russian president “smart” even as he said the invasion of Ukraine amounted to a “big mistake”.
Putin is “smart” the way any successful crook is “smart.” It’s not a very admirable form of intelligence.
The Republican former president also had warm words for China’s president Xi Jinping and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and referred to such leaders collectively by saying: “The smartest one gets to the top.”
The “smartest” in the sense of the most ruthless, shameless, brutal, determined, conscienceless.
He spoke admiringly of Xi in terms of the fact that he “runs 1.5 billion people with an iron fist” and referred to Kim as “tough”.
That’s Trump all over: admiring the iron fist. We’re living in a world of abject power-worship.
You can smell the envy coming off him. If it weren’t for the fact that he could run and win in 2024, it would be pathetic. I sure as hell hope he blows a blood vessel or something between now and then.
I hope that when he does finally announce his candidacy that he gets challenged on the 22nd Amendment (the one restricting persons to two terms as president). Because if he “really” won in 2020 as he consistently maintains, then it would be illegal to run for a third time, right?
Today’s Doonesbury comic strip was on this topic. (Trump’s companion in this strip is Trff Bmzklfrpz, the former president-for-life of the fictitious country of Berzerkistan, where he was a ruthless dictator, thus obviously someone Trump would admire.)