Trump keeps saying we are in a new "Golden Age." Now maybe if he called it "the 2nd Gilded Age" it would have more impact. If you are a billionaire, this is in fact a very good time to be a billionaire, maybe even a "Golden Age." Only the extreme wealthy are seeing any kind of a rise in their wealth and income, in large part because Republicans keep shoveling tax cuts their way, while the vast majority of this country, and the planet, are not extremely wealthy. Far too many are barely scraping by. But you never hear Trump acknowledge that. Indeed, his "Liquor Cabinet" only tells him what he wants to hear. Any discouraging word will get you tossed out on your ass. Is this any way to run a country?
Here's another one from Allen Clifton along the same lines.
We’re seeing firsthand why nearly all of Donald Trump’s businesses were complete failures that ended in bankruptcy and embarrassment.
You know, like Trump Steaks, Trump Water, Trump Shuttle, Trump Magazine, Trump Mortgage, Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino, Trump Entertainment Resorts, Trump Vodka, Trump University, Trump: The Game, Trump Network, Trump.com, and the Trump Foundation.
You can pretty much put “Trump” in front of a common noun, and you’ll likely name one of his many business failures.
Imagine having a CEO of a company who doesn’t listen to anyone, thinks he’s the smartest person in every room he walks into, and only wants to be told what he wants to hear — which, of course, is that he’s a genius, everything is great, and if anything negative is happening, it’s definitely not his fault or the result of his decision-making.
It’s like if someone walked up to the captain of the Titanic and told him there was an iceberg they needed to avoid — otherwise the ship would strike it and sink — prompting the captain to fire the person who relayed that information he didn’t want to hear, replace them with someone who told him no iceberg could sink the ship, and then order the Titanic to continue on the exact same heading… right into the iceberg.
That’s effectively who Donald Trump is — the Dunning–Kruger CEO: an idiot who thinks he’s a “genius” because he’s too uninformed to realize how uninformed he actually is.
Despite all evidence to the contrary, he continues to go out and brag about how “strong” the American economy is, claiming it’s in some kind of “new Golden Age” and better than at any point in history — all while insisting prices are lower, inflation no longer exists, and the world respects the United States, despite the fact that none of that is true.
The economy is a mess, inflation is higher than it’s been in years (driven in large part by tariffs and his war in Iran), and absolutely no one respects this country right now. Our enemies are laughing at us, and our allies can’t stand us.
Even as Republicans lose elections (badly) all over the country, or win by much smaller margins than they normally would, he takes no responsibility — instead blaming anything and everything but himself, outright denying reality, or, as usual, claiming it’s all “rigged” whenever an election doesn’t go his way.
I’ve said it plenty of times before: future generations are going to look back on this time in American history stunned that tens of millions of Americans somehow believed that a con artist and failed businessman was a “business genius,” despite every bit of evidence proving the exact opposite.
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