In Front of Our Noses: Trump’s Values
Two examples to throw on the pile.
First, a video clip wherein he states he feels more sorry for Renee Good’s parents than Alex Pretti’s because they are supposedly “Trump fans.”
This is just grotesque and speaks profoundly to Trump’s deep, dark well of narcissism. I prefer it when our presidents think that they should be concerned about all Americans, not just the ones who like them.
Second, a photo:
It seems more than a bit odd to me to have a picture of Vladimir Putin on the wall, but here again we see Trump’s admiration of authoritarians, especially in an image wherein he is portrayed as one of them.
Neither Trump’s deep narcissism nor his admiration for brutal dictators is new, but these are both such stark reminders that they seemed worth noting.
I’m sure if my dogs understood photographs, Fuzz would have preferred photos of her with her humans, and maybe just one with her daughter Daisy.
I think that Trump considers Putin as if he were the leader of the Soviet Union, the number 2 superpower in the world, and the picture commemorates a historic meeting between them.
But he’s just cosplaying without really understanding that. Putin is powerful, but only the 9th largest world economy. It’s smaller than India, let alone China. But it has more nukes and more guns.
It’s not like Reagan’s summit with Gorbachev in Iceland. But maybe somebody thinks it is.
Thank you for highlighting these, Dr.
Putin has always been an object of hero-worship for Trump, God knows why. Remember this?
On the day in question he was devastated that Putin supposedly got “delayed in traffic” and was unable to attend.
I surmise that achieving friendship between Russia and the United States would surpass in his mind any diplomatic feat by any previous American president, wiping out the humiliation of his farcical project last time around to denuclearise the Korean Peninsula.