Trump’s BIG mistake

by Tom Tunny, Hamilton

The playbook for becoming an “authoritarian dictator” is to first win the people over through good deeds! Then you can proceed to suggest that since you have done such a great job, the people would want you to stay in office. DJT should have read this book before moving back into the White House (oh, I forgot, DJT doesn’t read!). Well, at least some of his advisors (Miller, Vought, Bessent, etc.) should have read the book. 

Instead, Mr. Trump proceeded to antagonize the American public with his cruelty towards immigrants and his imposition of the ICE gestapo troops/US National Guard troops spread out in cities around the country. Sending 300 unindicted Venezuelans to a hell-hole in El Salvador did not improve Trump‘s image. Nor did his crazy strategy of tariffs or his inept attempts to settle the war in Ukraine. Neither has his “trumped up” indictments of James Comey, Leticia James, Senator Adam Schiff, and former National Security Advisor for Trump, John Bolton! 

Not to mention the damage he has done to our outstanding universities, our military, and our international relations with our long-term partners. The money he has made for himself and his family (more than $3.4 billion) while in the White House is of epic proportions considering the fact that presidents are not to make any money other than their salary while they are in office. In the meantime, we “the people” are paying higher prices in the grocery stores and everywhere else! His latest efforts to deny SNAP benefits to some 20 million Americans is just icing on the cake for his demise! What have I left out??? 

These are not activities that will win the minds and hearts of the American people in his quest to gain our support for his nefarious goals! 

Mr. Trump and his gaggle of White House advisors are victims of the Dunning-Kruger Effect ( look it up!). The American people are smarter and more humane than Mr. Trump thinks, as he will find out next November!