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I suppose the charitable interpretation is that Trump favors transactions that offer short-term benefits to the country, rather than America’s traditional inves
by pavlov 1y ago
I suppose the charitable interpretation is that Trump favors transactions that offer short-term benefits to the country, rather than America’s traditional investments into long-term goals that tend to be more nebulous (“soft power” etc.)
Of course, one look at Trump’s actual transactions in office should dissuade of that notion. After he made the preliminary trade deal with the EU, he bragged on TV that Europeans are investing $600 billion and Trump himself gets to decide where the money goes. It’s baffling that anyone would assume that’s how any of this works, but he clearly thinks the point of these transactions is to get more power and wealth for himself.
- jrs235 1y ago*Trump favors transactions that offer short-term benefits to himself (via maintaining or expanding power or money). FTFY.
- balamatom 1y ago>It’s baffling that anyone would assume that’s how any of this works. It's because the president said it on TV.
- pavlov 1y agoIs that a recursive loop? The president thinks that’s how it works because the president said so on TV. I can believe that kind of reinforcement happens. Trump watches Fox News, sees himself saying X, and thinks “yes, it’s very good that {X}.”
- burnt-resistor 1y agoWhen malignant narcissist psychopathic pedophile criminals take power, they don't have a constructive plan for maximum long term benefit to society because they don't know anything and DGAF except that which benefits them personally.
- balamatom 1y agoWhen every politician is a TV show, the genre-savvy one wins.
- balamatom 1y ago>Is that a recursive loop? The president thinks that’s how it works because the president said so on TV. He's probably exactly this stupid, but in regards to the sentence >It’s baffling that anyone would assume that’s how any of this works. I was referring to the rest of the anyone.