Posted on 10/11/2017 8:26:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) recently said "I don't understand" President Trump. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has said the same thing, as has CNN's Don Lemon. The New York Times even posted an op-ed this weekend about people who "don't understand Trump."
But forbes.com writer Randall Lane contends that the president isn't that hard to understand.
Based on an oval office interview, Lane says, "President Trump stays true to the same Citizen Trump form that Forbes has seen for 35 years," and that Trump's business tactics and his presidency demonstrate a "worldview" that "has been incredibly consistent."
Nearly a year after the most stunning Election Day in many decades, pundits still profess to find themselves continually shocked by President Trump. They shouldn't be: His worldview has been incredibly consistent. Rather than as an opportunity to turn ideology into policy, he views governing the way he does business – as an endless string of deals, to be won or lost, both at the negotiating table and in the court of public opinion. Look at his first year through this prism, and it makes sense. And it offers clues for the next three years – or seven.
Drawing on quotes and anecdotes from Trump's The Art of the Deal and from Trump's decades in the public eye, Lane describes a president with a "transactional mindset" who is always selling, always negotiating.
Trump shows the writer around the Oval Office as though he is "pitching a Trump Tower penthouse," par for the course for the "greatest-ever American salesman," who Lane says "leveraged" his business "efficiency" and his "formidable skills as a marketer and showman" to win the presidency while spending far less money than his opponent.
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Not by real men who actually have testosterone flowing through their bodies.
I forgot who said it, but it was an apt description: the left takes Trump literally but not seriously, while Trump’s supporters take him seriously but not literally.
When you hate America and want to blame the USA for everything bad in the world, it is hard to understand Trump.
When you despise everyday, hard working American citizens, it is hard to understand Trump.
The man wants to get something done that’s good for this country’s citizens. What’s so hard to understand about that?
But he is so “ungentle” with folks who stand in his way and try to charge a toll for passage. Doesn’t Trump get it? That’s how we work here in the swamp.
Trump probably is hard to understand by the leftist elite. Politicians and moguls that they know all think pretty much as they do. They believe that they are the Realists and see the World clearly and rule because of their clarity of vision. People who do not share their worldview are stupid and blind. An astute billionaire who does not see what they think they see is an enigma. It is easy for such a one to blindside them repeatedly. They may not lose every exchange but every exchange will unsettle them because they do not see it coming, ever.
Franken, DeBlabbio...not the two sharpest knives in the drawer.
I believe that observation originated with Salena Zito. I think it is right on target.
5 years ago I told my Conservative friend that America is yearning for a Stone Cold Steve Austin type as President. He laughed then, now he thinks I’m a sage.
They have a version of Ronald Reagan. Someone who wears a different type of suit, but it still has teflon threads running through it.
He is not an ideologue but is patriotic and he trusts people who are patriotic ideologues.
This is not something the left wants to deal with, especially on the heels of Obama's eight years of hard work to turn America on its head.
Trump is their worst nightmare.
Our so called "conservative" elites couldn't understand for a variety of reasons, and almost half of those finally got it.
The left understands him fine, he's exposing them and beating them. It's why they are going after him in every way possible.
Our new project is to get those in the GOP who play with the other side, or obstruct the Trump agenda, to go home and do their phony theatrics in front of a mirror.
Sounds good to me.
Because they have not ears to hear.
Trump is talking truths about the country and what a huge portion of it’s people want. Real problem solving not just bandaids or stealing from the govt schemes as these senators etc are used to doing.
The people who don’t understand Trump are listening with their own ears, not the country’s ears.
More to it than that, but that’s part of why they don’t get Trump’s logic and words.
The reason that leftists don’t understand Trump is because they’ve never seen and elected GOP official at the national level who keeps his campaign promises. You really can’t blame them for being confused, though: no one born since Ronald Reagan has seen it either.
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