This is an important public service announcement regarding Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).
In a nutshell, when President Donald Trump is being serious, people with TDS think he is joking; and when he is joking, they think he is serious.
People without TDS know intuitively when President Trump is being serious and when he is joking.
Then there are the people like me who cannot tell but believe that on any particular day and any particular subject President Trump is fully capable of either joking or being serious, and possibly of doing both at the same time. His modue operandi seems to be to run it up a flagpole and see if anybody salutes it.
Here is a self-test to determine your TDS status/susceptibility:
Make Canada the 51st state (joke or serious?)
Buy Greenland (joke or serious?)
Become pope (joke or serious?)
Run for a third term (joke or serious?)
Send U.S. troops into Mexico to destroy drug cartels (joke or serious?)
Take back the Panama Canal (joke or serous?)
If you haven't been paying attention or if you live in another part of the world, these are all topics that have been floated in the first 100 days of what is being called the Trump 2.0 administration. FYI, only 1,361 days remain in the Trump 2.0 administration, including the Leap Day in 2028.
Let the celebrating begin.
His self-delusion can only get worse.
ReplyDeleteBack in the 1950s my dad said that a military man like Eisenhower should not be elected president because a military man is used to issuing orders and having them obeyed without question. The same thought might apply to a wealthy man like Donald Trump who is used to getting and having anything and everything he wants because with his money he can afford to buy it. That fact, coupled with his obvious narcissism, probably has fed the self-delusion to which you referred.
ReplyDeleteThey are all serious unless he can't accomplish any of them. Then they were jokes.
ReplyDeleteThat didn’t cross my mind but think you may have put your finger on it. Thank you, Emma.
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