Rip Rap, Part 2 retuiteado
“Trump’s ‘work weeks’ in DC are nothing more than managed care for an almost octogenarian drug addict, replete with made-for-TV cabinet meetings and golden baubles such as the inaugural ‘America First’ award that House Speaker Mike Johnson presented him this week, where his sycophantic lieutenants slather praise on their idiotic and out to lunch boss over his every ill-informed action.
It is perhaps the best example of how broken Trump is as a human being that he sits there luxuriating in the insanity and accepting such counterfeit accolades; all while refusing to address in any meaningful way the multiple crises our nation faces in this moment. All of which, of course, he himself started.
When I worked on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ the producers would advise the contestants to praise Donald Trump in their phony ‘boardroom’ meetings to increase their chances of victory. He was in his sixties at that point and still needed made up adulation and constant flattery to make himself feel better and those around him were sadly only too happy to oblige.
Donald also used these occasions to essentially shake down the celebrity contestants by asking them to call up their wealthy friends and cajole them ‘on air’ into making donations to the charity they were playing for on that week’s episode.
Often he would make the boisterous proclamation that the Trump Organization would match the funds raised, which of course they never did, and NBC would have to follow up for renumeration so the worthy causes wouldn’t get short changed.
It was a great example of both his fraudulent nature and his pathological mendacity - and it earned him ratings gold and the acquiescence of the network brass; the same execs he would lavish with free rooms at his Las Vegas hotels during sweeps week promotions. You can easily guess at what other perks and kompromat arose from those unethical transactions.
What he was essentially doing was looking for future marks for his own grift.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasler…
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