I have had President Trump pegged for years as a narcissist whose craving for flattery makes him as vulnerable as a child crying for milk. More to the point, he has demonstrated time and again that he prizes flattery above all else – decency, truth, and even the welfare of the country be damned.
This has led to Trump making bedfellows with fringe characters his predecessors would’ve avoided like the plague. Here, for example, is what I wrote about the truth and consequences of his craving in “Trump & Kim Agree to Hook Up Reality-TV Style,” March 9, 2018.
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Unfortunately, like Putin of Russia, Xi of China, and practically every other world leader, Kim knows he only has to flatter Trump to get him to fold like a cheap suit. Trump has shown time and again that, far from being a master of The Art of the Deal, he’s just a sucker for flattery.
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That is why this latest outrage comes as no surprise:
President Trump on Wednesday offered encouragement to proponents of QAnon. … ‘So I don’t know really anything about it other than they do supposedly like me,’ [he said during a White House news conference, which was supposed to be about Covid-19].
When told by a reporter about the central premise of the QAnon theory — a belief that Mr. Trump is saving the world from a satanic cult made up of pedophiles and cannibals connected to Democratic Party figures, so-called deep-state actors and Hollywood celebrities — Mr. Trump did not question the validity of the movement or the truth of those claims.
(The New York Times, August 19, 2020)
This is really simple, folks: Trump infamously fawned over racists and dictators just because he naively thought they liked him. Therefore, nobody should be surprised that he’s doing the same over these wackos.
For the record, though, recall that I correctly outed Trump years ago as Putin’s Manchurian president in “Trump Framing FBI, Appeasing Russia. Treasonous?” February 1, 2018. Because I’m outing Putin as the “Anonymous Q” QAnon nutters are worshiping like a Messiah.
And this too is really simple: They worship Trump more than God. Trump worships Putin more than God. Therefore, Putin is the only person (or thing) they can worship, as they do, more than Trump.
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