Trump Tower: Moscow
At a campaign fund raiser during the 2012 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney asked a group of financial heavy hitters “what the dollar was based on?” Being the astute venture capitalist he found a disturbing lack of backing for the bankrupting national debt.
The most key financial shakers and movers in the country told Romney: “Nothing.” Romney then asked “What do you tell the American people?” As a group they replied, “Delay, Delay, Delay. Deny, Deny, Deny.”
That appears to have been their strategy in the years prior to the devastating 2008 Mortgage Crisis in the face of repeated warnings by Brooksley Born.
Romney was standing at the podium and the interchange was being secretly recorded by a person standing off stage to his left. That video was broadcast on at least one national TV evening broadcast.
This incident confirms what David A. Stockman, Reagan’s Chief Budget Officer, wrote in his alarming book The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, 2013, 768 pages in which he describes the incestuous relationship between The Fed and Wall Street as “a whore house in a gambling casino.”
Trump and his T.O.T.s (“Trumpers Over Truth“) use the same approach in response to any query that would embarrass their “Great” Leader (complete with larger-than-life banners hanging from taxpayer-paid government buildings in D.C.) or prove him wrong. Like Humpty Dumpty, Trump proven wrong would “cause a great fall” and woe to anyone on his staff who participated in it.
Truth to Power is not a Trump paradigm. That is the only trait Trump has in common with the military hierarchy. Trump believes his possessions make him a man. The Pentagon believes the ribbons on their chest make them one.
Both are wrong.
For example, if any real journalist dared risked losing his coveted seat in the White House Press room or on Air Force One by asking Trump’s specific comments to Putin on his first “Great” phone call regarding Ukraine, Trump’s contract with Putin for a Trump Tower: Moscow brokered through a man linked to the Russian mafia up to a month before the November election, or asking about Trump’s daughter’s sweetheart monopoly product line contract with Chinese president Xi at Mar a Largo the day after the election; or Trump’s lying about a medical condition to avoid service in the military, – Trump’s response was to order his staffers to suppress the information.
However, Trump’s tactic during his current administration regarding the Epstein files, his 37 million dollar profiting (so far) off Bitcoin while pushing through legislation making the faux money (like stock derivatives responsible for the 2008 Mortgage crisis) part of the nation’s currency, a potential pardon for Gislaine Maxwell, the “quiet” diversion of 934 million dollars from the nation’s Sentinel missile defense system to refurbish his Qatar-gifted 747 with gold inlay, or the obviously politically motivated raid on John Bolton’s home is to just say “I don’t know anything about that” or “I don’t know” followed by a quick change of subject or a counter-attack on the asker.
In Vegas and the trained interrogator world, those words are known as a “tell” – indicators Trump is lying.
Another indicator Trump is not being completely truthful with the American citizenry is every time he- the man who claimed he could end the war in 24 hours – is asked what he’s going to do about Ukraine, he doesn’t answer specifically.
That’s called obfuscation, as in: the action of making something obscure, unclear or unintelligible: “when confronted with sharp questions they resort to obfuscation.”
Synonyms include: bafflement, befuddlement, bewilderment, puzzlement, confusedness, disarray, mental confusion, muddiness.” – Merriam Webster Dictionary
All these describe Trump’s incompetence or unwillingness in resolving the Russo-Ukraine war.
When French Socialist Regis Debray was asked how he would explain Che’ Guevara‘s failed attempt at exporting Socialism foco loco in Latin America, Debray flippantly replied “Simple. Dissemble, Dissemble, Dissemble! It works every time!”
Dissemble: verb: to conceal one’s true motives, feelings, or beliefs.
Both political Parties use Debray’s dissembling tactic to avoid exposure for incompetence and corruption because – knowing the public’s short attentions span – it works.
Trump’s approach to Ukraine is the same as the financial “Capitalists” to Romney and the Socialist Regis Debray: to Che’: Delay, Delay, Delay. Deny, Deny, Deny;
This is why F.A. Hayek dedicated his book The Road to Serfdom “To the Socialists in both Political Parties.”
Trump’s “T.O.T.s” – the publicity-seeking, “Public Intellectuals” (see: Posner) idolizing Trump appearing on MAGA media take their cue from their Leader and promote the obfuscation.
It makes them look ridiculous in the face of the evidence.
Supporting Trump’s assuming legislative authority on imposing Tariffs that have, according to historical jurisprudence always been considered a tax, excusing Trump’s genuflecting before Putin’s refusal to meet any of Trump’s six or seven “deadlines” make Trump’s T.O.T.s look like Russian Mafia lawyers on Putin’s retainer.
The Truth is Trump doesn’t WANT to impose sanctions on Putin because Trump is a chrysophilist* (aka: auromaniac). Trump compensates for his inner discontent with “mad materialism.” Trump won’t impose sanctions on Putin because that would jeopardize Trump’s psycho-sexual obsession with building an obelisk of gold hotel to himself directly across the street from the Kremlin – Trump Tower: Moscow. (see: wikipedia)
Meanwhile, innocent Ukrainians continue to die.
That alone eliminates Trump from a Nobel Peace Prize – no matter how hard he begs for it.
* from the Greek for “love of gold;” an extreme and unhealthy obsession, the general term for a compulsive acquisition of objects, typically understood as a form of greed or avarice.
Note: Is Trump delaying sanctions because he believes he can get a Nobel Peace Prize if he can bring Putin around to a ceasefire? If so, he is more demented than Joe Biden!
