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What Trump is doing.
This will be (should have been) short.
The 47th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump is for all intents and purposes, the very definition of a mob boss.
Characteristics of mob bosses:
Self-centeredness
Sense of grandiosity
Incapacity to feel remorse, empathy, or compassion
Emotional coldness
Parasitic behavior
— sciencedirect.com
This does not mean we can’t work with him. Right?
The latest headline convincing me of this was his latest chokehold on any federal funds he deems he controls.
This is his way, the mobster's way, of brutally confirming that he and he alone is in charge.
It's not that he really hates any particular program or its funding. Although he is starting that way, rest assured that all federal departments and programs will have to go through this.
Money is power.
It’s so simple.
Trump knows this better than any man alive.
Be it his own money or money that he now controls, it's all just power.
