It seems obvious that a bully mentality is baked into Donald Trump’s DNA. Whether he was a businessman or a politician, using bullying tactics is the only strategy know by Trump. Trump’s instinct to bully is on display everywhere.
I do not recall a president so blatantly threatening to cut off federal aid to a state over the behavior of a politician. Maybe it’s happened, but I don’t recall it happening to the degree it’s happening now.
President Trump threatened to withhold federal money from New York City if Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins the election and does not act is a way pleasing the Trump. Recently, Trump threatened to withhold federal money for California because CA Gov. Gavin Newsom disagreed with Trump on deployment of the National Guard and the Marines. Fox News host Jesse Watters edited a video of Trump explaining that he talked to Gov. Newsom on a certain day indicating that Newsom asked him to send in the troops. That was proven false and Newsom is suing Fox News and Jesse Watters, who lacks furniture. upstairs.
Over the weekend, President Trump bashed Republican Sen. Thom Tillis and threatened to put big money behind any primary challenger in the North Carolina election, which might just be Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.
Trump was a bully in the business world, but that did not always serve him favorably. Experts has wondered how can anyone go broke running casinos? Trump did that 6 times. Extraordinary, right!
Bullies don’t bully anyone who thinks the other person will retaliate. Bullies only bully those they believe will not retaliate. Trump believed that his TACO Tariff Plan would have countries begging for mercy. Well, that didn’t happen, did it?
Trump’s bully mentality is not based on his intellect. His bully mentality is based on the simplistic notion of power and Trump’s vocabulary and his repetitive use of catches phrases, like this weekend on Fox News when talking about his bill, said there are so many cuts that nobody has ever seen this before.
As a talk show host who deals with callers and texts every day, I can tell you that the level of aggression in speech today is alarming and some seem willing to manifest their aggression into physical violence. I’ve been in the media many years and I have never seen the hate and aggression that I am seeing today and I beleive Donald Trump is teaching America how to be a bully.
The Idaho Shooter:
The Idaho shooter who committed the cowardly act of setting a small wildfire to lure in firefighters and then ambushing them with gunfire and killing two and seriously injuring a third is only 20-yrs-old. I will not use his name. It has been my policy on my talk show to never mention the names of shooters in situations like this because so many, even in dying, are hoping to become infamous. I refuse to give them that satisfaction and I extend that policy to Substack. I wish every news/media outlet would adopt the same policy. When you’re dead from a shooting - you are done - over - no mention of your name.
The shooter’s grandfather is speaking out aobut his grandson and says that he wanted to be a firefighter and work fighting wildfires in the forest. He had been working for a tree service and was excellent at climbing trees and felt that gave him an advantage to getting a job as a firefighter.
Court records show that when the shooter was 10-yrs-old, his father was abusive to his mother and when they were separated the father would harass the mother by threatening to shoot her or commit suicide. That must have made an impression on a 10-yr-old boy.
The Idaho shooter when to school in Phoenix while living with his motehr, but at some point left to live with his father in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. is grandfather said he spoke to his grandson every week, but he was not able to talk to him recently because his grandson had lost his cellphone.
I have been to Coeur d’Alene and the sense of being locked away in a protected land surrounded by mountains and covered with tall evergreen trees must contribute to the unusually large population of White Nationalists and anti-government radicals.
There are more questions than answers. His father is pictured wearing a red Make America Great Again cap. Was his father a right-wing radical that influenced his son? Was his son, who authorities say was living in his car, rejected from becoming a firefighter and went on a mission of revenge? Considering the location and the malicious ideology that thrives in that area of America, it is reasonable to believe that will may find out that the shooter was radicalized. My concern is that if that is the case will the local law enforcement work to protect the political right by hiding the truth? We now live in a time when there is instant finger-pointing as to which side the bad person belongs. Republicans don’t believe that anyone subscribing to their ideology would be violent and love to believe that left-wing radicals are to blame. Like all the left-wing radicals who were responsible for Jan 6!
We don’t yet know the motive of the Idaho shooter, but watch and be sensitive to any reluctance to release information that ties the shooter to the political right.
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