Everything Donald Trump is doing and will do makes perfect and sudden sense if you understand one simple fact: For him, it’s all a show.He views the White House as a sound stage, like the set made to look like a boardroom where he performed for NBC on The Apprentice. He sees the people around him as...
  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    It succeeded because Donald had no control over it; he just showed up and did what the show’s writers and Burnett told him to do.

    Everyone always says that he was unpredictable and they had to cut and edit around what he said to make the thing make sense. Which is it? I’m more inclined to believe he was unpredictable, so I stopped reading when I got to this.

    Edit: I agree with the premise, however.