Reality Endorsed Trump's Megalomania. Why Would He Listen To Anyone?
Trump companies declared bankruptcy six times, and continually had to be bailed out by mega banks, yet he managed to run for President posing as a highly successful businessman. Trump boasted he couldn't be corrupted because he was filthy rich and would bankroll his own campaign, and then bled dry the savings of thousands of supporters with dozens of email appeals for funds. He defeated high profile Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination after all of them called him scum, but they all licked his boots once he became President.
Trump started his first term as President by flouting his disregard for the U.S. Constitution's Emoluments Clause, rendering it arcane and unenforceable, establishing a precedent for how he would relate to other Constitutional impediments to his personal agenda going forward. Semi-independent voices inside the Republican Party during Trump's first time, like Senators Bob Corker and Jeff Flake, folded up shop and chose not to run for reelection. The same for Mitt Romney after a single term. Others, like Liz Cheney, were primaried out of office. Donald Trump has placed one of the oldest, largest and successful political parties in history completely under his thumb, something deemed unthinkable ten years ago.
Trump flipped 80 years of American foreign policy on its head, turning our allies into adversaries and our enemies into his personal friends, exchanging love letters with Kim Jong Un and showing admiration for ex KGB officer Vladimir Putin. Trump essentially was impeached for trying to overthrow the government, and then four years later got elected to lead it again. Once back in office he decapitated and decimated the ranks of the FBI, and our entire national security apparatus, which once raised red flags about the dealings Trump and his inner circle had with Russia. He's now purged the Justice Department of the strong voices it retained that once vigorously upheld the rule of law in America.
Time after time legal attempts to hold Trump accountable for his myriad serious misdeeds have been stymied in the courts, and ultimately rendered moot, if not formally dismissed, by "his" Department of Justice. Trump proclaimed that the 2020 election was stolen from him without offering a shred of proof. Numerous investigations and dozens of court rulings debunked his claim, but most Republicans now swear by his lies. The January 6th insurrection was viewed live by tens of millions of horrified Americans, yet Trump proclaims those who took part in it as American patriots, while pardoning all of them of even the most viscous violent crimes they participated in. Among those who now control Congress a few mild words of disapproval were voiced, but none that undermine steadfast loyalty shown to the man who would be dictator.
And the United States Supreme Court has ruled that Trump, unique among Americans, is immune to criminal prosecution for crimes that he commits while doing his job.
So why, one might ask, would Donald Trump care what others might think of the views he holds or acts on? Some say "it's only paranoia if it isn't true." The same might be said for megalomaniac delusions.
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