But you have called Trump names like "grifter" have you not? Or, at least, you would be more than happy to do so, like
@User Name used to do, right? Now, if Trump is, as y'all seem to imagine, a
grifter—a
con-man—it seems to me that, contrary to what you have said, he would indeed, as a matter of necessity, care about others' opinions at least to the same degree that he would care about succeeding in his objective(s) as a con-man. I mean, how could a con-man ever succeed in his con if his marks do not opine in ways that he needs them to opine in order to achieve his objective(s)?
It would seem that anyone who seriously desires to hold influence over others cannot help but being careful about those others' opinions, with a care that their opinions might come to align with what he/she needs them to align with, in hopeful expectation that such alignment will secure his/her desired influence over them.
What do you mean? Do you not think Trump is aligned to thinking that he should be POTUS? To think that
X, rather than
Y, ought to be vested with the power of such and such political office is to be a political ideologue aligned to a political ideology. Are you saying, then, that Trump does not
consistently think he ought to be vested with the power of POTUS?
What do you mean? Does Trump sway back and forth from thinking he ought to be POTUS to not thinking he ought to be POTUS?
