Eleven months before the crook from Queens was elected
president, Michael D'Antonio wrote
Like father, like son:
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Trump's sense of entitlement has been affirmed throughout
his life. In 1987, at a party marking the publication of Trump's book "The
Art of the Deal," boxing promoter Don King turned to the crowd and
proclaimed the arrival of Trump and his then-wife Ivana by saying, "Here's
the king and the queen!" A few years later, when he appeared at an event
at one of his Atlantic City casinos, an announcer bellowed, "Let's hear it
for the king!" — and Trump burst through a large paper screen. When he
visited the humble village of his Scottish ancestors he told his relatives that
because of his TV show "The Apprentice," he was American royalty.
"If you get ratings, you're king, like me. I'm a king. If you don't get
ratings, you're thrown off the air like a dog."
And Trump does not believe he is superior because of hard
work, upbringing, or education. It's a
case of nature over nurture, which helps explain why he is a classic racist.
D'Antonio continued
Like history's monarchs, Trump believes that the qualities
that make him successful are in-born. He once said he possesses a genetic
"gift" for real estate development.
"I'm a big believer in natural ability," Trump
told me during a discussion about his leadership traits, which he said came
from a natural sense of how human relations work. "If Obama had that
psychology, Putin wouldn't be eating his lunch. He doesn't have that psychology
and he never will because it's not in his DNA." Later in this discussion,
Trump said: "I believe in being prepared and all that stuff. But in many
respects, the most important thing is an innate ability."
Perhaps Trump's conviction that DNA — not life experience —
is everything explains why he proudly claims that he's "basically the
same" today as when he was a boy. "When I look at myself in the first
grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same," he said.
"The temperament is not that different."
His son Donald Jr. told me: "Like him, I'm a big
believer in race-horse theory. He's an incredibly accomplished guy, my mother's
incredibly accomplished, she's an Olympian, so I'd like to believe genetically
I'm predisposed to [be] better than average"....
The racehorse theory of human development explains Trump's
belief in his suitability for political leadership, despite the fact that he
has never held office. He's absolutely convinced that America's problems will
be solved by his God-given management skills, bankruptcies notwithstanding. You
are either born with superior qualities — the right DNA — or you are not.
And it appears that Trump thinks that he himself is
responsible for his God-given skills, now that
Residents of a small Alabama city, still reeling after
deadly tornadoes devastated their corner of the state, said President Trump’s
visit Thursday was “a godsend.”
He punctuated his trip at a Southern Baptist church in
Opelika, Ala., with another religious overture, one that was distinctly
on-brand: When asked, the president signed several of the churchgoers’ Bibles.
After Trump added his unique, frenetic signature to a
12-year-old boy’s Good Book, the crowd of onlookers erupted in applause, a pool
report noted. One church volunteer, Ada Ingram, told the reporters that Trump’s
visit was a blessing. Hopefully, it brings the community together, she said.
“I enjoyed him coming,” Ingram said. “I think it’s a
godsend.”
Another volunteer, Emily Pike, said the president and first
lady Melania Trump signed her 10-year-old daughter’s Bible, which was already
decorated with pink camouflage....
Some experts said that any signature on or in a Bible, no
matter the penmanship, should be frowned upon.
“Growing up in a religious home, it would’ve been seen as
blasphemous as having someone signing your own name,” said Jamie Aten, an
evangelical and psychologist at Wheaton College.
Aten, who specializes in the effects of disasters on the
religious mind, said it’s common for disaster survivors to use the Bible to
help make meaning of what happened. However, he said, he has never seen
survivors bring Bibles for someone to sign.
“Maybe you penned your own name so people knew it was
yours,” Aten said. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Making it just a little worse, the President with his indecipherable signature signed the cover of the Bibles. The best comment, however, came from Twitter:
Thousands of Alabama Republicans will have Bibles with the same signature that went on a hush money check to a porn star— Bill Andy Farley (@billandy27) March 9, 2019
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