As a follow up to yesterdays President Elon post, I want to make a point: Trump is a Puppet President.

Trump thinks that he is in charge. After all, he is a big brain, high IQ guy. He only hires the best people. His s*** doesn’t stink. Et cetera, et cetera.

The first time around, I might agree that Trump was in charge. I don’t think he expected to win, and surely wasn’t prepared for the job. He shaped his administration in his own way. There was some grift, but it was mostly incompetence and a little bit of luck.

This time around is different. His sycophants have learned the system (at least to a point). The grifters have attached themselves to the Trump train like leeches (See: Elon, Vivek, FOX News, Peter Thiel, his Cabinet, Don Jr & Eric). They know how to get into Trump’s graces, at least for a while: flattery (and/or money).

Flattery will get you everywhere with Donald. This allows his shadow-masters to shape his decisions and rhetoric. In Trump’s current state of mental decline, he is every more susceptible to influence.

There are plenty of examples of this from the past. That includes how FOX News may have run much of the country during the last presidency: How FOX powered Trump’s first term — and what that means for his second

I imagine it is going to be much worse this time around. There will be fallouts, bad decisions, and suffering. It is likely that it will affect a wider group than during Trumps first term (at least through 2019; ignoring 2020 and COVID, which was a disaster).

God forbid we have another pandemic. Or a full scale war.