What Does Trump Believe About...

Trump is "Success Driven" and "Goal Oriented."  He doesn't believe in things like you might think of someone who has spent time pondering, analyzing, troubling over things, researching things he doesn't understand, and then thinking some more in order to understand an issue and take a stance.  That's clear from his lack of depth in any given topic.  You don't NEED all that thinking to make a buck or a billion in America.  (Though it does come in handy when you want to steer a prudent course for a big nation.)

Clearly from his interviews and speeches, he's not that kind of person.  He's like a lot of other people who may expend their blood, sweat and tears on the matter at hand, and not on high-falutin' or abstract ideas that don't immediately apply to today's profit.  He doesn't know things.  He sort of feels and sees the outer shape of things makes a gut judgment.  But, a gut gets its judgment from experience in that area.  I don't need to talk about his experience in statesmanship.  His behavior and words are clear.

Politicians, even the best of them, color their remarks about beliefs depending on who they are talking to, and someone who hasn't ever committed to something long term, like marriage, business commitments, etc., don't even care.  It's not about what they believe.  But someone who is averse to knowing real things and making that knowledge part of their repertoire is not a person who should be making decisions about important things.  Not for someone who is a professional in public service.  Someone who makes up stuff, blathers incoherently from topic to topic and fears actually committing to a single piece of substantial policy is not the person to lead policy execution.

This is a person who is not a leader, and someone who follows such a leader . . . I just gotta wonder about your integrity.  You can still be my friend, but I'll always wonder about that severe gullibility, brought on probably by a deep need to believe in something!  Instead of fall for a charlatan, why not seek out someone worthy to support, or better yet, become someone who is willing to lead something local (or bigger) that accomplishes that which you are hoping your false god can?  Rather than put your hope in an empty vessel, find the real deal and elevate them to prominence and influence.

I wrote this before reading the article in The New Yorker featuring the comments from the ghostwriter of The Art of the Deal.  It fully confirms my own observations of him as a person.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all