What I like about Trump
It takes a big man to admit it – from the e-book "Call Me Toxic – I get Trump" on Amazon
Yes, it’s true – there are things I like about Trump.
1. He is the guy everyone made fun of
It’s true in many ways that Trump is a bully.
But he is also the one who is bullied.
I know of no one who is more universally hated that Trump. Here in Germany, not even Reagan and Bush Jr. were so hated.
Not a day goes by then some media outlet doesn’t call him a liar, a fraud, a bully, a creep, a rapist, a racist, a threat to democracy and Hitler.
Racists called Obama a monkey, but the names they have for Trump are unlimited – and all of them are socially acceptable.
Commentators cried “misogyny” when newspaper reporters asked Hillary Clinton about her clothes and hair – when some guy made a statue of Trump naked, fat and with a tiny Schniedelwutz (German for dingdong), everyone applauded.
Nothing he does goes unpunished.
Obama would have gotten a second Nobel Prize for the Abraham Accords – Trump was a fascist. The Democrats have long since adopted some of Trump’s policies, from tariffs to closing the border to no-tax-on-tips – but when Trump says it, they are evil.
No president in history – not even Nixon or Clinton – has faced as many lawsuits thrown at him, most of them entirely frivolous, by the Democrats in an effort to get him off the ballot by legal means.
And then there are the two attempts on his life.
And it was always like that. Everyone always hated him. The only acceptable way to talk about Trump as to make fun of him.
Even before he got into politics, when he still a Democrat and a friend of the Clintons, he was a laughing stock. Critics derided his book; TV constantly portrayed him as an idiot.
As he grew his business to become worth nearly $2 billion, fighting every step of the way, he was belittled as a loser, a business idiot and a fraud.
And none of it stopped him. He just kept going.
In the beginning, I believed everything everyone said about Trump, and who knows, maybe it’s all true.
This is a chapter out of “Call Me Toxic – I Get Trump,” in which I explain in detail what I think about the current situation – including Trump and Harris, election issues, January 6 and Hitler and all that, but also the Democrats and wokeness and the deterioration of American values – oh yes, and also how and why I voted. The book is available on Amazon. I wrote it because I knew the only way to explain myself was if I can talk for a while without anyone interrupting. If you want to yell at me, send me an e-mail, comment, whatever – you have to read the book first. (German: Beschimpt mich – ich verstehe Trump)
But I can’t help noticing that they can’t stop him.
I know a thing or two about being bullied and ridiculed, and I don’t like people who do it. I am less impressed by the bullies than I am with the guys who take it and come out the other end on top.
To be honest, a part of me can’t hoping he will.
2. It takes balls to break the rules
There is an aspect of American culture that loves the rule-breaker.
You see it in the media:
We glorify the gangster, the charming snake oil salesman, the whore with a heart of gold. Even our cops – upholders of law and order – are best when gone rogue. On the one hand, we pass law after law to regulate anything that might go wrong, while on the other we can’t get enough of Dirty Harry and his countless incarnations.
It’s because we know that society is an imaginary construct that only works when we all believe in it. So we believe in it and we keep the rules – but in our hearts, we want to break them, disobey, rebel, or even better, live by our own rules.
We just don’t have the guts.
But Trump does.
That’s what’s so shocking about him, and so scary.
It’s why we vilify him for breaking the rules – while secretly wishing he had the guts to do it.
3. Can you imagine him facing off with Iran, China or Russia?
I can.