I am a very highly empathetic person. Empathy is an important skill that actually defines human beings. Unfortunatley, society doesn't promote empathy, so my level of empathy, which is actually probably below normal, is extremely high relative to most people and thus incomprehensible by most of you reading this. So, it begs a little explanation.

Empathy allows me to read people's minds.

Empathy is not magic, except for one simple element that most people are incapable of: putting yourself in someone else's shoes, or more accurately, taking their perspective, putting yourself into their mind.

In doing so, it is only then a matter of observation and fitting those observations to the subject considering context and determing what the person is actually thinking based on their body language and the whole of their social presence and prior communications.

In this case, I can easily read the mind of Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, with regards to one specific thing that belies his entire presidency:

Donald J. Trump is a money-grubbing miser who destroyed his own financial empire and is doing the same to America.


Every other president in modern US history has used the immense power of the US Dollar to get things done, including buying influence. These people were all very powerful people who were accustomed to throwing money at problems. Every single modern president was wealthy and born into it and thus lived a life where money was no object.

Why then, is Trump, who was also born into wealth, treating the US budget as though it doesn't really exist. Why does it seem like he is trying to cut costs, save American expenses in foreign entities, agencies, and even wars?

That question is best answered with another question: Why didn't Donald J. Trump release his tax returns or otherwise show his financial records, as every other President has done?

The answer is, because Trump is broke, has been for a long time, and is accustome to cutting costs and trying to get people to pay their bills to him because he personally lives on the financial edge. Trump is not wealthy. He just has a hell of a lot more debt than most people. And his behavior is the same as it has been since he inherited his wealth and squandered it, and he is in the process of financially gutting the United States of America while simultaneously pissing off every nation, institution, and organization around the world which as depended in some manner on the status-quo of American wealth financing the world's goings on.

Whatever your opinion of Donald J. Trump; he is a poor businessman which translates into him being a horrible statesman who just happens to hold the reins of the most powerful economic engine on the planet...

Oh wait, he's been at the helm so long, he's lost the US it's position as the global economic leader and in a fit of complete and utter irony, has handed that title to the People's Republic of China.

Oh well, at least I can buy things from China directly now.

Thanks Trump!

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