Let's say you're a tough, pragmatic investor, the kind of man's man that Trump admires. A entrepreneur comes to you with a plan that promises a massive infrastructure project that will, through the entrepreneur's own creative financing arrangement, actually make the project pay for itself. You decide to go all in and back him.
2 ½ years later, you're calling to find out your return on investment and the entrepreneur says he's having some problems, but if you are willing to pay a billion dollars a day, we might be able to get to a point where we can start the project, as long as the expenditures are considered legal by the courts. In Trumpworld, staying with this project (and this builder) is called loyalty. But a smart investor, at this point would cut their losses and write it off as a horrific learning experience, rather than ride a bad investment all the way to the bottom. Applauding while he prepares to dump a billion dollars a day down the toilet is what Trump considers loyalty.
Or Trump's health care: Imagine you're the head of HR for a Fortune 500 company, and a guy pitches you a health plan that he promises will be easier to implement, have better coverage, and cost less than your current plan. 2 ½ years later, he's telling you he will have a plan in 1½ years, but you can't see it until then. Are you going to continue to take the guy's phone calls?
Trump is Shakespearean: All the world truly is a stage for him, and Trump struts and frets his hours and hours upon it, and when his hours are up, he rage-tweets. His process of governing as one where he, as an individual, does bold and courageous acts, and simply wants the praise and adulation he so nobly deserves:
I’m smarter than they are, I went to better schools than they did, I have better apartments than they have, I’m better educated all around," Trump said talking of liberal elites. "I have a much more beautiful house, much more beautiful anything. And I'm president and they're not."
"I get a kick, I hear: 'So and so, the elite.' Then you see this guy, like, this little schlepper. 'This is elite? I'm not elite?' " Trump continued. "We're the elite. You're smarter. You're sharper. You're more loyal."
So Trump supporters are the elite because they are smart enough to recognize that Donald Trump is the true elite. I'm certainly glad our President isn't narcissistic or insecure, otherwise all of this self-praise might go to his head.
I think it was Martin Luther King who said "I have a dream one day our children will not be judged by the color of their skin nor by the content of their character, but by the betterness of their apartments."