Trump - just not cut out for it

He is not smart enough (Source: here)

Only a blind bat will have failed to notice Trump's absolute infatuation with dictators. He positively swoons whenever he meets Russia's Vladimir Putin and struggles to contain his excitement when he gets to interact with North Korea's King Jong Un.

Because Trump wants to be like them.

So badly.

Today Trump moved a step closer to publicly admitting to his fetish for dictatorship, when he said that "A lot of people are saying 'Maybe people like a dictator'". He just can’t contain himself.

But here is the problem. Trump doesn't have what it takes to be dictator.

Sure, he made it to the White House in 2016, but once he was in the hot seat what did he do? He literally had more power than any other prime minister or president in the West, let alone the rest of the world, but he completely failed to take advantage. Not until after he had already lost the election - to a 78-year old Joe Biden - when it was already far too late did he stage a last-ditch, pathetic coup attempt in a failed bid to avoid losing office.

Seriously, how slow is that man?

Trump is now back in the White House and trying harder, but he is nowhere near where he needs to be.

Nor will he get there.

Trump's two problems are his extreme vanity and his very limited intellect, which compel him to focus on securing small victories against weak enemies, such as immigrants or civil servants, rather than using the enormous powers of his office to establish a fully-fledged tyranny.

Granted, Trump has made friends with a few of the judges on the Supreme Court. He has also purged a handful of civil servants and expelled a few Africans and Latin Americans from the United States.

But if Trump really had what it takes to become a dictator, if he was just half as smart and ruthless as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un he would long since have been playing hardball. He would already be 'disappearing' his political enemies instead of just raiding their homes like he did with John Bolton the other day.

If Trump really knew how to play the authoritarian game he would be arresting, torturing, and killing journalists and intellectuals. In large numbers. And terrorising their families too.

He would have forced the few remaining independent thinkers on the Supreme Court to take the knee. In fact, he would have had his secret police rape their wives and daughters.

While he watched.

And, needless to say, Trump would have demanded - and secured - personal allegiance from all branches of America's armed forces. What is this pussy-footing around DC with a few thousand conflicted National Guard troops?

Trump has done none of those things, because he has neither the brains nor the balls. Instead, he basks in media limelight, and, let us face it, he is quite amusing. But his project to assume real dictatorial powers? It is stillborn. Which means Trump is and will continue to be a clown.

The End