How Would You Describe Yourself?
Job or college entrance interviews often include the question, “How would you describe yourself?”
Responses like “I’m a hard worker”, “I never quit until the job is done”, or “I work well with others” probably “check the box” on the interviewer’s rating sheet.
How did then-President Donald J. Trump describe himself in 2018? When a book written by his niece, a psychologist who had known him for decades raised questions about his mental stability, Donnie replied, “I am a very stable genius.”
Einstein never called himself a genius. Gandhi never claimed that he was “very stable.” Personally claiming that you are a “very stable genius” pretty much proves that you are not.
Five years later, (thankfully) now former president Donald J. Trump used different adjectives to describe himself. Donnie was interviewed on Fox News (where else?) about the audio tape proving that he had classified documents at his Bedminster Golf Club. Donnie could have said, “Everyone at Bedminster that day including the kids yucking it up in the swimming pool had Top Secret security clearances.” Fox News would have swallowed that. After all, Fox News and 50% of all registered Republicans believed Donnie when he said that he could declassify secret documents (when he was president) “Just by thinking about it.”
A significant number of registered Republicans would probably also believe that Donnie could telepathically bend spoons like Uri Geller. They might not believe that he has X-ray vision like Superman though.
Donnie’s excuse this time was “I don’t do things wrong. I do things right. I’m a legitimate person.”
In Donnie’s mind, if your parents were legally married when you were born (therefore you are legitimate), everything you do is “right” up to and including possession of plans to invade Iran. I am a “legitimate person” as are you. Feel free to flaunt secret documents on a whim. We can’t “do things wrong”. We can only “do things right”.
Thanks for that profound insight, Donnie. You aced that Fox News interview.
By Ed Dufton
