Trump's End Game For America

Trump's end game for America is to make America an extension of himself. And so just as Trump has his name in big bold letters on many of his businesses, he renames the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America so the that respect for America in the West becomes how Trump expects to be respected by others.

And so we are threatening military action to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.  And so we will place tariffs on those nations with whom we are not showing a profit in trade. And so Trump seeks to freeze foreign aid, especially those programs that Martin Luther King Jr. would call programs of 'social uplift.' Trump's initial executive orders revolve around making America the highest profit making business and unquestioned power in the West. In addition, it is  one of the reasonswhy he is declaring war on DEI, Wokeism, and environmentalism--of course another reason is that declaring such a war is one of the big bones that he is throwing to Evangelicals to keep their support.

If Trump wants America to be an extension of himself, there eventually comes a time, if it isn't already, when the belief that to oppose Trump is to oppose America becomes the way the public sees that opposition. At least that is how it is in Trump's mind. Perhaps that is already why Trump has already called the Press that criticized him the 'enemy of the people.' For as an extension of Trump, America and Trump have forged this special identification. This special identification between a leader and a nation or movement is where to oppose the leader is seen as the same as opposing the nation or movement has as some of its historical examples of the Tsars and Russia along with Lenin and the Revolution. We should note that with both, sets of leaders ruled as dictators.

Besides his over the edge narcissism and authoritarianism, this seeking to make America into an extension of himself is a sign that Trump will pursue more and more power until he can preside as a dictator. To do that, he will have to gain more control over the courts either through judicial appointments or possibly learning how to ignore judicial rulings.

Though we citizens may not see our nation this way,  it seems that Europe sees America's economy as being strong and healthy. But for Trump,  just as Joe Torre described George Steinbrenner in latter's expectations of the NY Yankees: 'it was never enough.'