29 Nov The thing feared most: Parallels between Trump and Job.
There may be no basis to compare Job, God’s friend, with Donald Trump.
🎯But something Job said during his travails, may have happened to Donald Trump.
🎯Job said, “The thing I feared the most has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has come unto me.”
🎯 But while Job depended on God to sort him out, give him peace; Trump is fighting, even reporters, and peace is becoming elusive.
💥He snapped at a reporter, “you can’t talk to be like that, I’m the President of United States.”
🎯In this piece from the New York Times, what President Trump feared most may have befallen him.
💥“In the now-distant Republican presidential primaries of 2016, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas handily won the Iowa caucuses. This was determined by a method that has lately come under attack but at the time was considered standard: elementary math.
💥One of the losers in Iowa, developer and television personality Donald Trump, soon accused Cruz of electoral theft. He fired off several inflammatory tweets, including this foreshadowing of our current democracy-testing moment: “Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified.”
💥The episode vanished in the tsunami of political vitriol to come during the Trump presidency.
💥Still, it reflects what those who have worked with Trump say is his modus operandi when trying to slip the humiliating epithet he has so readily applied to others.
💥Loser: “The first thing he calls someone who has wronged him is a loser,” said Jack O’Donnell, who ran an Atlantic City casino for Trump in the 1980s.
💥”That’s his main attack word. The worst thing in his world would be to be a loser. To avoid being called a loser, he will do or say anything.”
💥Across his long career, he has spun, cajoled and attacked — in the press, in lawsuits and lately, of course, on Twitter — whenever faced with appearing as anything less than the superlative of the moment: the greatest, the smartest, the healthiest, the best.
💥This has at times required audacious attempts to twist a negative into a positive, often by saying something over and over until it either displaces the truth or exhausts the audience into surrender.
💥It is a matter of record that Trump has been a loser in many business ventures (Trump Steaks, anyone?).
💥In fact, his greatest success flowed not from real estate but from the creation of a popular alternate-reality television persona -Trump, master of the boardroom-that he ultimately rode to the White House.
💥But his famous aversion to the label of loser has now reached its apotheosis.”
🎯 Well, may be when the Electoral College votes next month.
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