President Trump Is A Grenade

Whining about a grenade will not stop it from blowing up.

I don’t trust President Trump, the establishment, either of the political parties, and I especially do not trust the deep state.

When the people of America voted to throw a President Trump grenade into the oval office I didn’t expect people to run into the room whining about a grenade that is about to blow up.

It is better to live and fight another day.

Everyone keeps asking me why I’m not outraged about whatever Donald Trump did today to the point where this question keeps coming up in my daily meditations. The truth of the matter is I thought he had a chance of winning since August of 2016, so this isn’t exactly some new reality for me. I’ve been mentally prepping for his election since then, and he’s pretty much behaving and doing exactly what I thought he would. I am actually somewhat surprised he hasn’t done anything crazier.

President Trump seems to be keeping his promises and even got rid of the TPP (how progressive of him?), and restricted lobbying. These were both huge wins for the American people.

I obviously don’t agree with him on a lot of things, like the immigration ban for example, but I never intended to. It shouldn’t surprise people Trump is filling his cabinet with billionaires, might make backroom deals that benefit him, and openly displays blatant cronyism. That is what he does. His entire life has been about screwing the system and disregarding the “normal way” of doing things. I don’t expect anything different from him as President, so I have no idea why anyone else expects him to act differently. We may as well call him CEO and President Donald Trump, because he has no intention of running this country like anything other than a business. That’s why people voted for him.

Most of the Trump supporters I’ve talked to want President Trump to completely blow up the system. They’re tired of both Neo-liberal and Neo-conservative politics. They don’t want the Republican party of George W. Bush again, nor did they want another Clinton/Obama administration. They want something new, something different. Many Trump supporters can’t stand the establishment Republicans either, and want them gone as well. For most Trump voters, electing Trump is about “draining the swamp” and exposing all the corrupt politicians on both sides of the fence for who they are. President Trump has a lot of potential to actually be a change agent for much of Washington on both sides of the aisle.

With that said, the Democrats need to stop running into burning rooms and crying wolf. Those rooms are on fire for a reason, I say we let them burn. Trump won, at this point we should be focusing our energy on how we are going to rebuild. I cannot wait to see the establishment Neo-liberals and Neo-Conservatives exposed for who they really are so we can replace them with actual progressives, libertarians, and conservatives in the next elections.

We need to restore the balance of our political systems, but in the next 4-years many American’s want Trump to screw everything up by design to expose how the system is not working for normal Americans in the first place. I am not saying they’re right or wrong, but I continue to come across this perspective from Trump supporters.

Once you understand these few basic characteristics about President Trump he is actually rather predictable:

President Trump is an alpha male.

He values loyalty, and trust above other values.

He is a entrepreneur and solves problems like a business man.

He knows how to manipulate the system.

He’s a gambler.

He’s a master manipulator and propagandist.

He wants people to like him for who is he is, even if he’s being an asshole.

He knows how to get things done.

He knows how to hire the right people, but admits his mistakes and fires the wrong ones.

He follows through on his promises, no matter how crazy they are.

Now I don’t know if these characteristics make him a dictator, literally Hitler, some kind of second coming of Reagan, or the next FDR; but I can tell you he’s fairly predictable because he actually does what he says. All you have to do is listen to the mad man, and chances are he will actually attempt to do most of the crazy shit that comes out of his mouth.

I know this concept of following through on political promises is scary to a lot of people, but it really isn’t that difficult to understand. It is President Trump’s intention for other people to like and pay attention to him, and as President he’s pretty much unavoidable. By keeping his promises people will continue to like and support him no matter how much the media tries to make him into some kind of super villain.

With that said, I’m still watching and waiting to see what happens next, but I’m not freaking out about it yet. There’s no point in allowing our emotions to get the best of us, and make mountains out of mole hills. If President Trump ends up being a dictator then we organize and do something about it, but it could take months before we can fully understand his true intentions. If he doesn’t end up a dictator, continues to keep his promises despite his flaws and attempts to do right by the American people then I suppose that works too. In the meantime, we all need to stop feeding into pointless micro-aggressions, blaming and labeling each other, and acting like the world is coming to an end.

We are all Americans, so act like it.

If President Trump does go off the deep end, my reaction will be to analyze the situation and calculate my next move accordingly. That’s all any of us can do. So if you’ve seen enough in these past few weeks to join some kind of resistance already then go for it, but I need more data before I join any of you. As far as I can tell, the Trump administration is doing exactly what I thought they would do, because its exactly what Trump said he was going to do. If you’re honestly surprised, you weren’t paying attention.

I am waiting to see what happens after the Trump grenade goes off, because right now the political system in this country is rotten to the core. I’m not going to sit here and defend a corrupt broken system simply because my political party didn’t win.

P.S. If someone starts an actual revolution in this country not financed by billionaires you know where to find me.