The month of July has been most generous to U.S. presidential politics. The Republican primary season has been shocked—seismically. Donald Trump, a.k.a., The Trump, has risen from the frothing mists of reality television stardom like helium balloons at a child’s birthday party. Yes, it’s been that entertaining. Not since the first days of Sarah Palin’s frontal assault on all things Liberal have we, the spectator public, been gifted with such good theater. The Trump gets the credit. The rest of us get front row seats, as he delivers below the belt blows to Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and excoriates other faltering standard-bearers of the Republican presidential primary elite.

The Trump—now a bona fide one-man political tsunami—is capitalizing on a technique honed to perfection by one of America’s more respected presidents: Harry S. Truman. He of course was known for his eloquent “plain speaking.” The Trump speaks plainly, too. And look at all the beautiful attention it’s getting him! So who can blame him? At Trump’s hour of political transcendence, he appears poised to take control of the Fourth Estate and remake it into “The Political Apprentice” reality TV show. Love him or hate him, that’s some kind of work in just a few short weeks—so long as it lasts.

Which it might not because this time around it’s The Trump who’s applying for the job of the most powerful person in the world and the voting public’s the one doing all the hiring and firing—not him. So get ready, Mr. Trump, for a dose of your own medicine. But no matter what happens, I’m pretty sure he can take it because elected or not Trump’s truly an American success story. Remember, this is the same man who seemed to wither in the fuzzy shadows at the White House Correspondent’s dinner years back when President Obama called him out over his bizarre endorsement of the birther movement.

But that was then; this is now. Now The Trump’s dancing in the sweet spot of media limelight and is polling at the head of the pack. Add to this his considerable financial resources, funds a-plenty to bankroll even a Kepler 452-b probe, and there’s no mistaking what’s happening here: These are the Days of Donald Trump and ordinary politicians had better beware. In fact, politicians the world-at-large had better take note because the Trump’s prepared to hire and fire everyone out there, including the Putins, Ali Khameneis and, oh yes, the ali Abu Bakr al-Baghdadis of this volatile world and tell them what he really thinks. You’ve got to hand it to The Trump, what he lacks in verbal tact, he more than makes up for in his showboat confidence. He’s become his own roving Truthsayer. Telling the politicos of yesterday The Truth, according to The Trump, today.

Which is why Trump’s my kind of candidate, for the simple reason that he’s a rather disruptive example of how NOT to be a mere politician! And it’s working for him. He’s dominating America’s political landscape wearing a non-politician’s skin. His mother must be very proud.

What The Trump brings to a very old game is his genius for speaking his version of Truth and Trump to Power. And people are listening to him. He can do this, of course, because he’s got absolutely nothing to lose, which must be mighty nice and a pretty good incentive for us all to go out and make a couple of billion, too. The truth is the world needs more un-politician politicians like The Trump. Those willing to speak out in ways less calculating, less afraid to ruffle the peacock feathers of the Establishment elite.

So no matter what fate befalls Trump’s political ambitions, he won’t have to return to reality television. He’ll have more important things to do. Like fund a Truth-in-Politics program at Harvard’s elite School of Government. That way a whole new generation of truthsayers, from the Democratic, Republican and even the Green Party, can learn the art of speaking Truth to Power and truth to truth. In fact, this could be the best result of Trump’s 2016 presidential candidacy. And it just might be precisely what America needs to vitalize its opaque and moneyed-influenced politics. And such a result would be as refreshing as Spearmint gum—a brand new era of candid politicians.

That and the adoption of public campaign financing which is an alternative way to free up the hearts and minds of America’s politicians so that they, like Trump, can likewise become truthsayers and speak truth to power 100% of the time, instead of tailoring their messages to meet the funding needs of their next election campaigns.

So thank you, Mr. Trump, for your disruptive candidacy. I may not always agree with your truth, but I respect the fact that you speak it as you see it.

Timothy Cooper’s new novel, “2020 or My Name is Jesus Christ and I’m Running for President” can be found on Goodreads at: http://tinyurl.com/n9m3q4a