I read a Newsweek article about China’s new aircraft carrier.
The article compared the new Chinese vessel with the USS Gerald R Ford.
China’s newest aircraft carrier Fujian compared to USS Gerald R. Ford
The real thought-provoking moment came in a small bit at the end. Trump was POTUS when the Ford was commissioned in 2017.
‘U.S. President Donald Trump said at USS Gerald R. Ford‘s commissioning ceremony in July 2017: “Wherever this vessel cuts through the horizon, our allies will rest easy and our enemies will shake with fear because everyone will know that America is coming and America is coming strong…Our true strength is our people. Our greatest weapon is all of you. Our nation endures because we have citizens who love America and who are willing to fight for America.”‘
I emphasized the final sentences. Eight years after Trump said those words, here he is as POTUS #47, starving Americans, destroying our healthcare and education systems, lowering our standards of living, deploying U.S. National Guard on false pretenses into American centers, and disappearing people through ICE off American streets, regardless of their status as citizens or visitors, regardless of evidence, regardless of what the courts rule.
Trump claims he wants to ‘make America great again’.
Trump claims that he views citizens as America’s ‘greatest weapon.’
Yet, Trump actively pursues destruction of us as a people and a nation. He’s attacking over half of us even though we are part of the same nation.
I’ll telling you, Trump hates the United States. He’s out to destroy it. If he wasn’t than why does he attack our ‘greatest weapon’?
That’s why the cruelty is the point. It’s an expression of Trump’s contempt and hatred for the United States and its citizens.
Michael Seidel, writer 
IMO, Trump is (1) so mentally deficient that he doesn’t understand what he is doing, and/or (2) believes that his actions are going to set him up as one who is politically “worshipped.” Not necessarily a dictator per se, but more that people see him as a sort of god that must be obeyed.
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I am certain Trump operates from an alternate reality where everything he says and does is brilliant and beautiful, and yes, that makes him think that he’s being worshipped as a genius and hated and persecuted for being a genius. And yes, he sees himself as hugely fit and capable, a cut above all other mortals. That’s why the Epstein files terrify him; they can drag him back into an ugly reality which he doesn’t want to face. Cheers
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