The philosophy of "be like water" is lost on him.
A lot of the bad will he is cultivating could be easily tamped down or swept under the rug if he (and his minions) would just shut the fuck up.
Take the Rene Good murder, for example. They could have suspended the murderer with pay, announced an "investigation", and sit it out while our ADHD press moves on to the next story of the day. Instead, they make up preposterous stories attacking the victim as a terrorist, destroyed and hid evidence, announced that the murder would not even be investigated, and that anyone who thought the murder was unjustified can go bugger themselves. They took the already shocking story and made it more shocking, and in addition gave it media legs to run on.
We see this again and again, with the doubling-down, the never admit an error, the automatic attack mode, the obvious lies repeated over and over.
Life is a give-and-take. Most folks understand that. "You can't always get what you want." If you run into a wall, you can either bang your head against it or find another path.
To Trump, life is a take-and-take, with no concessions, no remorse or sympathy, no consequences, no regard for moral values.
People, well, most people, wake up and smell the bullshit. When they are pissed on every day, they eventually figure out it is not raining. They get exhausted with the never-ending drama.
And Trump is the all-time champion drama diva. Norma Desmond constantly posing for a grotesque close-up.
It is all because he is a malignant narcissist desperate to hide his inadequacies.
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