TRUMP II: Yogi Berra Said it Best

 

            Eight years ago today, under the title: Trump: Seven Thumbs Thick?, I posted the following comments:

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"Anyone who grasps even the basics of what the end-result of being the biggest guppy in a gilded fishbowl all their life might look and act like is being presented with a case study on an almost hourly basis.

"Seven thumbs thick" is something I recall reading decades ago, and I believe that anyone who aspires to and attains a position of leadership in any setting needs to - as an absolute prerequisite - be able to stand the heat and exercise restraint regardless of the nature of the issue and the person raising it.

Donald John the Lesser has lived his entire adult life as the biggest guppy in a gilded fishbowl. Put another way; a classic schoolyard bully with a clueless cadre of cowering wannabes at his side.

So far, our new President has lived up to my expectations at every turn, as have his mouthpieces and the political sycophants clamoring for a spot in his slowly shrinking shadow."

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So here we are, eight years later, and to borrow a quote attributed by many to Yogi Berra:

"It's deja vu all over again."

I continue to be perplexed - borderline dumbfounded - by the number of folks who still can't see him for what he is.