As long as can flood the headlines with whatever he wants, people will be busy with those. And not ask for example why he pardoned a guy who pretty much gave him 2 Billons $ ? Or what's up with that Epstein list ?
He needs however bigger and bigger things to keep the show on.
The chaos can be glorious, like the time when he informed Israel, Iran and the rest of the world that their war was over and a ceasefire had been agreed upon seemingly without their knowledge.
It feels like reality now is just an ongoing season of the Trump Show. He knows how to seize every moment to make himself the centre of everything. One surreal example is Trump warmly welcoming kier starmer to his residence in Scotland. The Prime Minister being treated like a guest in his own country!
Edit: Wow - I've just checked DOGE website - no updates since mid-August. Amazing
The wars and drama and ballrooms are just to keep the gradual power grab out of headlines.
"Flood the zone" is the GOP media policy, keep everyone too busy to focus on the very deliberate power grabs.
The distraction machine has no consistent underlying goal other than the distraction itself. It's Canada, Nigeria, Venezuela, Mexico, Portland, Los Angeles, Chicago. No SNAP, half a SNAP, destruction of the East Wing.
And the icing on the cake is this statement from 2018: [0]
> "Trump: We don't want to be the policemen of the world" BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/30/18
> President Trump on Monday said the U.S. should no longer serve as the “policemen of the world.”
> “We more and more are not wanting to be the policemen of the world,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.
> “We’re spending tremendous amounts of money for decades policing the world, and that shouldn’t be the priority ... "
[0] https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385521-trump-we-...
If you believe anything he says, I have a bridge to sell you. If you want to imagine the future, consider what Orwell wrote about that boot stamping a human face, forever...
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