Opinion: Donald Trump is going home a loser
Opinion by David Axelrod, CNN Senior Political Commentator 47 mins ago
There are two kinds of people in the world, Fred Trump explained to his apprentice child. There are killers, and there are losers.
The message was clear: You play to win, whatever it takes. Rules? Norms? Those are for losers. And Fred Trump had no time for losers.
It's a lesson Donald Trump learned all too well.
Throughout his life, the President has seemingly operated with that conviction -- that the world is a jungle, where you kill or be killed. The strong -- the winners -- get what they want, however they need to take it. Only the weak -- the losers -- play by the rules.
In Trump's world, there seems to be little wrong with lying to get the advantage. In fact, it's almost wrong not to, because if you don't screw the other guys, they sure as hell are going to screw you.
That's how Trump appears to have run his businesses -- burning bridges almost everywhere he's gone; leaving an endless trail of lawsuits from embittered partners; allegedly dodging creditors, regulators and taxes; facing accusations of short-changing contractors and swindling customers. (Trump has denied any wrongdoing in his businesses dealings or tax filings.)
And that's the philosophy he's brought to the presidency, flagrantly defying rules and norms and undermining institutions that are the bulwark of a functioning democracy.
From the moment he descended the Trump Tower escalator in June 2015 and entered national politics with a barrage of incendiary, racist tripe, Trump has routinely and scurrilously lied and sold his self-serving version of events and conspiracy theories. He has willfully and cynically divided and inflamed the country he was elected to lead to suit his own ends.
Trump -- whose rise to power was built on an inflated, reality-show depiction of himself as a business titan -- has made a practice of exaggerating his own feats. The biggest! The best! No one's ever seen anything like this before!, he promised us.
Well, this time, Trump's finally right.
No president, in the long history of our republic, has ever been impeached twice. It is a record for ignominy that we can only hope will never be eclipsed, and the emblem of this most corrupt, chaotic and destructive of presidencies.
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