Eric Trump, son of Donald, said his father, if elected president, will be "fixing things."  Vagueness characterizes Trump statements, son or father, when talking about solving domestic and world problems.  At this early stage of the electoral process--a stage never existing before, since campaigning for president hasn't begun so early in the past--do Donald Trump's general declarations matter?  Political candidates make promises when they run, and never fulfill many of them once they've ascended to office.  Guantanamo Bay horror prison will close, Obama promised, and then it didn't.  He did promise to withdraw the U.S. troop presence (occupation, to use another term) from Iraq, and did so, mostly, but later began adding troops ("advisors") in response to ISIS aggression.
     Trump, acting from a safe position of blaring nonsense in the presence of reporters, doesn't have to, at this early date, think about what being president might actually mean, if he gets elected.  Now, as he puts it, he can "just be Trump."  Asked by CNN reporter Dana Bash if he's preparing for the nearing Fox News Channel Republican debate in Cleveland, he responded with the I'll just be Trump attitude.  He's not doing homework, he's not practicing with his campaign staff acting as other candidates.  He's in Scotland swinging golf clubs.  A video image of Trump, wearing a red baseball cap stitched with his campaign logo, showed him on CNN stepping down from his helicopter (easy to tell it's his because his surname is painted on it).  Walking with an entourage, watched by reporters and camerapersons, Trump put his shoe bottoms on Scottish soil and then told news media fools
about a key part of his upcoming campaign:
     "The Hispanics will vote for me."
     "I'll win the Hispanic vote."
     Even a perceptive child, who can't even vote, might ask, "How will you do that, considering the degree to which you alienated them with your anti-Latino comments?"
     I heard no such question from the assembled reporters.  Someone, maybe, asked it, but CNN didn't air the question or the response, if such exchanges of carbon dioxide occurred.
     Trump will win over the Hispanics.  They enjoy being called criminals, rapists.  He told Bash of CNN that he will deport all illegal aliens in America before allowing them to apply for citizenship.  He avoided her follow-up question on how he would remove 11 million (he claims 34 million) people from this country, and then bring them back as if they've been laundered.  No reporters, as far as I know, ever tell Trump to his face that most or all of his ideas about using the power of his hypothetical presidency are fucking crazy.
     He will bomb ISIS far more than Obama's been doing.  He will bomb ISIS oil facilities, as if that mobile organization can't conquer additional territory where there's oil.  He chimes in with every other Republican grandstander (plus Netanyahu) who claims the Kerry-negotiated deal on controlling a nuclear-ambitious Iran is "a bad deal."
     "I'll be Trump" really means a media savvy con artist skilled at improvisation and willing to say anything to grab attention.  He's better at this than his Republican challengers (who barely challenge him).  Mike Huckabee's "leading Israel to the door of the oven" comment reveals that candidate's clumsy desperation to participate in Fox's stupid debate.  Only stiff-necked hyper-Zionists would embrace such an inaccurate and mean-spirited statement.
     Trump's elegance, if he has any, consists of a well-honed ability to make outrageous statements, backed by the force of his Olympian ego.  He said John McCain isn't a hero because he got captured in Vietnam.  Some claimed that Trump wouldn't recover from attacking a renowned war hero, that his comment did a disservice to all American military personnel.  His poll numbers rose, instead.  Trump had the hypocrisy of the Republican Party on his side.  John Kerry, also a Vietnam war veteran, and, arguably, since he put his life on the line many times, a hero, was viciously attacked in 2004 for being a coward by some of the same right-wing assholes expressing indignation over Trump's anti-McCain remark.
     Trump's insertion of himself into the 2015-2016 electoral contest illustrates, with his popular success thus far, how American political processes have become a joke.  In the 1960s TV series Batman, a pair of episodes deals with a Gotham City mayoral race.  Supervillain Penguin runs for mayor, gains so much traction with the people that Batman decides to run against him.  Batman's campaign, compared to Penguin's, is straitlaced, square, platitudinous.  Penguin offers a light-hearted say-what-people-want-to-hear approach.  Batman refuses to kiss a baby because it would be "unsanitary."  Penguin kisses the baby and puts one of his campaign stickers on the stroller.  Penguin has ulterior motives, of course--he is a politician, or rather, he's playing at being one.
     President Trump will fix things.  Problems will be solved.  Bombs will be dropped.  No civilians will die.  An impenetrable fence, paid for by the Mexican government, will be built along the Mexico-U.S. border.  Tunnels under the fence?  How could that happen?  Hispanics in their millions will vote for Trump.  They don't care that he implied they're the scum of the earth.
     He will, for sure, be the star of the upcoming Fox debate.  He can hold his own against any of the hopefuls he'll face.  He'll be placed in the center of the stage.  The men on the edges will have to make their zingers count, showing some voters that the candidate with the best zinging skills should run the United States.  Trump, of course, is best at that among his opponents.  Self-confident contempt for others is not something he needs to fix about himself.  He and Penguin share that character trait.

                                                                               Vic Neptune