The Burning Hats of the Persecuted Persecutors

     Donald Trump gets satisfaction from putting his surname on things.  Trump Steaks, Trump Corporation, Trump Books LLC, Trump Caribbean LLC, Trump Drinks Israel Holdings LLC, Trump Ice Inc., Trump Marks Mattress LLC, Trump Wine Marks LLC, all of these selected from a long list. As far as I know there isn't an entity called Trump Condoms, or a company called Trump Snacks, but we can nonetheless wonder what he'll do with all of his holdings if he becomes president.  Is it beneath the dignity of that office to be in charge of something called Trump Panama Condominium Management LLC?
     What about Trump University?  This organization, investigated currently by the Attorney General's Office of the State of New York as a scam intended to defraud money from gullible and earnest people sorely affected by the recession caused by the 2008 economic collapse, itself caused by the greed of the kinds of people Donald Trump associates with, was never a university, but an alleged presentation of the money-making ideas of Donald Trump.  Trump claimed he would pick the teachers, although in a sworn deposition he said he had nothing to do with those selections.  He now stands by Trump University, and would like to get it going again after the case against him is dropped.
     The main hobgoblin standing in Trump's way regarding this case is a federal judge, Gonzalo Curiel, whom Trump refers to as "Mexican."  How a Mexican citizen could get a job in the United States as a federal judge hasn't been explained by Trump, although he needn't explain such illogic to his followers, who boo at his rallies on cue whenever the crafty Latino judge is mentioned.  Trump goes further, claiming that Curiel should recuse himself from the Trump University fraud case because, "I'm building a wall.  It's an inherent conflict of interest."
     In other words, he has a fantastic (as in "remote from reality") idea about building a nearly 2,000 mile long wall along the Mexico-U.S. border, if he becomes president.  He is not actually, currently, building such a wall, but somehow this non-existent structure (i.e. dirt-moving project) conflicts with the interest of Judge Curiel, a Mexican who somehow managed to become a U.S. federal judge in the same way, perhaps, that Barack Obama, a Kenyan, managed to become a U.S. president.
     Trump "believes" Curiel is Mexican, but research, which I just conducted, taking me less than twenty seconds, shows me that Curiel was born in East Chicago, Indiana, to Mexican-born parents.  He received higher education in Indiana and was appointed as a federal judge by Obama in 2012.  He's Mexican in the sense that Donald Trump is German.
     Nevertheless, Judge Curiel is, according to the aggrieved presumptive Republican nominee, "a hater of Donald Trump...a total disgrace."
     I propose a new organization: Trump Hates LLC.  Whatever or whoever Donald Trump hates would be focussed on here: women, Latinos and Latinas, Muslims, poor people, former, current, and future POWs, journalists, anyone interested in the truth, families of alleged terrorists.
     I observe Donald Trump like I observe anyone in the news or in history.  I try to understand them in ways that make sense to my particular way of looking at things, admittedly influenced by many years of thinking about the world and its people.  I've encountered and studied bullshit in political discourse for many years.  Trump's rhetoric is always self-serving bullshit.  Anyone who hasn't figured this out is putty in his little hands.  He gains sympathy from his followers by playing a victim.  If you don't see a billionaire's claims of victimhood as a trick you may have a brain incapable of perceiving truths beyond mutable surface realities.
     In stroking the beliefs of his followers, Trump always sounds like an idiot.  He finds himself in a legitimately served fraud case.  He attacks the federal judge in charge of the case for his heritage, a sure way of agitating the already established racism of his followers.  His argument for the judge's recusal makes no sense: "I'm building a wall..."  Who's building a wall?  Is it some event detailed in a novel?  By using fiction instead of fact to make his case, Trump Bullshits LLC tingles the limited imaginations of his hair-trigger racist followers simply by saying the words, "wall," and "Mexican," applying the latter word to someone who's actually American, thus proving he's capable and ready to lie to make things happen for his benefit, like he allegedly did when defrauding desperate people of their money seeking to learn his "secrets" by applying to Trump University, which is not a university (another lie).  The man lies so often that every time you hear about some accomplishment of his (told about usually by himself) it's a safe bet to assume he's far afield of the truth.  I used this assumption on George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from 2001 to 2009, and they always came through as diabolically devious schemers, always up to no good.  When the Iraq War vote was debated in Congress, it was quite obvious to me that attacking Iraq was a bad idea, in part because Bush and Cheney wanted it to happen.
     Trying to get Trump followers to see him clearly isn't likely to happen.  In San Jose, California, last night, Trump supporters clashed with anti-Trump people after a rally.  A woman wearing a Trump tee shirt got pelted with eggs, Trump red hats were stolen and burned, cops stood by, apparently not knowing what to do.  Trump's popularity in California is not vigorous.  The high Latino population makes it likely he'll have a hard time garnering much support there in the general election.  As far as I can tell, Trump banked nearly a year ago on the idea that it was better to court the fading white racist/bigot vote than the growing Latino vote; thus, he made his "Mexicans bring crime, they're rapists..." line infamous at the start of his campaign.  He purposely went after the dumbass portion of the white blue collar vote, those feeling unmoored in recent years, the less keen believing it's Barack Obama's fault, when in fact it's very difficult to run a successful country that's continually at war, that also collapsed economically in 2008 due to the depredations of shits like Donald Trump, who now pretends to be their white knight, a Galahad bringing a Holy Grail in the form of a mass-produced hat  called Make America Great Again.
   
                                                                               Vic Neptune