It’s almost as if he thinks of himself as a real ruler, but is so deeply ignorant about how to do it well, and keeps making horrible mistakes but then trying to fix them with another shitty fix that makes it worse.

There’s a scene in the old movie “the boondock saints”, where willem dafoe’s prodigy fbi detective character is investigating a murder scene in a strip club, and he slips back out of his mental vision and looks back at the other cops who await his impression, and he realizingly (and disappointedly and irritatedly, like you realize what that bad flavor is) says to them (paraphrasing) “television… You see this in bad television”. He had realized that this murder scene was different from the previous murder scenes because it didn’t make any sense and was incongruent from them. He realized that the added variable in this murder scene was an idiot, who evidently was reacting out what you would see in bad television, by messily adding innocent people to the murder count.

And I’m not sure of trump, but I have a sneaking suspicion that if you did enough research, you might be able to figure out specifically what bad television or media he idolizes and was brought up by.

I also wonder if any of it were those really shitty outdated encyclopedias that racist old rich people like to hide and pretend are elevated above the likes of the commoners, or if it’s just old spaghetti Western movies or something stupid like that, where leadership is drooling vengeance and mic-dropping one liners of imperialist petulance.

Because, so far in my millennial lifetime, and what I’ve seen and read about from donald trump, is a crusty broken mirror reflection of shitty television, melodramatically reflecting failed mob bosses of the past.

Tldr: trump is rocko from the boondock saints.

Edit: and Republicans are just those like him but are poor