What has Trump ever said or done that convinces you that he is the only person "willing to take the hits to make the changes", and that everyone else is "worried about their bank accounts and seniority"? You actually think that every other politician cares more about their own immediate power and money than about their own grandchildren? Only Trump cares more for his grandchildren?
Are you serious?
Where do people get this idea that Trump has some kind of unique, one-of-a-kind virtue, that he is exempt from the venial weaknesses that are common in all the rest of humanity? What did he do to demonstrate that? Was it when he didn't go to Vietnam because of bone spurs? Was it when he had a reality TV show that bolstered his ego and pretensions of authority by allowing him to say "YOU'RE FIRED"? Was it his use of bankruptcy to protect and re-organize businesses? Was it when he came out with a line of steaks? Was it buying a golf course or operating a resort?
None of those things are bad. But none of them demonstrate any reason to think that Trump is some kind of unique servant-hearted hero who will bear all the scourges and attacks and slings and arrows to redeem the country for all the rest of us. I'm not saying Trump has never helped anyone else or never contributed to charity or that he cares nothing for the country. I am saying that there is absolutely nothing in his past actions to suggest that he has any kind of unique patriotism or care for the country or that he is invulnerable to the same corruptions of ego and power that go along with Federal office.
I see your point and have to make a couple of observations.
Prior to running for POTUS, Trump was his brand, literally. His name on everything, no more necessarily narcissism than seeing Henry J's last name on the go-zillion F-150s and other vehicles over the decades. Names associated with a brand are not uncommon in American History, and those who have that name become the face of the brand. With his brand in, among other things, high end hospitality properties, there is a certain level of preening that goes on beyond just 'keeping the light on for you', and standards to be maintained and displayed.
I can recall no other POTUS who donated their salary back. Now, a mere $400,000/ year might seem like chump change to one whose net worth is estimated in 10 figures, but it is not an insubstantial sum, $1.2 million over 4 years. If he was there for the money, either such actions would be great to hide behind while making a mint elsewhere, but it seems estimates are that being POTUS cost Trump dearly. I can think of no other candidate or office holder in D.C. who has come away with a smaller bank balance than they went there with, and Trump has not been accused of lacking business acumen.
So let's see these other patriots of whom you speak put their money where their mouth is.
As for the TV Show: free publicity for the brand, the line of steaks: a business venture, some win some lose. Ditto the vineyards. Not all of Trump's deals have been successful over the years, and not all of his ideas have been great ones (
Trump Princess) even if they served a purpose. Like anything else, it is a learning process.
As for 2024, I think Trump has had, and will have had more time to reflect on who in D.C. is in which camp, who blows with the wind, and who just blows. Can he learn from that experience? Wanting loyalty just might be an expression of that, given the absolute perfidy exhibited by the likes of Milley and others.
And for the record, I don't worship Trump (didn't vote for him in 2016, voted Constitution Party instead), I'm just trying to be fair.
Do I think he should have signed the Dem spending bills? No, and I don't believe the Clintons should remain un-investigated, either, but I think there are bigger fish to fry. Washington has gone from a hotbed of corruption to a hotbed of treason, all for pecuniary gain. That corrupt mob needs to be dug out of our Government bureaucracy and elected positions and never, ever, hold office anywhere again. That would take someone with the stones to replace the DOJ, or much of it.
Still, it won't matter who gets in if the MSM continue to press an Anti-American agenda, and finding out who is funding that just might be key. We would not have turned over the American Press to the Axis in WWII, but WWIII is well under way, and there it is.
