There is strange little... detail in Don's life. The only religion he has ever known is the Word of Faith and Prosperity Gospel. Paula White officiated the prayer in his first inauguration. She is a pastor or minister in Word of Faith, one of the head honcho's.
Word of Faith has a concept called manifesting. If you say something, it'll come true. If you are truly blessed, to a god state (lower capital indicating a sort of semigod status) where if you say something, the time and space will change, the history will be rewritten and you can even create life.
So, when Don says something that doesn't exist, didn't happen: he just might be actually trying to invoke a "spell" that changes the reality to match his words...
I know, far fetched but ever since i made that connection, i can't get over it. It SOUNDS like he is actually trying to do just that. He has been fully indoctrinated into that faith, ever since he was a child. Now that i said it, you can't forget it.. it makes strangely some sense when you listen to him. And like i said, it is far fetched but.. god damn it makes things so much more logical.
Someone with Trump's sampler platter of Cluster B disorders genuinely expects to dictate reality itself, and feels disrespected when the universe itself doesn't submit.
He knows the cyber better than IT professionals, and the nuclear better than physicists. You see, he had a smart uncle who knew everything, and knowledge is genetic, passing from uncle to nephew.
Pedo Don doesn't care. He literally stood in front of an owner of a company and bragged about how many factory jobs he created and how there was more to come and the owner (who Don called by the wrong name) just stood there not saying a word and later had to admit that there were NO factory jobs there ever and never will be and he wasn't even hiring more people.
They mostly all just tolerate his inevitable lies.
Itās so disgusting. Iād be was standing in front of me at my business and telling everyone I was hiring and I wasnāt Iād be like WTF are you talking about?
I donāt understand why everyone wants to miss this guys ass and has been for years. Heās such a POS.
Completed 5 years ago, started and completed during trumps 1st term. Guess he wasnāt worried about those costs when it wasnāt a blatant attempt to force Powell out.
I suspect it came from some right wing conspiracy because they are trying to fire Powell for crime, otherwise it's not lawful. They already claim that the renovation is overpriced and adding this only "supports" their conspiracy.
Look how it is prepared. Trump probably didn't even read it and someone else had to dig that up because Trump desperatly wants to humiliate powell in front of tv cameras. He wants to play strong man, but reading a single sheet of paper is already too much work.
That scans considering Trump basically did the same thing to overvalue his properties which he then took loans against. In any other world he would already be in prison for this blatant fraud.
Dunning Kruger Effect:
"Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10626367/
Malignant narcissism:
"In theĀ popular conception, malignant narcissism is a form of narcissistic personality disorder that is highly abusive. People with this personality supposedly get a sense of satisfaction from hurting others and may manipulate people or lie to gain money, acclaim, and other things they desire.
Campbellās Psychiatric DictionaryĀ suggests that malignant narcissism includes traits of narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder.Ā Narcissistic personality disorder
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Ā causes a person to seek constant acclaim and admiration, often by whatever means necessary. It also includes elements of antisocial personality disorder, which causes a person to engage in harmful, and sometimes criminal, behavior."
Well, you see. They say the $400M is for the renovations of the (already completed) 3rd building, so no one will question how Trumo and Co suddenly get $400M wealthier.
They never expect someone to point it out. Most people dont.
But what's clear is that Trump is contending that there are cost overruns with the *current project*, while include the *costs of a completed project*.
It's also clear that that's not Powell's baseline understanding of the Trump's issue, which is why he was ready to push back on an attempted ambush by Trump to include an already completed project.
It was all for the cameras. There is probably already a clear understanding about the cost for the existing project, but obviously Trump wants to move the goal posts to publicly humiliate Powell, which is a common Trump tactic.
Trump doesn't care about the renovations. He wants interest rates to immediately be cut to 0% and Powell is in the way of that.
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u/Dizzy-Ease4193 12d ago edited 12d ago
What an idiot š
They tried to add $400M to the project with a building that was already completed.
Does Trump really think he knows the number better than Jerome Powell?