Monday, December 10, 2018

Trump rubbishes Tillerson

President Donald Trump on his former Secretary of State and ex Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Tillerson was Trump's first Secretary of State:

Tillerson didn't have the mental capacity needed.

He was dumb as a rock and I couldn't get rid of him fast enough. He was lazy as hell.

On first reading it sounds daft. It's what we have grown accustomed to from the President of the United States of America.

But it's dangerous to underestimate Trump. He has that demagogue factor. He knows how to touch millions of people with angry nasty words. He enunciates what many people think in their darkest thoughts.

How many people when they fall out with friends, colleagues and relatives, when they don't like people, say such nasty things against them?  People get hunches and ideas on those they may never have met or with whom they may never have spoken and then they say terrible things about them.

Trump appeals to the dark side of human beings.

With all his right-wing baggage, his vulgarity, his rudeness, he is a dangerous man.

And millions of people voted for this man, who has spoken vile words against women, jeers at people with special needs.

Trump is clever to attack defined enemies.

He promises to make America great again.

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