Forget the bluster. Trump is weak and the world is walking all over him. - Matt Bai

[Binkie The Clown]

Forget Trump’s bluster. The world is walking all over him.

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Trump is weak, and our rivals have figured it out. They’re walking all over the American president in a way we haven’t seen since at least the days of disco and Space Invaders.

None of this seems to permeate the family circle of Trump’s White House, where, as ever, mythology crowds out any notion of policy or reality.

As Hope Hicks, Trump’s onetime corporate flack, put it in a breathtaking statement this week that Trump himself might well have authored, the president “has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy,” has “an unparalleled ability to communicate with people,” “treats everyone with respect” and is of course “brilliant with a great sense of humor.”

Out here in the world that isn’t Narnia, though, we’ve all got enough of a sample size now to know what kind of leader Trump is.
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[Orsino]

1. Trump is all weakness, which the bluster cannot conceal.

He never had to work, or to struggle, and therefore never developed any character. He's appetite, unchecked. He's the ultimate sufferer of Imposter Syndrome, as he knows nothing about what he talks about. Everything he says is a bluff, and he has finally fallen into a position in which bluffs are called.

[gratuitous]

2. And not just other world leaders

A lot of people are watching Trump the Ineffectual. And making their plans accordingly.

[mhw]

3. Yes, and that's what frightens us all.

The world is walking all over him.