{"id":24147,"date":"2016-10-13T11:48:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T18:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24147"},"modified":"2016-10-13T11:48:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T18:48:27","slug":"king-midas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/king-midas\/","title":{"rendered":"King Midas?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"The most famous King Midas<\/b> is popularly remembered in Greek mythology<\/font><\/a> for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold<\/font><\/a>. This came to be called the golden touch<\/i>, or the Midas touch<\/i>.  … According to Aristotle<\/font><\/a>, legend held that Midas died of starvation as a result of his "vain prayer" for the gold touch." — Wikipedia<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Glasser:<\/b> Based on what you know about his personality from having studied it and written about it, how do you see him handling the next three weeks, given that he’s now in this hole? To me, his combative behavior since the release of the tape, his lack of remorse, his going on the offense, his complaining that it’s not fair, essentially, his going to war even against his own party seems very consistent with the person that you all have done such a good job of describing. So what does he do for the next three weeks? Is there a point at which he gives up, stops fighting? How can he be a loser for three weeks before the actual election?<\/p>\n

O’Brien:<\/b> I think he is just going to wage a scorch\u2011the\u2011earth campaign for the next three weeks. And if he loses, which I think he’s going to—I think he’s going to lose badly—he’s then going to come up with a scenario in which it was stolen from him, that the election was rigged, because he’s survived by creating alternate realities. And he’ll never say to himself he lost because he had a skeletal campaign operation, which he did; that he lost because he’s unappealing to a large swath of the voters; that he lost because he’s willfully ignorant about public policy; that he lost because he’s a nasty and unappealing bigot. He’ll never, ever acknowledge any of that. He’ll just come up with an alternate reality that said, “It was rigged against me.”  …<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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O’Brien:<\/b> Yeah. I don’t feel like I’ve seen or learned anything new about him. I think a lot of the way he’s approached this presidential race parallels all of the strengths and weaknesses of his business career, personally and professionally. He’s a profoundly narcissistic person who has been insulated from the realities of his own bad decision\u2011making by wealth and other people’s needs to kind of glom onto him, and I think he really did repeat so much of his past mistakes throughout this political season. He came into it with an opportunity and an advantage that he could have really built something on. But because of his myriad flaws—you know, he’s financially undisciplined, he’s emotionally and intellectually undisciplined, and he’s incapable of building teams and leading other people, profoundly incapable of those things—he blew those opportunities.<\/p>\n

And I don’t think he really cares. I think he’s been more than satisfied to be on a big global stage and have everybody paying attention to him, and he’ll never characterize himself as a loser in this process, even if he ends up one.  …<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

D’Antonio: <\/b>I think he’s addicted to this kind of attention and addicted to being taken seriously, or at least in his own estimation being taken seriously. So whatever he does, it will be devoted more to politics and media than what he’s done so far, and the kids are going to pick up the pieces of the real estate and branding empire. I’m working on a piece with some people who are evaluating his business, and he’s really suffered an erosion of his brand, even among the people who supported it. So the kids may have seen some of their inheritance go down the drain here.
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From <\/span>Politico<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Click through for this long but interesting piece about Trump, his personality, foibles and actions and the future, as told by four of his biographers.  As I read the piece, I thought of King Midas and his golden touch.  I see Trump in a similar light.  Trump sees himself as the man with the golden touch — he'll make America great again, if you buy his press, which I do not.  But like Midas, who wanted gold and starved because of it, Trump, accustomed to getting what he wants, will starve from the attention that he does not want, the attention ascribed to a loser.<\/span><\/p>\n

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