Trump the De-stabilizer

Let’s turn to the Merriman-Webster dictionary for a definition of the word destabilize.

Destabilize—transitive verb; 1. To make unstable; 2 to cause (something such as a government) to be incapable of functioning or surviving.

Fareed Zakaria, host of a Sunday morning show on CNN, interviewed a journalist from Iran last week. The journalist didn’t speak perfect English. Fareed asked “what do people in Iran think of Donald Trump?”

“Instable,” the reporter answered. He meant to say “unstable” but his meaning was clear. “Donald Trump is instable and he is making America instable…” he continued. He used instable rather than saying “Trump is de-stablizing America.” Ah ha, I thought. I think this gentleman has captured the essence of Mr. Donald Trump. His goal is to “destabilize” each and every situation to his own advantage.

The President of the United States has immense power. We look to the president to add stability. We presume the president reached his position through great skill and experience. The president should be the epitome of—stability. He or she shares that great equanimity with the entire nation and the entire globe. The center of the Free World is Washington DC. We want everything to revolved around the White House. The president is a center of gravity holding reality, politics, war, conflict and peaceful resolution in the center of his hand. But this time it’s different. Donald Trump seeks instability in every situation.

Trump just declared against the FBI. The FBI is in tatters and only Donald the Great can restore the department to its former glory. Strange?! Critics say the morale of FBI agents will fall precipitously because the boss said they suck… Donald throws everybody over like a jiu jitsu master. Everybody is an enemy and he has to keep the adversaries off their stride. He has to destabilize them.

Donald Trump thrives on conflict, while most people avoid conflict as much as possible. We wonder about his motive. My guess is the destabilization technique comes from his business experience. I’ve never read “Art of the Deal” but I probably should. Keep your negotiating adversary off-guard, nudge him out of his game, push him out of his comfort zone. Maybe Trump’s goal is money and making money. His job description is to lead the USA but Trump always has his eye on the dollar bill.

A real estate friend of mine told me—“your power in any house buying decision is the ability to walk away from the deal. Trump alienates all comers. He’s always walking away from the deal.

A few tidbits… heard a radio caller describe Sarah Huckabee Sanders as “a sassy diner waitress type.” That’s hysterical.

The same radio show featured Major Garrett talking about the White House press briefings, now go-to viewing. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is just too entertaining.

Major Garrett said reporters, like him, “stormed the ramparts” to pin Sara Sanders to the truth.

The same caller on the show I mentioned above described the reporters as “obsequious.” You decide….

Word Nerd section:

3 Vocabulary words:

1.   Epitome-- embodiment

2.   equanimity—evenness of mind

3.   obsequious—fawning attentiveness

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