Title: AREN’T THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES GRAND
Author: Philip M. Fishman
Publisher: MPS Publishing
Pages: 112
Genre: Satirical Critique
Author: Philip M. Fishman
Publisher: MPS Publishing
Pages: 112
Genre: Satirical Critique
If you love Trump, sorry, this book is not for you. If, on the other
hand, you are horrified at what this man is doing, I think you will
enjoy it. I read a very interesting book recently that discussed
despots and their common characteristics. What, then, are the
characteristics of a despot? They attack free speech and the press. They
threaten political opponents with prison. They scapegoat certain
minorities to rally their base and divert attention from other problems.
They engage in nepotism and use their office for personal and family
enrichment. They attack and vilify the judiciary, legitimate law
enforcement, and essentially anyone in government who is not considered
absolutely loyal. And, through a type of mass hysteria, they create a
cult following.
Does any of this sound familiar? No, our President is not a despot..yet; but individuals do not become despots spontaneously- they evolve. My book, AREN’T THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES GRAND, is a satirical critique. As a satire, the book is humorous; but the subject is dead serious. Without hyperbole, I truly believe Trump is a threat to our Constitution and Republic; and I think if you read my book objectively, you will probably come to the same conclusion.
Does any of this sound familiar? No, our President is not a despot..yet; but individuals do not become despots spontaneously- they evolve. My book, AREN’T THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES GRAND, is a satirical critique. As a satire, the book is humorous; but the subject is dead serious. Without hyperbole, I truly believe Trump is a threat to our Constitution and Republic; and I think if you read my book objectively, you will probably come to the same conclusion.
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Chapter 4
Inferiority Complex
“Mirror, mirror on the wall; who
is the fairest one of all?”
Donald has certainly started out the new year
(2018) with a bang. Here are his latest
quotes, apparently triggered by Wolfe's just published book, Fire and Fury, questioning
his fitness for the Presidency. “I am
a very stable genius” 1 and “Actually throughout my life,
my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being like, really
smart.” 2 One needn't be
a psychiatrist or have a PhD in psychology to recognize that Donald may have an
ego problem. And to a great many, that
assertion is a gross understatement.
“...I will tell you this in a
non-braggadocios way... there has never been a 10-month president that has
accomplished what we have accomplished. That I can tell you. That I can tell
you...And the numbers going up are going to do much better than anybody
anticipates. In fact, they're going to say that Trump is the opposite of an
exaggerator -- the exact opposite...They're going to start saying .. that he
<Trump> ought to be a little bit more optimistic because his predictions
were low, can you believe it? You know, a year and a half ago they were saying,
oh he can't do that. Now they're saying, hmm, that was quick...And remember, I
was the one when I was here the last time, I said, we're going to have
Christmas again; I was the one that said you go to the department stores and
you see Happy New Year and you see red and you see snow and you see all these
things. You don't see Merry Christmas anymore...With Trump as your president,
we are going to be celebrating Merry Christmas again, and it's going to be done
with a big beautiful tax cut. Thank you everybody. God bless you. Thank you.
Thank you everybody. Thank you very much.” 3
In case you haven't noticed, Donald
seems to rely on certain words an awful lot.
He apparently likes the words great, greatest, best, and very. His most repeated phrase, “Make America
Great Again” is continually echoed by
his supporters. But what's that got to
do with the title of this chapter? It is
simply that an individual that obsesses about himself and is always defensive
to criticism is a very insecure person.
He needs that continual assurance that he is important. It has been reported that Donald watches TV
at least four hours a day, switching channels when he is not the main news.
If bragging was the only problem
with an insecure person; it wouldn't be so bad.
One could always turn him off;
but a person with an inferiority complex has to prove it. He needs to
prove it to himself as well as others.
He does that by bullying.
Bullies like to intimidate and take advantage of
people they perceive to be weaker than they, which serves to enhance their own
self-worth. They want to feel superior;
and they want other people to feel that they (bullies) are superior.
Trump's alleged sexual harassment
of women fits the pattern. He, of
course, has strenuously denied the allegations; but, interestingly for someone
not unacquainted with lawsuits, has never bothered to sue for libel. At the time of this writing there are
nineteen women who have alleged sexual harassment or worse.
And, as would be expected, he has not
confined his bullying to sexual aggression.
Donald habitually denigrates women that refuse to kowtow to him or those
he considers unattractive. During the
first debate of the primaries, Megyn Kelly, one of the moderators, asked him
about his put down of women. She
followed up, referring to his comment to a contestant on The Celebrity
Apprentice show, that... “it would be a pretty picture to see her on her
knees. Does that sound to you
like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?”
He evaded the question but later in a
tweet attacked Kelly as unprofessional and “not very good.” He obviously was not very happy with
Kelly's questions and later referred to her as a “bimbo” and “highly
overrated.”
In an interview with Rolling Stone
Magazine after the debate Donald denigrated Carly Fiorina, one of the
seventeen Republican candidates. “Look
at that face. Would anyone vote for
that? Can you imagine that, the face of
our next President?” 4
And then there was one woman, Jessica
Leeds, who accused Trump of groping her on a plane. His comment, “Look at her. She would not
be my first choice.”5
During the campaign, he viciously
mocked a disabled reporter. And then there are the small contractors and
employees mentioned in the previous chapter.
As mentioned, there have been numerous lawsuits, but the independent
contractor generally finds himself out-gunned by Trump's lawyers, who are on
retainer.
There's another thing about bullies. They are generally cowards. That is the reason they prey on those they
presume are weaker. Their inferiority
complex shows up very clearly when the person being bullied stands up to the
bully. Typically, the bully fades away
because he is really a coward. Was the
bone spur really the reason for Donald's avoiding military service or was there
possibly another reason?
Furthermore, Donald's alleged
history of aggressive behavior toward women not only fits the pattern of an
individual suffering from an inferiority complex; but that of a coward as
well. One can only imagine what the
outcome would be if a woman he ever accosts has training in martial arts. Of course, since he focuses on attractive
females; women of his own size need have no fear.
In January 2016, one week before the Iowa
caucusses and two days before the second Republican primary debate, Trump
announced that he would be boycotting the Fox News sponsored event. A few days earlier, he had hinted that he
just might do that after it was announced that Megyn Kelly would again be a
co-moderator. Trump tweeted that Kelly
was biased and should not be a moderator.
Senator Ted Cruz chastised Trump and asked if he couldn't stand up to
Kelly, how could voters anticipate that he would stand up to Putin and the
Ayatolla. Following a public backlash
against his decision, Trump announced that he would be hosting an event to
benefit Wounded Warriors on the same night as the debate. Cruz responded by challenging Trump to a one-
on- one debate “any time any place” prior to the Iowa caucusses. Trump's campaign manager replied that Mr.
Trump would be happy to have a one-on- one debate with Cruz if and when he was
the last man standing. As it would turn
out, Cruz challenged Trump twice more, once prior to the Wisconsin primary; and
then again, just prior to the Indiana primary.
At that point in time, the race had come down to essentially two men,
Trump and Cruz; so, the condition of “last man standing” had been met. Nevertheless, there was no debate.
Finally, a coward doesn't have the
courage to own up to his shame and
frequently covers his cowardice by resorting to fanciful depictions of heroism. After the horrific school shooting of
February 2018 in Parkland Florida where a sheriff's deputy failed to enter the
school and confront the shooter; Trump said he would have run in unarmed and
tackled the assailant.6 What
a hero! We can only wish that he had
been there.
At 79, Philip M. Fishman has a dual role since his wife’s stroke ten
years ago. The main one is as a caregiver; but when he is not busy with
her, he is a writer.
He loves to blog on Face Book; but he has also self-published four
books. The first was a memoir of a brief teaching career after
retirement, titled, Teacher’s Gotta Dance. The second was a rebuttal to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. His title is A Really Inconvenient Truth- The Case Against the Theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming. For
that book, he relied on his scientific background as well as a lot of
research. His third was a near future political novel, titled, Secession- A Republic Reborn. Several
sub-plots include the subject of his previous book as well as some
innovative approaches to dealing with Islamic terrorism, our drug
problem, immigration, and tax reform. His latest is his most
controversial of all, titled, Aren’t the Emperor’s New Clothes Grand. It’s a
satirical critique of our President and is a take-off of Hans Cristian Andersen’s fable, The Emperor’s New Clothes. The
reference is to Trump’s cult-like following, which seemingly ignores
all his lies and broken promises. Fishman gives an iron-clad guarantee
that if you like Trump; you will hate his book.
