The sad part with Trump fans is that he's been a con man forever, & his marks have always been the kind who adore him now. Ive interviewed so many working class people whose lives were wrecked for believing Trump in the past. He hates people like his fans, but loves adulation../1
...he stands for nothing, he denigrates those he sees as an opponent or better than him. The minute Trump fans stop cheering, Trump will turn on them. He is purely transactional - "I'll say what you want to hear for your cheers, and money and power." He does hate our troops.../2
...not because he's anti-American. He's anti nothing. He stands for & loves only himself, and has a deep, pathological need for adoration and to believe he is the best. So why does he look down on the troops? They did what he connived not to do - they served. He cant accept.../3
...that dodging the draft was a bad thing. To him, it shows how smart he was, just like his tax cheating. In his mind, that makes him a winner, smart, because, in his mind, everything he does is winning by the sole explanation that *he did it.*.../4
...thats why what Fox learned -he said troops in Vietnam were suckers cause they went -is unquestionably true. THATs the man Ive known since '87. If he did it, it's winning, if others didnt, it isn't because theyre better than him, it's cause theyre suckers & losers since, if../5
...they were winners, they would do what he does.

Trump hates people who are better than him, that do what he cant: Succeed at business on their own, rather than losing so much of his inheritance on crap deals, serving when he dodged, contributing to charity when he doesnt....6
...paying their taxes without cheating.

So, this explains why he attacks troops, veterans, McCain et al. Theyre all better than him. Theyre all braver than him. Theyre all patriots, and he isnt. And for him to convince himself he's a winner, they have to be suckers...
...for not doing what they did.

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