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    Default Re: Day 1 of Trump's Presidency... and all the days that follow

    Quote Posted by bojancan (here)
    Warren Buffet has more brain than crazy Elon and Trump together... Everyone remember Trump's bankrupted casinos???
    Scoundrels and promoters … POW!

    Warren Buffett ATTACKS Trump Musk economy
    Chris Langan has a 190-200 IQ. I might be slightly closer to mentally retarded IQ than I am to that. Chris met Trump and says Trump's intelligence is about the level of a Harvard Professor. Buffet is equal to Trump at best. Yea, i'm gonna bet on Chris being right.

    Elon is surely smarter than both. Its so boring listening to endless people who have no understanding of science and the difficulty of what Musk has pulled off., calling him an idiot or whatever. He can literally sit and talk to all the various scientists in his companies and have deep detailed technical discussions with ALL of them. Innovating the way factories and big business operates. He has very deep philosophical and brilliant discussions on the nature of life. He was reading esoteric philosophy at age 7 while we could barely read lol. The guy has a huge scope of knowledge and quite a powerful memory.

    This is literally one of the biggest problems with humanity. People being emotional and taking strong sides and picking enemies based on propaganda and other weak opinions and assumptions. Then, they become more and more absurd , believing any ridiculous thing that gives them more reason to dislike that person who is not on their team.

    So, by making these kinds of comments, you really can't be taken as a serious critical thinker like us who are really trying to get to the bottom of many issues.

    Trump saved us from woke insanity chaos plunging our system into lawlessness and weird perversion. Musk's done a lot of good which i won't list. Not saying they are saints, but they are at least Grey Jedi's.

    I'd rather have leaders try to trick us by doing A LOT of positive things, gain our support and then try to trap us (cuz we can actually stop this step), than have our leaders just do terrible moves nonstop forever until the system collapses or our reality is just a nightmare with poo maps for every major city and on and on. lol.

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    Quote Posted by Merkaba360 (here)
    Quote Posted by bojancan (here)
    Warren Buffet has more brain than crazy Elon and Trump together... Everyone remember Trump's bankrupted casinos???
    Scoundrels and promoters … POW!

    Warren Buffett ATTACKS Trump Musk economy
    Chris Langan has a 190-200 IQ. I might be slightly closer to mentally retarded IQ than I am to that. Chris met Trump and says Trump's intelligence is about the level of a Harvard Professor. Buffet is equal to Trump at best. Yea, i'm gonna bet on Chris being right.

    Elon is surely smarter than both. Its so boring listening to endless people who have no understanding of science and the difficulty of what Musk has pulled off., calling him an idiot or whatever. He can literally sit and talk to all the various scientists in his companies and have deep detailed technical discussions with ALL of them. Innovating the way factories and big business operates. He has very deep philosophical and brilliant discussions on the nature of life. He was reading esoteric philosophy at age 7 while we could barely read lol. The guy has a huge scope of knowledge and quite a powerful memory.

    This is literally one of the biggest problems with humanity. People being emotional and taking strong sides and picking enemies based on propaganda and other weak opinions and assumptions. Then, they become more and more absurd , believing any ridiculous thing that gives them more reason to dislike that person who is not on their team.

    So, by making these kinds of comments, you really can't be taken as a serious critical thinker like us who are really trying to get to the bottom of many issues.

    Trump saved us from woke insanity chaos plunging our system into lawlessness and weird perversion. Musk's done a lot of good which i won't list. Not saying they are saints, but they are at least Grey Jedi's.

    I'd rather have leaders try to trick us by doing A LOT of positive things, gain our support and then try to trap us (cuz we can actually stop this step), than have our leaders just do terrible moves nonstop forever until the system collapses or our reality is just a nightmare with poo maps for every major city and on and on. lol.
    Musk is not a mental idiot, for sure he is bright in the brain. But he is an emotional idiot, he has no ability to see the emotional impact of his actions, be it with his numerous children (absent dad, tough with their moms, divorces, etc) or with his employees lives, putting so much pressure that their family brake up, they get emotionally and physically sick, etc. He is no older than a toddler emotionally. Quite unbalanced. He also is an emotional idiot (both Trump and Musk are) while cutting x amount of govt jobs.

    People live with their emotions first and foremost. When you attack their livelihood, and their children food, they will react first with fear, then with anger and finally with hatred.

    To me, it seems that both Musk and Trump are behaving like kings from banana republics, always threatening, then changing the threats, fabricating enemies from previous friends, name it. You win at first from using force and creating fear and bullying everyone, but you lose in the long run. They also both lie through their teeth while blinded normies believe every drop of it. Certainly no better than senile Joe, just another form of senility, the heart senility. (by the way they both personally made billions within a month - all in the open -cannot be sued. Much more egoistically intelligent than the Bidens)
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    https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1894174288921727136



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    Holy ****… things just got real interesting.

    The US voted with Russia, against Ukraine’s UN resolution, condemning Russia’s war in Ukraine.

    This marks the first time the US and Russia have been on the same side of a Ukraine-related UN vote since the conflict began.

    This is proof that the global political landscape is changing dramatically, and the chance for the US to join Russia on other issues just skyrocketed. This gives me hope that under the new US administration, the US will be voting differently about other topics at the UN, say the biolabs in Ukraine, and Russia/China’s accusations of US bioweapon development.

    This is confirmation Trump knows the truth about Ukraine. He knows, and he is starting to take real-world action.
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    REPORT: RFK Jr. is preparing to DISMISS vaccine advisors over serious conflicts of interest, citing the medical industry’s undue influence on government policy.

    It’s about dang time.

    “We will remove conflicts of interest from the committees and research partners whenever possible or balance them with other stakeholders,” Kennedy said.

    Kennedy’s first major move targets the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a key body shaping U.S. vaccine policy. The ACIP meeting scheduled for Thursday has been postponed indefinitely.

    Panels advising the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are also under review, though it remains unclear how many advisors will be dismissed.

    For years, people have pointed to the revolving door between regulators and the pharmaceutical industry. It seems that RFK Jr. is now taking steps to finally put that to an end.
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    Default Re: Day 1 of Trump's Presidency... and all the days that follow

    Flash and others. I truly understand how you see it. Its a logical assumption in one sense, and yet, how else would you do it? How else would you accomplish such change? If things were honest? ie, no deep state evil agenda, no deception lying conniving and covering up etc, then well yeah, you could present things in a more compassionate looking way.

    Its so much like parent and child. Parent tries this and that, unruly kid does this and that, and new more severe strategy has to be devised. Its easy for the neighbors to criticize it but they are not living with it.

    I have always said, its not the political systems that are the problem its THE HUMAN BEING ITSELF. Its dishonest, a cheat, a fake, ego driven, an envious schemer all while having the ability thru choice to be a compassionate loving and fair minded creature. Nice job god! lol But thats the game we play and the free choice we were given

    Communism Socialism etc could be great, with honest people and honest leaders. Not ever going to happen with diverse ethnicities religions ,cultures and masses of people
    So to be fair, although not a perfect a system, meritocracy works best in my view. But in no way can it encompass all the human variations. Its the best of all bad systems .

    Elections are really not a good barometer, but the best option. How many people actually vote? How many people even care? How many people even know the issues to vote on and so on? Trump was given a mandate yet there is no way anyone could have know up front exactly all what was truly to come.

    TRUMP won and for good reason. The democrats destroyed themselves and even the normies saw it and got sickened by it. Today, even in light of the reality , can u imagine this dem senator wanting to cancel the term mother and replace it with "inseminated person" ? are you freakin joking people? Why would anyone even waste their time on this issue? And may I challenge the term "person" perhaps breathing entity would be better ? Me and my" inseminated breathing entity "went down to the local store. Hows that ? These people are sick and even democrats and trump haters know it but cannot admit it.

    If you walk into the DJTrump world with a pre conceived chip on your shoulder, then I can understand no matter what he does and accomplishes he will be hated. In the past I never had an opinion, and then that he was a rich guy that only cared about money which I had little admiration for.
    Since, that has all changed. He a brilliant guy, great at what he does, born for this role with an amazing family and people hate him for it. doesnt drink, do drugs and is working NON STOP .

    He's the kind of person that my own friends were once saying, can u imagine someone stepped up into the political spectrum with qualities like that?
    Here he is. Time will tell.

    all my opinion of course

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    Some worrying about Trump invading Canada are either fear-mongering gaslighting to get elected, as Chrystia Freeland is here, or for other reasons, or just don't understand how Trump trolls and conducts negotiations, in my view.

    I can only hope that Canadians are tired of authoritarian WEF-puppets leading the country and choose other than her next.

    Viva Frei sees Trump and the fight for freedoms (speech, financial, etc.) much like I do. I learned of him during the Ottawa Truckers' Lockdowns protests and have kept up with his content.

    He has moved to Florida now though, perhaps he decided freedom in Canada is a lost cause?


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    https://x.com/thevivafrei/status/1894373167306612905




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    The absolute state of Canada.


    https://x.com/thevivafrei/status/1894224839378178151



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    She posted this.

    She actually posted this.

    Better go take some more political advice from four-year-old kids.

    Moron.


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    A few weeks ago in Saskatoon, I met a four-year old girl named Ari. She asked me, “Can you stop Trump from invading Canada?”

    Ari is a smart little girl. She is asking the right question.


    I'm running to lead the Liberal Party and to be Canada’s next Prime Minister, because Donald Trump is posing the gravest threat we have faced since the Second World War.


    https://x.com/thevivafrei/status/1894420886855270539




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    Access to information in Canada is going to get a lot less free, and a lot less accessible.

    But yeah, Trump is the greatest threat to Canada.


    Not the Canadian politicians who are turning Canada into a communist hell-hole.

    Watch and share.



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    Meanwhile in Canada, Nova Scotia now moves to deny “trivial, frivolous, or vexatious” request for information.

    Also, requests that are “not made in good faith could also be denied”.

    In other words, requests that will be used as “malinformation” -i.e. information that is true and accurate, but may be hurtful to the government - could be denied.

    By the government.

    But yeah, Trump is the biggest threat to Canada.
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    Gosh they all had a lovely time didn't they....

    Thousands Of British Patriots Gather In London To Support President Trump Shouting ''WE LOVE TRUMP'' (8:01)



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    Thousands Of British Patriots Gather In London To Support President Trump Shouting ''WE LOVE TRUMP''

    Watch as thousands of people gather in London to show their support for President Trump, chanting "WE LOVE TRUMP" in a massive display of admiration! The streets of London erupt in a sea of Trump flags and banners as the President's supporters make their voices heard. This incredible footage captures the energy and passion of the crowd as they rally behind the 45th/47th President of the United States. Don't miss this unforgettable moment in history!

    EVERYONE in the country got to hear about it and it was front page of ALL the Papers and Number One item on every TV news programme......

    Oh wait.... sorry .... that was in a parallel universe -

    as you were....carry on...

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    Quote Posted by Flash (here)
    Musk is not a mental idiot, for sure he is bright in the brain. But he is an emotional idiot, he has no ability to see the emotional impact of his actions, be it with his numerous children (absent dad, tough with their moms, divorces, etc) or with his employees lives, putting so much pressure that their family brake up, they get emotionally and physically sick, etc. He is no older than a toddler emotionally.
    Some readers here may not know that Musk is on the Autism spectrum, with high-performing Aspergers syndrome.

    I've known someone similar myself at fairly close quarters, and despite also being very bright this person's complete inability to read emotional signals was (a) very hard to cope with, and (b) so extreme that sometimes it was hard to believe.

    But the problem is totally hard-wired in these people at a physical level (maybe like color-blindness, or dyslexia) and in their mitigation it's a kind of social disability that they can't do a single thing about.


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    Quote Posted by Merkaba360 (here)
    Quote Posted by bojancan (here)
    Warren Buffet has more brain than crazy Elon and Trump together... Everyone remember Trump's bankrupted casinos???
    Scoundrels and promoters … POW!

    Warren Buffett ATTACKS Trump Musk economy
    Chris Langan has a 190-200 IQ. I might be slightly closer to mentally retarded IQ than I am to that....

    This is literally one of the biggest problems with humanity. People being emotional and taking strong sides and picking enemies based on propaganda and other weak opinions and assumptions. Then, they become more and more absurd , believing any ridiculous thing that gives them more reason to dislike that person who is not on their team....

    I'd rather have leaders try to trick us by doing A LOT of positive things, gain our support and then try to trap us (cuz we can actually stop this step), than have our leaders just do terrible moves nonstop forever until the system collapses or our reality is just a nightmare with poo maps for every major city and on and on. lol.
    I'm putting you on the side closer to Langan on the continuum from mentally retarded to 200 after reading your post. Very well said.

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    Now Trump is giving his ultra rich foreign little friends US residence access with the golden card. While restraining refugee claimants.

    How much more do you need? Are you still blind normies Avalon members? The new America, a banana republic with its kings signing laws without congress approval and cancelling any restraining systems.

    When Trump mentioned visiting Forth Knox to see if the gold was there while with French president Macron, Macron laughed. I bet Macron thought ‘what a nice way to rob the gold and accuse others without anyone suspicious enough to stop it’ hence the laugh. Knowing the French, this maybe very near the truth and French normies will interpret it that way.

    Ok this third paragraph is an extrapolation of mine that may be not entirely right who knows, but the first and second paragraph are right in target.

    Not to say that there was not extraordinary corruption before, there was. But Trump is not better. The corruption jusrmt changed hands.
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    This is in response to ThePainterDoug post #445 above. Thanks, but I reject the 'parent & child' analogy. Let's focus on the fact that democratic systems are about people's electing officials to REPRESENT them. Trump's 'bait & switch' approach is horribly disruptive and will be ineffective in the long run.

    There are world leaders who have demonstrated a better approach to governing. For example Putin, who is brilliant and dedicated to improving his country, combat corruption, and promote world peace & prosperity. That's because he knows very well that peace & prosperity can only come through honest and respectful dialogues for "mutually beneficial" agreements (my favorite phrase!).

    I guess I'm driven to respond here because I'm very upset about the chaos & fear that has visibly increased here in Canada following Trump's threats. It directly troubles my relationships, my precarious housing situation, etc etc. Might help to keep in mind that this is exactly what the cabal intends to bring us all down. So, I'll try to keep my emotions in check!
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    Quote Posted by Flash (here)
    [Musk] is an emotional idiot (both Trump and Musk are)
    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    Musk is on the Autism spectrum, with high-performing Aspergers syndrome.
    It's hard to know for sure, at a distance, what major players are really like.

    However I'd currently wager a few pence that Trump is not an emotional idiot. It's my current understanding that he reads people's emotions, both up close and in crowds, quite fluently.

    I will grant that he can manifest a brash and rash Queens persona, especially when negotiating, a skill that most of us are glad we lack.

    Musk is fine by me ... but then again, I've read books and code more fluently than people my entire life.
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    Let's focus on the fact that democratic systems are about people's electing officials to REPRESENT them. Trump's 'bait & switch' approach is horribly disruptive and will be ineffective in the long run.
    ...
    I guess I'm driven to respond here because I'm very upset about the chaos & fear that has visibly increased here in Canada following Trump's threats.
    But, but, ... Trump doesn't govern Canada. Rather he's playing hardball at the global table with the evil bastards that do govern Canada.

    Trump's doing a darn fine job of representing the interests of those of us who did vote for him to govern us.
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    Quote Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
    Quote Posted by Rizotto (here)
    Let's focus on the fact that democratic systems are about people's electing officials to REPRESENT them. Trump's 'bait & switch' approach is horribly disruptive and will be ineffective in the long run.
    ...
    I guess I'm driven to respond here because I'm very upset about the chaos & fear that has visibly increased here in Canada following Trump's threats.
    But, but, ... Trump doesn't govern Canada. Rather he's playing hardball at the global table with the evil bastards that do govern Canada.

    Trump's doing a darn fine job of representing the interests of those of us who did vote for him to govern us.
    Does the ethnic cleansing of Gaza represent YOUR interests?

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    Personal note: Here's another misrepresentation by Trump. Was that a genuine mistake or another of his 'bait & switch', which is wasting everybody's time while soldiers are getting slaughtered at the front line.
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    https://www.rt.com/russia/613300-kre...roops-ukraine/

    February 25, 2025

    Kremlin contradicts Trump on ‘NATO troops in Ukraine’
    The US president had claimed that Russia would accept the presence of troops from members of the military bloc in the country


    The Kremlin has contradicted a claim by US President Donald Trump that Russia would “accept” the placement of troops from NATO countries in Ukraine under a possible peace deal.

    When pressed by journalists on Monday about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s opinion on the possibility of Western troops deploying to Ukraine, Trump said “He will accept that. I have asked him that question.”

    Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Tuesday however that Moscow’s position has not changed since Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s description the week before of the “presence of armed forces from NATO countries, even under the EU flag or as part of national contingents” as “completely unacceptable” to Moscow.

    Trump insisted he had “specifically asked [Putin] that question” regarding the deployment. “He has no problem with it,” he said while talking to the press following his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Washington.

    Trump and Putin spoke by phone for more than an hour earlier in February. According to both sides, the conversation involved a wide range of topics, including the ongoing Ukraine conflict. However, neither side mentioned any understandings reached at that time that could be linked to the deployment of Western troops to Ukraine.

    Russia would only accept a foreign troop deployment to Ukraine as part of a UN mandate, Vassily Nebenzia, Moscow’s envoy to the international body, told RIA Novosti earlier this month. “‘Peacekeepers’ cannot operate without a mandate from the UN Security Council,” he said at that time, adding that any other military contingents on the ground would be treated as regular combatants.

    Moscow has warned that it would treat any troops entering Ukraine without Russia’s consent amid its ongoing conflict with Kiev as legitimate targets.

    Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council, meaning it can veto any resolution to send foreign troops to Ukraine.

    Several senior European leaders, most notably French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, have been floating the idea of sending military personnel to Ukraine. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the two nations were considering deploying up to 30,000 “peacekeepers” to the nation, depending on whether Moscow and Kiev could reach a peace deal. The plan was also dependent on whether the US would agree to contribute to the effort in a limited military capacity, the report said.

    The Trump administration has repeatedly stated that European NATO members should bear the brunt of security guarantees for Kiev. Earlier in February, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ruled out deploying American troops to Ukraine as part of any agreements on security guarantees.

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    Quote Posted by Flash (here)
    Does the ethnic cleansing of Gaza represent YOUR interests?
    Trump has not ethnically cleansed anyone from Gaza.

    The reaction against his insane sounding proposal is starting to make significant headway towards stopping Israel's ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

    Sometimes the brash Queens borough word can be stronger than the Netanyahu bomb.
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    Quote Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
    Quote Posted by Flash (here)
    [Musk] is an emotional idiot (both Trump and Musk are)
    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    Musk is on the Autism spectrum, with high-performing Aspergers syndrome.
    It's hard to know for sure, at a distance, what major players are really like.

    However I'd currently wager a few pence that Trump is not an emotional idiot. It's my current understanding that he reads people's emotions, both up close and in crowds, quite fluently.

    I will grant that he can manifest a brash and rash Queens persona, especially when negotiating, a skill that most of us are glad we lack.

    Musk is fine by me ... but then again, I've read books and code more fluently than people my entire life.
    Yes Musk is asperger and it is known that Asperger and autistic have problems with understanding their own emotions and perceiving others emotions. They lack the natural ability and have to be taught in order to be ok in their understanding and interactions. -

    I have been surrounded by neurodivergents for years and do teach those abilities. Therefore, if not taught and if not willing to listen to those who explain, Musk is and will remain at emotional todler level.

    As for Trump it is more a case of sociopathy or at a minimum deeply entrenched narcissism as described in pathology books.

    Finally, Pythonic cow, your last sentence, did you mean that we have not read enough? Frankly, reading codes does not make you an expert in people’s behavior and I and others here have certainly read as much if not more books than you have, in multiple human languages, on multiple continents, therefore with a divergent brainwashing from the American one hence other views.
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    Quote Posted by Flash (here)
    Finally, Pythonic cow, your last sentence, did you mean that we have not read enough? Frankly, reading codes does not make you an expert in people’s behavior and I and others here have certainly read as much if not more books than you have, in multiple human languages, on multiple continents, therefore with a divergent brainwashing from the American one hence other views.
    No, he meant that he himself might have been better at reading books and code than reading people.
    (... maybe not everyone picked up on his emotional nuance! )

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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    Quote Posted by Flash (here)
    Musk is not a mental idiot, for sure he is bright in the brain. But he is an emotional idiot, he has no ability to see the emotional impact of his actions, be it with his numerous children (absent dad, tough with their moms, divorces, etc) or with his employees lives, putting so much pressure that their family brake up, they get emotionally and physically sick, etc. He is no older than a toddler emotionally.
    Some readers here may not know that Musk is on the Autism spectrum, with high-performing Aspergers syndrome.

    I've known someone similar myself at fairly close quarters, and despite also being very bright this person's complete inability to read emotional signals was (a) very hard to cope with, and (b) so extreme that sometimes it was hard to believe.

    But the problem is totally hard-wired in these people at a physical level (maybe like color-blindness, or dyslexia) and in their mitigation it's a kind of social disability that they can't do a single thing about.

    Talking about the lack of 'Emotional Intelligence' (EQ) ,it seems to be a required condition to become a succesful politician,and i see no healthy developed EQ in most western political leaders.-

    Leaders like RUtte,vonder Leyen,Starmer .Zelensky,Scholtz.Merkel,Macron,Trudeau etc. appear totally unemotional & uncaring about the consequenses of their cruel policies.

    They belong more in the sociopath/psychopath category then the autistic types like Elon Musk imho.

    Donald Trump is different though,he is more narcissistic but he his warm & caring in his personal contact and it looks like he has a heart full of pride & courage.

    He clearly has a higher EQ than most leaders ,thats why so many people feel attracked by his magnetism and thats why he has such good sense of humor(he can be really funny sometimes, and i have never seen a leader joking so much as he does )

    I'm just talking about the persons NOT their policies, thats another discussion.

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