Response to The Alpha Male Neutered

(See: Just Above Sunset: The Alpha Male Neutered)

It's true! Donald Trump doesn't seem to know how to use a prompter when he speaks. It actually makes him more boring, and for what it's worth, doesn't help him at all look very presidential.

Which is good news, I think! If speaking on a prompter actually were to suit him, he might be tempted to use it more often, which means he'd have to start tailoring his content to his presentation, and more people might actually start taking him seriously and, God forbid, liking him! I prefer his old way, where he just can't help but pull stuff out of his ass, which makes people either love him or hate him -- and hopefully more of the latter than the former, especially lately with this judge thing.

The latest thing is that he's apparently decided to just shut up about the judge, claiming that what he has been saying about all that has been "misconstrued" -- which it has! By him! To me, this is just a tiny confession on his part that he had no idea what he was talking about, although it seems almost everyone else did.

What Trump said in his own defense:

It is unfortunate that my comments have been misconstrued as a categorical attack against people of Mexican heritage. I am friends with and employ thousands of people of Mexican and Hispanic descent.

Okay, but the question is, if one of your Mexican friends or employees were a judge in a legal case of which you were a party, should they be disqualified, since they can't help but know that you are, as you say, "building a wall" at the border? If your answer is yes, then you have not been misconstrued by the public, you've merely been construed.

But racism aside, what I think people should all be getting on Donald Trump for doing in this case is dragging one of his many private squabbles into the public arena, essentially trying to leverage his run for public office for private gain. I don't know if he realizes it, but were Trump president already, he could probably get impeached for that.

But the odd thing is, according to Jeffrey Toobin, the judge's rulings have been mostly pro-Trump!:

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin weighed in on the Trump University case this afternoon, and he said Donald Trump is strongly exaggerating how much the judge is supposedly biased against him. 

In addition to that whole “I’m building a wall, he’s Mexican!” thing, Trump has gone after Judge Gonzalo Curiel because of his “terrible rulings” (i.e. rulings that did not go Trump’s way). 

But as Toobin explained, the judge has ruled that plaintiffs in the case “are not entitled to complete refunds if they win” and so they have to argue individually “what percentage of the fee that they pair… was a ripoff.” And that, he added, “basically kills the whole idea of a class-action.” 

“This is a judge,” Toobin said, “who has by and large favored Donald Trump. The only thing he’s refused to do is throw the case out altogether.” 

He concluded that this is clearly not a judge on a “rampage” against Trump.

If so, then, why is Trump doing this? I heard somewhere that Trump treats each transaction he gets himself into like a game, that playing with the details is more important to him than the outcome, so it's possible that he's just sort of toying with his food.

You might think the "new" Trump campaign might be able to rein in his playful tendencies, but according to the Washington Post, maybe not:

In a conference call Monday, the real estate mogul told surrogates to step up their attacks on Curiel as biased and on reporters as racists, overriding a directive from his own staff distributed over the weekend, according to reports.

Which brings up a question:

How many of these fun lawsuits does he have going on right now? At any given moment, he seems to be either in a lawsuit or he's being audited by the IRS or bankrupting one of his companies. He seems to consider being in constant legal trouble a mark of success.

Can we really afford this guy running the country the way he runs his life?