The Difference

 For a guy who was recently handed sixteen million dollars because two big media companies didn't want anything to interfere with their merger, the convicted felon certainly seems ungrateful. 

There's a clue there: convicted felon. A businessman who has run six of his projects into bankruptcy, most of those were gambling resorts. Someone once suggested to me that only really bad gamblers are in Gamblers Anonymous. If you're good at it, why quit? 

This same bad businessman was impeached not once but twice in his first term as "president." As much as he might have wanted us all to take his misdirection and follow his pointing finger at anyone and everything else aside from his own impotence, the facts remain the facts. 

Which is why his go-to strategy is to make stuff up. He might be a dream improv partner, but having him for a boss seems at best to be a short-term proposition. If you're going to march into battle for him, you can be assured that he will be in some safe location watching it all unfold on cable news. 

The real challenge seems to be one of projection: He can't distinguish between prosecution and persecution. When he gets left behind or chastised for being a failure, he will generate "what if" scenarios that put the spotlight on anyone else. To wit: "I’m looking at the large amount of money owed by the Democrats, after the Presidential Election, and the fact that they admit to paying, probably illegally, Eleven Million Dollars to singer Beyoncé for an ENDORSEMENT (she never sang, not one note, and left the stage to a booing and angry audience!), Three Million Dollars for 'expenses,' to Oprah, Six Hundred Thousand Dollars to very low rated TV 'anchor,' Al Sharpton (a total lightweight!), and others to be named for doing, absolutely NOTHING! These ridiculous fees were incorrectly stated in the books and records. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PAY FOR AN ENDORSEMENT. IT IS TOTALLY ILLEGAL TO DO SO. Can you imagine what would happen if politicians started paying for people to endorse them. All hell would break out! Kamala, and all of those that received Endorsement money, BROKE THE LAW. They should all be prosecuted! Thank you for your attention to this matter."

Thank you. Now shut up and sit down. The truth of the matter is that the only guy caught misusing campaign funds is the guy who was convicted on thirty-four counts of fraud for the way he bungled the payment of hush money to a porn star in hopes of keeping her quiet about their coupling while his wife was pregnant with his son.

If you're looking for a reliable reverse barometer, look no further than Mar-A-Lago. Next up, he's going to sue his old pal Rupert Murdoch for the story printed in The Wall Street Journal. The whiner-in-chief wants ten billion dollars for that one. Maybe if he wins that one he can buy himself a casino. Or a yogurt stand. Just get him out of politics.