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Melania Trump, the current First Lady of the United States, has a platform she claims to support: Anti-Bullying. It makes sense. As a immigrant to this country, arriving in New York in her mid-twenties, she could have been, and likely was, exposed to abuse of varying sorts by people who didn't like her for who she was. The US has a history of characterizing immigrants as "less than" throughout history, this, despite the fact that the white population of the country were all immigrants.
But another irony springs up when discussing the concept of Mrs. Trump's Anti-Bullying stance: she is married to the biggest bully in the history of the White House.
I'm not talking out of turn here. There is a list of what are called "Bullying Tactics." And, when we examine how Trump behaves, he basically uses ALL of these as his standard actions. Just look at this list!
http://www.workplacebullying.org/top-25/
He is not just a bully, he's the number one bully, certainly in the history of the White House, but maybe also in America.
But what do we do about a bully? A bully who holds the highest office in the land?
The problem seems to be that Trump wants to believe himself, being in that highest office, above reproach. That's also why the Mueller Investigation has him worried. He keeps wanting to claim it is over at every step, He has said, written or tweeted the phrase "No Collusion" more often than he has said the name of his Vice President.
Would standard techniques work in dealing with this bully? Presumably yes, but since he has all the power in this circumstance, isn't he more like the Billy Mumy character from that episode of "The Twilight Zone" titled "It's A Good Life"?
How does one deal with a man/child that neither reads nor listens to reason? Who doesn't want to hear criticism, only praise? Who doesn't want to be wrong, who will never apologize, even when faced with the fact that he is wrong and whose main concern is himself?
This is the puzzle we have provided ourselves. Will anyone solve it? Melania?
But another irony springs up when discussing the concept of Mrs. Trump's Anti-Bullying stance: she is married to the biggest bully in the history of the White House.
I'm not talking out of turn here. There is a list of what are called "Bullying Tactics." And, when we examine how Trump behaves, he basically uses ALL of these as his standard actions. Just look at this list!
http://www.workplacebullying.org/top-25/
He is not just a bully, he's the number one bully, certainly in the history of the White House, but maybe also in America.
But what do we do about a bully? A bully who holds the highest office in the land?
The problem seems to be that Trump wants to believe himself, being in that highest office, above reproach. That's also why the Mueller Investigation has him worried. He keeps wanting to claim it is over at every step, He has said, written or tweeted the phrase "No Collusion" more often than he has said the name of his Vice President.
Would standard techniques work in dealing with this bully? Presumably yes, but since he has all the power in this circumstance, isn't he more like the Billy Mumy character from that episode of "The Twilight Zone" titled "It's A Good Life"?
How does one deal with a man/child that neither reads nor listens to reason? Who doesn't want to hear criticism, only praise? Who doesn't want to be wrong, who will never apologize, even when faced with the fact that he is wrong and whose main concern is himself?
This is the puzzle we have provided ourselves. Will anyone solve it? Melania?