You have to stop assuming that Trump is even trying to do a good job. He's trying to get as rich as possible.

[Swede]

Oh, and revenge on anyone, no matter how petty the offense was.

[Easterncedar]

1. How to distill this into a poster....

Too effin true.

[gab13by13]

2. Malcolm Nance had a former Saudi security expert on his show who said,

there was "talk" that Saudi Arabia and the UAE paid Krasnov an enormous sum of money to invade Iran.

A conspiracy theory that is very believable for me.

[mwmisses4289]

4. Add Netanyahu to that list.

He is encouraging t to put u.s. troops on the ground to fight his war.

[dgauss]

34. Here are two possibilities that might give either more or less credence to that theory.

1) Trump goes in for the long, full out never ending war and the consequences are so disastrous, both to the US and even to Trump himself, that it becomes unfathomable why he would do that. Not just to rational people, but even to people who actually know him well, understand what motivates him, understand his vanity, and still can't figure out what's in it for him. That would lend some credibility to the idea that he's working for that UAE payoff. It would have to be pretty massive though.

2) He declares victory in the near future and cuts and runs, leaving behind a huge and dangerous mess, especially for the UAE and whoever else is in on the payoff. Even though Trump is willing to rip off just about anyone, I wouldn't think he would want to rip off that crowd for billions of dollars. In that case it makes the theory a little less likely. Unless it was a COD type deal and Trump thinks he can back out...

Of course all of the above is amateur speculation at best but still...

[Baitball Blogger]

3. The only plan that Trump had that made it out of the concept stage,

was his dine and dash rich scheme.

We grossly underestimated him. He had decades to hone his scamming abilities, and portfolios full of blackmail material to subdue anyone who came after him.

I seriously believe that he's been given a medical prognosis that has convinced him that he has nothing to lose. I swear, any doctor who withheld this information should be sentenced to life imprisonment.

[notinkansas]

7. And with nothing to lose

it seems like he intends to take the US down with him. He has already destroyed so much, probably to please putin.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. What he grossly forgot, is that his children will pay the cost.

That's how these things work. They try to transfer their loot to their family members. Trump will try to go through a laundering process, but if the Dems are in office, they will hire the best to follow the money.

[Beartracks]

18. Right? Who benefits if the US gets knee-capped off the world stage?

Russia and China will gladly expand their spheres of influence across the globe.

And Trump thinks they're his friends.

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[NameAlreadyTaken]

5. And trying to stay out of prison.

[Jacson6]

35. He has no worries. SCOTUS made him immune for "OFFICIAL" acts. N/T

[Captain Zero]

6. He is basically just trolling all of us until he is gone.

Some day.

[Martin68]

9. My only consolation is that he won't live to enjoy it. My only regrets he'll probably die before he is convicted and

imprisoned for life.

[BradBo]

10. Filling his pockets with our money and not looking back.

Hopefully he stokes out soon so he can’t enjoy our money.

[niyad]

11. Ummm, I have NEVER, for a single second, assumed that sexual predator

and ruzzian asset was TRYING to do a good job. He flat out stated that his aim wwas destruction of our system.

[live love laugh]

12. Pure unadulterated plunder

[MineralMan]

13. I hope he lives long enough to learn that money will not help him avoid death.

No amount will be enough to extend his life much. The bitterness he will taste from learning that makes me smile.

[Deuxcents]

26. He who dies with the most toys still dies

[Ford_Prefect]

14. Trump is a punk who's frontin', playing the clown so no one can call him out.

He was like that in Manhattan, and Florida. Like a used car salesman with a different story every other breath. Always jivin' one more spin so you can't put the squeeze on him. Always on the dodge.
The only way to pin him down is under oath in front of a judge, or just kick him till he stops talking. That's what you do with blowhards and bullies.

[blue-wave]

15. Bingo!

Oil has been going up for the past few days. How much you wanna bet that the short orders are lining up in the stock market waiting for another peace plan, big gift or statement that Iran is defeated. That will lower the oil price and Voilà! The short orders are cashed out. It's already been done to the tune of billions of dollars since the war started.

[vapor2]

16. Yup, bastard is raking in billions along with his kids

shame he hasn't been stopped raping Americans

[BeneteauBum]

17. What I've said all along

The orange creature just doesn’t care. It’ll make as much money as possible no matter who it hurts before being put to the curb.
March on Saturday and vote the midterms!

Peace ☮️

[pandr32]

19. Absolutely.

When I see story headlines that read "Trump weighs..." as though he is seriously considering how to navigate an issue I get tense. I mean, come on! What he 'weighs' is where the most financial reward is for him.

[thesquanderer]

20. It's not merely that they are uninterested. They wouldn't know how to properly govern even if they wanted to.

Seriously... his administration is full of people who clearly do not have the proper qualifications for the job, if that job were actually to serve the people or fulfill the mission of their departments. Their qualifications are primarily fealty and having been on television (or looking like they could have been on television, i.e. "straight out of central casting" ).

"Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV" wasn't just the answer to his "cognitive test," it was also the administration's employment criteria in a nutshell.

[Mme. Defarge]

21. Maladapted and malevolent.

And he makes me think of the character of Malvolio in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night -
“so crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies that it is his grounds of faith that all who look on him love him.”

[FakeNoose]

22. Isn't that something we already learned in 2017?

And of course, New Yorkers have known way longer than that.

[canetoad]

23. Ivana said it best

"Don't get even. Get EVERYTHING."

*not Ivanka - her mother.

[Irish_Dem]

28. Ivanka feels the same way.

[Nasruddin]

24. Don't agree

Pretty sure people in his immediate orbit are trying to extract as much wealth as possible.

The Boss, he cares more for worship and tribute (gaudy trinkets, for example. Some valuable, some not.) He cares a lot
about that. What does he do with more money?

If he does have a motivation, it's to stay out of jail. But it's probably only a very abstract fear for him, and he's not the best
at abstract thinking.

I am not completely sure he is in charge of his own affairs anymore, but he's more front-and-center than I expected last year.
I thought he would just play golf all the time and be trotted out occasionally to boast and to torture his enemies when it was
convenient and useful or whoever really was in charge. But the old tiger was stronger than Elon &al expected. And they
are a lot more stupid than I imagined. Can he still play golf? He sure doesn't look like he walks or stands well.

[Irish_Dem]

29. He cares about the money very much.

He is hell bent on becoming the world's first trillionaire.

[relayerbob]

25. I've never made that assumption

He only avoided this in his first term because there were people around him who limited the damage. They are all gone now.

[Irish_Dem]

27. Trump has no interest in governance. He is committing the crime of the century.

The courts gave him immunity for life.

He will steal as much from the US and world as he can for his entire term.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

30. He is trying to burn it all down before Satan calls him home

[debsy]

31. Been saying this for decades about Donald Trump

[Cha]

32. Of Course, Savvy People knew that

from the Get Go.. But I'm Grateful This is Getting OUT to the MASSES.

[Six117]

33. That trash bag (and its ilk) doing the worst everything possible -all the time, is a given.

That anyone continues to give them even the slightest iota of grace or benefit of doubt
-is a whole world of WTF.

Can't imagine what it takes to assume anything good where they are concerned.

[Johonny]

36. Trump doesn't understand what a good job is

He doesn't have the capacity to understand what leadership truly means and what the skills required to be a leader even are. Trump's essentially a doormat on the world stage, and a bully at home.

Does he think he's killing it as president? IDK maybe. But most fools think they're a genius.

[DoBW]

37. we were 'sposed to serve him ....

didn't work out