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He and is supporters take that as a compliment though. Call him what he really is, he is nothing more than a demented buffoon.
Don't insult Tony Soprano that way.
If any of the Sopranos characters fits Diaper Don its Vito Spatafore
This is fitting, because of the amount of product placement on the show.
So Trump can only be arrested if he evades taxes
If you use as your psychological paradigm [for Trump] a combination of Tony Soprano and Thucydides
How is Donald Trump anything like the guy whose biggest contribution to the field of history was to be the first to rigorously outline and (arguably) apply the standard of "make sure you gather evidence before making a historical claim".
Even leaving aside that Tony Soprano is not the right mobster for comparison (and it's been too long since I've seen the show to propose another with confidence), the other half of the asserted psychological profile for Trump makes absolutely no sense.
This is the former ambassador to Panama? Yikes.
Feeley believed the most famous line from Thucydides’s account of that war – “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must” – explained Trump’s bully-boy worldview.
“[He’s doing it] because he can – because the asymmetry of American commercial and military power is so incalculable in relationship to Mexico, Central America, Panama, even Brazil, Argentina. They can’t really do much other than suffer the consequences. And so I think, in a sort of mafioso way, he is very adept at reading relative power,” said the former diplomat, who attributed his 2018 resignation to how Trump had “warped and betrayed … the traditional core values of the United States”.
So he's not Thucydides, he's the kind of politicians that Thucydides was describing...
“He’s a velociraptor … He kills anything he perceives as a threat.”
We know nothing about velociraptor hunting / social / behavioural habits. Maybe they were friendly and social and trusting which enabled them to hunt in packs?
I'm sorry but everything this guy says just smells like bullshit.