Trump Loves To Play the Victim -- NY Appeals Court Bailout Shows He's the Most Coddled Person Alive

Trump Loves To Play the Victim — NY Appeals Court Bailout Shows He’s the Most Coddled Person Alive
by Amanda Marcotte | March 27, 2024 - 6:41am

— from Salon


As anyone who listens to him can attest, Donald Trump may be the most self-pitying person on planet Earth. Pretty much all the man does is whine and cry about how he's the victim of an imaginary "witch hunt." In reality, his list of transgressions is staggering. If he were any other person, he would have been sentenced to prison many times over with no real hope of release: Sexual assault. Decades of fraud. Attempted extortation of a foreign leader. Stealing classified documents. Flagrant acceptance of what very much looks like bribes. Attempting to overthrow democracy. Inciting a violent riot that got people killed. I'm sure readers can list a dozen more, but let's get to the point: It's absolutely bananas that Trump isn't in prison yet.

The concept of "privilege" is treated with great skepticism in conservative circles, and regarded by MAGA types like a made-up hoax. But no one alive proves the truth of the concept more than Donald Trump. He's proudly ignorant. The only talent he bothered to learn is cheating the system so that you "win" without ever having to be good at stuff. The only real skill he's developed in his 77 years is utter shamelessness, and frankly, it seems that might be more of a genetic defect than anything he's worked at. The man can't even bother to get good at golf, a sport he does seem to like, because he prefers to lie about it instead.

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One of the great mysteries of our time, and likely to history, is why the MAGA masses fall for Trump's claims to be a victim when he is the most coddled person alive. Yes, most of them have their share of unearned privilege, being mostly white people, and share Trump's enthusiasm for self-pity every time those privileges are questioned. But ultimately, most of them only have a taste of what Trump enjoys. Most are well aware, for instance, that if they don't pay their bills, they could lose their house or their car or their job. Most don't have an endless series of fairy godfathers ready to bail them out of every bad decision they make. Most know that if they get fined by a court, they can't get out of it simply by whining a lot.

And yet, MAGA people pity a man with a private jet because he might have to give up a golf course or two. Indeed, the MAGA masses are yet another group of people rescuing Trump from himself. Whether or not he can pay his legal bills out of pocket, he doesn't have to. The little guys are paying it for him, emptying out their retirement accounts to donate money to Trump's "campaign," which is largely devoted to funding his legal defense. He's somehow managed to convince them he's the victim, even though no one else could ever get away with so much without having to pay so little for it.

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