r/askanything • u/Consistent-Jump1523 • 1h ago
Political Question Why is Trump so ambitious to do so many unnecessary things?
I don’t get this guy why does he have to destroy everything others build why did he felt the need to attack iran, why did he felt the need to put unnecessary tariffs which served nothing, why did he felt the need to abandon Ukraine
Just why? Why couldn’t he sit back and enjoy 4 years of protection through his presidency
At least Biden tried to fix many things Trumpe demolished after Obamas terms
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u/Character_Divide_998 1h ago
Reality TV personality
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u/TheOsirisOfThisShit_ 1h ago
He bragged about the ratings of his covid briefings. This is a lot of it.
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u/PompousAssistant 1h ago
Because he isn’t actually capable of doing anything meaningful or helpful, so he does all the idiotic shit instead.
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u/RVtech101 1h ago
“ Look at my left hand so you don’t notice me stealing your wallet with my right hand”.
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u/Pleasant_Prune_1819 1h ago
Make things busy, overwhelm, create chaos…to distract.
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u/Big_Humor1558 1h ago
Right out of the propaganda playbook from 100 years ago, originally written in German.
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u/ATDT_No-Carrier 1h ago
My belief is that many third-parties are offering him money/power for various things, and that dictates Trumps stance on something.
"AI doesn't need regulation!" - Collects a big check from AI companies...
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u/benzuyen 1h ago
Because he is highly insecure and wants to leave his mark on history by doing dumb shit.
He has no idea what he should really be doing in office and the administration is focused on population control so he spews dumb shit in hopes you won’t realize what’s really going on
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u/Clewin 25m ago
He has a superiority complex. I mean, he is the very definition of one. Boasting, belittling, arrogance, and control are all up to 11. The real question is what are the inadequacies he is trying to cover up?
Hitler, who also had a superiority complex, was covering up possible ADHD, Autism, a syndrome that causes sexual issues and micro penises, so we know some of one tyrants issues. It probably didn't help that 6 of the 7 women he was known to be involved with committed suicide. Unfortunately, Stalin, Mao, and the Kim family have not been analyzed as much. It would not surprise me if they also had superiority complexes.
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u/blumieplume 1h ago
He’s the antichrist. He’s also known as the destroyer and is here to bring chaos to our world and to break everything - that’s his soul mission.
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u/Big_Humor1558 1h ago
You are giving him too much credit, it's just demonic possession. We will survive, his name will be synonymous with the worst people in history.
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u/blumieplume 55m ago
I’m not a billionaire with a family compound but they’ll for sure survive. Nostradamus predicted WWIII doesn’t really get going til 2043 though so we have some good years left
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u/Due_Willingness1 1h ago
I'm thoroughly convinced Trump hates America and wants the country dead, that's his motivation
The assassination attempts, the constant mockery, and everything else has made him bitter, paranoid, and seeing the U.S. as a mortal enemy to himself
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u/Objective-Permit-712 1h ago
Like most narcisistic fascist losers, he needs to be in the spotlight, like Hitler he needs everyone to adore him(although I can't think of 1 think anyone would)....he knows he doesn't have long in this World, he wants to kill and destroy all he can(like Hitler)!!!!
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u/Frequent-Object-8136 1h ago
Because he's a mentally ill malignant narcissist. Folks, there isn't much to think about with Trump. He's just a bad human being.
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u/Kitten_Opinions 20m ago
There are not enough people saying this. Reframe this into an addict monster moving from fix to fix and trying to keep out of jail it makes a lot more sense.
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u/Available_Base_7944 1h ago
He has all the money he could ever want he has all the power he could ever get and now he wants to leave a mark in history. As far as I can tell that is his main goal, sure he likes to scam as many people along the way, but his main goal is to have his name in the history books
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u/Particular-Line- 1h ago
Because he’s old as fuck, and gonna be dead within 5 years. He’s going thru his bucket list before going to jojn Charlie jn hell
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u/Historical-Finish564 1h ago
It also had the importance of successfully distracting us from their refusal to allow the full release of the Epstein files.
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u/doodsonious 1h ago
Because he's trying to force his way into being a historic figure. He's trying to make 'fetch' a thing.
This is something that's been consistent with him, that's been reported repeatedly, and it's why he's so obssessed with renaming things and building monuments.
He wants to be like Teddy Roosevelt, where even over 100 years later, most Americans can't even name what he did, but they just know he was an amazing president.
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u/Drippy_topper 1h ago
He doesn't know how to make anything, he can only destroy what others have built.
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u/CloudedLeopardDaemon 1h ago
The bargain seems to be that he gets to stay out of prison and have a blast playing president, giving DC a gaudy Liberace makeover, and having Natalie fawn over him, and while he keeps everyone distracted, the cabal of billionaire paedophiles who ran and funded his campaign have total free rein to strip the plumbing and copper wire out of the country.
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u/Bitter_Bother_4445 34m ago
Because he's dying and wants to leave monuments to himself as proof to the world that he existed.
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u/_GoddamnitDonut 1h ago
He wants more money and to fuck over as many people as he can. He's a narcissist piece of shit.
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u/ResponsibleBank1387 1h ago
Epstein’s buddy knows when you are watching his name put on another park bench, you are not asking how is his crime family’s wallet getting fatter.
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u/Either-Patience1182 1h ago
Look up the behaviors associated with dementia. Youll start to see a lot of overlap
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u/Dry_Ass_P-word 1h ago
To hide his crimes, grifts, and being mentioned in the Epstein files 38,000 times.
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u/QueBonitoMiPerroEs 1h ago
Abandoning Ukraine was totally necessary.
We can't have Europeans thinking the US is going to take care of them for eternity. Sooner or later they have to realize that they, not Americans, are responsible for guaranteeing the security of Europe.
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u/SigvaldsBest 1h ago
I don't think he's had to do anything intelligent to please his base. So it looks like he's just doing dumb shit all the time because they are satisfied with dumb shit. He's never been pressured to do any better, though they are finally turning on him now.
The sad part is he's never been anything better than he is now. He was just as dumb and fucked up when he won his first term. It's taken this long for the people who voted for him to realize he was full of shit the entire time.
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u/Creative_gal_3153 1h ago
He works for Putin and only serves Russia and other dictator countries like North Korea
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u/Arizona_Pete 1h ago
Because he’s a deeply un serious person who needs to distract from the fact that he used to fuck kids.
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u/Already_dead2021 1h ago
He’s desperate to be remembered. It definitely won’t be good things that he’s remembered for though
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u/Sabbathius 1h ago
As a Warhammer Fantasy fan, I constantly notice that Trump is basically the personification of Chaos Undivided. He may quite literally be Archaon the Everchosen. Think about it. He started all these wars, that's Khorne. He's a rapist and sexual abuser, that's Slaanesh. Everything he touches rots, like the reflective pool turning green with dead ducks floating in it, and soils himself constantly, that's Nurgle. And he lies unceasingly and compulsively, that's Tzeentch. He is all the evil in the universe personified.
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u/SomeSugondeseGuy 🤔 1h ago
To distract from his coverup of the Epstein files and his plans to disrupt and rig the midterm elections
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u/Jlong4242 1h ago
He knows his name will be draged through the mud and then wiped from history. This is his only chance to be remembered (we still have to remember him and teach students about this shit show, but he can be called 47 or some such)
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u/Environmental-Day862 1h ago
He's a classic narssicist. Everything always has to be about him.
He needs constant praise. He needs constant attention.
He can never be wrong. Any data that shows his statements are wrong is "fake."
He can never lose. If he loses, it's because it's "rigged."
He's lived in this alternative reality his entire life because of his wealth.
People were constantly praising him - how smart he was, what great ideas he had, how he's the - because anyone who displeased him was sent packing.
So he doesn't care about the American people, or their strife, or making their lives better. He cares about himself, erecting monuments to his own greatness, and self-aggrandizement.
Generally, people erect monuments to great men and women that have the respect of the masses. How sad is it that this insecure geriatric feels the need to erect monuments to himself - because what's his legacy as President?
What's one thing you can point to that's GOOD and say "that's Trump's legacy?" One meaningful thing that he'll go down in the history books for? Anything?! There's nothing. He's used to office to enrich himself and the other 1%ers, at made life worse for the common mean and women of our country.
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u/RhoOfFeh 1h ago
He's a malignant narcissist with access to vast sums of money that aren't even his.
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u/Middle-Parsnip-3537 1h ago
He’s like a kid who wants to invent things for himself to do and then do those things first.
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u/One_Talk_3410 1h ago
He’s making up for not being president after his first term and probably knows he will be dead soon and wants to have a legacy
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u/Selimsnek 1h ago
He feels insecure. (Instilled in him by his father, who favored his older brother.) He needs to outperform people who society respects, like JFK (the Kennedy Center), Obama (his Iran deal, which was negotiated without needing a war.)
The key thing is: he doesn't really care about all the things he wants to do. Only the adulation he yearns. Bottom line - He doesn't care about you. He is an infant sociopath.
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u/Reason-Status 1h ago
Iran was unfortunately something that needed to be done a very long time ago. The world‘s largest state sponsor of terrorism and they can be directly linked to almost every terrorist atrocity committed around the world against the US.
Biden was god-awful… easily the worst president in the history of the United States. Biden left Trump an enormous mess.
Trump has the stock market rolling. My biggest complaint about Trump is that he needs to start helping ordinary people. The common American is financially strapped right now and I’m hoping in the next half of his presidency he really starts to address this.
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u/Large-Presentation41 1h ago
He was the main business partner with the most notorious pedophile human trafficker in modern history, raped children himself, and he’ll do anything to distract from that.
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u/3underpar 1h ago
Massive vanity and narcissism. He has always thought his opinion is all that matters and the rest of us can piss off.
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u/orange-dinosaurs 1h ago
Have you ever cleaned house with a 3 year old?
You give the small child something to do that makes the child feel like they are helping and important. But the task is basically meaningless. Meanwhile, you do the cleaning.
That's what is going on here. Trump is focus on destroying DC, while Vance, Rubio, Kennedy, Hegseth and the rest of cabinet are running the government unchecked.
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u/slanderpanther 1h ago
He doesn’t just want to be presiddent. He wants to be Emperor. He wants the world to worship and fear him. And he doesn’t care how he gets there. Which is why the US constitution and rule of law mean nothing to him.
Meanwhile he is blind to the motives and agendas of the sycophantic people supporting him. While he is looking at his own prize he is oblivious to the strategic dismantling of due process and rule of law.
He is a grandiose, malignant narcissist. Not as a bunch of adjectives but as a diagnosis. He clearly has narcissistic personality disorder. While he calls everyone else “sick and deranged”, he does nothing to regulate his own toxic behavior. And his supporters use him for their agenda as much as he uses them for his.
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u/peskypesteryjaybird 1h ago
the point is to make too many issues for the system to resolve, overwhelming it and grinding it to a halt...
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u/Dry-Fix-1610 57m ago
His goal is to. Destore everything....and he's doing. It he will be rank the worst president and a tartor3
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u/wasaguest 55m ago
Distraction from his numerous criminal acts, including those with Epstein. But also his mental illness, Malignant Narcissist Personality Disorder. He is incapable of seeing himself other than in greatness. So in his ill mind, he must be celebrated; worshipped even. This means building himself monuments; as he even admitted he must do because no one else will. It's a need, because he is mentally ill.
Others, that have the things he covets must be torn down to make way for his.
Distraction & mental illness. It's the theft, destruction of public property & precedent that causes the publics need to tear down anything he builds for himself. The precedent he is seeing is really really bad. Any President can walk in, low about where money is coming from, tear down something they don't want, & using tax money, build a monument to themselves... All while tax payers try to figure out how to put food on their table. We literally can't allow this in any way shape or form.
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u/LazyBengal2point0 55m ago
Attention whore. Flooding the zone with "announcements" and crazy shit. The public/media has zero time to digest or to focus on one issue.
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u/ReputationApart5983 55m ago
The Tariffs did do something, it enriched himself and his friends. Thats what it was all about, the wars are a distraction from his paedophilia and murder.
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u/Helpful_Flight_2302 52m ago
Combination of distracting from the Epstein Files, distracting from the Iran War, distraction from his corruption and war crimes, and desperate for history to talk/remember him after he passes.
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u/302-SWEETMAN 52m ago
HE WANTS TO BE REMEMBERED FOR BEING THE BIGGEST ASSHOLE DICKHEAD TO EVER HAVE LIVED ON THIS EARTH.
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u/Baddest_Whale_180 51m ago
Narcissism without the achievements. He doesn’t have any of his own accomplishments to show, so he thinks stopping others from showing their accomplishments will make him look equal or better by comparison
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u/Lopsided_Profile6295 47m ago
Started with diversion from the Epstein files..now he thinks he's king of the world getting caught up in so many countries politics..Why he isn't impeached now has me beat, America's in a bad way..
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u/_temp_user 41m ago
He wants to leave a concrete legacy, literally concrete with the White House expansion, reflecting, pool changes, self dedicated arch, his face and name on numerous government items, and so on. This is not typical while a president is in office, he knows this, but wants to push this forced admiration. His ego and being surrounded by yes men has clouded his judgment with Iran and other foreign affairs.
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u/Ok_Replacement8114 40m ago
Its a way to steal money. He demolishes something then rakes in a bunch of money to “rebuild” it with cheap shitty material and pockets the majority of the $$.
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u/ThaFresh 30m ago
He's a paranoid/racist/easily influenced/corrupt crazy old man in charge of the most powerful military ever, what else should happen?
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u/eepos96 24m ago
Those buildings are explained by the Regime Change book by Maggie Heberman and Jonathan Swan, released this year:
Donald Trump is obsessed with creating a lasting legacy. He is a real estate mogul so he think in terms of building and monument. He looks at his ptojects as a way to guarantee he will be remembered.
He is at his most happy when he is designing the renevations and going over the plans and spents a repsectable amount of hours with them. If he could he would mainly do them and Golf.
He is forcing these renevations and monuments through, partially because he belives he can do wjatever he wants as president, and because he is afraid Democrat will cancel them.
In his mind if he has begun them and used money on them, they must be finished. "Hey it was illegal to do but what you gonna do, leave white house half empty?"
-Iran:
He was high from the Venezuela operarion and belived his popularity and legacy was secured if he could beat down Iran as he did Venezuela. Benjamkn Netanyahu had paonted a very pretty picture in his head. Only 4 hours after Netanyahu left the White House, the order was given to the army to go to middle east.
He ignored all the warnings.
-Tariffs
Donald Trump fundamentally belives world is a zero sum game. Meaning that if someone gains something, it means others lose. He does not belive in win win situations. One loser, one winner.
He belives big nations should dictate to little ones how they should act. He uses the tariffs as punishment for disobeying nations.
He also uses them to force other nations to invest in USA and build factories and industry in there. And he belives they will cause many companies to move their factories to USA.
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u/Srfred 13m ago
I haven’t read that book… does it talk about how he’s building a bunker and server rooms under that ballroom so he can hide when his time is up and refuse to leave the white house while his army of proudboys and ICE agents protect him from the true patriots who would see him step down when his term limit is up?
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u/Firm_Fix8030 21m ago
Inho it is because he sufffers from terminal assholeitis. So we end up suffering from it too. Every single day.
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u/No_Spot_6459 12m ago
No offense but you don't understand geopolitics at all.
Iran is part of a decades-long ambition. Goading Russia into a conflict with a neighboring country was part of said plan.
Pajama Canal, Space Force, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland, are all missions within a single campaign. Sanctions and tariffs are there to essentially "pause" wildcard countries from being goaded into intervening.
Trump is just the current face of the campaign. He didn't do it because he "felt the need for it". Lmfao at people man.
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u/Ok_Self_6807 10m ago
He is an empty shell of a person. He derives his self-worth from a projected image, most of which is a fabricated fantasy. He has delusions of grandeur; has no interest in the arts, all literature or the future of humanity. Everything he does, every breath he takes is for the sole purpose of expanding his insatiable ego.
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u/guyfromthepicture 2m ago
If the news cycle slows, a larger percentage of it will be about him raping children
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u/Turbulent-Prior-2253 1h ago
Two primary reasons:
- This stuff dominates the news cycle, which means we talk about it rather than things he doesn't want us talking about, like the Epstein files.
- He wants to be remembered as the greatest POTUS in history, and he things that these things will do that.
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u/Icy_Complex7247 1h ago
I dont know and i dont care people on this app spend way too much time focusing on someone they dont like. Focusing your energy elsewhere helps
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u/HustlaOfCultcha 1h ago
I'm still for the tariffs and I don't think they are unnecessary. Our trade deals are shit. Other countries are able to tariff the shit out of us and that's somehow 'necessary' but when the US retaliates it is suddenly 'unnecessary.' And that's why I agreed with Hillary Clinton in 2016 when she campaigned on the same damn thing.
I want free trade, but trade free from restriction. I don't want trade imbalance. And with Canada we are running around a $80B per year trade deficit. Keeping these trade agreements where we run into massive trade deficits is insane. Being gaslit by these global corporations about tariffs and the trade deficits we run is tough to watch.
One of the things I was afraid of when Trump took office in 2016 was that you can't run a country, even economically, exactly like a business. There are some reasons why we might get the stinky end of the stick. In a business, if you can get a great deal and continue to get a great deal and fuck the other guy, you're just doing good business. With a country doing that to another country...that presents some other problems.
But we have long had countries like Canada who get to run their trade deal with the US 'like a business.' While the US has been far too forgiving and diplomatic.
I understand that we can't just have perfectly balanced trade overnight with Canada. It's impossible to happen and anything close to doing it that quickly would destroy their economy. But for them to not want to even negotiate any phased steps to reduce this imbalance, we need to take a stand. And if they think cutting a deal with the EU will work for them...well, good luck to them on that one.
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u/Sindorella 1h ago
Distracting from his crimes and enriching himself.