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Royal flush: The power of Donald Trump's toilet politics
https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/royal-flush-the-power-of-donald-trumps-toilet-politics/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3506Snip of article:
For Donald Trump, the personal certainly is the political.
He has shown himself to be a malignant narcissist. He is an egomaniac. Trump’s personal obsessions drive most if not all of his behavior. He has no conception, care or concern for most other people.
Trump’s personal and political brand is grievance-mongering and a false narrative of white victimhood. This won Donald Trump the White House and remains the bedrock of his political cult and popularity.
Trump is obsessed with personal slights. As such, like a king, emperor or mob boss, he is fixated on the absolute fealty of his minions. As many of the country’s leading mental health experts have pointed out, Trump is extremely insecure. This in turn fuels his bullying and anti-social behavior.
The personal is the political for Donald Trump in the most base and crude ways as well. During the 2016 presidential campaign he repeatedly talked about menstruation as a way of suggesting that women are unpredictable, hyper-emotional and irrational.
Both as an insult to his male rivals and a boast about himself, Trump has publicly bragged about the size of his genitals. He appears fixated on human waste and toilets. As such, his politics are scatological and infantile.
showing that these types of leaders are very much of the people.”
At a political rally held Tuesday night in Milwaukee, Donald Trump performed this role again. Yahoo News reports:
“I’m also approving new dishwashers that give you more water, so you can actually wash and rinse your dishes without having to do it 10 times – four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10,” he said, likely attacking Department of Energy regulations.
“Sinks, toilets and showers, you don’t get any water. They put restrictors on and now they made them permanent.
“You go into the shower — and I have this beautiful head of hair, I need a lot of water — and you turn on the water [and] drip, drip, drip. I call the guy, ‘something wrong with this?’ ‘No, sir, it’s just the restrictor’. So you’re in there five times longer than you’re supposed to be, you use probably more water and it’s a very unpleasant experience. We’re getting rid of the restrictors, you’re going to have full shower flow, full sink.”
Our president also has a special obsession with dishwashers. “Remember the dishwasher?” he asked, as if it were a relic of the past. “You’d press it, boom! There’d be, like, an explosion. Five minutes later you open it up, the steam pours out … Anybody have a new dishwasher? I’m sorry for that.” Trump also told his almost all-white crowd that their “dishes will be beautiful” because of his presidency.
Our country needs a more intelligent and better informed electorate, one capable of taking on complex issues such as climate disaster; resource scarcity; the revolutionary economic changes caused by robots, AI and algorithms; social inequality; the rise of China as a peer competitor to the United States and many other matters. Instead it has Trumpism, a dumbing down of the American public rather than its elevation.
All I can do when I read is this
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even on those occasions when I forget to put soap in it. And I don’t rinse or scrub the dishes before I put them in the dishwasher.
And I bet I use it more than Trump does! 
referred to him as "Donnie Two Poops". 
