This is a bit of an off-my-chest kind of post, but I’m going to share this here anyway:

I have a small observation I want to share with you all. I have a strong suspicion with 99% certainty that if Trump has ever read one book in his obscene life (or listened to, because he’s fucking lazy), it was How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

If anyone has read this book before, the first thing that will jump out at you is how Trump turns everything into a convenience for others. He applies positive positioning and other tricks to make the other person like him and see him as an opportunity-maker, even if he doesn’t deliver. He even goes so far as to symbolically gesture that he has the other person in the palm of his hand whenever he shakes hands, which is so sleazy.

I wanted to point this out to someone because once you see the inner mechanisms, it can’t be unseen. It’s so eerie that he follows the book for someone presumed to be illiterate. Maybe even Roy Cohn coached him on this. Either way, it’s creepy.