Donald Trump's nuclear button is way bigger than yours
Trump to Kim: My nuclear button is bigger than yours
If
you were looking for a two-word slogan to describe Donald Trump's life,
that would be a fitting one. In everything -- from the size of his
buildings to the size of his genitals to the size of his nuclear
arsenal, Trump is totally and completely obsessed with being the biggest
and the best.
"North
Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the 'Nuclear Button is on
his desk at all times.' Will someone from his depleted and food starved
regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a
much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!"
"Much bigger & more powerful." "My Button works."
If
you don't see what Trump is going for there, then we need to have a
side conversation about the birds and the bees. This is a measuring
contest provoked by the President of the United States against an
unstable dictator pursuing a nuclear capacity.
It's
absolutely stunning given the stakes: Nuclear war/annihilation. At the
same time, it's an entirely predictable tactic from Trump given what he
we know about him.
Let's remember
that in the 2016 Republican primary process, Trump got into a pissing
contest -- almost literally -- with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio about
genital size.
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At
a rally in early March, Rubio said this of Trump: "He's like 6-foot-2,
which is why I don't understand why his hands are the size of someone
who is 5-foot-2. And you know what they say about men with small hands?
You can't trust them."
Days later -- at a GOP primary debate -- Trump made sure to address the Rubio allegation.
"Look
at those hands, are they small hands?" Trump said while displaying his
mitts. "And he referred to my hands -- 'if they're small, something else
must be small.' I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee."
I guarantee you there's no problem.
Trump's obsession with size is evident in ways large and small -- ahem -- throughout his life.
Remember how he had the biggest inauguration crowd ever? Or how his tax cut was the biggest in history? Or how the ratings for "Saturday Night Live" when Trump made a guest appearance were the biggest in years? Or how Mar-a-Lago is the best club in the world? Or how "The Apprentice" was the biggest TV hit in history? Or how he actually had the tallest building in downtown Manhattan -- on September 11, 2001, following the terror attacks that brought down the World Trade Center? (Yes, that actually happened.)
There's
dozens more examples just like these, but you get the point. In Trump's
mind, the first, second and third most important measures of success
are size. Everything he is involved with must be the biggest, the
tallest, the most well-attended, the most expensive, the best.
A bit of armchair psychology would suggest that relentless focus on size is born of insecurity.
Remember
that Trump has always viewed himself as an outsider, scorned by the
cool kids. His father was a successful developer, but not in Manhattan,
where the big boys played. Trump went into Manhattan and built right in
the heart of it, but the major players in the city's power structure
didn't like him or let him into their clubs. When he came to Washington
in 2011 considering a potential political career, the establishment laughed at him during the White House Correspondents Dinner.
In
Trump's mind, he is always on the outside looking in. And he is
motivated by a desire to stick it to the elites who have shunned him his
entire life.
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The
way to do that -- in Trump's mind -- is to always one-up whoever is
challenging him. If you build a 95-story skyscraper, he'll find a way to
build a 96- story one. If you got 50,000 retweets, he'll want to get
100,000. And, if you have a nuclear button ready to push on your desk,
well you can sure as hell bet Trump has a bigger and better nuclear
button on his desk.
Trump's size obsession was mildly amusing when he was a private citizen. The man who always had to have the biggest toy.
But,
as President, his compulsive need to not only have the biggest and the
best everything but to shove it in the face of world leaders that he has
the biggest and the best everything takes on an entirely different
feeling -- one of uneasiness about whether the President of the United
States grasps what his size contest obsession means in a world of
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