I was rereading what I wrote a few days ago about “Trump being Trump” and had a further insight I’d share with you. When we think of Trump’s experiences before the White House we tend to remember him as a New York and Atlantic City real estate developer, and later as a show business impresario with a successful reality TV show.
A part of Trump’s past we tend to forget was his involvement with the strange show biz offshoot that is professional wrestling. BTW, my characterization of it as “show biz” rather than as “athletics” is completely intentional.
Pro wrestling is a series of continuing, contrived intertwined story lines involving heroes and villains, alliances, feuds and ritualized violence. These are planned out in advance and enacted by large steroid-enhanced men in scanty costumes and by the people who script and organize it - Trump’s role.
Perhaps we should understand the Trump outburst at Fox, the NY Post, and DeSantis as fake “pro wrestling” style conflict. He might be doing it for the entertainment of the audience, it may have little or nothing to do with his feelings.
