They keep playing that clip of his caddy dropping a ball, and making fun of how he tried to do it slyly but it was obvious.
I just saw it again on Colbert, and I legitimately think the caddy is only trying to fool trump.
trump is 100% the guy to blame caddies if he fucks up, so the only caddies he likes are ones that can trick him into thinking he’s great. No one he’s playing with would ever call it out.
The only person they need to fool out there, is trump…
He legitimately might think he’s really a generational golfer. For the same reason every billionaire legit thinks they’re a genius.
You don’t think the cheating pedophile, who cheats and lies about everything, constantly, knows that he cheats and lies?
Yes, he knows he cheats. Also, he’s on the Epstein list. He knows that too.
Trump cheats, lies, rapes and steals. But I don’t think HE consciously thinks of anything he does as cheating, lying, raping and stealing.
People don’t tend to want to think of themselves as the bad guy. So they make up excuses to justify their behavior.
I worked for a small company and traveled with the owner frequently. Somehow we got on the subject of bonuses for the sales staff and he told me he often finds ways of reducing their bonus if they ever got a massive deal because they are salespeople and they would just waste the money and hurt themselves… In his mind he was responsible enough to handle the money rather than waste it. I’ve encountered similar altitudes and behaviors with more than a few business owners and wealthy people I’ve encountered. They hide behind many excuses for bad behavior.
The only reason Trump is scared is he knows how his base will see this.
IMO the discussion whether it’s done knowingly or not is moot in such cases.
Analogy: some people are so used to their own “fuck the world” attitude that throwing trash on the sidewalk is second nature to them, they hardly think about it. So they don’t do it knowingly. Does that in any way lessen their deed? Not to me. Quite the opposite: it’s a larger problem.
No argument here, a corrupt asshole is still a corrupt asshole no matter what they make think of themselves.
But because they can genuinely believe whatever bullshit comes out of their mouth others have no problem buying into it as well.