The level of divisiveness, spite, lack of courtesy and respect within US society has reached pandemic levels (no pun intended).
Trump’s presidency has brought out the worst in people. It has set them against one another to the point that it has become a threat to peoples' life and limb.
While some people out there will blame this effect on anti-Trump democrats, liberals, or some foreign actors, it is mostly the result of Trump and his socio-pathic, narcissistic personality.
Trump’s venality, arrogance, ignorance, tendency for crass self-promotion, outright lying, his schmoozing of regressive right-wing elements in US society who see him as a saviour of some kind, and by him validating their beliefs and actions has created a dangerous situation. He has also provoked those elements who don’t like him, and which have no compunction whatsoever about getting rough and tough. Trump has managed to royally piss off the members of both camps.
How many of these cops and other assorted wacko’s from both sides out there that have been going around and causing harm to others, both verbal and physical, did so because they were encouraged by Trump’s antics? It's certainly a lot.
The atmosphere Trump has created is quite toxic. While the democrats have added fuel to the fire by provoking the emotionally-unstable Trump with the Russiagate conspiracy and other accusations, he’d still have left the same trail of divisiveness and anger even without all that.
It’s just the type of person he is. Trump is a showman who craves attention, and it is in his nature to do and say off-the-wall, controversial things to attract an audience. He needs an audience, and always seeks them out.
Trump, just like with pretty much everything in the US - the economy, democracy, elections, human rights - is all pretend.
Trump acts the part of a president, but doesn’t behave like a real leader.
He steps on, and dismisses anything and anyone who disagrees with him, and who doesn’t do what he tells them.
He punishes all critics with insulting juvenile tweets, and acts like a petulant bully toward them; for example when he denied COVID19 aid to states with democratic governors just because they dared to disagree with him; all the while more people got infected and died. Or when he didn't want to give hurricane recovery aid to Puerto Rico in 2017 because the governor there criticized him.
This is not the behavior of a mature, emotionally stable person.
As for Trump’s religiosity, it certainly doesn’t exist.
This guy has been living a pretty fast and loose life as far as women and relationships are concerned, so morality isn’t really all that important to him.
Trump isn't religious. But the inbred evangelical Christian fundamentalists out there will eat up whatever the Republican party poops out every single time, in every single election. They're programmed to do so, for some odd reason.
As far as Trump contracting coronavirus, it seems too convenient and opportune.
He may be faking it to garner sympathy and votes. And after his horrible 1st debate performance, I wouldn't put it past him.
Trump has also used his supposed coronavirus infection as an excuse to get out of a 2nd presidential debate. Even he knows by now that it would only hurt him as soon as he opens his big mouth.
However, whether he is faking it or not, he is looking like a chump either way since he has been defying lockdowns, quarantines and the wearing of masks. He boasted about his BIG CAMPAIGN RALLIES, as opposed to Joe Biden, who Trump ridiculed as sitting in a basement with no popular support. Now, Trump is paying the price for his recklessness, arrogance and hubris; if he indeed really was infected.
Since his suspiciously quick recovery, he has been passing himself off as a superman hero and a victim-survivor, and thinks this makes him even more great and special.
That’s what it has always been, and is all about for him: Make the Trump Brand Great Again.
Trump’s self-centered behavior is a reflection of a deeper problem.
US power is waning, and the US regimes have begun to display an acute paranoia which makes them well tuned-in to anyone or anything that refuses to do their bidding or shows any disloyalty.
As a result, the Trump regime has now turned to harming and destroying things and people it once tolerated, or didn’t even pay attention to before. Everything bothers them now. And everyone who doesn’t kiss their ass has become a national security treat; from uppity journalists who dare to criticize criminal government dealings, foreign media that dares to have an opinion about anything in the US, to foreign governments and organizations who point out Trump’s blunders. No one is above suspicion.
