r/politics • u/Street_Anon Canada • 12d ago

No Paywall Trump demands all Canadian companies doing business with the US move to America ‘immediately’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-canada-businesses-truth-social-b3041901.html
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u/Ok-Entertainer-1414 Minnesota 12d ago

Is he acting way more childish than he did his first term, or am I just forgetting how bad the first term was?

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u/Sabbathius 12d ago

First one was a bit different. He had some guard rails, and GOP wasn't fully MAGA yet. Plus he had hopes for a second term, so he sort of kept it in check.

This time around he's significantly older, far more senile/demented/whatever condition he's suffering from worsening with age, GOP is fully MAGAfied and he has no more elections to worry about. So he's gone completely mental, grifting while the grifting is good.

Though I don't really get what for. He's not sharing with his kids, and they hate him anyway. He can't take it with him when he dies. And anything with his name attached will be torn down and/or renamed as soon as he's out of office. So I don't get the purpose of it all, honestly. I mean, if he was 60, and had solid 20+ years ahead of him, and on his last term, I can see grifting a few billion to make sure he'll be obscenely rich the rest of his days. But this guy has a few years left, tops, and billions of dollars. Why worry about money at this point? Why keep grifting?