If you subscribe to The Gospel According To Donald Trump, it is. You see, he has said that, if he were to return to the White House, China would not dare to provoke him because Xi Jinping knows he — Trump — is “crazy.” [Kayla Epstein, BBC News, October 19, 2024.]

But it’s important to know — and unfortunately he didn’t specify — whether he meant “crazy” as in “strip-naked-in-Times-Square-at-high-noon” crazy, or simply “say-or-do-whatever-comes-to-mind-regardless-of-the-consequences” type of crazy. Or perhaps both.

He definitely has proven his expertise in the second category. I’m just not sure it’s a desirable qualification for the president of any country.

What he said to the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board was that he would not have to use military force to prevent a blockade of Taiwan, because President Xi “respects me and he knows I’m [expletive] crazy.” [Id.]

He went on to say: “I had a very strong relationship with him. He was actually a really good, I don’t want to say friend — I don’t want to act foolish, ‘he was my friend’ — but I got along with him great. He’s a very fierce person.” [Id.]

And this particular self-described crazy person does admire “fierce” leaders. He went on to characterize his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin thus: “I got along with him great” — but admittedly not without a few hiccups.

He supposedly has told Putin:

“‘I’m going to hit you right in the middle of fricking Moscow. We’re friends. I don’t want to do it, but I have no choice.’ He goes, ‘No way.’ I said, ‘Way.’

”I said, ‘You’re going to be hit so hard, and I’m going to take those [expletive] domes right off your head.’ Because, you know, he lives under the domes.” [Id.]

Yes, those domes. We know.

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I’m not here to pass judgment on anyone’s level of craziness; I barely understand my own. And this is not a political statement. I just felt it was interesting enough to share.

I mean . . . I don’t talk that way to my friends. And they’re not world leaders.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
10/21/24