Donald Trump’s jump-start as the Republican presidential candidate seems to have come to an end. The tough and popular real estate mogul and hero of many a talk show has snubbed U.S. citizens.
First, he had a go at the Mexicans; now, it’s U.S. Senator John McCain’s turn. Despite all his verbal escapades, surveys show Donald Trump has increased his lead over contender Jeb Bush: yes, the big Donald, who will soon — very soon — be very small again; the big talk show star and ruler of real estate, Donald Trump; yesterday the top Republican candidate for the White House, tomorrow once more a political footnote owing to the unforgivable mistake Trump made. He who got around doing his conscription to Vietnam thanks to a not-so-convincing medical certificate insulted pilot and 2009 presidential candidate John McCain, who was shot down over Hanoi, for his captivity.
McCain is not a “war hero” but a “captivity hero;” Trump dismissed the six years of torture in prison camp. Almost all other candidates, quite a few former officers and the reservist federation turned against him. That is how an excursion into big politics ends.
Donald Trump is quite well-versed in protecting his major projects in the lower depths of U.S. local politics. These local politics are often hair-raisingly spiteful; therefore, the tough Trump embodies the secret autocratic leanings that are stirring in a democracy where too many people want to have a say.
The Account Is Overdrawn
Trump presented himself as somebody who would put all those counselors in their proper places. It is for this reason that he is popular among the Republicans, who have looked upon all their top politicians since George H. W. Bush as Democrats in disguise because they compromised with the Democrats or advocate this today. However, Trump has now overdrawn his account. Insulting McCain in such a way was bad enough, but the impression of the egotistical lack of self-control it represents is worse.
Americans do not like lack of self-control. This impression already abruptly ended the soaring start of the left-liberal presidential contender Howard Dean in 2004. It will now also ruin Donald Trump’s career opportunity. “You are fired!” was the punch line of his talk show, in which the participants could apply for a job contract with him. This now applies to him; he is fired because of his ego.
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