The duo of Peter Baker and Susan Glasser has new book, "The Divider," with anecdotes about the misrule of the Malignant Loser, who was thought of by his own staff as surprisingly ignorant. One anecdote relayed by them on MSNBC involved the story of his "plan" to offer the West Bank to Jordan, which wanted no part of assimilating the restive Palestinian population:
"One was the great anecdote where apparently Trump calls up [former Treasury Secretary] Steve Mnuchin at the Davos conference when he's meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan and put him on the phone, and said, 'Hey king, I've got a great deal for you, I'm going to give you the West Bank.' And anybody who understands Jordan where the Palestinian population is sort of a restive force in politics there and understands that was not anything King Abdullah wanted.
He told an American friend, 'I nearly had a heart attack, I doubled over, I couldn't breathe,' Baker continued. 'It went to where Donald Trump's view of the world is very superficial and transactional -- and he is simply going to give the king something the king has no interest in having.'" (our emphasis)
Baker and Glasser went on to say that the Malignant Loser shocked his staff by the breadth of his ignorance about "so many things":
"He didn't know the difference between the Baltics and Balkans. One aide was saying he knew nothing about so many things, it was startling to them even after they spent time in his presence." (our emphasis)
The problem is that his cult also knows nothing about so many things, and have placed themselves in the hands of a narcissistic sociopathic demagogue bent on undermining our democracy and establishing an authoritarian regime. It's unthinkable that he could be back in the Oval Office, but millions of his cult will do anything -- cheating, intimidation, violence -- to achieve that.
