There is no secret master plan where truth hiding was simply in plain sight all along.

Some see a strategy in the president’s outbursts. To his supporters, his brash actions and hateful speech are calculated to show that he “tells it like it is” — that the billionaire is a man of the people. (Or, rather, of the right people: White nationalists and other extremists view many of the president’s moves as coded signals of support.) To others, Trump’s command of the public conversation suggests he is either a master persuader, bending public opinion to his will, or a maestro of distraction, drawing attention away from where it could harm most.


True, Trump sometimes profited from his attention-stealing antics.
History shows he rose to prominence within conservative circles by backing a conspiracy theory about President Barack Obama’s birth certificate and slurs against immigrants in announcement speeches prompted by polls taken assumed  plurality of the Republican voters supported him as dominant figure thus prompted more of the same and fueled all that followed over time.

The president’s relentlessly appalling xenophobia, Islamophobia and racism invites disdain not only for commonly accepted ideas of what behaviors are “presidential” but even for elementary standards of democratic citizenship.
Seeking hidden plots misses the point.
He has no ideology besides a half-glimpsed vision of national “greatness.” He has no grand strategy, just a profound need to demonstrate that he is a winner, a dealmaker and an influence wielder. 

And having suffered few consequences of importance to him for his behavior so far in his short political career, he recognizes few limits to his whims. He will ignore his critics and follow the applause he receives for his reckless actions as far as he can in his bottom line. 

Trump’s self-evident pettiness defies most sensibilities. 
Recognizing that there is no greater meaning may help us address his challenge. Reflecting on how such a small man ever came to occupy such an important office may inspire us to prevent a repeat performance where reckless actions fuel a false servitude. 

1 Peter 2 1:25 
 So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 



Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. 

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...

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