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PREFACE
BOOK 1
TRUMP:
In Relation to the Man Himself
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PART ONE (Stated by Trump Himself)
Selected Topics and Samples
On His Genius
There's nobody like me. Nobody.
including 27 more selections
On His Temperament
I'm honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has.
including 9 more selections
On His Aggression
I was a very rebellious kind of person. . . . I always loved to fight,
all types of fights, including physical.
including 38 more selections
On Ego
I don't consider myself to have a big ego.
including 16 more selections
On Emotions
You can't be emotional in business, it can flat out kill you.
including 2 more selections
On Conflict
Man is the most vicious of all animals, and life is a series of battles ending
in victory or defeat. You just can't let people make a sucker out of you.
including 13 more selections
On Racism
I'm the least racist person on earth.
including 4 more selections
On Women
I don't know why, but I seem to bring out either the best or worst in women.
including 85 more selections
On His Children
Now I know Melania, I'm not gonna be doing the diapers, I'm not gonna be
making the food, I may never even see the kids. She'll be an unbelievable mother.
I'll be a good father.
including 4 more selections
On Business
Everything I do in life is framed through the view of a businessman. That's my instinct.
including 23 more selections
On Politics
I am shaking up the establishment on both sides of the political aisle.
including 33 more selections
On Religion
I'm a believer, big league, in God and the Bible.
including 13 more selections
On Metaphysics
Join the Explorer's Club. Learn about the mysteries of life.
including 5 more selections
On Friendship
To me, friendship can be really tested only in bad times.
including 4 more selections
On Beauty
Everyone knows how important beauty is to me. I always try to have it in my life.
including 3 more selections
On Reading
I never have [had time to read]. I'm always busy doing a lot. Now I'm more busy, I guess, than ever before.
including 2 more selections
On Stimulants
I didn't drink or take drugs; as far as stimulants go, I've yet to have my first cup of coffee.
including 2 more selections
On Humility
I'm really a nice guy. I really am.
including 8 more selections
On Altruism
I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need
something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there
for me.
including 5 more selections
On Toughness
I have a reputation of being tough, and I'd like to think it's justified. You must be
tough when a lot of influential people are saying that your day has come and gone,
when your marriage is breaking up, and when business pressures are increasing.
Toughness, in the long run, is a major secret of my survival.
including 18 more selections
On Success
Most successful people have very short attention spans. It has a lot to do with imagination.
including 43 more selections
On Self-Contradictions
I don't want to be provocative, and in many cases I try not to be provocative.
I do love provoking people. There is truth to that.
including 43 more selections
PART TWO (Stated by Others and the Author)
Descriptions of Trump's Character and Tactics
The quotations I present in Part Two question the veracity of his self-proclaimed
supremacy both professionally and personally. They spotlight both Trump's
favorable and unfavorable aspects.
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FAVORABLE PERSPECTIVES
1. "He's a regular guy who speaks his mind, who goes against the establish-
ment of time. He's sued New York how many times and won. This is a brilli-
ant business man that stands for what is great about our country, what makes
America the best country in the world. He loves business and loves to orate
about business he always tells me: 'You know where the real jungle lives?
Manhattan, New York city. That's my jungle and that's the real jungle.'"
including 31 more selections
UNFAVORABLE PERSPECTIVES
1. "In many ways [Donald was] a Jekyll and Hyde guy. He could be enormously
charming and you'd almost think, 'Gee, this is a nice, decent, warm guy, and
then the bad twin would come out.'"
including 58 more selections
PART THREE (Stated by a noted Novelist and the Author)
[Fictional Descriptions and Impressions of Trump's Likely
All-too-human/More-than-human Persona]
The selections I present in Part Three present two fictional and impressionistic
dimensions of Donald Trump's Persona -- both psychological and metaphysical
(trans-human) - which, I might say, are transitional to Part Four which focuses
on the question whether or not Trump is in fact an overman in the German philosopher, Nietzsche's meaning of the concept, "ubermensch". In other words, he may be a supreme man, but is he an overman; that is, an overman-idealist?
SECTION II
THE OVERMAN
In Relation to Trump
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PART FOUR (Stated by Others and the Author)
OUTLINE OF THE OVERMAN'S PERSPECTIVE
Part One self-described Trump as a supreme man, both professionally and per-
sonally. Part Two mainly questioned this assessment. Part Three explored
the possible connection between Trump and the overman -- as theorized by Nietzsche -- in relation to his being a supreme man (more-than-human). Part Four explores the possible relation between Trump and the overman -- which I modify to overman-idealist.
The Overman-Idealist
The overman-idealist believes in an ideal of active concern for mankind both
humanly and transcendently, both in private and in public, both personally and
interpersonally; and accordingly, struggles to reconcile individual and cultural
differences, to balance his humanness with his transcendence, through both
wisdom and justice while adapting to various challenging conditions with grace,
courage and sensitivity. Self-perfection is his ideal to approximate as closely as
possible; and, at the same time, to promote this ideal socially and politically
wherever, whenever, however [s]he can.
- Edmund Joseph
Photo Gallery of Trump as a Young Man in His Prime
Bibliography
Author's Professional Background
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