Agreed. Hitler followed an ideology. Trump is too stupid and self-absorbed to stand for or believe in anything apart from the preening of one's self to be the biggest and most beautiful bed pan.

@SamKerry with a reply like that I just switch off

@SamKerry I never thought of it that way. I always assumed if given the chance he would be like any vile dictator. But you are probably right, to commit large scale evil in the world one would have an ideology. Bannon has an ideology.

@Rudy1962 @ripcurldane

I'm not sure what you guys think. But I think that Trump has no intellectual capacity. I'm not saying that he's NOT smart. I'm saying that with data-heavy information, his mind just shuts down similar to how some people zone out on mathematical problems.

To believe strongly about an idea to the point that it is followed as an ideology, a person needs to have the intellectual capacity to see all the aspects of that idea and consequences of following it. I can't see Trump having any type of societal ideology. He is simply disinterested in the data required to strongly believe in any societal ideology.

Hitler had an ideology. It was an evil ideology. It goes against everything I believe in regards to us as human beings. But I can't label his agenda other than as an ideology.

I believe that Trump's main drive in life is to be perfect in others' perception of him. It is an insecurity. E.g. "Nobody is stronger than me.", "Nobody is better to people with disability than me". More here: [news.vice.com] All that "Nobody is better than me at (whatever)" was well BEFORE the "my button is bigger than yours" (paraphrased) Tweet to Kim Jong Un.

Now for the "bed pan" reference.

Trump is a "vessel". Everyone in his close circle is pushing their own policies to him. He can't process data enough to the point to make his own decisions. He would also be afraid that his decisions may not be what his administration wants.

And for me, as an outside observer of what is happening in the U.S., those policies have been pretty shitty.

This is a comparison of someone trying to purge a part of themselves that they are trying to reject. It's an obsession of both men in which they abuse the power they have obtained to act on a personal vendetta.