{"id":11961,"date":"2019-08-29T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11961"},"modified":"2019-08-28T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T17:35:07","slug":"the-mythical-trump-hydra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-mythical-trump-hydra\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mythical Trump Hydra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many are the hissing heads of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/definition.org\/define\/polycephalic\/\">polycephalic<\/a>&nbsp;Donald Trump\u2014at least according to the progressive Left and the NeverTrump Right, who see the president of the United States as some sort of mythical nightmare. Here are a few of his supposedly monstrous manifestations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Trump, the Profiteer<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Candidate Trump never really wanted to be president. His entire amateurish and buffoonish candidacy was designed only to enhance his brand. Once he was unexpectedly elected, Trump was more shocked than anyone, and quickly sought to maximize his profits from the Oval Office. Thus, followed the constant progressive evocation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution to prevent chronic Trump profiteering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In reality, the Trump empire reportedly has declined&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/trump-net-worth-plunges-says-hes-losing-5-billion-being-president-2813141\">by nearly $1 billion in net value<\/a>, aside from the tens of millions of his own money that Trump spent on the 2016 campaign. Trump\u2019s business interests are the most thoroughly investigated of any recent president in memory. Obama and the Clintons made millions from their presidencies; Trump may well end up losing&nbsp;<em>billions<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Trump, the Liberal<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>NeverTrumpers insisted that the politically polymorphous Trump was lying about his hard conservative agendas during the 2016 primaries. In truth, they warned, Trump was a Manhattan liberal wolf in right-wing fleece clothing.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/08\/25\/the-mythical-trump-hydra\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Many are the hissing heads of the&nbsp;polycephalic&nbsp;Donald Trump\u2014at least according to the progressive Left and the NeverTrump Right, who see the president of the United States as some sort of mythical nightmare. Here are a few of his supposedly monstrous manifestations. Trump, the Profiteer&nbsp; Candidate Trump never really wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-36V","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11994,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-trump-wages-war-on-progressive-culture-dems-respond-with-trump-derangement-syndrome\/","url_meta":{"origin":11961,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: Trump wages war on progressive culture \u2013 Dems respond with Trump Derangement Syndrome","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News President\u00a0Trump is\u00a0waging\u00a0a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a \"Kulturkampf.\" As a result, not even former President George W. Bush has incurred the degree of hatred from the left that is now directed at Trump.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13511,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-lethal-wages-of-trump-derangement-madness-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":11961,"position":1},"title":"The Lethal Wages of Trump Derangement Madness","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 7, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Think about it: For about five years,\u00a0anything\u00a0candidate, president-elect, and President Trump said or did, the media, the Left, and progressive popular culture opposed in Pavlovian fashion. Anything that Trump touched was ridiculed or discredited\u2014regardless of evidence, data, or cogency. The merits of a Trump\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 6 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 6 comments","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-lethal-wages-of-trump-derangement-madness-2\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11263,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-left-cant-come-to-grips-with-loss-of-power\/","url_meta":{"origin":11961,"position":2},"title":"The Left Can\u2019t Come to Grips with Loss of Power","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There\u2019s no better explanation for the current progressive meltdown. Key Trump administration officials have been confronted at restaurants. Representative Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) urged protesters to hound Trump officials at restaurants, gas stations, or department stores. Progressive pundits and the liberal media almost daily\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10353,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-progressive-boomerang\/","url_meta":{"origin":11961,"position":3},"title":"The Progressive Boomerang","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review \u00a0 Not only have progressives failed to take down the president, but they also haven\u2019t offered an alternative agenda. \u00a0 The progressive strategy of investigating President Donald Trump nonstop for Russian collusion or obstruction of justice or witness tampering so far has produced no\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comey&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comey","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/comey\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11763,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/with-mueller-hopes-gone-so-goes-progressive-unity\/","url_meta":{"origin":11961,"position":4},"title":"With Mueller Hopes Gone, So Goes Progressive Unity","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Democratic Party has lots of radical new ideas, and lots of radical presidential candidates and politicos. But the common hatred of President Donald Trump has united otherwise quite disparate Democratic leaders such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.); former Vice President Joe Biden;\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;2020 Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"2020 Election","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/2020-election\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11800,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-adolescent-progressive-mind\/","url_meta":{"origin":11961,"position":5},"title":"The Adolescent Progressive Mind","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness One of the strangest things about the series of psychodramas that surround the ongoing effort to remove President Trump before the 2020 election is progressive schizophrenia. 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