They keep playing that clip of his caddy dropping a ball, and making fun of how he tried to do it slyly but it was obvious.
I just saw it again on Colbert, and I legitimately think the caddy is only trying to fool trump.
trump is 100% the guy to blame caddies if he fucks up, so the only caddies he likes are ones that can trick him into thinking he’s great. No one he’s playing with would ever call it out.
The only person they need to fool out there, is trump…
He legitimately might think he’s really a generational golfer. For the same reason every billionaire legit thinks they’re a genius.
IMO the discussion whether it’s done knowingly or not is moot in such cases.
Analogy: some people are so used to their own “fuck the world” attitude that throwing trash on the sidewalk is second nature to them, they hardly think about it. So they don’t do it knowingly. Does that in any way lessen their deed? Not to me. Quite the opposite: it’s a larger problem.
No argument here, a corrupt asshole is still a corrupt asshole no matter what they make think of themselves.
But because they can genuinely believe whatever bullshit comes out of their mouth others have no problem buying into it as well.