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General George Patton had a penchant for making outrageous statements too....

You might find this interesting:

".......In large part, Donald Trump is a Jacksonian, the tradition originally associated with the Scotch-Irish heritage in America and best represented historically by the tough old bird himself, Andrew Jackson. Old Hickory might be mystified that a celebrity New York billionaire is holding up his banner (but, then again, Jackson himself was a rich planter). Trump is nonetheless a powerful voice for Jacksonian attitudes.

Historian Walter Russell Mead once wrote a memorable essay on the Jacksonianism that, so many years later, serves as a very rough guide to the anti-PC and fiercely nationalistic populism of the 2016 Trump campaign......

Trump never sweats the details. Jacksonians, according to Mead, believe "that while problems are complicated, solutions are simple." In fact, the side in a public debate that "is endlessly telling you that the popular view isn't sufficiently 'sophisticated' or 'nuanced - that is the side that doesn't want you to know what it is doing, and it is not to be trusted."

Trump doesn't believe in limited government. "Jacksonians believe that the government should do everything in its power to promote the well-being - political, moral, economic - of the folk community," Mead writes. "Any means are permissible in the service of this end, as long as they do not violate the moral feelings or infringe on the freedoms that Jacksonians believe are essential in their daily lives."

Trump isn't ideologically consistent. The Jacksonian philosophy, Mead notes, "is an instinct rather than an ideology - a culturally shaped set of beliefs and emotions rather than a set of ideas."

Finally, national honor is a paramount value for Jacksonians, a concern that can be heard in Trump's signature promise to make America great again. He will out-bully and out-fox our adversaries and, as for ISIS, he will bomb and water-board it into submission.

It is tempting to see Donald Trump as something wholly new, the reality star who represents the merger of entertainment and popular culture. He is also something centuries old, the populist railing against a corrupt and ineffectual elite that will, through his chastisement, get the comeuppance it deserves."

Your assertions are just merely assumptions based on his media history as a painted public personality by the media for its purposes. If you listen to him, and I really mean listen to him, he is just as pissed off at the establishment of both parties to accomplish anything meaningful for anybody but themselves that he decided he had the capabilities to do it himself.

I know it may be almost impossible for you to stomach, but listen to his live speeches and town halls and reject the chattering classes rantings. The chattering class is just an extension of the people whom we elected to get something done besides be a rubber stamp for the DC elites.

Listening to David Frum on Laura Ingraham’s show yesterday was a perfect example of just how tone deaf people like his chattering class really are. I was driving along screaming like a madman but at the same time gleeful that she gave him the chance to be seen with two sunny sides on his face when all the while he just thought it was his after shave.