“ take risky action in the hope of…”
Sigh. You’re just being argumentative. You are using a one line definition of gambling
I will give it a shot but please understand. This is from your not thinking it through so let his end without further argument. The fact is Trump is not a gambler
Trump has written a few books on his philosophy, background, strategy and education.
This is 101
Trump takes risks. One does not get ahead in life staying on the sofa hungover fearful of risk taking
He educates himself on the situation, weighs the outcome.
His wailing on social media about this is his educated response to one possible outcome.
People take him at face value. I don’t know if you are a leftist or someone who enjoys being nasty about Trump for another reason, so I’m not talking to you expecting a reasonable response, it’s for stating facts
They think he’s like a regular Joe who in this case gets hurt and feels betrayed
He acts as if he’s lost something. He has not.
There’s a guy who was a retired military officer working for his state office. Of course he had a nice home put his kids through school. Lovely wife. He had a Tupperware sandwich box where he kept his poker money. He’d play once a week with is old military buddies and come home with more or less the same amount in the box
There was another guy big exec Fortune 500 big house nice neighborhood. Big education. Bunch of kids. Lovely wife. Great golfer would bet tens of thousands on a putt. He’d be up all night playing cards. They’d get down to betting away cars and dogs. Lost his house. Family had to move and rent
The first guy is not a gambler. That’s because he’s not putting anything in that he can’t afford to lose. Second guy is a gambler.
Trump is yelling about Cuellar for reasons far removed from asking us for sympathy, he lost something he couldn’t afford.
He can afford it. Besides, Trump never forgets he works for us. He would never bet away what we can’t afford. He will take risks based on what he has learned about a situation. He’ll apply game theory to weigh possible outcomes
Gambling is betting on a chance outcome. A putt you can’t ever be sure about. Even a scratch golfer. You can bet on it but not what you can’t afford. If you do that you’re gambling
Here’s how to know Trump’s not a gambler- he hasn’t risked more than he can afford. An image of Melania comes to mind, on Fifth Avenue putting her collection of fabulous luggage into the back of the SUV to relo to Mara Lago
She’s been married to him decades and she is peaceful, well taken care of. Her child in the best school.
Your definition of gambler doesn’t include the whole picture
Trump lost nothing with the Cuellar thing that we cannot afford
You can believe it or not
“You are using a one line definition of gambling”
And you’re dismissing a literal dictionary definition of gambling to make up your own. I’m going to go with the dictionary definition over whatever cope is going on in your head.
Things have to exist OUTSIDE your head, or they’re an hallucination.
“Here’s how to know Trump’s not a gambler- he hasn’t risked more than he can afford.”
This is called the no true scotsman fallacy. In order to be a gambler, one MUST risk more than they can afford.
You have thrown out the dictionary and even basic logic to declare that gambling is betting more than you can afford. Plenty of gamblers manage risk carefully.
-no made up examples (hallucinations) will change the dictionary definition that gives us the standard meaning.
-no listing of books Trump wrote decades ago will change that either.