There’s conventional wisdom that if you want to know who a person REALLY is, pay attention to how they treat people in a lower social position than yourself.
The go-to example is a worker in a restaurant. Are you grouchy and condescending to someone who’s not in a position to hit back? Or are you decent to them?
President Trump popped into a Chick Fil A in Atlanta, and did what he often does there… he set aside time to talk to the front-line staff directly. Not just management, donors, or people who could give him something in return… the ordinary fast-food workers who spend so much of their day taking payments, slinging shakes, and dealing with grouchy customers looking for a reason to complain.
He invited them to all line up, he treated everyone to a round of shakes and — most importantly — made them feel seen.
Trump to supporters at Atlanta Chick-fil-A: "GET READY FOR SOME MILKSHAKES!"pic.twitter.com/i3pJOVKazU
— Harish Mali (@HarishMali06) April 10, 2024
He even got a supportive hug from the one girl that works there. In Atlanta.
But we’re repeatedly told that Trump is a ‘bigot’… and that black voters don’t like him.
Uh-huh. Sure. Take a good look at the staff behind the counter and see if these fast food workers in Atlanta seem unhappy to see him there.
From where this writer sits, Joe Biden and Donald Trump treat money very differently.
Joe Biden had no money, but while in office he used taxpayer dollars to buy voter approval so he could gain power. Use people, gain power, get money.
Donald Trump has earned money. Here is an example of him demonstrating generosity with his own money, even if it’s in a token measure like free milkshakes, to make people feel appreciated, to gain people.
In one example, people are the means to the end of gaining money.
In the other example, generosity with money is the means to winning people.
When evaluating the morality of people, the person who values people over money should win every time.
And what is at the center of the Biden family impeachment investigation? That they sold out this whole damned country to stuff their pockets with cash from foreign sources.
