{"id":444,"date":"2020-11-13T15:14:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T20:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2020-11-13T15:14:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T20:14:46","slug":"trumps-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a>Where does one begin? So many layers, so much irony, such glorious timing. DJT\u2019s mentor and role model has been identified: Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov or, if you\u2019re a purist, \u0421\u0430\u043f\u0430\u0440\u043c\u044b\u0440\u0430\u0442 \u0410\u0442\u0430\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u041d\u044b\u044f\u0437\u043e\u0432. Sap<\/em>, as his close friends and family affectionately tag him (I\u2019m almost totally, certainly sure of this!), is the President for Life<\/em> of Turkmenistan and<\/em> a dog lover! His official moniker \u2014 hang on a minute while I make word pro space \u2014 \u2018His Excellency Saparmurat T\u00fcrkmenba\u015fy, President of Turkmenistan and Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers’. <\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>Nov. 10th saw Sap unveil a solid gold statue of a much cherished companion, an Alabai shepherd dog \u2014 and a bookend to the statue (also gold) of himself which, rotates throughout the day to face the sun. And to put this in context, the average annual earnings is about 25K (CD$) \u2014 with the last attempted assassination being 2002. <\/p>\n

As the certainty of a \u2018post-Trump\u2019 era inches toward the start line, it\u2019s rumoured (\u2018we have very good proof of this happening from many people\u2019) that, DJT has been facing the East. The window is closing. Time to plan a management strategy for the road forward is ticking down. <\/p>\n

Putting (or \u2018Putin-ing\u2019) another autocrat in one\u2019s \u2018starred\u2019 (\u262a\u2019d) list of contacts is a great first step. Much of the ground work has been laid already. Sap and Vlad are established good buddies, lifelong appointments to political autocracy is the norm . . . and gold is a favoured colour (skin, dogs, hair. . .). An unconfirmed bit of gossip is that Sap cruised to his 1999 \u2018coronation\u2019 on the slogan: MTGA (Make Turkmenistan Great Again)<\/em>. There is the dog, no-dog issue \u2014 but that can be spun. And, of course, not having to worry about illegal voting practices, the fickleness of the electorate, 2024, media that are fake or disloyal or both, and the wasted time attached to firing one\u2019s inner circle \u2014 when a bullet (or a bit of poison) would suffice \u2014 are all so appealing.\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where does one begin? So many layers, so much irony, such glorious timing. DJT\u2019s mentor and role model has been identified: Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov or, if you\u2019re a purist, \u0421\u0430\u043f\u0430\u0440\u043c\u044b\u0440\u0430\u0442 \u0410\u0442\u0430\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u041d\u044b\u044f\u0437\u043e\u0432. Sap, as his close friends and family affectionately tag him (I\u2019m almost totally, certainly sure of this!), is the President for Life of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}