“I am Yahweh; that is My Name! I will not give My glory to anyone else, nor share My praise with carved idols.” (Isaiah 42: 8)
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Michael Wolff—Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President:
On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway settled into her glass office at Trump Tower. Right up until the last weeks of the race, the campaign headquarters had remained a listless place. All that seemed to distinguish it from a corporate back office were a few posters with right-wing slogans.
Conway, the campaign’s manager, was in a remarkably buoyant mood, considering she was about to experience a resounding, if not cataclysmic, defeat. Donald Trump would lose the election — of this she was sure — but he would quite possibly hold the defeat to under six points. That was a substantial victory. As for the looming defeat itself, she shrugged it off: It was Reince Priebus’s fault, not hers.
She had spent a good part of the day calling friends and allies in the political world and blaming Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Now she briefed some of the television producers and anchors whom she had been carefully courting since joining the Trump campaign — and with whom she had been actively interviewing in the last few weeks, hoping to land a permanent on-air job after the election.
Even though the numbers in a few key states had appeared to be changing to Trump’s advantage, neither Conway nor Trump himself nor his son-in-law, Jared Kushner — the effective head of the campaign — wavered in their certainty: Their unexpected adventure would soon be over. Not only would Trump not be president, almost everyone in the campaign agreed, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction meant nobody had to deal with the latter issue.
As the campaign came to an end, Trump himself was sanguine. His ultimate goal, after all, had never been to win. “I can be the most famous man in the world,” he had told his aide Sam Nunberg at the outset of the race. His longtime friend Roger Ailes, the former head of Fox News, liked to say that if you want a career in television, first run for president. Now Trump, encouraged by Ailes, was floating rumors about a Trump network. It was a great future. He would come out of this campaign, Trump assured Ailes, with a far more powerful brand and untold opportunities.
“This is bigger than I ever dreamed of,” he told Ailes a week before the election. “I don’t think about losing, because it isn’t losing. We’ve totally won.”
From the start, the leitmotif for Trump about his own campaign was how crappy it was, and how everybody involved in it was a loser. In August, when he was trailing Hillary Clinton by more than 12 points, he couldn’t conjure even a far-fetched scenario for achieving an electoral victory. He was baffled when the right-wing billionaire Robert Mercer, a Ted Cruz backer whom Trump barely knew, offered him an infusion of $5 million. When Mercer and his daughter Rebekah presented their plan to take over the campaign and install their lieutenants, Steve Bannon and Conway, Trump didn’t resist. He only expressed vast incomprehension about why anyone would want to do that. “This thing,” he told the Mercers, “is so fucked up.”
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SnyderTalk Comment:
I can’t vouch for the accuracy of everything that’s said in the article, but this thought stood out in my mind as I read it: Yahweh is remarkable.
During the closing days of the presidential campaign, candidate Trump made several comments that suggested he didn’t think he would win. To me, that was clear. I thought, At this point, I have more confidence in him than he has in himself.
I think it’s entirely possible, probably even likely, that Donald Trump didn’t want to be president and that he pursued the highest office in the land as a launching pad for something else. Winning probably wasn’t his goal. That gave him the freedom to say and do things that seemed outlandish to his GOP challengers and other establishment politicians, particularly Hillary Clinton. They didn’t know how to attack him, because he didn’t respond predictably. That gave him a tremendous advantage during the debates.
Yahweh works in mysterious ways. He didn’t need for Trump to want to be president. Yahweh drafted him in a manner of speaking, and he was going to be president. Not only would Trump win the election, as president he would go on to do something that’s unheard of today among establishment politicians. He would keep his word.
President Trump is doing things that needed to be done a long time ago, and he’s in the right frame of mind because he doesn’t want a career in politics. He doesn’t worry about the polls, and he isn’t trying to manipulate things to position himself for something higher on the political ladder. He doesn’t play by traditional political rules. In fact, he’s rewriting the rules. As president, he can do that.
Establishment politicians and the establishment media don’t understand what he’s doing because they can’t think outside the political box. They are stuck in a political rut. As I used to tell my leadership students, a rut is a grave with both ends knocked out. We need to get out of the rut, and Donald Trump is doing that for us.
The U.N. is a perfect example. President Trump is upsetting that apple cart in a big way.
The U.S. judiciary is another great example. Trump is restoring order in a system that has gone haywire. If Jeff Sessions would get off his lazy rear and do his job, there’s no telling what President Trump might accomplish.
Yahweh is using His logic, not ours, and He chose an unlikely person to be president. That’s working out better for us than we could have imagined.
Yahweh did the same thing with David. He was just a shepherd, but Yahweh made him a king.
Hillary Clinton wanted desperately to be president. She devoted her life to winning the Oval Office. To Hillary, Bill Clinton was nothing more than a sugar daddy. She used him the same way she uses everyone.
Thanks to Bill, Hillary landed jobs that she couldn’t have gotten on her own. She met all the right people and sucked up to the ones she thought she needed. Her performance in every job she had was abysmal, but her resume is loaded with stints in the right offices. Those jobs, not her performance in them, made her look like the perfect presidential candidate.
When the dust settled, Hillary lost to a newcomer in politics, someone who didn’t think he could win. She still hasn’t gotten over the shock of her humiliating defeat. I’ll bet she never gets over it.
Yahweh is the Creator and the Savior, but He’s also the Judge. Hillary is about to find out what that means. Losing the presidency will seem like nothing to her when she realizes what she traded away in hopes of becoming the most powerful person in the world.
In the history of the United States, I doubt that there has ever been a person who is more cunning, conniving, and diabolical than Hillary Clinton. I wonder how many people in business, entertainment, government, politics, or whatever are like her. How many of them literally have made deals with the devil and traded their souls to obtain power, fame, and fortune. I’ll bet the number is huge.
Hell won’t be a friendly place, but it won’t be empty, either.
Sometimes when I mention hell, people say, “I don’t believe in God, and I don’t believe in hell.”
My response is always the same: “One day you will.”
This is something that all of us should remember: no one is a match for Yahweh. Putting people in their place is child’s play for Him. Coming to that realization may be the most important thing a person can do, because that’s when people understand that they need a Savior.
Yahweh is that Person.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
