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July 11, 2025 - Day #173

The Effusive Praise Business

President Donald Trump is a man who wears many hats. He’s in the communication business and is the CEO of his fingers as he posts multiple messages on his messaging app Truth Social. Just yesterday he posted 12 times and the day before that 33 times. He’s in the immigration and deportation business, and related adjacently as the CEO of the cruelty business. He’s also the CEO of name calling and has been very active as he wears that hat. Currently, “Too Late” Jerome Powell seems to be his favorite, but he’s also quick to let fly with others when needed. California’s governor Gavin “Newscum”, “Crooked Democrats”, Elon Musk a “TRAIN WRECK”, former president Joe Biden “Sleepy Joe”, and the always legacy news organizations as “fake news”. During last year’s campaign he was all over Kamala Harris as “Laffin’ Kamala” and “Crazy Kamala”, VP candidate Tim Waltz as “Tampon Tim”, and on and on. His skillset at name-calling is unmatched when wearing that hat, a hat which seemly is a favorite of his. Tariffs is another area where he excels, with his willy-nilly, on-and-off, up-and-down approach to maybe-he-will-or-maybe-he-won’t. US businesses thrive on that uncertainty and thus, when he wears the tariff hat, all bets are off.

Arguable, though, his best talent is exposed when he’s wearing his self-aggrandizing braggadocio hat. His greatest talent definitely lies in his ability to call it like he sees it about himself and he always sees himself as the best, the brightest, the most, the unmatched, the king of kings. He always hits it out of the park during effusive self praise, a business about which he has no peer.

So it’s no surprise that others have picked up on that least kept secret when dealing with Trump. To help grease the wheels of staying on the right side the President, any one and everyone needs to bring their A game of effusive praise, because if Trump is anything, he’s the Chairman of the Board, the CEO and the CFO and Head Secretary of The Effusive Praise business.

Just yesterday at the White House, Trump met with the presidents of Gabon (Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema), Guinea-Bissau (Umaro Sissoco Embaló), Liberia (Joseph Nyuma Boakai), Mauritania (Mohamed Ould Ghazouani), and Senegal (Bassirou Diomaye Faye), and they each came prepared with the ammunition of praise for the American President in hoped for returns of good favor. Trump was complimented on his golf game as well as near unanimous agreement that he should receive the Nobel Peace Prize, along with other niceties.

Trump was delighted as the pleasantries flowed about his leadership, saying, “I didn’t know I’d be treated this nicely. We could do this all day long.”

Of course you could.

From reporting on the meeting:

Trump expressed amazement at how “good” Liberian President Boakai’s English was after the African leader gave brief remarks, oblivious to the fact that English is the official language of Liberia.

“Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?…You were educated where? In Liberia? That’s very interesting,” said the president.

Bishop Joseph Tolton, an African policy expert and founder of the Pan-African advocacy group Interconnected Justice, told theGrio that Trump’s comments about Boakai’s English harkens back to 2018 when President Trump infamously called African nations “s–hole countries.”

“He approaches Africa from that bias and with that perception that these are kind of barbaric, uncivilized leaders and nations,” said Tolton, who often does missionary and advocacy work across the African continent.

This is a reminder that one of Trump’s other areas of expertise is ignorance, a hat that he cluelessly wears much of the time.

And, tucked in among those 33 Truth Social posts by Trump from two days ago, was this:

“It has been brought to my attention that the Great State of Florida, which I won BIG three times, and where I am a proud Resident, has renamed an important four-mile stretch of Southern Boulevard, in Palm Beach County, to “PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BOULEVARD.” Thank you to Palm Beach County, Governor Ron DeSantis, and all of Florida’s great State Lawmakers, on granting me this wonderful honor! I LOVE FLORIDA!”

More effusive praise, and in Trump world, that’s business as usual, except this time it was a two way street.