ELECTION 2016
THE NOBLE TRUMP
Exclusive: Theodore Roosevelt Malloch says, 'What he promises will become manifest'
One can say of Donald Trump what Menenius says of Coriolanus, in Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s play “Coriolanus”:
“His heart’s his mouth.”
In fact, Menenius prefaces this with these lines:
His nature is too noble for this world:
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove for’s power to thunder.
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove for’s power to thunder.
Here’s a translation for those of you who need one: He wont kowtow to the powers that be but will speak his mind, even if it gets him in trouble or held in disregard.
That used to be called honesty, but in an age of baby talk, political correctness and mostly bulls–t, I guess it can at times look like dishonesty. It is perhaps Orwellian that Trump’s truth is at times taken as the opposite.
For Trump is honest beyond all normalcies; at least in the sense in which Obama’s/Hillary’s Washington culture of deceit and falsehoods has come to define the new norm.
Trump can’t help but call it like he sees it. He is not the typical economist or academic pundit, describing things on one hand and then on the other, to make a debating point or cover his a–.
Neither is he the archetypical Democratic politician, constantly lying between his teeth, always telling people what they want to hear.
Rather, Trump embodies the case of an upfront businessperson who tells it like it is, cuts an honest and honorable deal, and then upholds his word in a bond of both legal contractual substance and of philosophical pragmatism. He keeps his word.
His goal, after all, is to get things done and to do what works. He does not have some huge inherited ideological agenda, and he is most certainly not wedded to either the failed neo-conservatism of military intervention or the problematic socialist rhetoric of redistribution. Instead, flexibility is his mantra.
Whether Trump “is too noble for this world” I don’t know. Maybe he’s just fed up with the phony political elites on both sides of the aisle who are selling out our country to foreigners for their own personal power and gain. Maybe he is so outside the present, corrupt and corrupting system that he is able to stand back and name it for what it is.
Let’s think about this old-fashioned word, noble, for a minute, for it seems to have exited our everyday lexicon. In the knights of yore, nobility was lauded and held in highest esteem. We rarely hear it used today, certainly in the field of political behavior.
Defined as having or sharing the true qualities of high moral purpose, being noble had synonyms like honorable, upright, decent, worthy, uncorrupted, ethical, reputable, brave, unselfish and magnanimous. These were virtues of excellence.
Noble purpose was best seen as a statement of your true calling in life and especially in the work you do. It was called a vocation.
This differentiated you from others and inspired you, and those around you, to succeed while honoring your core values.
Purpose is becoming all the rage today in companies and organizations because it links work to meaning. We all want meaningful lives, lives that matter. Beyond profit, which is short-term in motivation, noble purpose makes for a greater cause – more enduring and tied to a telos (an end) that benefits all, toward some common good.
This nobility is something that can leverage natural needs creating high-level thinking and actions that are tied to a lasting worldview. Noble ideas, you realize, build cultures that form institutions that shape the world.
What is your noble purpose?
Here is the one that motivates Donald Trump and his game plan as a future president of the United States and leader of the entire free world.
First, his jumping off point for a noble purpose and a related strategy cascades at every level and every policy he articulates. That point is a simple phrase and his tagline, namely, To Make American Great Again (MAGA). America comes first.
Second, proving this noble way, Trump has a distinctive narrative. He has codified his impact on all of American society. He personalizes his inclusive message to explain what matters and what does not. He is dead serious about his intentions and his plan to enact MAGA. For him our future and that of our larger civilization depend on nothing less.
Third, Trump is winning hearts and minds by launching and activating his noble purpose. His repeated message and candidacy is aspirational. He plans to accelerate it with wins that change the entire process of politics and the landscape of Washington culture. Donald Trump, if anything, is a doer – he is applied. He is no ideologue or pontificator. He will deliver.
Fourth, Trump uses visuals and real stories to make his point. He is alive, real and compelling, as no other voice in this election year. His message is external and has gone viral. Trump’s noble purpose is aligned with what he says he will do. Trump, in a word, will execute. What he promises will become manifest.
Make no mistake: Trump is embedding his noble purpose and creating a larger system that can live on and on. Both voters and history itself will, of course, judge his performance.
He relishes this as someone who has carried a Profit & Loss and a Balance Sheet mentality in the world of fierce business. MAGA, like Reagan’s Morning in America, or JFK’s, New Frontier, or TR’s, Square Deal, can live on, transforming our country and the world for this 21st century.
It is a noble purpose, and Trump is its unique and timely messenger. Trump is not a typical self-serving politician. He is an authentic leader.
Sir John Templeton, the greatest investor of the last century and a mentor of mine, believed that awareness that one’s life can reflect a sense of higher purpose no matter what the circumstances changes life. He thought that humans in many cultures and historical epochs have pursued noble purposes by answering God’s call as each hears it.
You see, noble purpose can be pursued both in heroic acts and in everyday behavior. Ordinary people – teachers, business professionals, workers, parents, and citizens – can also ennoble what they do by being mindful of its deepest meaning.
Purpose brings coherence and satisfaction to people’s lives, producing joy in good times and resilience in hard times. It also presents a paradox: Hard work in service of noble purpose that transcends personal gain is a surer path to happiness than the self-indulgent pursuit of material things for their own sake.
The closer we come to God’s purpose for us, the more satisfied our lives become. Trump realizes this and is himself sacrificing to return America to its original path.
His noble purpose is identical to that of the Founders who used the famous line in their first declaration, signaling what America was all about: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, understood not as some hedonistic satisfaction but as eudemonia.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/the-noble-trump/#8uzg37uDlHUL27RC.99
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