Winning Isn't Enough for Trump

Donald Trump should be on top of the world.


Against all odds and breaking every political taboo in the book, Trump got what he wanted.


He's the most powerful man in the world.


But why is he so unhappy?


This is a man who is still angry at Jeb Bush for not keeping his pledge to support him during the general election. This would be the Jeb Bush that Trump absolutely humiliated during the primaries and effectively ended the Bush Dynasty.


Then earlier this week Trump summoned a group of top media figures to Trump Tower including the major network anchors and absolutely ripped them a new one. Trump reserved his greatest anger for CNN President Jeff Zucker. He told Zucker, "I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and should be ashamed."


Everyone at CNN? Poor Jeffrey Lord.


Clearly, Trump is a sore winner. He could have just rubbed it in with Bush and with the media. But it goes well beyond that. Winning isn't enough for Trump. He wants complete and absolute blind devotion. This is a quality shared by dictators petty and otherwise.


Perhaps things won't be so bad if Trump keeps his dictatorial tendencies petty. But I have a bad feeling he will dictate otherwise.