About a week ago, I posted a column on Trump and the Ryan budget in which I noted that anyone voting for Trump on the basis of his promise not to cut entitlements was making a serious mistake, given his, shall we say, flexibility with the truth. Right on cue, the AOL News ran an article on Monday in which unnamed sources indicated that Trump had indicated a willingness to cut Social Security in his meeting with Paul Ryan; he just doesn’t want to talk about it during the campaign, because he knows it will hurt his chances of winning.
The bottom line is that Trump’s attitude towards selling himself in politics is the same as it is in business–the entire voting public is, in a sense, a customer base for Trump University. The difference is that his interests have turned from money to power. And that’s really, really scary.