S trategic chaos made for theater ADVERTISING S trategic chaos made for theater Why does President Trump outright lie about so many things? From Obama wiretapping his phones to the size of his inauguration crowds, he does not seem to
S trategic chaos made for theater
Why does President Trump outright lie about so many things? From Obama wiretapping his phones to the size of his inauguration crowds, he does not seem to care whether people think he speaks the truth. It seems so self-destructive. Doesn’t he know that his credibility is at stake? Why does he fly in the face of the advice our parents and grandparents always gave us: “A good reputation is the most valuable thing that you own.”
I think I have found the answer: I call it, “strategic chaos.” In the same way that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un keeps the world guessing if he is crazy enough to launch a nuclear attack, Trump keeps us guessing about how much he is in touch with reality.
Please hear me out. This is not as crazy a strategy as it first appears to be. This is, after all, how a lot of dictators survive so long in power. Everyone thinks they are crazy, so no one is willing to cross them and suffer their insane wrath.
This is all the more understandable when you watch a play by Michael Daisey called, “The Trump Card.” This darkly humorous one-man show explains Trump better than anything else I have seen. The most interesting thing in the play is the examination of Trump’s 13-year close relationship with Roy Cohn, the same Roy Cohn who was the chief strategist for Sen. Joe McCarthy during the Communist witch hunts in the 1950s. The master of chaos found his apprentice.
I was so amazed by “The Trump Card” that I decided I wanted to bring the play to the Big Island. Quite a few people I showed the script to came to the same conclusion and, now, it looks like it’s going to happen. It is tentatively scheduled to have two performances at the Aloha Theatre in early June, and one at the People’s Theatre in Honoka’a in mid-June.
Matt Binder
Waimea
