“With yesterday’s tragic news, we are calling for an immediate deescalation of tensions and for state, local and federal officials to work together to find real solutions.” Letter signed by 60 Minnesotan CEOs
It has taken the ICE killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti for Minnesotan CEOs — among the most powerful and wealthiest Americans, says CNBC — to cause President Trump to blink, to back down from the Storm Trooper tactics of his immigration police in Minneapolis.
Minnesotans and the American public are learning how to counter what they are seeing with their own eyes, the real Donald Trump. His actions and those of his followers are the behavior of bullies, led by a megalomaniac with a very limited attention span and unlimited need for attention in the words of Mary Trump, his niece and a Clinical Psychologist, whose single-minded purpose is to gather as much wealth and power to himself as possible.
It is a bully mentality that has infected Trump’s MAGA followers and leaders of the Republican Party as well, which sometimes takes tragedies such as happened in Milwaukee to open our eyes. There is little mystery to his actions.
Donald Trump’s success in business, such as it is, was due to his bullying tactics that browbeat investors and lenders to such an extent that he could no longer rely on U.S. investors and banks to finance his projects, but came to rely on Russian oligarchs instead who needed to hide their wealth from the Russian people.
Such a mentality has led to increased bullying in schools since the COVID-19 pandemic, and even gun violence. It is a mentality that attempts to impose a bully's version of reality on the real world for the sole purpose of domination.
Evidence of Trump's bullying behavior also comes from the exaggerated use of his hands, which is the body language and mannerisms of a bully reports Groff Beattle, a professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University who specializes in gestures,.
Also comments such as "mentally sick", "dummy", "looser" or "looked disgusting" are all examples of bullying language on Trump's Truth Social site. Furthermore, he has mocked the disability of reporter Serge Kovaleski, portrayed immigrants and foreigners as dangerous people, rapists or "criminal aliens", and demonstrated a significant lack of respect for women generally.
How does one oppose such destructive behavior? First, remember that bullies will prey on the weakest, and avoid confrontation with those stronger because of their own insecurities. Trump preyed on naïve students and the elderly in his Trump University scam. And he stiffed workers and employees when building his Trump Casinos either by paying them less than was contractually agreed to, or not at all via numerous bankruptcies.
It is a lesson NATO members at DAVOS have just learned that is being reflected in their speeches as they search for other countries to move their businesses.
Combine it with what many Psychologists have termed Trump’s Malignant Narcissism, a particularly dangerous form that means he will do anything, break any law to get his way.
Trump is now supporting Central and South American regimes backed by drug cartels in pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 40-year sentence for drug trafficking.
In standing up to what has proven to be a soulless, amoral administration Minnesotans are fighting for more than their own state, they are fighting to prevent a world that President Trump and his oligarchs want to restore in South and Central America for their own benefit by supporting right wing narco-states that have as little regard for life.
Harlan Green © 2026
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