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Miles Archer

(24,282 posts)
Sun May 17, 2026, 03:12 PM 14 hrs ago

The Mooch claims Trump is "nauseated by" lackeys tossing his salad. READ "YAKUZA DIARY" for perspective.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE BOOK "Yakuza Diary: Doing Time in the Japanese Underworld" by Christopher Seymour. He's an American journalist who lived in Japan and had unprecedented access to the Yakuza for a "gaijin" (foreigner).

The reason I'm sharing this in the context of Trump is that the dynamic between the Japanese crime bosses and their young "recruits" mirrors what Scaramucci is claiming in regard to Trump.

They scour the pachinko parlors, looking for kids who clearly have no future. They "groom" them. There's one great passage in which Seymour describes a young "recruit" bringing a whiskey sour to a boss, and waiting for his approval as he takes his first sip. And, in order to keep the kid uncertain and anxious and subservient, the boss shows no reaction whatsoever, so the kid gets no validation, and is constantly seeking the boss' approval, which he'll never receive.

Anyway...I read the Mooch piece and thought of that book. It's pretty sick and insidious, but we ARE dealing with a 79 year old rapist and convicted felon.


"If he walked through the door right now — even though we're always fighting — he would be disarming, gregarious, genuinely charming," Scaramucci wrote. He described Trump as a man who routinely savages opponents in public only to seek reconciliation moments later. "He calls Newsom 'Newscum' publicly and then sees him on the tarmac and says Gavin, are we good?" Scaramucci wrote.

"He'll destroy a journalist on camera and then pick up the phone five minutes later. Are we good?"

But the most revealing tell, according to Scaramucci, is what happens when Trump is surrounded by yes-men."When he's sitting at a table and everyone is telling him his invisible clothes are beautiful, he's nauseated by it," Scaramucci wrote. "He comes off the plane and finds someone real and says — can you believe how these guys talk to me? With genuine mocking derision."

Scaramucci further pointed to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney as a case study, claiming Trump calls Carney "more than any other Western leader" specifically because Carney refuses to flatter him. "He craves the pushback. He just can't admit it."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-scaramucci-his-secret-tell/
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