The Unfortunate Truth: Are We Stuck With Trump and Trumpism Until He Heads to Mar-A-Lago in the Sky?

Andy Ostroy
3 min readAug 7, 2023

Let me start by being perfectly clear: I am not in any way shape or form advocating or wishing for Donald Trump’s death. I’m not a religious man, but I have great respect for karma. Let him live a long and healthy life. Hopefully the long arm of the law is going to take care of the rest.

I am simply going to acknowledge reality. And the reality is that he’s 77-years-old, obese and grossly out-of-shape. He’s a junk-food junkie who doesn’t exercise. On paper, medically speaking, the odds of him living a much longer life are not in his favor. But…

…I also believe that because he’s a malignant-narcissist and sociopath, he does not internalize anything. He leads by id and lets it all out, immediately, like a petulant, impulse-control-lacking toddler. I don’t believe he experiences stress and anxiety — two common causes of many deadly health conditions — like the rest of us. So he may be in luck; he may be with us for a very long time.

Which brings me to my main point. We’ve seen how nothing has so far stopped the disease of Trump and Trumpism. Not his pathological-lying, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, racism, corruption, treason, two impeachments, three (going on four) indictments, civil court finding of…

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Andy Ostroy

Director, producer, podcaster, writer, resistor, non-profit-supporter of women filmmakers