Donald John Trump: The American Akhenaten

By Tom Strabo

Why does the American establishment hate Donald Trump so much? Why are the great and the good so terrified of a Trump presidency? It's because Trump, like Akhenaten, the heretic Pharaoh of ancient Egypt, opposes the old political gods and priorities, the old elites, the old ways of doing things. Everything will change under Trump. Akhenaten, one of the most extraordinary figures in world history, was hated by the priestly establishment that controlled Egyptian religion, hence Egypt itself since the Egyptians were such a religious people. The Pharaoh's power was constrained by the priest caste. They were his chief advisers, his administrators, and those who convinced the people that he was the closest thing to the gods themselves. Akhenaten did the unthinkable. He overthrew the old gods. All of the priests of the old order lost their power and influence. America now needs revolutionary thinking. It needs a heretic. Only Donald Trump can be the new Akhenaten.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9780244980405

Tom Strabo

Tom Strabo is a freethinker, controversialist and contrarian.

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Introduction

Akhenaten, the heretic Pharaoh of ancient Egypt and one of the most extraordinary figures in world history, was hated by the priestly establishment that controlled Egyptian religion, hence Egypt itself since the Egyptians were such a religious people. The Pharaoh’s power was entirely constrained by the priest caste. They were his chief advisers, his administrators, and those who convinced the people that he was the closest thing to the gods themselves. Akhenaten did the unthinkable. He overthrew the old gods. All of the priests of the old order lost their power and influence.

Why does the American establishment hate Donald Trump so much? Why are the great and the good so terrified of a Trump presidency? It’s because he, like Akhenaten, opposes the old political gods and priorities, the old elites, the old ways of doing things. Everything will change under Trump. There will be a new power in the land.

The elites hate change. Change threatens their power and influence. They want everything to stay the same forever, with them on top forever. They want the same old gods, the same old priests, and everything to be done in the same old way. George Orwell wrote, If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. To whom does this boot belong? – The elite. They permanently have their boot on the people’s neck, making sure the people can never get up off the ground.

Trump is a political heretic, an outsider. He owes nothing to the political establishment. He’s not part of the cozy consensus of the Washington D.C. powerbrokers (the equivalents of ancient Egypt’s manipulative, self-interested priest caste). He’s not one of the good old boys, the cronies. They don’t want him crashing their party. With a Trump presidency, many of the pigs would be excluded from the golden troughs they have had their snouts in for so long, so lucratively.

Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, and elites don’t vote for anyone who’s going to challenge them. Unlike Hillary Clinton, Trump isn’t the puppet of donors and lobbyists. Clinton is just about the biggest political insider you can get. Nothing will change under Clinton. The status quo will be strenuously upheld. She is the candidate of continuity, of business as usual, of everything staying exactly the same as before. The elites will get everything they want. There will be no new ideas, no new techniques, no new faces. Clinton is the candidate of No Change, of permanent stasis.

You would need to be crazy to vote for Clinton, unless you’re part of the elite, and then it would be crazy not to vote for her.

How did America get to the sorry state it’s in now? Who’s to blame? Well, how can the finger be pointed at anyone other than the political class that have misruled the nation for decades, and of which Hillary Clinton is the most egregious example?

Let’s have the heretic in the White House. Let’s have new thinking, new ideas, new methods, new dramatis personae. We’re sick of the ancien régime. It’s time for the revolution, time for the new gods.

Trump is the first candidate for decades, since JFK, who can deliver real change. If you’re not doing well under the crony elites (and how could you be?), Trump is your only hope.

But just as the Egyptian elites did everything to stop Akhenaten, the American elites will strain every sinew to keep Trump out of the White House.

By learning about the problems that faced Akhenaten, and the culture of ancient Egypt into which he was born, we can understand the problems a President Trump would face. You can be sure it would be a time of upheaval. As Shakespeare said, if you have no stomach for this fight, depart the battlefield.

The First Debate

Trump played two main cards in his first debate with Hillary Clinton. He emphasized that Clinton had been in the political limelight for some thirty years, thus making her a key part of the political establishment that has produced the failing America of today. And he stressed that he was not a politician but a successful businessman, hence he would automatically be doing things in a radically different way.

Can you imagine a new type of politics where murky political transactions, mired in ambiguity, are replaced by clear-cut business transactions?

Trump would have a whole new way of doing things. In foreign relations, he would ask, Can I do business with this other country? Can we reach a good deal? How can both parties profit? Regarding the economy,