Trump shares a media post on Truth Social
Trump truth Social post containing 2 videos. Video transcript # If— by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Truth Social post containing 2 videos.
Video transcript # If— by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make.
Donald J. Trump shared a video post on Truth Social featuring Rudyard Kipling’s iconic poem “If—,” which outlines virtues of resilience, patience, and self-mastery. Originally published in 1910, the classic literary work is framed as a father’s advice to his son on maintaining integrity during difficult times.
Truth Social post containing 2 videos.
Video transcript # If— by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, and yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise, If you can dream and not make dreams your master, If you can think and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same, If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken and stoop and build them up with worn-out tools, If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss, If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them, “Hold on,” If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, if all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, and which is more, you’ll be a man, my son!
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President Trump is the author of The Art of the Deal, Think Like a Billionaire, and Think Big. Analyst and Trump supporter Rod Martin points to The Art of the Deal, Trump's 1987 book, as an explanation of his deal-making philosophy: making big announcements, pivoting often in public statements and, Martin says, ultimately getting what he wanted all along. Critics contend that Trump's books were published decades ago or were aimed at making money, not shedding light. "Generally," Martin said, "critics don't read The Art of the Deal. If they did, they would understand."