“Never let ’em see you sweat” is not advice to keep people from seeing your wet armpits. It’s advice not to allow people to know that they’ve gotten under your skin or hurt you. It’s a significant admonition because when you’ve given up that awareness, you’ve given up power that will be used against you. President Donald Trump has some people sweating all over the place, and as a result, he holds power over them in obvious ways.
Trump was no politician when he came down the golden escalator in 2015. He was a celebrity. He was a businessman. He enjoyed the “love” of many of the people who began to drag his name after he chose to run for president as a Republican, and believe me: the last part is the main part. Oprah Winfrey asked him in 1988 about running for president. She was fascinated, the audience was fixated, and different shades of faces were smiling. Trump was beloved by powerful people far and wide. All of that changed when he threw his hat in the ring and showed himself to lean right.
He was expected to be faithful to the party of the big wigs and well-off, and if you think I mean Republicans, think again. When Trump, ever the outspoken one, began to speak out against liberal talking points, spearheaded a movement to Make America Great Again, and gained momentum the powerful left never expected, people began to sweat. Sweating is one thing. Letting people see you sweat is something else altogether.