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Fine Motor Skills

Take a look at President Trump signing some documents and see if you see what I see.

When I watch our president sign his name, I see a man moving his arm back and forth with some significant, and unnecessary, fervor.  I realize that the D, l, d, J, and T are tall letters, but I have some tall letters in my name, too, and I don't have near that much arm movement in my signature.  I also sign my name relatively large, and yet most of my writing is finger movement, not arm movement.

I acknowledge that I might be making too much of this, but they say you can tell a great deal about a person by their signature.

Watching this large movement, where small movements suffice, makes me think of his over-sized aggression towards Hillary Clinton (and his Republican opponents before her) during the campaign.  I think of his huge, bold statements about walls, health care coverage, restoring America's greatness, his superior knowledge of things military, and so much more.  I look at his signature and see a series of jagged diagonal lines in the r-u-m which are tough to differentiate if you don't know what you're looking at.  I see the initials and I get the gist of it enough to discern what he's going for, but I can't actually read it.

When I think of that, I can't help but think of the travel ban which he has tried to pound through, the grand statements he makes about how wonderful certain people will be in the administration only to see them flunk out or be fired, and then I come to something that seems so particularly out-sized.  I see the firing of then-acting AG Sally Yates, and now the firing of FBI Director James Comey, and I can't help but see that he's trying to leave his mark somehow.  It's difficult, however, to discern exactly what he's communicating in these moves.  That makes it tough to combat, as well.  The broad strokes are clear.  He is attempting to stop, and if that's not possible then to at least stall the investigation into Russian involvement into the hacking of the DNC.  But what else is in there?

The question for me is about the details of what he's trying to do.  We can see the arm movements to see what he's doing, but I fear that his lack of usage of fine motor skills might just leave things unclear enough that we will be left with his jagged, aggressive script all over our government with no legible record of how he has managed to succeed to this point, nor of how he managed to leave us in the state in which many Americans fear we will find ourselves.

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