Success Quote by Donald Trump

A salesman’s cadence turns a moral abyss into a customer-service dispute. “Don’t tell me it doesn’t work” isn’t an argument; it’s a dominance move, preemptively swatting away expertise and evidence with the posture of a guy who’s heard enough from the “so-called” professionals. Trump frames the question of torture as a performance metric, not a legal or ethical rupture. The subtext is brutally transactional: results are the only currency that matters, and anything that slows the deal - laws, norms, international standing, human rights - is just bureaucracy.

Then comes the pivot: “Torture works.” The flat certainty is the point. It dares the audience to share a forbidden conclusion, offering the thrill of bluntness as proof of truth. It’s also a linguistic trick: “works” is undefined, conveniently elastic. Works to extract accurate intelligence? Works to feel powerful? Works to project toughness on TV? The vagueness lets supporters fill in whatever “success” they want, while critics are forced into a detail-oriented rebuttal that sounds like squeamish hair-splitting next to his swagger.

“Okay, folks?” seals it with talk-show intimacy, turning complicity into a casual nod. It’s not persuasion so much as recruitment: join me in being unsentimental, in saying the quiet part out loud. The cultural context is post-9/11 anger and fatigue with ambiguity, when “enhanced interrogation” debates got reduced to a reality-show binary: tough guys versus hand-wringers. Trump exploits that framing, offering certainty as comfort - and cruelty as brand identity.