{"id":100754,"date":"2025-04-14T15:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T19:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=100754"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T19:19:01","slug":"opinion-tony-volk-discusses-trumps-bullying-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/04\/opinion-tony-volk-discusses-trumps-bullying-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Tony Volk discusses Trump&#8217;s bullying tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Child and Youth Studies Tony Volk wrote a piece recently published in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/article-as-an-expert-in-bullying-i-have-advice-on-dealing-with-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Globe and Mail<\/a><\/em> about how to deal with U.S. President Donald Trump behaving like a bully.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\"><em>&#8220;The good news is Mr. Trump isn\u2019t motivated by a deep ideology like some past demagogues. He\u2019s a transactional bully with transparent interests. These aren\u2019t the easiest traits in a neighbour, but research argues they make for very strong and predictable pathways for behavioural influence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In public, Canadian political and business leaders should treat Mr. Trump\u2019s desire for Canada as the 51st state as a compliment, praise his unheralded capacity for change, marvel at his political survivability and blame policies we don\u2019t like on people around him. Project credible strength, but don\u2019t personally insult the President or leave him without an off-ramp that preserves (or better yet, strengthens) his ego.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/article-as-an-expert-in-bullying-i-have-advice-on-dealing-with-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Globe and Mail<\/em>\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Child and Youth Studies Tony Volk wrote a piece recently published in the Globe and Mail about how to deal with U.S. President Donald Trump behaving like a bully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[45,8485,522,739,31,486,3502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100754"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100756,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100754\/revisions\/100756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}