Judge Maryanne Trump Barry (Donald's elder sister) dead at 86. He honors her by...

When one reads that post, as with hundreds of other ones, one wonders, this man is who some of you want as president? He's like a pouty little entitled rich boy who strikes back at every slight, real or perceived. He is clearly mentally unstable and should be nowhere near the levers of power.

 

But … Witch hunt.

 

Exactly. Would anyone here consider this acceptable from their children, whether 5, 12, 18 or ....?
Even more baffling is that so many Americans claim this pouty, petty, vindictive child is some kind of macho leader. It feels like some kind of alternative universe.
What's next, praising Deion Sanders for his humility?

 

All of us - well, most of us - will sometimes become so entrenched in a position that it's impossible for several reasons to back off of it even when that position becomes patently absurd. I believe a lot of MAGA folks are that way: they know their continued support of Trump is ridiculous, but they are afraid of losing face, or admitting they have been wrong about him.

 

What does she know?!?!

 

“We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections,” Trump announced on Veterans Day. And when people complained that sounded like something Adolf Hitler would say, a spokesman responded that “their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.” Which, to be fair, also sounds like something Hitler would say. When you say, “What you just said sounds very much like Hitler’s rhetoric,” you don’t want that to be taken as a challenge. The response you are hoping for is something more like: “Oh no! That was not how we meant to sound, and we are going to leave political life and rethink everything about ourselves and hope that by our final day, we can say we atoned a little bit.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/14/donald-trump-dictator-vermin-2024-satire/

 

The late Charles Krauthammer hit the nail on the head regarding Trump in a 2016 Washington Post column and by the way Krauthammer was a board certified psychiatrist and wasn't exactly a lib with TDS. He was considered a conservative and was a regular commentator on Fox News.

This is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value - indeed exists - only insofar as it sustains and inflates him.

Most politicians seek approval. But Trump lives for the adoration. He doesn't even try to hide it, boasting incessantly about his crowds, his standing ovations, his TV ratings, his poll numbers, his primary victories. The latter are most prized because they offer empirical evidence of how loved and admired he is.​

Charles Krauthammer: Donald Trump and the fitness threshold

 

That 100% describes Trump.

 

His "condition" is not a bug to them but a feature. Many want to blow things up and cause pain, and they fear more mentally stable leaders will have pangs of conscience or compromise, care too greatly about the nation's citizens and the harm that will be done, to push the detonator. He will.

 

sounds like a good commercial

 

Whoever it is. Probably holding out for a book deal, like a true patriot.

 

I deleted it and pasted it in the neofascist thread.

 

Or as one confused MAGA type complaining about what he believes to be harassment, posted on this forum - the fake witch hunt.

 

"TDS" . . . who knew that the Donald read Too Hot?

 

Unfortunately for us, Maryanne inherited the intelligence, reason, and maturity meant for Donald. All he received was stupidity, bigotry, petulance, and impetuousness.

 

Trump is all he is labeled in the quoted post. Though he likely thinks he is autonomous, the man is human and flawed as we all are, and with little doubt has his own share of carefully guarded fears and private torments. Seeking power, riches, and fame he speaks irresponsibly and offensively to the great satisfaction of his supporters who view him as their champion, saying what they fear to say in the vindictive cancelling culture that has driven many to the precipice of ruin. He has learned to stroke their egoes and confirm or validate their own fears to his advantage. Restraints on their thoughts and shackles on their speech are removed when he speaks as their proxy. Though he may not recognize or admit, he is their spokesman puppet; heedlessly, offensively, and publicly saying what they think or believe but fear to say.

Trump acts out his part with the solipsistic fearless and outrageous audacity only a malignant narcissist could possess. His success feeds and affirms his self delusion and he most likely believes everything he declares and promotes himself to be. Seemingly invulnerable he has successfully cheated and intimidated innumerable people through his schemes and cons, while floating himself on bankruptcy claims. Trump projects what his supporters demand. Trump is not the cause, but a symptom of what is fracturing a diseased America.

As his fame grew, his audacious unquenchable ambition likewise grew all the while he positioned himself to be the champion of the angry, the dissatisfied, those who feared for their own futures and social trends they found repugnant, those afraid to speak of their anger for fear of losing their jobs or being 'cancelled.'

Trump had boldness and no fear for job security. He had no job to lose for offending an employer, he was the one doing the firing. He capitalized on the bias, hate, and resentment too many Americans have towards marginalized groups of people they fear. A fast growing number of angry disenfranchised voters looked to him as their champion, to boldly address and condemn what they feared. Trump ginned up and fed those fears using the growing wildfire like energy of his perverse campaign to assure his success.

He bullied main stream Republicans, the true conservatives whose voices were drowned in the debates and primaries leading to the 2016 general election. They crumpled cowardly in the crushing Trump tsunami.

Trump shrewdly cultivated and used people to his advantage. Courting those who could and would cooperate and support him, dissing, ridiculing, and marginalizing those who would not. He deliberately cultivated the support of religious leaders who were also likely swayed by the emboldened radical right rhetoric of their own financial supporters. The Falwells, Franklin Graham, and other religious leaders were not exempt from caving in to their own temptations, each to prevent the collapse of his own religious dynasty. They found biblical scripture justifying their need to forgive Trump's many moral offenses and lies. This perverse twisting is perhaps one of the worst repercussions of Trump's mad reign. Its fallout continues and will continue to be fed as long as Trump has the ear of the American voter.

 

I don't why but after reading this it made think of this seen from porkys.