Great analysis, TC! And again, thanks for quoting his best raves from “Truth” Social, so we don’t have to. How fascinating that “Sunset Boulevard” is his favorite movie. You’re so right about the psychological “tell”. The fact that it is his favorite, and that he openly lets people know it is, let’s people see him watching it over and o…
Great analysis, TC! And again, thanks for quoting his best raves from “Truth” Social, so we don’t have to. How fascinating that “Sunset Boulevard” is his favorite movie. You’re so right about the psychological “tell”. The fact that it is his favorite, and that he openly lets people know it is, let’s people see him watching it over and over again, also means he has zero self awareness—no clue whatsoever about how transparent his pathologies are. No clue that he’s airing every bit of his mental and emotional dirty laundry for a worldwide audience.
It *had* to end this way, because Dumpster is so NEEDY. While he was getting the constant adoration and adulation he craves, he was in seventh heaven, and to his followers, his neediness was nowhere evident. He was a Big Success! He was Rich, Famous, and no smarter than they were, yet he became President! Which surely meant that the sky was the limit for his MAGA followers,too! And he Loved them!
But we who didn’t fall for him all saw it from the start, that yawning black hole, the desperate, grasping compulsion to get the next hit of adulation, to feed the wolf inside before it devoured him.
He is in cold turkey detox now that nobody’s paying attention to him anymore. The spectacle is only going to get more tawdry with more rambling disjointed raving from here on out. My bet is that politically he’s done because everyone but the most brainwashed devotees can see what a pathetic loser he is.
I think he’s sealing his own fate, and he can’t help himself, because now the wolf is winning.
Interestingly the psychiatrist who wrote/edited "Duty to Warn" quoted several different people who did not know each other and each did not know he was talking to the others, and they all recounted events where they felt they were around an "entity" that was "tryuing desperately to be Donald Trump." They say he has no self-awareness, no curiosity, no interest in learning anything.
Anthony Schwartz, tRump's ghost writer for "The Art of the Deal" and Timothy O'Brien, author of "Trump Nation: The Art of Being the Donald" both described tRump as a yawning black hole of neediness who could never be satisfied. They both said that what we saw on screen was all there was to see of Donald. There were no hidden depths. He is pathetic as well as pathological. That does not alter the fact that he has committed crimes his entire adult life and has never been held accountable.
So it's unanimous. I don't pity him. If he were a private individual, who had made no one suffer but himself, then I would pity him. But with the power of the presidency, his pathologies made him a monster. I hope he goes to prison and spends the rest of his pathetic life there. It is essential that he be held fully accountable, otherwise the next round of Republicans will figure they can do all the same things only smarter, aiming to actually complete the coup and create an authoritarian White nationalist phony-religious state.
Great analysis, TC! And again, thanks for quoting his best raves from “Truth” Social, so we don’t have to. How fascinating that “Sunset Boulevard” is his favorite movie. You’re so right about the psychological “tell”. The fact that it is his favorite, and that he openly lets people know it is, let’s people see him watching it over and over again, also means he has zero self awareness—no clue whatsoever about how transparent his pathologies are. No clue that he’s airing every bit of his mental and emotional dirty laundry for a worldwide audience.
It *had* to end this way, because Dumpster is so NEEDY. While he was getting the constant adoration and adulation he craves, he was in seventh heaven, and to his followers, his neediness was nowhere evident. He was a Big Success! He was Rich, Famous, and no smarter than they were, yet he became President! Which surely meant that the sky was the limit for his MAGA followers,too! And he Loved them!
But we who didn’t fall for him all saw it from the start, that yawning black hole, the desperate, grasping compulsion to get the next hit of adulation, to feed the wolf inside before it devoured him.
He is in cold turkey detox now that nobody’s paying attention to him anymore. The spectacle is only going to get more tawdry with more rambling disjointed raving from here on out. My bet is that politically he’s done because everyone but the most brainwashed devotees can see what a pathetic loser he is.
I think he’s sealing his own fate, and he can’t help himself, because now the wolf is winning.
Interestingly the psychiatrist who wrote/edited "Duty to Warn" quoted several different people who did not know each other and each did not know he was talking to the others, and they all recounted events where they felt they were around an "entity" that was "tryuing desperately to be Donald Trump." They say he has no self-awareness, no curiosity, no interest in learning anything.
That fits. Two and three year olds have no self-awareness or self-reflection, either. And emotionally, he is a toddler.
Anthony Schwartz, tRump's ghost writer for "The Art of the Deal" and Timothy O'Brien, author of "Trump Nation: The Art of Being the Donald" both described tRump as a yawning black hole of neediness who could never be satisfied. They both said that what we saw on screen was all there was to see of Donald. There were no hidden depths. He is pathetic as well as pathological. That does not alter the fact that he has committed crimes his entire adult life and has never been held accountable.
So it's unanimous. I don't pity him. If he were a private individual, who had made no one suffer but himself, then I would pity him. But with the power of the presidency, his pathologies made him a monster. I hope he goes to prison and spends the rest of his pathetic life there. It is essential that he be held fully accountable, otherwise the next round of Republicans will figure they can do all the same things only smarter, aiming to actually complete the coup and create an authoritarian White nationalist phony-religious state.