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Susan Burgess's avatar

Yes, exactly right. Someone early on robbed them of their authentic self. You got to be what they always wanted to be but couldn’t so they hate you for it. This of course goes for celebrities in general.

I see it as a particularly painful form of jealousy where they blame you and other stars instead of blaming themselves and the person who shamed them and failed to foster their self love when they were young.

No matter how celebrated Trump was or tried to be, he was not and never could be one of them.

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Elizabeth M. (Massachusetts)'s avatar

Spot on, Susan, and fully supported by Mary Trump’s very insightful and revealing book about how The Donald was wounded and then tutored to become what he is by his formative years with a mother who emotionally abandoned him at age two and a rich, bigoted, demanding, and cruelly derisive father who belittled him and trained him to become a ruthless “killer” in business.

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David Holzman's avatar

That book was everything you say.

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