Very clever on the part of the President. Trump is as distractable as a two year old.
By having Trump fire his Twitter guns at Obama (and you know heāll respond), it deflects his attention from Hillary.
Heās beginning to ramp it up. I think heās going to be very articulate and effective when he finally does commit to endorsing Hillary. Then Donald, not knowing who to punch back at, is gonna really be flailing wildly. It will be a thing of beauty to see the Donald lose his shit in a very public way.
I saw Trump threatening to go after Obama if he were attacked, and thinking about it Iād say thatās a very solid piece of the argument that heās mentally ill. Obamaās been the subject of a constant barrage of the vilest slander possible, and itās just delusional to think he could possibly give a momentās thought to what Donald Trump, a person heās gone out of his way to mock and disparage multiple times in the past, might say about him. At this point Trump seems to engage in magical thinking about the power of his insults and has zero real-world understanding of what actually happened during the primaries. He thinks he talked his enemies into the cornfield with superhero mind power somehow. āI talked about them, and they went down,ā heās put it in nearly exactly those terms. Amazing.
Trump seems to engage in magical thinking about the power of his insults
He actually said this:
āMy Twitter has become so powerful that I can actually make my enemies tell the truth.ā
Heās got the cognitive abilities of a not-very-precocious 10-year old.
Iām pretty foggy on child development but I believe thereāve been models that say until a certain ageā4 or 5, sayāa child doesnāt really understand thereās a real world out there that follows its own rules. If you put something in a box, the child believes itās disappeared, and so forth. Heās got that infantile sociopathic thing going onāhe really canāt grasp that thereās a world outside the me-centered Trumpian universe, that there are other people in it with their own identity, thoughts, and feelings, that thereās a universe independent of him and indifferent to him. I doubt he ever will.
D. Drumpf is anal expulsive, no doubt. Freud would have been delighted to study an individual as thoroughly deranged as Il Douche.
I donāt know that I wouldnāt have an exaggerated sense of self-importance if I were being treated with an exaggerated sense of importance by the media.
To a degree, yes. But not like him. Trump is pathological. His need for adulation is being fed but itās a narcotic for him. The more he gets, the more he wants. In the meantime, he grows into a bigger monster than he already was. (Thatās saying a lot)
ārailsā? This president doesnāt ārailā against anything.
And the really sad thing is there are millions of Americans, including many accomplished citizens, that are blindly falling in line with him. This is very scary and when he loses they will also fall for the almost certain reaction of āthe election was stolen.ā Our country will continue to be very divided.
Obama: Heās āNot Going To Make Your Lives Betterā
Trump: Indeed, thatās not my job. I want to make my life better and that is all that matters. I will become a real billionaire and have even younger wive(s).
Iāve been thinking about this too. I expect his RNC acceptance will be his maximum high, and it will come down after that. It will be interesting to see what he does when he canāt get a big enough fix after that.
Well educated people can also fall prey to the demagogueās hypnosis. Drumpf is a snake-oil salesman. If someone is ill (or thinks theyāre ill), they can be conned by the snake-oil salesman. The sucker turns off the skeptical part of their brain and they listen to the conmanās spielā¦because they want his lies to be true. An accomplished demagogue is an extremely dangerous individual.
Iām not so sure. I suspect (and I hope Iām right) he is having his highest acceptance now. The GOPer convention is likely to be a Fourth Reich horror show that will fill ordinary folks with dread, fear, and loathing.
A descent from narcissism to galloping megalomania followed by a complete breakdown was always in the cards and the most likely outcome. Only question is whether itās a breakdown induced by defeat and the loss of everything that stands between him and his own sense of worthlessness or a Caligula-style spiral into psychotic capricious tyranny is the only question.
Trump may have accomplished one thing for himself. Obama ārailsā against (more like inveighs against) Trump, is an improvement over āObama humiliates Trump at Washington Correspondentās Dinnerā. People, including the President, rightfully fear a Trump regime and the possible horrors associated with it. And I think, that for a dangerously addled individual like Trump, fear and loathing is almost as good as respect.
Every word brilliant.
That is not going to make your lives betterā¦ I want to have an interventionā¦ a bunch of okey dokeā¦ He seems to do a good job of mentioning his own nameā¦
Yes, there are many possibilities, all of them bad. Iām not sure that he can make it five months before he goes badshit insane and runs amok. It will be very ugly and could potentially involve multiple homicides. No, thatās not really over-the-top. It could happen.
This is true. His speech is thoughtful and measured, even when he gets fired up about something. His quiet dignity will be sorely missed.