This just came to me. Every time that Donald John Trump gets into trouble, his immediate reaction is to throw a Trumper tantrum. In his warped mind, he believes that this shows him to be a tough guy that nobody bosses around. To the rest of us, he looks exactly like what he is. A spoiled, petulant brat. And that’s the secret to deciphering Traitor Tot’s reactions and eventual capitulation.
Any one of you has ever been a parent can recite this in your sleep. We learned it the easy way, or we learned it the hard way, but we all learned it.
You tell your toddler or preschooler to pick up his or her room before dinner. Of course the aggravating little darling does no such thing. You call him down to dinner, and tell him that as soon as dinner he is going back upstairs without dessert until his room is clean. A half an hour after dinner you go up to his room, and there’s still sh*t all over the floor. You tell him he has 15 minutes to clean up or there’s no dessert, and he still has to clean up his room. Twenty minutes later you tell him there’s no dessert, and he starts screaming and throwing toys around the room. That leads to a time out in the corner until he’s ready to clean up his room. At bedtime he’s told that once he gets up in the morning, after breakfast there are no cartoons or television until he cleans up his room.
That sound familiar to anybody in here right now? Of course it does, because we’ve all been there if we raised children. We know we’ll win for two simple reasons. Parental authority and time. You don’t bother trying to reason with a child. Conservative pundit PJ O’Roarke put it perfectly when he said, You can always reason with a German. And you can always reason with a barnyard animal too, for as much good it will do you. You don’t need to reason with a child. A child can’t do anything you don’t let them do, and for a child, five minutes is five hours when they’re not doing what they want to do. You simply wear them out, and hope they learned the lesson.
And from my years of personal experience in Trump’s head, that is exactly what you have to do with him. The problem is that nowhere near enough people in authority have ever given Traitor Tot enough time in the corner. Instead they let his unrelenting assaults wear them down, which is the recipe for a juvenile delinquent. Which is what His Lowness was. His parents shipped him off to military school when they couldn’t control him anymore.
When it comes to legal troubles, so far all of which have taken part in either state or federal civil court, Trump brands his infantile machismo with three simple words. Trump. Never. Settles. What unutterable bullsh*t. With bullsh*t that rich, I could personally fertilize an entire con agra farm complex for two years. And when you look at his actual court history, you’ll see exactly what I mean.
Please pull the roll bar snug to your waist, and keep your hands and feet inside the car at all times. Here we go. When Trump is hauled into state or federal court on civil charges, the response is as immediate as it is predictable. Trump bellows his absolute innocence to all and sundry. He calls the litigation a politically motivated hit job. He insults the plaintiff, he insults the plaintiff’s attorneys, he insults the judge, and then he files a totally brain dead countersuit, all while bellowing that He’ll! Never! Settle! And you know what? The night before jury selection begins, he quietly cuts a check, admitting no responsibility, and slithers back off into the night. Because while Trump is a bellicose imbecile, he’s not brain dead. He knows when the deck is stacked against him.
But this time is different. Because this time Trump is being tried in state and federal criminal court. This time he can’t just make a public nuisance of himself, lick his nuts, and then cut a check and slink off back to his putt-putt golf resort. This time his literal ass is on the line.
But the strategy remains the same, but this time with a different outcome. Trump isn’t going to be able to cut a check. This time his goal is to scream, yell, delay, insult everybody in sight, and try the case in public opinion to poison the jury pool. The object being to delay things until he’s miraculously reinstated in 1600 Pennsylvania, where he can tell everybody to f*ck off!Â
And he’s already started spooling it up. Despite direct warnings and orders to not make inflammatory or threatening statements. So of course Trump has already insulted the prosecutors, the judges, and even told a grand jury witness not to show up to testify. After all, what’s the worst that could happen? The judge isn’t going to throw him in the hoosegow. Are they? Naw.
But with the sole exception of the Juvenile court judge Aileen Cannon, the rest of the judges already know the parental secret sauce. Don’t try to reason with the petulant toddler. Instead, lay down a punishment. And the more the toddler screams and yells, increase the punishment. Wash, rinse and repeat until it finally gets through his thick skull. And we all already know that Trump knows the limits of his bad behavior. We know it because every time up until now, Trump has bowed to judicial responsibility and caved in and settled.
And it’s the federal DC Judge, Tanya Chutkan who is in the strongest position. She clearly knows her quarry only too well, and she also knows his Achilles Heel. She knows that Trump’s ultimate strategy is to delay the trial until it’s suspended until after the 2024 election. And as such, judge Chutkan has already threatened to take his dessert by moving up the trial date for non compliance, in order to ensure the integrity of the judicial process. That’s like a three week corner time out to a toddler like Trump. And he knows she can do it.
El Pendejo Presidente is in over his head, and he’s just starting to realize it. Up until now, legal trouble was something to buy your way out of. This time he’s looking at modeling an orange jumpsuit, and eating the world’s worst protein loaf. Trump is already having an internal war with himself as to just how far he can go with his macho bullsh*t without stepping over that invisible red line that leads the judge to bury him in court with her decisions. He’s in uncharted waters.
True. After she figuratively applies the jumper cables to his testicles, let’s watch him slink back into his hole to pout. Before it’s over, he’s going to carry around the stench of burnt cat fur.
Love it. Thus my reference to Fool Caps Don being nothing but a malodorous lump.
No Murf. Your toddler story is in no way familiar. I’ve watched my sister with her kid as it was growing up and I can tell you, there were no 2nd chances. When the kid did not do what it was told to do the FIRST TIME, the punishment came down like a ton of…well, I’d say bricks but the mainly the kid was told to read quietly and no t.v.. At worst it was put to bed early. Immediate consequences for misbehavior is what is necessary, in ALL children-including former guy.
I blame our justice system for the sh*t-hole we are currently mired in with this orange boob. Had he been probably punished way the f*ck back, he might have learned about things like consequences and might not be quite the criminal f*ck he is today.
More than either narcissism or sociopathology, what he REALLY has is Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Look it up.
Oppositional defiant disorder
Also called: ODD
A disorder in a child marked by defiant and disobedient behavior to authority figures.
The cause of oppositional defiant disorder is unknown but likely involves a combination of genetic and environmental factors.
You’re welcome! 🤓
I’ve been saying this for a long time. His immediate reaction is to defy anything he doesn’t want to do, and to immediately oppose what isn’t his idea. He’s like a spoiled, obnoxious four-year-old who is used to getting his way and making life miserable for all who stand up to him. No one’s going to tell ME what to do! I do insurance billing for mental health providers and when I see this diagnosis on a kiddo I just groan inside in sympathy for the parents, though too often they are contributors to the cause.