Maybe Mary Trump can get back on the airwaves and explain to us what it means when a person refers to him or herself in the third person. Here’s what I found on Google, which will give us a starting point. “Referring to oneself in the third person is called illeism and can have various meanings, from projecting an air of objectivity, power, or arrogance to a psychological technique for gaining emotional distance and rational perspective. It can be used to sound egotistical, eccentric, or even humble, depending on the context.” Power and arrogance sounds about right.
Trump: "We will be here for three and a quarter years. For the Trump, that's like an eternity. For somebody else that doesn't sound long."
“The Trump?” Is that his new holiday handle, like the Grinch? Is he going to set up headquarters on some hillside next and come steal all the presents on Xmas day? He’s already screwing around with SNAP benefits, isn’t that enough? No wonder the man has an approval rating of 38% and expect that to fall more next week. Shades of Tricky Dick.
I watched this in real timeNixon's approval ratings began to decline in the late 1970s, with his approval rating dropping from a peak of 67% in January 1973 to a low of 24% by the end of his presidency.www.statista.com/statistics/1…
Trump never saw anywhere near 67% and it would be a real howler if he managed to beat Nixon’s 24%. It could happen but when? When we’re in Great Depression II and people are living in Trumpvilles?
This is all true. But a couple of things are different and they are key: Nixon didn’t have Fox News or Watergate would have been swept under the rug as a “Democrat conspiracy.” And Jeff Bezos didn’t own the Washington Post, Katherine Graham did and Ben Bradlee was running it. These are not small differences, these are night and day. When Ronnie Raygun got rid of the Fairness Doctrine and Rush Limbaugh used that fact to make lying profitable, American culture changed and laid the groundwork for someone such as Trump to come along.
Let’s keep our ears open and alert to see if this new handle is something “the Trump” will begin using. I wonder if this is part of the Alzheimer’s that Mary Trump diagnosed just the other day.
psychological something. three and a half years is a long time to trump because while he will be doing next to nothing he will technically have a job that people will expect him to at least show up for and that really sucks.
Trump has referred to himself as “Donald Trump” or “Trump” for the last 45 years. For a while it was common for him to be referred to as “The Donald,” but I’m not sure he used this himself. “The Trump” seems to be new, but maybe it was just one of his senile language malfunctions. In caling himself “The Trump,” he is not just referring to himself in the third person, but adding the definite article. As with “The Donald,” which I don’t think he used as a self-reference, “The Trump” sounds to me like a shortened form of “The one and only Trump,” or “the Trump of all Trumps,” because that is what a definite article does. It distinguishes him from all the other Trumps and (because further context is lacking) implies that he is the epitome of Trumphood.
Frankly, when it comes to Trumps, I prefer Mary.
“the Trump of all Trumps,” Absolutely spot on (in British English where “trump” means “fart”
In the past he has referred to himself as “Trump.” But “The Trump” is different. It’s no longer a name – it’s a title now. A title like “King” or “Emperor.”