Okay, so yea, yea, we know this already. The gentleman who wrote the piece to be discussed does so in plain black and white. He may only be a conservative columnist, but he is damn succinct in providing information. And he goes further than Mary Trump. We haven’t seen anything from her in quite a while, and that’s concerning. *ahem* back on topic. Are you ready for this show? Thanks to Raw Story:
Criticism of Donald Trump’s remarks regarding Rob Reiner’s death intensified on Tuesday morning when a prominent conservative columnist questioned the aging president’s mental fitness. In a notably direct column for conservative publication The National Review, Jim Geraghty asserted that Trump’s statements suggest “something deeply wrong.” He proceeded to question whether “psychopath or sociopath” better characterizes the president’s behavior.
Acknowledging the tragedy of Reiner and his wife, Michele, who were reportedly killed by their son, Geraghty suggested that Trump’s actions reveal long-standing indicators of instability. He characterized the president as consistently “obsessed with grievances; vindictive and prone to posting late-night tirades on social media; uninterested in details; erratic, impulsive, spiteful.”
Ouch! He’s right, down to a T, if we can look at him specifically. With the qualities listed. Laid out like that, the behavior makes more sense. There are things we’ve been missing because we could have used them for the session of Congress that just got shut down early. THAT is a wimp out, trying to dodge the *real* issues and begin to address them. A start is better than no start. Someone could get things set up and get the ball rolling on these issues, such as Hegseth saying “kill them all”, the jerk. That’s a whole other topic. So, getting a start gives them something to start with when they all get back and have holiday brain.
Geraghty argued that Trump lacks the capacity to assess moral character through objective standards. Instead, he wrote, “Donald Trump’s entire worldview of whether someone is a good person or a bad person depends entirely on whether that person offers praise or criticism of Trump.” The columnist raised concerns about Trump’s access to nuclear weapons while simultaneously pursuing aggressive military policies globally, suggesting his emotional state presents a national security concern. Geraghty acknowledged that Trump supporters could defend his policies or express satisfaction with their electoral choices. However, he concluded, “But what you can’t say is that Donald Trump is a good and decent human being.”
Again, spot on, disturbingly. A good and decent human being. Was he ever one? Maybe when he was born, but that went away quickly, you can bet, because his whole worldview is about his place in it and how much money he could grift. He’s something else now. It just got worse as he aged. Now it’s ridiculously excessive and disgusting. How anyone can stand in the same room with him, we don’t know. Maybe they did something to numb their noses because we know he stinks. It’s just not possible to find anything good about him. We try and try and try to see if there’s something worthwhile to speak about, and there just … isn’t.
He further contended that Trump’s inability to empathize with the Reiners’ tragedy mirrors his disconnect from Americans struggling with cost-of-living concerns. “This is why his approval rating on the economy hit 31 percent. There are far-reaching consequences of having a president who is emotionally broken,” Geraghty wrote.
That’s one of the most perfect ways we can look at him. Emotionally broken. Donnie has his own worldview, and he shapes everything in his image. It’s back to for or against, happy or sad, and so forth. No wonder we’re in such hell here. He can’t understand the people of the United States. There’s nothing good in him to use to reach out. Forget it. He’s not going to change. He’ll just get worse and worse, as we stagger under the load he’s dropped on us.
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Bravo for penning this incisive piece, Susan. Your referenced material above, being you know who sees himself as a “… PRESIDENT AS CONSISTENTLY “OBSESSED WITH GRIEVANCES; VINDICTIVE AND PRONE TO POSTING LATE-NIGHT TIRADES ON SOCIAL MEDIA; UNINTERESTED IN DETAILS; ERRATIC, IMPULSIVE, SPITEFUL…” is so bloody spot on. Proof positive the rot is finally making it’s way to the surface. Proof positive he’s nothing a failure hack; a flake. His track record is that he’s failed; he’s still failing; and he’s going to continue to fail until he floats off into the mystic – that’s if the gate keepers allow it to happen. Nope! Can’t see it. His history, besides what you have revealed above, is to malodorous.
From the first block-quote: “[Geraghty] characterized the president as consistently ‘obsessed with grievances; vindictive and prone to posting late-night tirades on social media; uninterested in details; erratic, impulsive, spiteful.'”
And this is just NOW coming to this idiot’s attention? Drumpf was doing ALL of this during his FIRST term. And all through the blessed years he was out of office, he was doing this ALL the time as well. And since he freaking took office in January, he’s been doing this same sh*t and it took the murder of the Reiners for CON-servatives to finally recognize Drumpf’s behavior?
There’s an old saying (with many sources) about “none so blind as those who will not see.” That perfectly sums up the entire CON-servative agenda. Well, that’s the GENEROUS summation. It’s far more likely they’ve seen it all and allowed it (even backing it) until it starts causing them troubles.
I have no idea what to say to respond to your comments. Yes, I agree that conservatives should have seen this a long, long time ago, and they have been willfully blind. “Hindsight is 20/30. *We* saw if back during his first term, even if I wasn’t on Pz back then. The man has given me the creeps from the first day I saw him. and I *hate* his speaking voice. It sounds like it should be coming out a female. I avoid hearing him at all costs. Joe Biden did SO MUCH for this country fixed a tgon of leftover Trump crap. Now Trump is back and it’s already even worse from that, starting with Project and going to tariffs then the stupid ass tacky ballroom.. I am seriously worried about the state of the country in 3 years.
While it’s nice to read CON-servatives finally coming to grok the reality of what Drumpf is, it would be so much more satisfying if they HADN’T WHOLEHEARTEDLY BELIEVED AND ENDORSED THE BULL SH*T he’s been spewing for the last f*cking decade.
While Geraghty is waylaying into Drumpf and calling out his fitness to be President (and finally realizing that Drumpf’s reactions are ONLY based on how others praise or criticize Drumpf), if he’d only had his head out of his ass back in, oh, August or September of 2024 and provided this same analysis back then, we might’ve been able to avoid this “come to Jesus” moment in the first place. But, no. CON-servatives were more than willing to ignore Drumpf’s horrid behavior and his already-evident mental instability during 2024 (while chiming on Joe Biden’s every insubstantial “problem”–Biden goes cycling and takes a minor spill and he’s obviously “too feeble” to be President whereas Drumpf can’t even play a round of golf without using a cart to get him from hole to hole, or cheating) in order to advance their beliefs and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 1625.