Nope. Not click bait. Sorry. I had already noticed, and even written about several of the interactions between Trump and Harris last night, but wadda I know? I’m just some schmuck with a laptop.
This comes directly from the horses mouth. Board Certified clinical psychologist Mary Trump, Donald’s niece. And while I had noticed and written about them, Mary Trump is in a position to put clinical nuances to what we all saw last night, and apply them to her uncle.
And it’s devastating. Appearing on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, she was almost giddy. After the introduction, she said how it was Nice to finally be able to come on the show and talk about something positive and uplifting. She then went on to say that while there are still 50 some days until the election, her uncle will spend every one of those days trying futilely to repair the damage she did to his ego.
Like Mary Trump, I’ll start with the kill shot. As far as she was concerned, she demolished Traitor Tot when she tauntingly suggested that viewers attend a Trump rally, and insulting not only his crowd sizes, but their tendency to leave early out of boredom and exhaustion.
From where Mary Trump was concerned, that was the fatal wound. For his entire political career, the size of his crowds has been not only his greatest pride and joy, but also a balm to his soul when he was feeling low. She reminded everybody that in his response, Traitor Tot claimed that Harris Bused people into her rallies and paid them, ignoring the fact that it was Trump himself that paid freelance actors to fill the crowd for his campaign rollout speech. Insulting him on national television, in front of his supporters about being able to draw and hold a crowd will eat at him. It hit him at his ego soul.
That was the kill shot, but before that there wre many more wounds, like bullfight hands injuring a bull to make it easier for the matador. Let’s recap as far as my feeble mind will go;
- Harris basically sealed Trump’s failure on the stage with that opening handshake, just as I had thought. Nobody, especially a black woman invades his personal space and forces her handshake on him. He barely paid attention from there on out, he was obsessed with finding a way to pay her back for the slight to his ego
- Her laughter, whether audible or just visual, tore another hole in Trump’s ego. Nobody laughs at Trump! He swore a mighty oath to himself when he was like eight years old, when his older brother dumped a bowl of mashed potatoes over his head at dinner for torturing his younger brother, that nobody would ever laugh at him again. And here was some uppity black woman laughing at him all night on national television
- She landed a serious one-two punch when she not only highlighted his 34 criminal convictions, noting that his next big court date would be his sentencing date in November, but she shattered his Great Lothario ego image by reminding everyone he had been found civilly liable for sexual abuse
- She blew a hole in Traitor Tot’s Tough Guy World Leader ego persona by looking right at him and telling him that Foreign leaders are laughing at him! And that foreign military leaders, some of whom worked personally with him think he’s a disgrace!
- She used his own words and actions to show how he fawned over foreign dictators from some juvenile desire to actually be one
- She fired the coup d’ grace to his political ego by bluntly stating that Former President Trump was fired by 81 million people, and he seems to be having trouble coming to grips with that simple fact
She made Trump look old, weak, feeble, and stripped him of every ego shield he had spent his whole life protecting. And he had no forceful or productive counter arguments he could make in response. And according to Mary Trump, that was the final death rattle of Trump’s ego. Because deep down, in that pesky truth bone in his head, he is finally starting to realize that it’s all true. His entire life has been nothing but a long term con.
And I’m down with Mary Trump 1000%. I’ve been talking for more than a year now about how Traitor Tot’s political reverses and legal difficulties have been steadily chipping away at his ego hull shields. And in a verbal strafiing last night, Kamala Harris finally exposed Trump to the world for exactly what he is. Even Trump. The Emperor has no clothes.
Here’s a personal prediction, based on Mary Trump’s deductions. I agree with Mary, the slight about his crowd sizes and loyalty was the deepest cut, especially politically. As such, a frenzied Trump is going to spend the last 50 days demanding that the campaign set up large capacity rallies in Trump friendly places like Alabama, South Dakota, and Oklahoma, where he can convince himself, if nobody else that he still has the magic. And in doing so, he’ll be ignoring critical swing states, or worse yet entrusting them to Beggar Vance. But it won’t work. In order to keep your faith intact, make sure it remains unsullied by fact. Trump’s faith in his ego and persona are shattered. The facts are in.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
There is a word for it.
For what she did to him, on that stage in front of the world.
Castration.
She certainly has his yam sack hanging over her fireplace mantle.
She went even further: emasculation.
I can almost see Donnie sniveling, “I don’t want to play this game anymore.” and quitting the race like any other spoiled brat does when they start losing.
Except he CAN’T quit, suspend, step down, or any other synonym, including LOSE! His ONLY hope, however slim, of staying out of jail is that he becomes POTUS once more.
The punch line to an old joke, “your chances are slim and none, and none just left town” never seemed more appropriate.
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Trump is perverted. Super great article! Thx!!
Such a heartening overview of Mary Trump’s thoughts put into words – both her’s and your’s. Undeniable.
D—-ump is now fast recognised as a castrated political Eunich – who’s fast being reduced to a carnival barking mouth piece, megaphoning ideology for certain dangerous political identities and ideologies.
I would not become over-confident that he’s done for. Don’t think that just because his ego is wounded that he’s going to give up. People have been calling him a sociopath, but he’s something worse – he’s a psychopath. Read this.
THE SCIENCE BEHIND DONALD TRUMP’S DANGEROUS PERSONALITY DISORDER https://drvincentgreenwood-89455.medium.com/the-science-behind-donald-trumps-dangerous-personality-disorder-49b3f8e416de
We need a landslide victory in order to keep him from using the legislature to overturn the election. He’ll try with rigorous assistance of his minions. Don’t think that he won’t.
Greenwood’s article is very well written and convincing, especially because he demonstrates how strongly Trump’s behavior, which we all know, aligns with classic psychopathy. It could well be the clearest, but I’ve certainly read many other pieces making the same point over the past several years. So I’m puzzled by Mary Trump’s response. Did she confused the efffectiveness of Kamala Harris’s dominance of Trump with the actual breakdown of Trump’s psychopathy? At this point I realized I needed to listen to the actual broadcast.
As we expect from O’Donnell, the program is more intelligent than almost anything else you will find on American mainstream media. He also turns it into a scorching indictment of the American news media. Mary Trump doesn’t come on until about minute 22, and that segment ends at about 32, followed by Angela Alsobrooks (extremely articulate Senate candidate from Maryland running against Larry Hogan) and then Stuart Stevens talking about Harris’s appeal to Polish-American voters — but I urge everyone to listen to the whole 44-minute program from beginning to end. You wont be disappointed.
Mary Trump called what Harris inflicted on Trump a “narcissistic wound.” There’s no question Trump is a malignant narcissist. But Greenwood and others call him a psychopath. Mary Trump has called Donald Trump a “sociopath” and even “much worse” than a sociopath (in her book The Reckoning). She’s also called his father Fred a sociopath. But I can’t find where she’s called either of them literally a psychopath. If anyone knows different, please say so. I’m not sure where she would put the dividing line but it may be that she doesn’t think he is ann actual psychopath, or maybe it’s discretion because she’s not sure — I don’t know.
One final point. Although Greenwood seems to know his stuff, he made one ridiculous error. Fortunately it’s incidental to his argument. And that is where he writes that “The term used comes from the German word psycho-pastiche, which translates to ‘suffering soul.’ The English word is a psychopath.” — First of all, there is no German word “psycho-pastiche.” Second of all, if there were, it wouldn’t mean “suffering soul,” because “pastiche” is a French word,meaning “imitation” — nothing to do with suffering.
At least Greenwood didn’t make this up himself. Kent A. Kiehl and Morris A. Hoffman, in “The Criminal Psychopath: History, Neuroscience, Treatment, and Economics,” Jurimetrics (2011) Summer; 51: 355–397, write “The term psychopathy comes from the German word psychopastiche, the first use of which is generally credited to the German psychiatrist J.L.A. Koch in 1888.” On this they cite Hervé Hugues. Psychopathy Across the Ages: A History of the Hare Psychopath. In: Hervé Hugues, Yuille John C., editors. The Psychopath: Theory, Research, and Practice. 2007. p. 34. But Hugues, while he identifies Koch as the originator, gives no etymology. So it looks like the responsibility lies with Kiehl & Morris.
The term Psycho-pathologie was originally coined by Ernst von Feuchtersleben in his Lehrbuch der ärztliche Seelenkunde, 1845, but he only used it as the general term for a diseased condition of the mind; nor did Koch use it in the modern sense, which did not catch on until after World War I. (See wikipedia article, Julius_Ludwig_August_Koch)
Obviously the term, though coined in German, derives from two Greek roots: psyche (soul) and pathos (suffering). The -logie part at the end comes from the Greek word for “docrine” or science. So “Psychopastiche” appears to be a corruption of the actual German word “psychopathische,” the feminine or plural form of the German adjective meaning “psychopathic.” Perhaps it was caused by auto-correct, but really, somebody should have caught this.
A halfpenny worth on another ego trait, not taking ownership of problems. I haven’t seen any reference to his ditching of Vance his deputy on the abortion issue, central to the platform. Essentially, what he said is down to him. “we haven’t talked about it”.
RE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND DONALD TRUMP’S DANGEROUS PERSONALITY DISORDER
Horrifying and dangerous. All the relevant red flag boxes are ticked. The legal beagle Mr Conway also describes D–ump as a psychopath.
Let us not forget his very first crowd size thing in office: my inauguration crowd size was bigger than Obama’s…
Too bad no one did this in 2015. Those of us from NYC already knew. Sorry about that folks.
All of his complaints are always projection; that means you just have to listen to him and think.!!! fake news!!!
Another PZ today on Linda Ronstadt in Tucson. If Donny goes to larger venues, how is he gonna fill ’em up? Can’t wait for miles of empty set shots by GASP!!! fake news.
Lawrence’s A block is becoming must see TV every day now, always has been superb, he’s a true journalist.
And those imaginary people he waves at don’t count!
And Lawrence has never been afraid to call tRump what he is, a liar. And he says it frequently and with gusto!
IMO, he’s always been a PSYCHOPATH!