A confluence of factors put Donald Trump in the White House in 2016. Many books have been written about the phenomenon, many more will be. One movie has been made, The Apprentice, and Trump is trying to block distribution of it in the United States. Good luck with that. If nothing else, copies will be pirated and smuggled in. It’s only a question of time. That a conman carnival performer, born to great wealth, should end up in the White House without the benefit of holding even a single public office was the result of many things. The Republican party was reaching critical mass after being in a downward spiral for the past 45 years or so since Richard Nixon disgraced himself and them. There was a vacuum of leadership.
In 2015 the Republican top leadership bench was bare. A lot of people ran, all men, but none of them were presidential material. There was one outlier, however, a businessman who was charismatic and had incredible name recognition from being on television for fourteen years in the reality TV role of a self-made billionaire. He promised America the moon and he did it in a vulgar showboating style. He oversimplified issues and solutions and for the first time, stupid people thought that they understood politics. Most of the Republicans saw him for the disaster he was from the beginning — until they flipped over in the service of this pathetic warped being. His niece Mary explains how he got to be the person he is.
When Donald was a young child, his mother, my grandmother, was very ill. For about a year, starting when Donald was two and a half, he didn’t have a primary caregiver because she was physically and emotionally unavailable to him. There was nobody there to do the essential parenting that children at that extremely crucial developmental period need. Toddlers need to be seen; they need to be soothed.
He didn’t get any of that, not only because my grandmother wasn’t there for him, but because the person who replaced her, my grandfather, was a straight up textbook sociopath. My grandfather had absolutely no interest in nurturing children. He only cared about other human beings, including his own children, to the extent that they could be of use to him. Those are the circumstances in which Donald grew up, which as you can imagine, created some serious problems for him. He was never able to construct his own sense of self-worth,
And to get through it, he developed very rigid defenses against the world—against his loneliness, against the fact that there was nobody to soothe him. As time passed, the only way he could get his father’s attention was to be hyperbolic. He had to be the best, the greatest, the smartest, the toughest—whatever it was his father required of him.
The problem for Donald was that on an unconscious level, he knew that none of what he presented himself to be was true. He knew that none of what he told people about who he was had any validity. When you see him bragging about his crowd sizes, lying about the polls, undercutting vice President Harris’s numbers, it’s because when he was a very young child, there was nobody who cared about him telling him that he was worth anything. And that is a tragedy. We should have compassion for that child. But we have to accept that this man is a monster who means all of us harm. Remember, crowd sizes are completely irrelevant unless you’re so desperate to prove that you mean something, you’re willing to lie about them.
Trump is desperate about a lot more than the crowd sizes. He’s desperate about what they represent: that he’s yesterday’s show and there’s a new show in town and it’s packing them in and getting rave reviews. He can’t stand the ego deflation and most of all he can’t stand the fact that Tanya Chutkan is readying the insurrection case and he’ll have to deal with that and the other two criminal trials when he loses the election.
Failure is not an option this year for Donald. Yet, unfortunately, that’s the only option he’s got. The woman that he called “a fucking bitch” in front of his 18-year-old son is going to best him at the polls. Sad.
Mary Trump is a Psychologist & has related how the failures in her Uncle Donald’s upbringing at a very young age has effected him emotionally & limited his ability to deal with the normal trials of life. It makes sense.
I have a theory about some events in his life that happened a bit later on. It’s been clear that Donald reacts to events in his life & deals with people in a very immature way… his reactions & behavior mimic the behavior of a teenager rather than an adult. I wonder if Mary Trump would agree with my theory about why that is. So here it is:
Young Donald worshiped his father Fred & only wanted to please him, but wasn’t capable of doing so. Due to his very limited intellect resulting from his LOW IQ of 73 (the score of 70 is the cutoff mark for MENTAL RETARDATION). This resulted in Donald having a borderline intellect & unable to learn the majority of information people normally do. He has a very limited vocabulary & no critical thinking skill. The only way Donald got through school was by his sister MaryAnn doing school work for him.
The event in Donald’s life that influenced & created his immaturity was when his father Fred put Donald in a military school at about age 13. This was devastating to Donald & he viewed it as rejection. As a result, I think his emotional growth stopped at that age of… 13 or 14. Donald reacts to everything, people & events like a 13 or 14 year old child & is incapable to responding to anything, whether positive or negative with the emotional health of an adult. Instead he brags about his made up successes like crowd size & attacks enemies with name calling & threats & bullying just like a 13 or 14 year old does.
I would love to know if Mary Trump would agree with my assessment of her Uncle Donald’s emotional stunting.
Donald’s Chief of Staff, John Kelley has made this statement regarding DON THE CON, he is the most flawed & dishonest person he’s ever met. Another staff member from Trump regime said he believed Donald to be the most damaged person he’s ever met.
Unfortunately, DON THE CON has passed all that damage on to America. It will most likely take America awhile to recover from his damage.
John Kelley’s comments about Trump.
Your “… Failure is not an option this year for Donald. Yet, unfortunately, that’s the only option he’s got…” Yup! This pathological rotter is now wounded; is politically bleeding-out; and is wobbling in more ways than one. All whilst continuing to grift, lie and gaslight during his self imposed exile in his echo chamber, whilst sustaining a self inflicted state of denial and deterioration. Spectacular face plant getting closer and closer! Tick! Tick! Tick!
A lot of this may explain why, when we view videos and photo spreads of Trump smiling and chumming with Epstein in parties with teenager girls, he appears to be transfixed on the view of them as they circulated around the room … Leaning into comments to Epstein about their qualifications … Whatever they may have been, amused Trump and brought more smiles and apparent pleasure to Trump …
There was NEVER in his life, reason to see or understand the actions of a supposed adult of an older age level, using younger girls for his own pleasures as a criminal or forbidden activity of normal citizens …
These unfortunate targets of his leachers’ desires were simply bodies to be used in harmful ways to their future lives … His uncaring actions were bolstered by the privileging given to REAL billionaires, not a fake, Don-the-Con …
He has always treated women badly, has no time for caring about anyone else, he never learned how …
Tes, that is a sad story, butI wouldn’t exactly call it a tragedy. A tragedy is a play (or a story) about aperson who is somewhere between good and great, but who has one flaw – the “tragic flaw” – in pursuit of which he destroys himself. Don-OLD has the flaw all right. but he was never a good human being to begin with. Hamlet destroyed himself in pursuit of revenge. MacBeth and Julius Caesar destroyed themselves in pursuit of ambition. King Lear os probably the closest – he destroyed himself in pursuit of being loved. But forst, he had a long recprd of being a good king.
English doesn’t really have a word for what happened to Trump** so probably tragedy is as close as we can get to it – giving the benefit of the doubt of having been born a decent person. But he really never had any greatness to fall from. The adullation of the ignorant does not constitute greatness, neither on reality TV nor in politics.
He was being expelled from his fancy private school for fighting and bullying so Dad shipped him off to.military school. Based on that and my teaching experience I suspect he had Oppositional Defiance Disorder, the teenage version of psychopathy. I think there’s possibly a genetic link to it. His early years of being neglected and uncared for a stage where he desperately needed love and support definitely didn’t help.
I HOPE FOR THE COLLECTIVE SANITY OF THIS COUNTRY THAT THIS MISERABLE HUMAN BEING, DONALD J. TRUMP, IN NOVEMBER, WILL FINALLY VANISH AND BECOME TOTALLY IRRELEVANT!