Trump's personality explained - it's worse than you thought
13 August 2024
Here are some articles you may want to read on this subject with some highlights:
Mary L. Trump, Ph.D., niece of Trump:
So, why is crowd size so important to Donald, as if he believes it’s a measure of one's worth? Well, it turns out it's because Donald doesn't have any sense of self-worth at all. I've often described him as a black hole of need. He constantly needs to be complimented. He constantly needs to be reassured. But the light of those compliments or the reassurances immediately gets sucked in and disappears. In order for him to be propped up, the flow would need to be constant. It is never enough. And he needs these external supports because he can't do it himself.
Frank Bruni, New York Times:
He’s the prince of self-pity, the bard of bellyaching, reportedly worked up over the imagined injustice or trickery of Harris’s late replacement of President Biden on the Democratic ticket. According to an article in The Washington Post this week, he told an ally: “It’s unfair that I beat him and now I have to beat her, too.”
The more assertively Trump presses a complaint, the more you know it’s bunk. He operates on the theory that if you’re selling falsehoods, peddle like the wind; your audience might well assume that you’d never speak that extravagantly and be that audacious if there weren’t some legitimacy to your claim.
Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor:
Trump is cracking because the attention and positive energy generated by Harris and Walz are threatening his ego so much he cannot focus on his opponent. So he falls back on the size of her crowds relative to his, her “Blackness,” the “stolen election,” his grievances against Republicans who didn’t support him, and The New York Times.
Trump’s rage has sometimes worked for him in the past, but it is not working against Harris and Walz because they are running by a playbook that’s fueled by excitement and hope rather than grievance and narcissism.
I previously wrote that he is Donald demented. His behavior, according to Scott Dworkin and others, seems to be getting worse:
Donald mumbled and slurred his words, and couldn’t piece a single cohesive thought together. Trump is constantly confusing faces, names, and places. He’s having trouble pronouncing words, and doesn’t seem to know where he is most of the time. It’s evident the felon is slipping further into his own delusional web of lies, now more than ever.
It’s not enough to follow the news - we have to act. I am: (a) voting early (absentee ballots arrive 26Sep24), (b) encouraging others to vote, (c) putting up my own signs (see the header above, contact me if you live in Southeast Michigan and want one), (d) being active in Health Care Providers for Harris-Walz, (d) writing checks to Harris-Walz, other Democratic candidates, Democratic institutions and political causes I support, such as Planned Parenthood, (e) sponsoring our local Voter Challenge, (f) being active in Democratic Party events.
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