Trump is an emotionally damaged loser, driven by adulation, power, revenge, racism, and money.

I must admit, if Trump wasn't such a power-hungry demagogue, a danger to democracy, a sexual predator, racist, sociopath, pathological liar, bully, and impulsive and unstable megalomaniac, I might feel sorry for him.

He has no real friends, just sycophants. All his relationships are transactions, including with his three wives and his children. When people are no longer useful to him—wives, lawyers, advisors, Cabinet members—he discards them.

His current wife Melania is transactional, too. She married him for his money. She obviously doesn't love or respect him and she occasionally displays her disdain for him in public. She didn’t even campaign for him last year, except to make a few public appearances.

Trump hardly ever laughs. He has an almost-constant angry scowl on his face. To Trump, the world is a dark and foreboding place, where, like him, people are consumed by greed and lust. He relies on money and intimidation to get what he wants because he has no capacity for empathy or love—or any belief that people can be motivated by idealism and compassion.

Trump grew up in a world of vast privilege, but that doesn't mean that he wasn't emotionally wounded.

Both the federal raids on immigrants in Los Angeles and the upcoming military parade in Washington, D.C. reflect Trump’s need to look tough, manly, and in control.

According to his niece Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist, he was bullied by his father, who must have told Donald that he wasn't smart and that he was (or should be worried about being) a loser. In 2017, 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts published a book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, warning that he was erratic and unstable as pressures mounted on him. Two years later, they updated the book—this time with 37 experts weighing in on Trump’s troubled mental health.

He has no strong beliefs about governing or public policy. His major motivations are money, power, revenge, racism, and adulation.


This is a good summary of why trump is such a needy, damaged person.

Trump thinks that people motivated by idealism and compassion are "losers."

It’s hard to call Trump a loser, he is president after all. But as a human being, something just ain’t right.

I have read the book by his niece, clinical psychologist and PhD Mary Trump, and found it to be well written, comprehensive, and very enlightening. It is called Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man. I would highly recommend it for anyone interested in truly understanding the motivations behind this man.

The book in the OP sounds good. I am interested in reading it too.

I do feel sorry for him. He has had an emotionally tragic life. At the same time I am angry that he has been allowed so much power and attention, which are actually the worst things for him and America. He needs to be in treatment, mental counseling, and prison for his many crimes. He has made a mockery of justice in the USA and gotten away with terrible crimes including rape and child rape. He has stolen millions of dollars from victims, cities, states and the USA. He has caused terrible heartbreak and death.

This is no person to idolize. His followers have their own anti-social issues, which is why they think of him as a hero and refuse to listen to facts which make supporting him a very bad idea.

His whole life.

The perfect representative for Christians who have abandoned Jesus' message.

The OP article is a good read. I would highly recommend it for a better understanding of who we are deling with. Naturally, his followers will avoid reading this. This is what his followers have to block out:

"At least 26 of his top aides publicly said that Trump was unfit to be president. They questioned his competence, character, impulsiveness, narcissism, judgement, intelligence, and even his sanity.

According to Michael Wolff, in his book, Fire and Fury, both former chief of staff Reince Priebus and ex-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called Trump an “idiot.” Trump’s one-time economic adviser Gary Cohn said Trump was “dumb as shit.” His national security adviser H.R. McMaster described the president as a “dope.” In July 2017, news stories reported that Rex Tillerson, Trump’s first Secretary of State, called the president a “moron.” When asked, he did not deny using that term. In an interview with Foreign Affairs magazine, Tillerson recounted that Trump’s “understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of U.S. history was really limited.” He said, “It’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even understand the concept for why we’re talking about this.”

“Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States,” said his former Vice President, Mike Pence. Mark Esper, one of Trump’s Defense Secretaries, said that Trump is not “fit for office because he puts himself first, and I think anybody running for office should put the country first.” In his farewell speech, Mark Milley, a retired Army general who served as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2019, to September 30, 2023, warned “We don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator,” clearly referring to Trump. John Kelly, a retired Marine Corps four-star general who served as chief of staff from 2017 to 2019, said that Trump “admires autocrats and murderous dictators” and “has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.” "

Trump followers, you will have to block out the following information. You are not going to want to hear it:

So many people tried to believe in him and felt honored to work with him. After they did, they changed their minds. Scores of people feel exactly like this:

"Soon after the January 6, 2021 insurrection, McMaster, the former national security advisor, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Trump had incited the riot through “sustained disinformation… spreading these unfounded conspiracy theories.” He accused Trump of “undermining rule of law.” Sarah Matthews, deputy White House press secretary during Trump’s first term, witnessed Trump staffers trying, without success, to get the president to condemn the January 6 violence. “In my eyes, it was a complete dereliction of duty that he did not uphold his oath of office,” she told USA Today. “I lost all faith in him that day” and resigned from her job. Trump’s “continuation of pushing this lie that the election is stolen has made him wholly unfit to hold office every again,” Matthews said."

SNOWFLAKE said:

You THINK Trump is damaged? Wait till you see the reactions from his supporters when they see this thread.

Want to watch people completely lose their cookies? Wait till they get here, their reactions will speak for themselves.

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His followers are not going to read this thread. They will have to block it out and pretend it doesn't exist. They do not want to know the dirty truth about Donald Trump.

Not one of his followers will read the entire OP article. They can't. It goes against what they believe in.

It is inconvenient truth.

More from the link in the OP:

At least 26 of his top aides publicly said that Trump was unfit to be president. They questioned his competence, character, impulsiveness, narcissism, judgement, intelligence, and even his sanity.

According to Michael Wolff, in his book, Fire and Fury, both former chief of staff Reince Priebus and ex-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called Trump an “idiot.” Trump’s one-time economic adviser Gary Cohn said Trump was “dumb as shit.” His national security adviser H.R. McMaster described the president as a “dope.” In July 2017, news stories reported that Rex Tillerson, Trump’s first Secretary of State, called the president a “moron.” When asked, he did not deny using that term. In an interviewwith Foreign Affairs magazine, Tillerson recounted that Trump’s “understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of U.S. history was really limited.” He said, “It’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even understand the concept for why we’re talking about this.”

"To Trump, respect is a zero-sum game. He likes to demean others to boost himself."

This part is very refreshing:

"When Trump dies from the side effects of obesity, the nation and the world will breathe a huge sigh of relief.

But as he gets crazier and crazier, and no longer has the power of the presidency, most of his followers will abandon him, crowds at his rallies will be smaller and smaller, and he’ll become a lonely, decrepit old man, a fallen idol like the Orson Welles character (Charles Kane) in the 1941 film "Citizen Kane" and the Andy Griffith character (Lonesome Rhodes) in the 1957 film "A Face in the Crowd."

He'll retreat to Mar-a-Lago—his Xanadu—by himself and with his paid staff. Or perhaps he'll spend much of his remaining years in federal prison, seething over how he was the victim of conspiracies."

Trump followers should avoid this thread. It is only going to upset you and shatter your mistaken beliefs in this man. You'll have to block all of this out and pretend all these very important people and experts who are saying such bad things about Trump don't exist and this never happened.

You can't handle the reality of Trump.

It's easy. Trump has given you the way. Just call them all TDS. There. Fixed. An imaginary Kewpie Doll to the first MAGA who does this.

BabaVoss said:

I must admit, if Trump wasn't such a power-hungry demagogue, a danger to democracy, a sexual predator, racist, sociopath, pathological liar, bully, and impulsive and unstable megalomaniac, I might feel sorry for him.

He has no real friends, just sycophants. All his relationships are transactions, including with his three wives and his children. When people are no longer useful to him—wives, lawyers, advisors, Cabinet members—he discards them.

His current wife Melania is transactional, too. She married him for his money. She obviously doesn't love or respect him and she occasionally displays her disdain for him in public. She didn’t even campaign for him last year, except to make a few public appearances.

Trump hardly ever laughs. He has an almost-constant angry scowl on his face. To Trump, the world is a dark and foreboding place, where, like him, people are consumed by greed and lust. He relies on money and intimidation to get what he wants because he has no capacity for empathy or love—or any belief that people can be motivated by idealism and compassion.

Trump grew up in a world of vast privilege, but that doesn't mean that he wasn't emotionally wounded.

Both the federal raids on immigrants in Los Angeles and the upcoming military parade in Washington, D.C. reflect Trump’s need to look tough, manly, and in control.

According to his niece Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist, he was bullied by his father, who must have told Donald that he wasn't smart and that he was (or should be worried about being) a loser. In 2017, 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts published a book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, warning that he was erratic and unstable as pressures mounted on him. Two years later, they updated the book—this time with 37 experts weighing in on Trump’s troubled mental health.

He has no strong beliefs about governing or public policy. His major motivations are money, power, revenge, racism, and adulation.

Emotionally damaged Trump is a born loser

I must admit, if Trump wasn't such a power-hungry demagogue, a danger to democracy, a sexual predator, racist, sociopath, pathological liar, bully, and impulsive and unstable megalomaniac, I might feel sorry for him.He has no real friends, just sycophants. All his relationships are transactions...

www.alternet.org

This is a good summary of why trump is such a needy, damaged person.

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And the right will point at folks like us saying we hate trump, we have tds, we hate America and on and on with their bullshit as they shit all over the constitution, refuse to obey court orders and have squads of face covered 'law enforcement' roaming the streets and who knows, maybe your city will be next to receive trump's 'protection'.