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[Nokterian]

I believe that rather than smashing our own glass houses to pieces in the act of destroying Donald Trump’s Presidency, we need to be aware of our own inner Trump, to reflect on our own tendencies to think and behave in catastrophically immature, venal and insecure ways. I therefore offer up this short account of my own personal emotional development, and then explain why I think it helps explain why Trump is heading for a breakdown very, very soon.

All this means that I understand something of the fragility of Donald Trump’s ego. Having struggled to maintain friendships in the past, I can see how Trump can get to a point where he has, according to a piece in Newsweek based on several months spent around him, no close friends. As I’ve acknowledged before, it’s essential for us to have the humility to recognise that we don’t have the ability to diagnose Trump at a distance. But that there’s something of the manchild about him is inescapable.

These first two days of his ‘Presidency’ saw paranoid and recriminatory tweets, a speech to the CIA in which he ranted bitterly about media reports of his coronation, and his press spokesperson being sent out to deliver another paranoid self-pitying rant. People are mercilessly taking the piss out of the piss-poor attendance at his pitiable inauguration, and Trump appears to be following every single one of them on Twitter. It’s clear to me that whatever means he’s used to survive up until this point aren’t going to work in his new role. There’s simply too much scrutiny and ridicule, and it’s going too deep. He’s too much of a shallow narcissist to ignore it. Trump is going to learn the wisdom of Jacques Lacan: “the madman is not only a beggar who thinks he is a king, but also a king who thinks he is a king”. Whatever monster he has buried in his mind is going to rise up to bite huge chunks of him from within.

Very intrestring read on how someone like trump you need to keep pressure on and laugh at his face out loud since he is 5 year old toddler.

More at the link

https://infinite-coincidence.com/20...ing-to-snap-very-soon-and-here-is-how-i-know/

 

[Peter Ian Staker]

 

[triplestation]

 

[SecretMoblin]

"he's spoiled and fragile" isn't a particularly hot take

Spending time with a Lacanian psychoanalyst in London helped me develop confidence in my own voice, while also teaching me about the foibles of my tendency to overthink.

Did it really

 

[Trojita]

Could have been added to the other thread.

 

[MMarston]

This is the end for him, surely

 

[everyday math]

I just hope he dousnt take us with him

 

[Killer Queen]

My thoughts exactly

 

[ModBot]

okay.