This might be what set off Trump's tweet-storm this morning [View all]

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Possibly it was a pitying but scathing column by David Brooks on "Donald Trump’s Sad, Lonely Life"

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/opinion/donald-trumps-sad-lonely-life.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

and Art of the Deal (co)author and Trump critic Tony Schwartz's tweet about it

https://twitter.com/tonyschwartz/status/785813630658883584

Brooks has this just right. The loneliest, angriest, most empty human being I've ever met. Can't truly connect w/anyone, including his kids.

which was posted just 11 minutes before the first of Trump's tweets this morning.

Given their past history, I suspect Schwartz's Twitter account is one Trump watches.

From the Brooks column:

Politics is an effort to make human connection, but Trump seems incapable of that. He is essentially adviser-less, friendless. His campaign team is made up of cold mercenaries at best and Roger Ailes at worst. His party treats him as a stench it can’t yet remove.

He was a germophobe through most of his life and cut off contact with others, and now I just picture him alone in the middle of the night, tweeting out hatred.

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Bullies only experience peace when they are cruel. Their blood pressure drops the moment they beat the kid on the playground.

Imagine you are Trump. You are trying to bluff your way through a debate. You’re running for an office you’re completely unqualified for. You are chasing some glimmer of validation that recedes ever further from view.

Your only rest comes when you are insulting somebody, when you are threatening to throw your opponent in jail, when you are looming over her menacingly like a mafioso thug on the precipice of a hit, when you are bellowing that she has “tremendous hate in her heart” when it is clear to everyone you are only projecting what is in your own.

Trump’s emotional makeup means he can hit only a few notes: fury and aggression. In some ways, his debate performances look like primate dominance displays — filled with chest beating and looming growls. But at least primates have bands to connect with, whereas Trump is so alone, if a tree fell in his emotional forest, it would not make a sound.

Now think of Trump, already in the mood to tweet out hatred early this morning, running across that column courtesy of Tony Schwartz saying Brooks has it just right.

If this is what set him off, he might have thought of lashing out at Brooks and/or Schwartz, but even Trump could have realized that would make his insecurity too obvious.

But he had lots of other targets to take out his anger and insecurity on....