Trump Takes Everything Personally - And Acts Accordingly

[MineralMan]

Donald Trump may be sitting in the White House, but his concern is not the common good in the United States. His brain is no longer capable of thinking in such broad terms. Instead, Donald Trump is concerned about Donald Trump, and that alone. Since there is not a selfless bone in his body, though, that concern expresses itself primarily in revenge against those who have slighted him.

For example, Barack Obama gave him a hard time at a press dinner once. That couldn't be tolerated, so Donald Trump is working to reverse every measure Obama put into motion during his two terms in office.

French President Macron beat Trump in a handshake contest, forcing Trump to say Uncle. For that, Trump dissed the entire G7 Summit and has withdrawn the United States from the Paris Accord.

Hillary Clinton had the temerity to run against him for President, so Trump started a "Lock Her Up" chant that swept the nation.

FBI Director Comey refused to drop the investigation into one of Trump's appointees, so Trump fired him, despite the fact that Trump is also under investigation and that firing looks real bad for him now.

And on and on it goes. Go against The Donald and he'll do whatever he can to get back at you. Count on it. It's will become his highest priority.

Donald Trump Don't Care. He only cares about what is in his mind today and what slight he feels has been dealt to him by someone. He'll get back at those who slight him. That's what he's doing on a day-to-day basis, and it's causing enormous harm to this nation. But that's Donald Trump for you. He WILL get back at those who disrespect him. He WILL!

[democratisphere]

1. Looking forward to drumpf's day of reckoning.

drumpf's war on our democracy will finally end.

[Left-over]

20. What goes around comes around - drumpf will see!

[shraby]

2. I agree, that's his modus operandi. No matter who gets harmed.

That's probably why he's out after the old and infirm. Doesn't that describe his parents who sent him off to military school to punish him?

[Wounded Bear]

3. President Rodney Dangerfield...

[90-percent]

6. In a sense

Rodney, however, was very nice and also self deprecating. Both are absent from our orange meatloaf in chief.

-90% Jimmy

[HipChick]

4. This is consistent with his condition

of being a arse

[dalton99a]

5. Ivanka: "Daddy, they're laughing at you. Kill them and give their things to me"

"Yes, give me the phone"

[Captain_New_York]

7. Our own "Mad King Ludwig"

Our own "Mad King Ludwig" of Bavaria, At least Ludwig left us Neuschwanstein Castle, Herrenchiemsee & Linderhof Palace. the various "Trump Dumps" will be gone soon

[smirkymonkey]

8. You've probably seen this before, but here is more evidence from Richard Branson.

He talks about a meeting he had with Trump and how all he talked about was getting revenge.

http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-branson-on-meeting-donald-trump-2016-10

"Billionaire and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson published a blog post on Friday recalling his first interaction with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, in which Trump reportedly vowed to spend the rest of his life seeking revenge on five people who had refused to help him."

"..."Even before the starters arrived he began telling me about how he had asked a number of people for help after his latest bankruptcy and how five of them were unwilling to help," Branson wrote, although he didn't identify the five people. He told me he was going to spend the rest of his life destroying these five people."

Branson called the encounter "bizarre" and expressed concerns about Trump's "vindictive streak," which he said wouldn't bode well for a president who should be more concerned with global affairs than personal vendettas.

"I left the lunch feeling disturbed and saddened by what I'd heard. There are a lot of frightening things about this election," he wrote, "not least that policy has been pushed so far down the agenda." (more...)

[Wellstone ruled]

26. Late last fall a

Business Person on one of the Business Talk Shows,pretty much said the same. He said Trump is a very vindictive person and he refused to do business in any way with anything Trump.

[ginnyinWI]

9. no ability to see the big picture.

You're so right--it's always all about him and fighting back. Remember that commencement address recently. You have to fight, fight fight in this world! He's a small, petty person!

This cowboy mentality falls so short of what it takes to be a President. Whoever is our next President, hopefully in early 2021, they are going to have a lot of rebuilding to do!

[90-percent]

10. So this guy is that great businessman of the last four decades?

Just goes to show you how twisted the lives of our billionaire class really are. Seems like histories longest running Ponzi scheme to me? He always managed to latch on to some other big bank regardless of multiple bankruptcies and screwing over contractors for decades. His entire life seems to be based on the art of the steal - swindling the gullible. Surprised the mob didn't dump him in the Hudson River decades ago?

-90% Jimmy

[MineralMan]

12. Nah. He's the Bankruptcy King.

That's all he knows.

[dalton99a]

15. He spent a lot of money on bodyguards

We're probably paying for them now

[alterfurz]

41. "The Art of the Steal"...

...and coming soon, the summer's blockbuster sequel: "The Art of the Plea Deal"

[barbtries]

11. yep

he's showing us all now. fuck the country.

what a miserable infant he is.

http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/free-impeach-trump-sticker/?t=1&refcode=g-ImpeachSticker0601.d-20170601.m-9343.s-32387&akid=9343.629906.6uL4vn

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. This will be his undoing eventually, though maybe not as soon as we wish,

because at some point everyone will have displeased him in some fashion and he'll spend all of his efforts on revenge. And no one will be left to back him up. He will have no friends, only enemies. Nobody in politics can afford to piss off everybody, and he's not clever enough to figure out how to co-opt his enemies. He's not Frank Underwood; he's a bratty four-year-old.

[MineralMan]

14. For now, though, he's busy working on things the Republicans want, too,

namely undoing everything Obama did. Until that's done, he's useful to the GOP. When he stops being useful, we'll know it. He'll announce his resignation and Pence will step up.

2018. We have to get Congress back. If we do not, we may not get another chance.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. For now, yes.

But at the rate things are going he might not be useful to the GOP for much longer. They can get what they want from Pence so at some point they'll get tired of having to scrape Trump's shit off their shoes.

[MineralMan]

17. Hasten the day!

[cab67]

18. Lord Dampnut has almost no sense of self-awareness.

If he had one, he'd remember that Obama gave him a hard time at the Press Corps event because Trump had been giving Obama a lot of birtherism grief. That he started it is forgotten in the drive to always one-up his perceived enemies.

This should scare the shit out of Republicans in Congress. Maybe it does, but they have yet to act like they're concerned for the future of the country.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

19. It just happens to coincide with the GOP's agenda.

Which is a plantation economy in hell.

[luvMIdog]

21. Yes & he showed all those signs before and during running for office.

Do I believe the story of the woman who said when she was 13 he slapped her before raping her and told her he could do whatever he wanted? HELL YES. I BELIEVE HER.

[MineralMan]

22. I have no trouble believing that could have happened.

Trump is sui generis. He believes he can do whatever he wishes to do.

[SammyWinstonJack]

31. I believe it happened.

[DK504]

23. They are so stupid.

Pittsburgh went for Hillary by 80%, what a fucking moron, Which stooge wrote that POS in crayons at the 4th grade level.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. Don't forget the Trudeau handshake kerfuffle and the sudden Canadian lumber tariff

[MineralMan]

25. Yup. Don't cross Trump, or he'll getcha!

He's gonna getcha, getcha, getcha!

[liberal N proud]

27. This dangerous on the highest level

[pansypoo53219]

28. karma has pretty much skipped him since he was sent to military school.

and then he used THAT to be a bigger asshole.

[Saviolo]

29. And here's the real kicker:

His GOP handlers know all of that, and they know exactly how to handle him. The reason the top GOP advisers (Ryan, McConnell, etc...) are not speaking out about his behaviour is because they're enabling it. They know that the minute they take a public stand against Trump, their access is gone.

Right now they know that they can pet his ego, flatter him a big, remind him that he's a success and that they know what they're talking about and on the other side, out pops every far-right position that the GOP has been desperate to enact for the last 20 years. He completely trusts anything said by people he believes are successful and loyal. Those two things are the sweet spot, so as long as top GOPers stay in there, Trump is like a slot machine that always pays out.

[MineralMan]

30. Exactly. And when they're done with him, he's outa there.

How soon? Hard to say.

[Saviolo]

37. Except for the times they can't -quite- handle him

When he takes something personally from someone who's actually important, like Macron:

"Silicon Valley titans, such as Apple chief executive Tim Cook and Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, contacted the White House directly, making clear just how seriously they viewed the issue of climate change — and how important it was to them that the president not withdraw from the international pact.

European leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, used a private summit of the Group of Seven world powers to repeatedly and urgently prod Trump to stay true to the climate deal.

And Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter, reached out to chief executives and urged them to call her father to make their pro-business case for staying in the accord.

She even personally appealed to Andrew Liveris, the head of Dow Chemical, asking him to spearhead a letter with other CEOs — which ultimately ran as a full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal in May — directly appealing to Trump to stay in the agreement, according to a person familiar with the effort.

But in the end, it was not enough.

On Thursday, in a Rose Garden ceremony, the president announced his plan to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord.

If he needed a nudge, though, one came from France over the weekend. Macron was quoted in a French journal talking about his white-knuckled handshake with Trump at their first meeting in Brussels, where the newly elected French president gripped Trump’s hand tightly and would not let go for six long seconds in a show of alpha-male fortitude.

“My handshake was not innocent,” Macron said. He likened Trump to a pair of authoritarian strongmen — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — and said that he was purposefully forceful because he believed his encounter with Trump was “a moment of truth.”

Hearing smack-talk from the Frenchman 31 years his junior irritated and bewildered Trump, aides said.

A few days later, Trump got his revenge. He proclaimed from the Rose Garden, “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.”

Full WaPo article: https://t.co/xmxrPp0LvE Inside Trump’s climate decision: After fiery debate, he ‘stayed where he’s always been’

Implies that Macron's alpha male handshake was a factor in Trump's resolve.

[world wide wally]

40. I'm not so sure about the "he;s outa here" part

Trump will feel that they owe him bigly. If they don't pay him, he will unleash his spite dogs on them.

[Initech]

32. Ask Bill Maher and Rosie O'Donnell.

Trump still holds a grudge against Rosie for... some reason. And then he sued Bill Maher after Maher called him the son of an orange orangutan.

[LiberalLovinLug]

33. Far from being the sly businessman

He is in fact the ultimate "mark" for others more clever. (Which is almost everyone else in the Washington horde of lawyer/reps.)

[Texin]

34. Trump's Vendetta Streak

As proof of his lust for revenge, behold the news today the comedienne Kathy Griffin has now been put under investigation by the Secret Service. Even celebrities aren't immune.

[MineralMan]

35. Nah. The Secret Service did that on their own.

They'll visit her and give her a good scolding. They do lots of that sort of thing. She won't be arrested, though. It's not a credible threat.

[Pacifist Patriot]

36. I question if...

his brain ever had the capability of thinking in such broad terms. I'm not being facetious. I honestly do wonder if he has ever been able to to think beyond his own desires and ego gratification. I've certainly not ever seen indications of that, but thankfully I don't know him personally.

[OldHippieChick]

38. What is he going to do to Bloomberg? What can he do to

Bloomberg? This offer by Bloomberg to pay into the global-warming fund on behalf of the U.S. is really going to piss off the Toddler. If more millionaires would join in, it would be so pretty. It would drive the Toddler crazy trying to figure out what to do to all his fellow one-percenters.

[MineralMan]

39. Not a damned thing. We can simply bypass Trump.

He'll be gone soon enough, anyhow, one way or another. We can meet the Paris accord targets without any government interaction, if we choose to do so as a nation.

Trump can't do anything about that.