Donald Trump Is a Broken Man
Donald Trump Is a Broken ManThe Atlantic, 7/21/2020, Peter Wehner
At the conclusion of the interview, Wallace asked Trump how he will regard his years as president.
I think I was very unfairly treated, Trump responded. From before I even won, I was under investigation by a bunch of thieves, crooks. It was an illegal investigation.
When Wallace interrupted, trying to get Trump to focus on the positive achievements of his presidencyWhat about the good parts, sir?Trump brushed the question aside, responding, Russia, Russia, Russia. The president then complained about the Flynn investigation, the Russia hoax, the Mueller scam and the recusal by his then-attorney general, Jeff Sessions. (Now I feel good, because he lost overwhelmingly in the great state of Alabama, Trump said about the first senator to endorse him in the 2016 Republican primary.)
Donald Trump is a psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man. He is so gripped by his grievances, such a prisoner of his resentments, that even the most benevolent question from an interviewerwhat good parts of your presidency would you like to be remembered for?triggered a gusher of discontent.
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dflprincess
(28,075 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)agingdem
(7,849 posts)trump has no cognitive awareness...he self interprets his incompetence and stupidity as "stable genius"...and because he is a hate filled paranoid narcissistic sociopath he rages at what he perceives as the hordes of enemies determined to destroy him (Democrats) ..and those lesser beings blind to his magnificence (blacks/hispanics/jews/muslims/Native Americans/asians/the poor/the disabled)...he's not a complicated man..there are no layers to him...he's a malignant stain....
Kali
(55,007 posts)since he can't be and isn't worth fixing, he needs to be dumped. broken things can be dangerous and fuck up other working things. they need to be taken out of service quickly!
empedocles
(15,751 posts)'Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.' - Carrie Fisher
[traitortrump is a serious prisoner, drinking his own poison, it seems].
teach1st
(5,935 posts)But I don't feel sorry for him.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I've always loved that quote.
raccoon
(31,110 posts)In 12-step meetings now and then.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)him so easy to manipulate. Yet he's blind to how he's been used. But it also makes him so easy to trigger, and we've begun to use that to our advantage.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)He wasnt a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed: something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was whole.
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
Rorey
(8,445 posts)Every Republican should read that over a couple of dozen times. I did not at all like Reagan, but that is a beautiful sentiment.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Turd has Stephen Goebbels Miller.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)He also knew how to read what was written for him, and how to convey emotion when speaking.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Trump's acting experience was only in porn and game-show TV.
BillyBobBrilliant
(805 posts)is that he is not very happy. I am comforted that I have seldom seen him smile, or say he likes something. I know it is not good for me to wish misery on another creature...but geez Louise!
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)"Wallace asked Trump how he will regard his years as president."
It is nearly impossible to blow a question like that, leave it to Trump to find a way.