Eugene Robinson: Donald Trump’s raging egomania

[babylonsister]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trumps-raging-egomania/2016/09/08/252a4990-75f6-11e6-be4f-3f42f2e5a49e_story.html?utm_term=.dd407dcb6f9f

Donald Trump’s raging egomania
By Eugene Robinson Opinion writer September 8 at 7:25 PM


The most revealing moment in the presidential candidates’ first joint forum Wednesday night came when Donald Trump told the world how much he admires Vladimir Putin .

Never mind that the Russian strongman invaded Ukraine and seized Crimea. Never mind that he supports the butcher Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Never mind that so many of his political opponents end up murdered or imprisoned. Never mind that U.S. officials suspect his government of trying to disrupt our election with cyberattacks. In Trump’s star-struck eyes, all of this makes him “a leader, far more than our president has been a leader.”

Putin, you see, once paid Trump a compliment. “If he says great things about me,” Trump told moderator Matt Lauer, “I’m going to say great things about him.”

There you have it, folks, the distilled essence of Trump’s disgraceful campaign. It’s not about immigration or foreign policy or making America “great again,” whatever that means. It’s entirely about Trump and his raging egomania.

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Face the truth: Trump has to be the most dangerously ignorant major-party presidential candidate in history.

[True Dough]

1. The dolt has proven this time and time again

Anyone who criticizes him faces his wrath. Anyone who sings his praises or even said a few nice words about him gets treated in kind. He's such a reactionary simpleton.

[duncang]

2. Here's to Mr Robinson

He is someone I'd really like to meet in real life. Through the years and a lot of the news circus shows he has been the sane one in the group.

[JohnnyLib2]

4. Amen!

[tavernier]

5. I wonder if he sings?

He has the most marvelous voice!!

[bigbrother05]

6. Agree, would be an interesting conversation

He was in the same 1970 Presidential Scholars group with Merrick Garland coming out of high school.

[Stonepounder]

3. Even more terrifying than his ignorance and his egomania

is his narcissism. Look at how he runs his companies. He does NOT have good business sense. He makes his money through lies, theft, and cheating. He 'goes with his gut' which as many have already pointed out, is wrong remarkably often.

He'll go with his gut as President (and probably end nearly all life on earth by starting a nuclear holocaust).

[Desert grandma]

7. Useful Idiot

A Republican who has been involved in several past Republican campaigns made an interesting statement on Lawrence O'Donnell last night. He said that Trump is what the former Bolsheviks called a "useful idiot". Most sane, intelligent people, regardless of party, will hopefully conclude that this con man is incompetent and temperamentally unfit to be the leader of the Free World.

[bullwinkle428]

8. I really enjoyed that comment as well. Welcome to DU!

[calimary]

11. Welcome to DU, Desert grandma!

"Useful idiot" is an excellent description for The Grate Pumpkin. He IS a CONman of the first order.

[State the Obvious]

13. "Useful Idiot" was part of Lenin's agenda

Dictators need the help of stupid people who will spread their hateful, catastrophic agendas without question. Putin (dictator) needs Donald Trump (useful idiot) to promote his hatred of the US. Trump supporters would fall into the same category.

Welcome to DU .

[oasis]

9. Kick

[Thinkingabout]

10. Great article, I enjoyed when it was read on MJ and again as I read again.

[NewJeffCT]

12. So, if Obama had Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity

Laura Ingraham, Bill O'Reilly and a few others assassinated, and Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and more jailed, and then invaded Mexico and Cuba, Trump would admire him more?

[ronatchig]

14. After living through Raygun,

Cheney's sock puppet the Feather, BobDole Mc Can too get Palin, and Tricky Dicky, the statement "Trump has to be the most dangerously ignorant major-party presidential candidate in history." is not only true but should be put up as the understatement of the year.