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In reply to the discussion: Trump's Use Of The Word "Perfect"...... [View all]lunatica
(53,410 posts)16. His family are the lifelong victims of Trump's narcissism
Imagine what it was like to be a small child around that man. They would be forced to please him, to show allegiance only to him, to submit to him in everything. There is no mystery as to why his daughter acts like a plastic toy with every single move being so painfully deliberate. In a deep psychological way she was forced to please him, or suffer the consequences that we see him using now against everyone.
And his sons had it worse. To this day they exist to please him.
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It's like it's a dismissive "fine" but with his typical grandiose exaggeration
NightWatcher
Oct 2019
#1
It means something important to him, obviously. I think it goes all the way back to his childhood.
hedda_foil
Oct 2019
#2
I agree. There was something that seemed strange about his use of that word right off the bat.
smirkymonkey
Oct 2019
#24
It has hit me like nails down a blackboard from the first time he uttered it.
Pacifist Patriot
Oct 2019
#13
Yes, I commented about it a few days ago on DU. I also pointed out that it's an example of
tblue37
Oct 2019
#23