National Insecurity
Between the accolades for Stephen Colbert and the near-universal condemnation of CBS and the refusal of artists to perform at the Trump-affiliated Kennedy Center and the lackluster military parade and the withdrawal of so many artists from the “Freedom 250” celebration, Donald Trump is clearly furious that he remains unable to use the power of the Presidency to force the people to love him.
Judging from his cartoonishly over-the-top reaction on Truth Social, losing the Kennedy Center probably meant more to this guy than anything that’s happened to him since losing the election in 2020. Because Trump’s been like this forever. He wants his name on buildings. And ballrooms. And airports. And possibly countries. Then the people will have no choice but to adore him.
His philosophy can be distilled into a single four-letter word: “MINE!”
He is so pathologically insecure that he doesn’t even trust his audience to know who he’s talking about when he says “Your Favorite President.” He feels that if he is not quick to remind them (“ME!”), his audience may have the opportunity to objectively assess Trump’s stewardship of the Republic in comparison to his 45 competitors and settle on a more conventional favorite like Washington or Lincoln.
Even in Iran, Trump remains shockingly focused on one thing: is the media heaping sufficient praise on HIM? He is endlessly aggrieved that they are not giving him the credit he deserves for his endeavors in Iran, a ridiculous and highly inconsistent boondoggle where Trump is congenitally incapable of recognizing any flaws. Trump’s ego requires so much flattery that he is even inventing purely fictitious examples of how the hateful, hateful media would tear him down even if he was a magician who could solve everything.
Trump is capable of recognizing that people hate him. But that’s where it ends. It’s a binary on-off switch. “Do they LOVE me or do they HATE me?” His ego allows no further introspection.
He never thinks: “People hate me, so I must have done something wrong.”
He can only think: “People hate me. It’s so UNFAIR!”
And Trump will be forever be frustrated that his greed, his cruelty, his arrogance, his deceit, and his endless bellyaching will never result in the praise and adoration he believes he deserves.
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Before 2016, I didn't even know what a narcissist was. Now, I can't unsee it EVERYWHERE. It's not just him, even though he is the CLASSIC case. His fanatical cult members are also narcissistic. It seems to be a national epidemic! Even the women, who seem so much less likely to be narcissistic on the whole, are all narcissistic. Look at ALL women in Trump's admin and orbit, and they share that same grave personality disorder. It really is a cult of narcissists; that is the one unifying quality they all share.
Fascinating...
Wolff asked Trump early in the 2016 primary campaign why he was running for president. According to Wolff, Trump replied without missing a beat:
"To become the most famous man in the world."
Funny that he'll be remembered as worse, More Hated, than Hitler- L0L