The Trump Girdle Watch: How to Gauge the Preening Narcissist's Stress Level
Reading the following article....
it occurred to me that the most read and recommended Daily Kos story out of over 1,400 which I posted there as a member of the liberal website's community of what they call diary writers was about Jennifer Senior calling Trump a preening narcissist in a NY Times OpEd. As far as I could tell she was the first person in the media to call him this.
Trump was captured in one paragraph and one catchphrase by NY Times OpEd writer Jennifer Senior
People under stress often experience drastic changes in their eating habits. Readers may have experienced this in themselves or observed it with people close to them. At one extreme people may find their appetite diminished and may lose a lot of weight. At the other end people may experience the opposite and engage in overeating, often high calorie comfort foods, and gain a significant amount of weight.
If, as the RawStory article reports, Trump is eating to excess and gaining a lot of weight we may be able to ascertain this in several ways.
One is simply that he stops allowing himself to be photographed. We know how much the media hog likes to have his image plastered all over the place.
Another is that he doesn't even realize how much weight he's gained, maybe he just doesn't look in a full-length mirror or it he does so but is in such deep denial he doesn't see his "bigly" belly. (Apparently Trump never really used this word but it has often been attributed to him but really said big league, so we can say he has a big league belly.) If this happens and he tries to get his photo in the press everyone will see it and Twitter will go nuts with ridicule.
The third possibility is that he'll wear a man's girdle (see Amazon). He may decide to wear one marketed as a sports item and tell himself it isn't really a girlie girdle. It's quite possible he's already donned one. There's already been speculation about this:
Trump Sparks Rumors He Wears A Girdle; Journalist Claims POTUS Has Bad Posture
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If Trump has gained so much weight that if he appears in public it is readily visible you can expect a torrent of articles, snarky tweets, and cartoons.
While this will give his critics, me included, some perverse measure, it will also confirm that the stress of the beleaguered ex-president has increased, to use the term again, bigly. The more stress Trump is experiencing the more likely it is that he will make ill-considered, out outright self-defeating decisions. For example it's been widely reported that he seemed to have gone berserk with a storm of QAnon messages on his Truth Social website:
Trump promotes barrage of QAnon content via social media platform
As part of an online tantrum, Donald Trump didn't just promote QAnon content, he also pushed the line that Democratic leaders are Americans' "enemy."
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The more off the rails of rational thinking Trump goes the less likely it is that he will heed whatever good legal advice he receives from his lawyers and the more chances there are that he will do or say things that jeopardize his legal defense. Not only this, but the more, dare I say, cray-cray he seems the more likely it is that some of his reasonably mentally healthy supporters will realize that he really belongs not necessarily in the big house for his crimes (where he does belong), but in the figurative nuthouse, not the White House.
Addendum:
This Slang dictionary uses Trump in their definition:
WHAT DOES BIGLY MEAN?
Bigly is a word popularly believed to have been made up and used by US President Donald Trump, meaning “to a large amount” or “with great intensity.” It is most often used in mockery of Donald Trump’s speech, mannerisms, and behavior.
Slang usage aside, it is a real word:
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