If Trump thinks "gangs of hundreds" storm stores and escape carrying stolen refrigerators he's one very sick puppy

By Hal Brown, MSW, retired after 40 years of practicing psychotherapy. Formerly director of a mental health center and in psychoanalytically oriented private practice.

Click to read HUFFPOST article shown above.

I won't bother selecting another Superman comic Bizzaro World image to add to this blog depicting Trump's mind. You can chose your own.

Before I read the above article I clicked on another HUFFPOST story, Trump Targets Transgender Health Care In NRA Speech, because how he could shoehorn this topic into a speech to a bunch of gun nuts piqued buy curiosity. I was curious to learn whether he was urging open hunting season for anyone promoting transgender health care. Color me shocked to discover that this topic actually made a modicum of sense even for someone with a warped bigoted mindset.

“Upon my inauguration, I will direct the FDA to convene an independent outside panel to investigate whether transgender hormone treatments and ideology increase the risk of extreme depression, aggression and even violence,” Trump said during a speech at the National Rifle Association’s conference in Indianapolis on Friday. 

“I think most of us already know the answer,” Trump added. 

Trump and his Republican allies have baselessly claimed that gender identity was a factor that led a shooter to kill three kids and three adults at a school in Nashville, Tennessee.

Then scrolling down the web page I saw this:

You can listen to his near 30 second lamentation here:

Add this to the priceless collection of utterances coming from the mouth of Donald John Trump which will provide choice fodder for late night comics to mock.

Trump Puts Refrigerator Theft On Blast In Bizarre NRA Forum Remarks

Trump told an NRA convention crowd that "gangs of hundreds" storm stores and swipe fridges, but Twitter users aren't feeling his big claim.

The HUFFPOST article  begins...

Donald Trump claimed Friday that thefts at retail stores in major cities include “hundreds” of people running out carrying pilfered refrigerators. 

The former president, in a speech Friday to the National Rifle Association convention in Indianapolis, said that “gangs of hundreds” of young people in major cities “attack” department stores.

“And they run in by the hundreds, and they’re running out carrying refrigerators and carrying air conditioners and big stuff ― big, little, everything,” Trump said.

“Fur coats, non-fur coats, everything they’re carrying. They empty out the stores.”

... but the remainder of the article is composed of clever tweets made in response to this.

Last week Salon's Chauncey DeVega interviewed our very own Trump psychoanalyst, Justin Frank. 

"He is visualizing burning things and blowing them up": How Trump may be coping with being caught

Justin Frank, author of "Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President," on this week's historic indictments

 

The one question I would like to ask Dr. Frank is whether when Trump makes remarks like these if he actually believes the words that come out of his mouth or is this performance art.

If he believes what he says, as someone who practiced for 40 years as a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist, but not a formally trained psychoanalyst, I would have to say, to eschew psychological jargon, he is one very sick puppy.

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I'm not going to watch it, but here's the entire 52 minute rant on CSPAN.