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When I get up in the morning I rarely have an idea for a blog entry. Trump's behavior often gives me one. This morning just looking at Raw Story gave me today's idea.
First I read
'A deeply weird person': Morning Joe panelist ridicules Trump's newly revealed obsession
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"In addition to being a bad person, Donald Trump is a deeply weird person," he blurted as the entire panel burst into laughter. "Remember that point in the indictment where he's talking to Evan Corcoran, his lawyer, you know, about the 'pluck 'em out' conversation, and he's saying, 'I don't want anybody going through my boxes. I don't want you going through my boxes'?"
"It is almost a Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings moment,'" he continued. "He has a hoarding instinct about the documents. Some weird security blanket, some sort of -- it boosts his ego and reminds him that he actually somehow became president of the United States."
If you don't remember Gollum's line in the "Lord of the Rings" movie:
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The next story I read was:
'Born with a very small brain': Trump trashes former chief of staff who called him 'scared' of jail
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I won't torture you with yet another blog about Trump's psychopathology. If you missed it, I did this yesterday here:
If you're curious, do the web search for "Trump mentally ill" and add my name.
I took a break from writing this to put together the illustration on the top of the page and then went back to Raw Story and saw two new stories on the top of their page:
Article one here and article two here.
From yesterday:
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What does it say about someone facing serious felony charges that could result in imprisonment that he acts in such self-defeating ways? Is he weird or mentally ill? I believe that in Trump's case there's an overlap.
Most of you know about, or have read the best selling book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. There's another book some of you are no doubt familiar with. This is "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" by neurologist Oliver Sacks.
I'm not suggesting that Trump has a highly unusual and bizarre neurological condition like the patients in Sacks' book, but his behavior is definitely weird.
I think the yet to be written book which would describe Trump could be titled "The Weird, Bizarre, Self-Defeating, Dangerous, Disastrous Case of the Man Who Mistook Himself for God."
Addendum:
Trump is called lots of names by his critics. For example, Rick Wilson of The Lincoln Project just called him a low, loathsome, corrupt, venal, mendacious scumbag here.. Idiot is another example:
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"Donald Trump looks like an idiot on this one," said contributor Elise Jordan. "He had a chance, he had a do-over, couldn't bring himself to do it. At the end of the day, if you're arguing about the refs, if you're arguing about the DOJ and FBI, you're losing."
What does idiot mean?
An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person.
'Idiot' was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less, and the person cannot guard themself against common physical dangers. The term was gradually replaced by 'profound mental retardation', which has since been replaced by other terms.[1] Along with terms like moron, imbecile, retard and cretin, its use to describe people with mental disabilities is considered archaic and offensive.[2] Moral idiocy refers to a moral disability. From Wikipedia
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