Self-gratification Don: Aides alarmed that Trump is spending tons of time playing with his little putter. By Hal Brown,. MSW

 Advisory: Adult content and psychological analysis.

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From RawStory: Trump aides alarmed he's 'just golfing all day and stewing' as election slips away

This is a summary of the Washington Post (subscription) article which gave me an excuse to use AI showing Trump playing with a little putter to make these images and remind everyone of Barack Obama's reference to Trump's obsessions with crowd size and how he demonstrated this with his hands. Does anybody not know what he was thinking about?

Here's the article in RawStory:

This is the quote from The Washington Post:

But aides did not want a situation where he was watching the convention every night, getting angry, and then just golfing all day and stewing, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private interactions. Trump also had grown annoyed with the news coverage that depicted him as not working as hard as his opponent, one person who talked to him said.

Trump ought to be concerned that he has aides or others more or less in his inner circle talking to the media, but this blog isn't about that. Like many of my blogs it is about the psychodynamics of Donald Trump. It is about what makes Trump tick.

Trump is all about self-gratification. Apparently he's decided to listen to those urging him to put down his putter and get off the greens and do more rallies. But as far as talking about issues he still demonstrates his pressing need to gratify himself by making personal attacks against Kamala. This makes him feel good. He might as well be engaging in autoerotic behavior.

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It simply doesn't make Trump feel good to talk about policy. This is a chore for him. Unless he is fanning flames of bigotry and paranoia about things like the horrors of immigrant criminals taking over the country, which cause his crowds to cheer thus massaging his ego, I have little doubt he gets the most visceral thrill out of making personal insults against Kamala Harris.

ADDENDUM:

My psychoanalyst friend just emailed me asking if the plural of putter was putzers.

Freud wrote about hidden symbolism is dreams and slips of the tongue famously said "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." In fact this has become a meme.

I doubt he played golf but even if he didn't he might have also said sometimes a little putter is just a small golf club.
 

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