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Is Trump lovable or unlovable? I suppose it depends on who you ask. Mary Trump says the following:
"Nobody likes Donald. He's unlikable and he's unlovable." (Read article “Trump's psychologist niece spills about 'great trauma' that made him who he is” and listen to her interview here.)
If you ask, as I did, Perchance AI for an illustration of Trump on a Valentine’s Day card, aside from a few like the one on the top of this page, you come up with a rather unlovable looking fellow:
Perchance AI photo generator had its own “opinion” about who Trump really loves:
Many of the comments to the RawStory article, probably the majority since I haven’t read all 189 of them, lambast Trump in one way or another. For example from Kerry Kalvert:
Nature or nuture?
I have never encountered examples of a sewer rat born into a pack of cannibals grow up to be anything other than a cannibal.
It is a chicken or egg proposition.
But I am pretty sure if Trump’s mother was the virgin Mary and his brother was baby Jesus, baby Jesus would have been thrown out of the manger into the pig sty and we would not be infested with Christians.
Only a few address his psychopathology or the childhood experiences which shaped his malevolent personality. Some commenters suggest it is not relevant to understand him at all to which I respond with Sun Tzu’s dictum in “The Art of War” about how important it is to know the enemy, and oneself in order to be victorious.
One of the comments from a frequent RawStory commenter, Ricardo Santos, who I agree with follows.
Like I said many times, the motherfcker suffers from Mother issues (losing out on his bonding stage of development) which makes him needy, seeking approval, validation and adulation. As well as, being sociopathic having no empathy, bullying (defense mechanism) in getting what he wants, and being a serial killer. Though he does not actually do the killing, we saw that he is capable of doing, seeing millions die because of his Covid decisons. I asked and have been asking, will he beat his record of 1+ million Covid death, or beat Stalin's murdering of 20+ millions of his own citizens. Well, 16 people died from tornados 3 days ago do to lack of weather announcement, the airplane disasters occurring now, and how many have died because of the cancellation of the Foreign aid funding? Add the 30 million that are going to lose their Medicaid? He also suffers from Father issues, feelings of inadequacies (raping/sexually abusing women), though he is a narcissist displaying signs of self aggrandizement (I'm better than my generals, posting AI images of himself), never wrong but knowing he is a failure, intimidated by intellectual men and women who oppose him, because it reminds him of daddy dearest who rejected his incompetence! He carries so much hate and anger and he wants his revenge for being born. Like Doc Holiday said, "A man like Ringo (Trump) has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it." Or like Mary's book Titled says, "Too Much and Never Enough
Mary Trump said the following:
"Much of Donald's characterological disorder is based on the fact that he is an extremely weak person, and this is going to sound reductive but I promise you this is true, who has never gotten what he most needed and wanted in life, which is to be loved. That is still what he most needs and wants."
In his classic book “The Art of Loving” Eric Fromm writes in the preface: that the book does not provide instruction in what he terms the "art of loving", but rather argues that love, rather than a sentiment, is an artistic practice. Any attempt to love another is bound to fail, if one does not commit their total personality to learning and practicing loving. He states that "individual love cannot be attained without the capacity to love one's neighbour, without true humility, courage, faith and discipline." (Wikipedia)
I generally agree with Mary Trump but in this case I take issue with her when she says nobody likes her uncle and that he’s both unlikable and unlovable. She doesn’t take into consideration here that there are people who have their own pathological needs which developed when they were children for various reasons to love someone like Donald Trump. You can see this manifest in the extent to which they exhibit their feelings for him, to how much they fawn over him and seem to worship him. Some of course are kowtowing to him to curry his favor because he has power over them and they may actually dislike him, or even despise him. Some may dislike themselves for being so duplicitous, but I have no doubt that many of them have true feelings of what for them can reasonably be called love even if it is pathological. Maybe they never had a cold and distant father and crave any morsel of attention from Trump because he is a father figure to them.
If Trump could be unflinchingly honest with himself he’d realize that very few people in his life truly loved him. He’d see that the people who say they love him are attracted to his power and love him to satisfy there own needs, some healthy (Ivanka when she was a child comes to mind) and others for what I suspect are pathological reasons having to do with their own childhood experiences (Marjorie Taylor Greene, Laura Loomer, and many female members of his cult for example). It is debatable whether any of his wives loved him for healthy reasons.
Eva loved Adolph, so anything is possible.
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