Trump is the Baby Balloon enabled, unleashed, and unrestrained, By Hal M. Brown

 

The skin is the largest human organ. 

Look up Trump and thin skinned and you will find how many people, including his psychologist cousin Mary Trump, have described his, metaphorically, as extremely thin skinned.

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Trump had to endure a number of abrasions to his thin skin in recent years. He had to sit through the Correspondent’s Dinner where he was roundly roasted by Barack Obama. He also had to sit through the entire E. Jean Carroll trial (but at least he got a useful mug shot photo out of this). And he had to suffer the indignation of the Russia election meddling probe which suggested he needed their help to be the winner he has all of his self-esteem invested in claiming to be. 

I think one thing that got to him more than may be obvious is the famous Baby Balloon. (See Wikipedia where the entry about it is part of their series about him.)

I can’t find an estimate of how many mini-versions of the balloon were sold. Let’s say it was a lot and Trump couldn’t have been pleased about this. This is from this TPM 2018 article:

Here’s another:

I have no doubt Trump was well aware of the balloons and, as someone who has had great success marketing himself, he no doubt was cognizant that people were making money mocking him with a decidedly unflattering depiction of him in a diaper.

What is open to speculation is whether this got to him in a deeper way, in a way he wasn’t consciously aware of. Harsh and punitive toilet training is often considered by experts to be detremential to healthy personality development. Here’s a Google search.

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Whether one wants to take a Freudian view or not, it is clear that being depicted as a tantrum throwing baby, not only with large helium filled balloons which make the news, but with smaller balloons at protests (sold for as little as $10 on Amazon) has to get to him at some level. 

He fancies himself the master of the insult, so if he see himself being called “Diaper Don” if he’s honest with himself he’d recognize that this is a damn good one. I think it is far better than Shifty Shift, Pocahontas, Ron DeSanctimonious, Kamabla, and even Sleepy Joe (See the entire list here and judge for yourself.) In fact, I think it is one of the best insulting nicknames for any politician since Tricky Dick.

What the country is being subjected to now is this mentally warped leader acting like a anally impaired fixated baby having tantrums unleashing his rage. His target isn’t his parents. It is enemies, whether real people like James Comey, random brown skinned people, women in general, poor people, or unfortunate possible drug smugglers in speed boats. 

Addendum:

This is unrelated to this particular Substack, but Sabrina Haake brought it to my attention as worth sharing. I agree:

I have often referenced quotes from Sun Tzu as he does. 

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Bring back the baby balloon

 

By Hal Brown

It should be a no-brainer to say that anyone in public office who has allowed themsleves to be portrayed as Donald Trump has as a mythic muscular macho man is deeply insecure. The real Trump of today physically is the one that we see in his full heft in all those golfing photos. 

When Trump has to heave his protruding posteria out of his bed I can see him huffing a puffing at the effort. 

His self-delusion about his buff body was so entrenched that he thoughtlessly allowed photographers to take his picture when he played golf and those wonderful photos were taken. 

Some were altered to make him look like he had a fatter rear, one had a brown stain added to it (Reuters article), but the true photos aren't something a preening narcissist like Trump would appreciate.

I wonder if Trump saw some of the barechested Putin pics and had a moment of jealousy. I am sure Vlad cracked up when he saw all the Trump altered images he sold as digital trading cards.

For that matter it may register, if barely, in Trump's mind that Joe Biden's body hasn't changed signficantly since he was a young man.

If I was a Putin pal I would have given him a Trump baby balloon as a present telling him that even though he already owned him he could literally own him.

We haven't seen the Trump baby balloon much recently. It is iconic. It is unique. It has it's own Wiki page:

The original was aquired by the Museum of London: 

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More images:

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The balloons are readily availabe on Amazon. You can have them in a day or two. Note that the mini-balloons (top right below) are almost sold out.

Aside from Chris Christi's crack about Trump being called Donald Duck the man is a rare duck psychologically. He is notoriously thin skinned but has honed his ability to engage in psycholgical denial to a degree that is pathological and thus in other ways is thick skinned.

Things that would make a normal person break down in tears or break out in hives don't register with him.

I doubt Trump sees the numerous unflattering cartoons of him golfing.

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I think the one depiction of him that might break through his defenses enough to bother him is the baby balloon. The more people who bring it to events likely to be covered by the media the better. Rather than lining a route of his motorcade to one of his court appearances with protest signs I think anti-Trumpers should hold the baby balloon.

This may seem to be a useless endeavor. However aside from the personal satisfaction you may get should you have a chance to do it, you may actually be adding yet one more straw, albeit a small one, the the accumlated load that eventually causes Trump's back to break.

Trump is responding to the stress of his legal jeopardy as evidenced by his more and more unhinged speeches and Truth Social posts. While he fancies himself to be super-human he is, newsflash, human.

Stress can be acute or chronic, and with the latter it can gradually build up to the point that someone suffers a breakdown.

If he cracks it may be in a manner that is so obvious that only his equally deranged supporters will be able to deny it.

If everytime he goes out where he can see the public he also sees a lot of baby balloons this may at the least have a subliminal effect on him. If it is on the way to or from a court appearance all the better.

What if it is your baby balloon that leads Trump to have a his undeniable MAGA madman moment?