The quote "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" is usually attributed to Freud although there's no reference to where he might have said this.The above image is AI, but in many photos, like this one from his Wikipedia bio, he's shown smoking or holding a cigar.
Of course this references cigars being a phallic symbol in dreams. With cigar smokers like himself I expect he thought it was perfectly normal to enjoy them. Unfortunately at the end of his life he battled mouth cancer. Yesterday Trump left no doubt about his being in awe of men with exceptionally large penises.
Michael Steele and Elizabeth Warren were talking about it this morning and as I write this Ali Velshi just mentioned it on MSNBC.
She had a defiant male student in her class who was the son of one of the richest men in a small Spanish town. In an exam the boy finished in just a few minutes and handed in his paper laying it down on her desk with a smirk on his face. "Are you done already" she said, surprised, but then she looked down at the answer sheet and saw why he could finsih so quickly. It had drawings of big penises all over it instead of answers.
The father was a big donor to the school and she had to explain why she gave him an F when he came to talk to her. She just showed him the exam paper and he understood and ended up asking her to tutor his son.
Here he is with his father:
I thought about this when I read what was the top story on HuffPost last night and this morning.
Excerpt:
LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign suggested he would begin previewing his closing argument Saturday night with Election Day barely two weeks away. But the former president kicked off his rally with a detailed story about Arnold Palmer, at one point even praising the late, legendary golfer’s genitalia.
Trump was campaigning in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where Palmer was born in 1929 and learned to golf from his father, who suffered from polio and was head pro and greenskeeper at the local country club.
Politicians saluting Palmer in his hometown is nothing new. But Trump spent 12 full minutes doing so at the top of his speech and even suggested how much more fun the night would be if Palmer, who died in 2016, could join him on stage.
“Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to women,” Trump said. “This is a guy that was all man.”
Then he went even further.
“When he took the showers with other pros, they came out of there. They said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable,’” Trump said with a laugh. “I had to say. We have women that are highly sophisticated here, but they used to look at Arnold as a man.”
Of course penises are a common preoccupation with adolsecent boys. As any middle school teacher or custodian can tell you about the drawings they see in the bathroom stalls of the boy's bathrooms. I don't know who draws them but I've seen them in the men's bathrooms on the interstate and even in nice restaurants. They are also a common street graffiti drawing.
There are more indications that Trump has dementia than merely this one. This example also demonstrates that there is something seriously amiss in the 78 year old man's brain. It shows both disinhibition and poor judgment. These are symptoms of dementia.
Did he think he was back in his school boy's locker making lewd remarks to an audience of his cronies? Consider that when he made his infamous "I can grab them by the pussy" remark he thought this would never be shared publicly. This was something he said in a rally.
If your elderly relative with dementia compared a large bratwurst to his penis at a family dinner you would understand and sadly accept this. This is a presidential candidate talking about big penises in a televised rally.
In Arnold Palmer's hometown with all the things he could say in praise of him he ended up talking about the size of the golf legend's penis. There's something really, really wrong with this.
It is, plain and simply, diagnostic. It is the cognitive version of an underlying disease as coughing up blood would be.
Afterthought:
Trump doesn't smoke. I wonder whether if he did he'd smoke cigars.
