I wish I could solve the mystery of what the malevolent manic meanderings of Donald Trump actually mean when it comes to assessing his mental status.
Here are some links to a few stories from this morning which show how manic Trump is. For example there’s this in HuffPost:
From RawStory:
Whether he is ranting about woke or war, Trump doesn’t seem to to temper his temper based on how serious a perceived affront to his sensibilities is. In fact, when he ought to be crafting a stratigic about Putin, he rages at Gavin Newsom.
Newsom has it right when he uses the term “triggered.” He could just have accurately tweeted “thin skinned?” Trump doesn’t care that all he is doing is giving one of his fiercest foes more publicity and demonstrating how much he pays attention to him.
I doubt that Trump actually cares about many of the things he makes a big deal about. For example, all of the anti-woke bullshit.
He just finds out about something like the way American history is accurately portrayed in some of the Smithsonian exhibits. Someone may have suggested to him that the bad parts of the country’s history should be erased or he may think of it himself. The term “whitewashed” is appropriate, but nobody would dare use it with him making a case for elimination of exhibits. I can see Stephen Millier being one of these Trump whisperers. Regardless of whom the idea came from, we won’t have visitors to these great museums learning about the cruelty of slavery, how Native Americans were treated, Japanese-Americans put in camps during World War II, or anything about the civil rights movement.
Many people may care,, but I don’t think Trump does. He wants to be the bull in the china shop. At some level he knows, but doesn’t care, that he’s really the big bullshitter in the china shop. If there are things he can break, and get attention over, he will do it.
Since there are exhibits in the Natural History Museum proving that the Earth wasn’t created the way Bible literalists say it was, and Trump thought it was to his advantage to throw them a bone he’d have all the dinosaur bones broken. The old fossil would also have the fossils there destroyed.
Who cares that kids on school trips from blue states will stop being taken to the Smithsonian? He would think this was a good thing.
What’s next? It could be this rather insignificant story:
This guy in this article cares, or puts on a good podcats show about caring. No doubt the people watching him care.
The story is getting a lot of media attention, so I am waiting for Trump to rage about Cracker Barrel and insult their food, and even threaten them with a MAGA boycott. I’d advise the company to prepare their restaurants for ICE raids.
As a retired clincian who no longer spent time trying to better understand the underlying psychology of my clients, I’ve tried to analyze Trump since 2017 and share my impressions online.
I just found this AI produced summary about yours truly. It is largely accurate.
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I see Trump as exhibitng elements of mania. Trump doesn’t have mania in the psychiatric sense, but he is manic in the way the term is used colloquially. For example, someone may be described as having a manic personality or a workplace may be said to have manic energy. I suspect the White House is this kind of workplace.
Trump’s mania is closely related to his grandiose narcissism. He felt the need to prove to himself and to the world that Trump, the Make America Great president, was so great he could do everything all at once. His being manic made it impossible for him to slow down at times when it became obvious that he was making one mistake after another. For example, with his tariff binge and his allowing DOGE to fire the wrong people. Here are some old headlines:
This morning we have this story about the effects of Trump’s tariffs:
Had Trump been able to move slowly and develop a strategy to implement his plan to become dictator over two years, those of us who were comparing him to Hitler would have been more credibly accused of having Trump derangement syndrome. There would be less likelihood that the Democrats would prevail in the next elections and take control of Congress. By the end of his term, Trump could have turned us into as much of a dictatorship as Russia, China, and North Korea. There would be a good chance he could cancel the next election in order to be president for life.
Instead, he succumbed to his manic need for instant self-gratification.
A rational person would be ignoring Newsom…. nuff said.
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