To call him a whiney baby would insult babies everywhere. He is simply the neediest, weakest, stupidest, worst person in my lifetime. He is completely without any positive qualities.
Actually, the word that comes to my mind to describe Trump is "rat". As Jay writes, Trump "loses in court, but rather than accept the result, he looks for a gap he can squeeze through to reach the same outcome." This describes a street rat perfectly.
Poor Donald Trump. There is a vast empriness inside him which stems from the fact that he never received love from either of his parents. His father could.t have heve been less interested in him and his poor mother was all tied up in her own illness. Thus Trump has spent every hour of his life since early childhood trying to fill that endless emptiness with money and power. And it is probably certain that he is totally unaware of this and so will never seek the professional aid thatmight help him.
Stuyvesant, I agree with your summation, probably derived from the writings of Dr. Mary L. Trump, who has had a front-row seat to the miserable existence of her uncle.
However, I disagree with your implication that professional aid might help him. For some people, there is no redemption.
I'd rather not use the word, "evil," because it carries religious implications, but I can't think of a different word that conveys the profound, absolute absence of human decency.
The only equivalent examples to Donald I can think of are Adolf, Charles Manson and the two Jeffrey's ... Dahmer and Epstein. In those men, there was never anything to salvage. As with his equals, the world will be a better place when he doesn't exist. There are no other options.
I heard a story yesterday told by a man who was quoting Robin Williams. He said Williams early in his career lived in a very modest apartment because he gave his entire salary for a year to a homeless shelter. Ask why he did it, William said his father had everything and felt nothing and he wanted to have nothing and feel everything. Profound and totally incomprehensible to the likes of Donald Trump.
I agree that professional help wouldn't change trump. As I know from experience, receiving professional help and getting somewhere with it, requires a willingness to work hard to get to the goal. trump has no change goals in mind because he sees himself as perfect, and is far too lazy to do the work.
My take would be that the world would be better the minute he gets his hands pulled off the buttons and if people are shown how pathetic he is so that most of them learn what a losing model he offers.
As to our country, we'll stand taller if we can demonstrate that we won't put up with corruption and the insults of a liar, and we can and will defend our rules and principles from a malignantly cancerous oligarchy, the better if we can do so without the unnecessary cruelty of this regime.
I agree...I believe the trauma of his mother's serious illness taking her away from the already needy two-year Donald during a crucial phase of development. Donald watched his father destroy his eldest son, Donald's older brother with tyrannical cruelty and cold indifference.
I'm sure the trauma created the seeds of his sociopathy, along with his father's cruel assessment of the business world as a zero sum war with killers and losers. Empathy or kindness was a dangerous liability. To top it off Fred, Sr. encouraged Roy Cohn--of all people--to mentor Donald. Donald's temperament and psyche became exactly what his father envisioned; a proto-type Gordon Gekko. Imagine the depths of depravity necessary to envision Roy Cohn as a suitable mentor for a young man. Unfortunately for Fred, Sr., (but lucky, in a way, for us) Donald was missing a couple of key ingredients for success: intelligence and drive. Thank goodness, Donald is both very stupid and incredibly lazy.
Agreed. He’s utterly unredeemable, as well as evil at his core. Which is why I’ll probably never understand how/why so, so many people, some who most certainly recognize his immense faults, continue to not just go along with his selfish, petulant actions, but actually defend even some of his most evil deeds! 😢
Only a couple of countries publicly address the futility of doing ANY business with this man. Canada (applause) and Iran (applause). Perhaps if the whole World stayed publicly that you can't do business with a liar and dementia patient, the US would get the message that our Emporer has no clothes on. Why o why is ANYONE in this country tolerating this insane bullshit? And it IS being tolerated. He won't accept "no" because he doesn't have to.
Absolutely! I was particularly embarrassed by our PM's sycophantic behaviour towards Trumplethinskin and, for the first time in my life, pitied Charles III having a state visit by this odious POS forced on him (he has very little say in the matter, they're decided by the foreign office, no doubt instructed by Starmer). It was obvious to me that any advantage gained by the shameless grovelling would be short lived. Sure enough, less than three months later…
Too right. I am so disgusted with foreign leaders humoring him, trying to please him. He's nuts!!! It is such a relief to find intelligent, truthful leaders like Carney and Iran's who say "we must move on, you cannot make deals with a liar who lives in his own mind". This is simple fact.
At least Infantino, the head of FIFA, is getting some serious pushback (although not entirely for his ridiculous ‘FIFA Peace Prize’ and the red card intervention at the world cup). What gets me even more is when those leaders just don't learn that a deal with Trumplethinskin is worthless. They keep coming back and trying to ingratiate themselves with him. As I'm sure you know, there's a definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results 🤦🏼♂️.
Anyway, thank you for taking the time to respond. It's always flattering to discover that people have read my comments and even more so when they engage with them 🙏🏼. And I hope you don't take it amiss if I say that I think Celeste is a lovely name 😊.
I agonize over (how dumb can you be??) how time and again European leaders pander to him while he continually 🗡 stabs them in the back, lies to them, and kicks sand in their faces. (Once burned, twice learned???)
Oh, to make matters worse Nicholas, my last name means "thoughts" in Polish, and if that (heavenly thoughts) ain't bad enough, my passion in life is aviation. So I guess the name is.....practical? Thanks.
Celeste and Nicholas I just don't get it. Why in the world would foreign leaders give trump the time of day??!! It's like trump emits a type of gas that renders people around him unable to discern the truth or think critically. Or maybe they're all in the epstein files. Idk it sounds crazy but between maga voters, the Republicans and these world leaders it's like they're under a spell. Maybe they think he's a harmless old fool but i think that's a big mistake. Ok I guess I'm done.
If anyone thinks he's harmless, Sheesh! He holds the most powerful office in the world and is such a moronic, ignorant, incompetent and malignant, grievance driven, greedy, corrupt and utterly selfish POS, he's the biggest threat to the world economy, peace and the climate that there is. The only gas emanating from him that I've heard of is obnoxious, but who knows? The Epstein files seems more likely, but, yes, it's so completely incomprehensible that some kind of hypnotic gas isn't as crazy as their genuflecting.
Exactly, it seems more like ‘once burned, twice as determined’. It's almost masochistic 🤷🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🙄🤓. I don't think agonizing over it is dumb at all, their behaviour is truly perplexing. I'm no fan of Georgia Meloni at all, nor Macron, but at least they have the right attitude towards Trumplethinskin. And you'd think Meloni would be a natural ally, but then Trumplethinskin's so incredibly stupid and arrogant that he alienates even then.
I think your name is the most poetic case of ‘nominative determinism’ I've ever come across! It's so lovely, not that I'm convinced that nominative determinism is a thing. Considering people's surnames often originated from the jobs their ancestors did, I think that at most it might nudge someone in a certain direction. It's definitely more cognitive resonance: most Smiths aren't smiths, most Coopers don't make barrels and are there even any Fletchers who do nothing but make arrows nowadays? I definitely never even considered becoming a pretzel seller and quite apart from that, apparently the name is Eastern European in origin. My paternal grandfather told me it was originally like those Czech placenames that don't have any vowels (e.g. Plsn) and when his ancestors migrated to Germany the Germans were all “Huh? No, no, no, we can't have that!” and added at least the ‘e’s. So the pretzel thing is purely coincidental anyway (pretzel(s) is/are called ‘Bretzel(n)’ in Germany). As for ‘Nicholas’, it's from Greek meaning ‘victory of the people/the people shall overcome’. The only jobs that that suggests to me are campaigner, activist or politician. I wouldn't even know where to start to make a living from the first two, nor do any of them remotely resemble any job I've ever done. My lifelong, abiding and occasionally professional passion is music: primarily I'm a drummer, but (in decreasing order of proficiency) I also play flute, acoustic guitar, bass & keyboards and am also a sound engineer/producer. Of the numerous ‘proper jobs’ I've done, my favourite was Library Assistant at the RSM (Royal Society of Medicine), the second longest was as Software Engineer (I did a degree in Computer Science & Discrete Mathematics as a mature student when I was 34–37) and the longest, ongoing and most significant was being a single father.
If it's not prying, did you ever work in aviation? Do you have a pilot's licence, private or commercial, or maybe you've worked in air traffic control? Or maybe you're a balloonist? There are so many possibilities: ground crew, baggage control, navigator, steward, engineer, designer, aeronautics… Please, don't feel obliged to answer if you'd rather not, I’m just curious. I don't usually ask people directly, not because I'm not interested, but rather because I prefer for them to tell me when they feel comfortable or that it's relevant to do so. There was another discussion, after an article about British dinner party etiquette, which got onto how “what do you do?” is a no-no. It's usually the least interesting thing about anyone and often a conversation killer.
Anyway, thank you so much for engaging with me, I've really enjoyed our exchange. Take care and all the best.
Concerning this fiasco visited upon them, I give them a whole LOT of credit: for patience, remarkable restraint, intelligence, strategy, integrity and dignity.
Any improvements in Iran are entire Iran's sovereign business--nobody else's. In this case of the unprovoked attack on them, I have nothing but admiration for their conduct.
The money spent by individuals, non-profits, government agencies, etc. defending/fighting against Trump’s idiocy has to be in the billions. I’m sure no other administration has been responsible for this much waste. What a frigging waste of money that could be used for GOOD. If it weren’t for Trump’s narcissistic decisions, we’d all be better off.
I've read that subscriptions and donations to The Kennedy Center and its orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, have declined significantly since Trumplethinskin insisted on adding his name to it. Never mind the irony of such a Philistine's name being on a national centre for the performing arts. It suggests that the board's decision to put Trumplethinskin's name back on the building will prove to be, at best an extremely bad one. I don't wish to encourage litigation, the US strikes me as far too litigious already. However, I am curious as to whether a case against the board would be feasible? Dereliction of duty, or something along those lines? My guess is that it would be far too difficult to prove, let alone win, but anything that puts a spanner into Trumplethinskin's works gets my approval, despite my reservations about further litigation.
As always, thank you, Jay, for your as ever illuminating, thoughtful and informative articles.
Jay, you read Marcy Wheeler still? She’s written pieces of the cases: Davey Hearn, MN 15, the Tx group, etc. Last night she put a video out abt the immunity ruling (and of course Trump’s own words abt being a dictator)… her concern is that the immunity ruling allows for Trump to be involved in these cases and tell Blanche et al to charge and even ways to get indictments. I think these “less” important cases are the stepping stone to see what lines they can cross quickly and they are related in that manner. It’s crazy. SCOTUS 6 are shameful and have no excuse to not have seen this coming.
Was thinking of her video and writings as I read your piece. I know I asked you a few years ago abt her. I think it had to do with Hunter’s laptop. lol. Her legal dives are sometimes over my head.
Why wouldn’t they? Our system has failed the American people. Is it even possible the trump team will suddenly become legitimate and law abiding? What’s the best predictor of future behavior????
IMO trump acts just the way he was raised to act, including the mentoring by Roy Cohn. Refusing to admit to ever being wrong is the only way he can hold himself together, even when the "together" is only in his own mind.
Young children have an excuse--it takes time and experience to be able to understand, and especially to have the sense that they are not the only one to have needs. Normal human beings develop to have that understanding!
When my kiddo was young, the advice was to state what you would like them to do: "Please use your walking feet!" instead of "Stop running!" will (in theory!) save you from arguments about what counts as running, but it also means you're not constantly emphasizing the thing you don't want them to do.
I'm not sure this would work on Trump ("Donald, please write a list of who exactly is funding your ballroom!") but it does remind me of the advice not to repeat the administration's lies because that just reinforces them. Instead of saying, "DOGE didn't root out waste, fraud, and abuse," framing it as "DOGE just wanted to fire federal employees and steal all our personal data."
The man is exhausting. Thank you, Jay, for helping us see his ploys and patterns more clearly!
Roy Cohn: the apotheosis of "shitheel." A tragedy for civilization that his teachings fell on such fertile ground and gave rise to arguably the worst human being to sully this planet since Hitler, or maybe Pol Pot.
Unfair to babies. I love your work, Jay, but please stop comparing T***p to a baby. Babies are nice and their babyish behavior is age-appropriate. Same goes for toddlers and children. T***p is evil, malevolent, sadistic, and a criminal. A fully adult one.
I fully sympathise with your comment, but I think the same can be said for anything you compare Trumplethinskin to, e.g. pigs, weasels, even cockroaches: it's an insult to them. Then there's the added confusion that ‘baby’ is often a term of endearment. Context is important, but perhaps ‘spoilt brat’ might be more appropriate (with apologies to spoilt brats 😉)?
In a sane world, DT might get credit for the upgrades to the Kennedy Center, but formal recognition would come after the work was completed, not when it is just a thought in process. I heard a piece on Public Radio yesterday about the large drop in groups preforming there and the drop in attendance to whatever is still happening. Plus, given that there isn't a real timeline, groups won't book an event a few years out in the future. The commentator stated that the disruption will take years to get through.
I envision DT's "concept of a plan" for restoration to be gaudy gold leafing in abundance & a defilement of The Kennedy Center, not a a refined renovation.
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To call him a whiney baby would insult babies everywhere. He is simply the neediest, weakest, stupidest, worst person in my lifetime. He is completely without any positive qualities.
Well even Epstein said Trump was the most vile person he ever has known.
And obviously supported and encouraged by his minions, who who are probably his puppet masters.
Actually, the word that comes to my mind to describe Trump is "rat". As Jay writes, Trump "loses in court, but rather than accept the result, he looks for a gap he can squeeze through to reach the same outcome." This describes a street rat perfectly.
(Apologies pet rat owners)
Or a snake.
Poor Donald Trump. There is a vast empriness inside him which stems from the fact that he never received love from either of his parents. His father could.t have heve been less interested in him and his poor mother was all tied up in her own illness. Thus Trump has spent every hour of his life since early childhood trying to fill that endless emptiness with money and power. And it is probably certain that he is totally unaware of this and so will never seek the professional aid thatmight help him.
Stuyvesant, I agree with your summation, probably derived from the writings of Dr. Mary L. Trump, who has had a front-row seat to the miserable existence of her uncle.
However, I disagree with your implication that professional aid might help him. For some people, there is no redemption.
I'd rather not use the word, "evil," because it carries religious implications, but I can't think of a different word that conveys the profound, absolute absence of human decency.
The only equivalent examples to Donald I can think of are Adolf, Charles Manson and the two Jeffrey's ... Dahmer and Epstein. In those men, there was never anything to salvage. As with his equals, the world will be a better place when he doesn't exist. There are no other options.
I heard a story yesterday told by a man who was quoting Robin Williams. He said Williams early in his career lived in a very modest apartment because he gave his entire salary for a year to a homeless shelter. Ask why he did it, William said his father had everything and felt nothing and he wanted to have nothing and feel everything. Profound and totally incomprehensible to the likes of Donald Trump.
I agree that professional help wouldn't change trump. As I know from experience, receiving professional help and getting somewhere with it, requires a willingness to work hard to get to the goal. trump has no change goals in mind because he sees himself as perfect, and is far too lazy to do the work.
He's a sociopath--they've got something missing and no amount of "help" would change him.
My take would be that the world would be better the minute he gets his hands pulled off the buttons and if people are shown how pathetic he is so that most of them learn what a losing model he offers.
As to our country, we'll stand taller if we can demonstrate that we won't put up with corruption and the insults of a liar, and we can and will defend our rules and principles from a malignantly cancerous oligarchy, the better if we can do so without the unnecessary cruelty of this regime.
I agree...I believe the trauma of his mother's serious illness taking her away from the already needy two-year Donald during a crucial phase of development. Donald watched his father destroy his eldest son, Donald's older brother with tyrannical cruelty and cold indifference.
I'm sure the trauma created the seeds of his sociopathy, along with his father's cruel assessment of the business world as a zero sum war with killers and losers. Empathy or kindness was a dangerous liability. To top it off Fred, Sr. encouraged Roy Cohn--of all people--to mentor Donald. Donald's temperament and psyche became exactly what his father envisioned; a proto-type Gordon Gekko. Imagine the depths of depravity necessary to envision Roy Cohn as a suitable mentor for a young man. Unfortunately for Fred, Sr., (but lucky, in a way, for us) Donald was missing a couple of key ingredients for success: intelligence and drive. Thank goodness, Donald is both very stupid and incredibly lazy.
He is beyond any help now.
A visit from the Grim Reaper would certainly help.
Agreed. He’s utterly unredeemable, as well as evil at his core. Which is why I’ll probably never understand how/why so, so many people, some who most certainly recognize his immense faults, continue to not just go along with his selfish, petulant actions, but actually defend even some of his most evil deeds! 😢
And he’s such a pest! He won’t stay out of our faces for two minutes! Hey! Attention! Me, ME! 📢📢🗣️🗣️
He's a convicted rapist. Rapists don't understand "no means no," nor do they wish to.
Definitely a pattern here. His inability to take "no" for an answer--for ANYTHING--definitely adds credence to 'allegations' of sexual misconduct.
Only a couple of countries publicly address the futility of doing ANY business with this man. Canada (applause) and Iran (applause). Perhaps if the whole World stayed publicly that you can't do business with a liar and dementia patient, the US would get the message that our Emporer has no clothes on. Why o why is ANYONE in this country tolerating this insane bullshit? And it IS being tolerated. He won't accept "no" because he doesn't have to.
Absolutely! I was particularly embarrassed by our PM's sycophantic behaviour towards Trumplethinskin and, for the first time in my life, pitied Charles III having a state visit by this odious POS forced on him (he has very little say in the matter, they're decided by the foreign office, no doubt instructed by Starmer). It was obvious to me that any advantage gained by the shameless grovelling would be short lived. Sure enough, less than three months later…
Too right. I am so disgusted with foreign leaders humoring him, trying to please him. He's nuts!!! It is such a relief to find intelligent, truthful leaders like Carney and Iran's who say "we must move on, you cannot make deals with a liar who lives in his own mind". This is simple fact.
At least Infantino, the head of FIFA, is getting some serious pushback (although not entirely for his ridiculous ‘FIFA Peace Prize’ and the red card intervention at the world cup). What gets me even more is when those leaders just don't learn that a deal with Trumplethinskin is worthless. They keep coming back and trying to ingratiate themselves with him. As I'm sure you know, there's a definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results 🤦🏼♂️.
Anyway, thank you for taking the time to respond. It's always flattering to discover that people have read my comments and even more so when they engage with them 🙏🏼. And I hope you don't take it amiss if I say that I think Celeste is a lovely name 😊.
I agonize over (how dumb can you be??) how time and again European leaders pander to him while he continually 🗡 stabs them in the back, lies to them, and kicks sand in their faces. (Once burned, twice learned???)
Oh, to make matters worse Nicholas, my last name means "thoughts" in Polish, and if that (heavenly thoughts) ain't bad enough, my passion in life is aviation. So I guess the name is.....practical? Thanks.
Celeste and Nicholas I just don't get it. Why in the world would foreign leaders give trump the time of day??!! It's like trump emits a type of gas that renders people around him unable to discern the truth or think critically. Or maybe they're all in the epstein files. Idk it sounds crazy but between maga voters, the Republicans and these world leaders it's like they're under a spell. Maybe they think he's a harmless old fool but i think that's a big mistake. Ok I guess I'm done.
If anyone thinks he's harmless, Sheesh! He holds the most powerful office in the world and is such a moronic, ignorant, incompetent and malignant, grievance driven, greedy, corrupt and utterly selfish POS, he's the biggest threat to the world economy, peace and the climate that there is. The only gas emanating from him that I've heard of is obnoxious, but who knows? The Epstein files seems more likely, but, yes, it's so completely incomprehensible that some kind of hypnotic gas isn't as crazy as their genuflecting.
Exactly, it seems more like ‘once burned, twice as determined’. It's almost masochistic 🤷🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🙄🤓. I don't think agonizing over it is dumb at all, their behaviour is truly perplexing. I'm no fan of Georgia Meloni at all, nor Macron, but at least they have the right attitude towards Trumplethinskin. And you'd think Meloni would be a natural ally, but then Trumplethinskin's so incredibly stupid and arrogant that he alienates even then.
I think your name is the most poetic case of ‘nominative determinism’ I've ever come across! It's so lovely, not that I'm convinced that nominative determinism is a thing. Considering people's surnames often originated from the jobs their ancestors did, I think that at most it might nudge someone in a certain direction. It's definitely more cognitive resonance: most Smiths aren't smiths, most Coopers don't make barrels and are there even any Fletchers who do nothing but make arrows nowadays? I definitely never even considered becoming a pretzel seller and quite apart from that, apparently the name is Eastern European in origin. My paternal grandfather told me it was originally like those Czech placenames that don't have any vowels (e.g. Plsn) and when his ancestors migrated to Germany the Germans were all “Huh? No, no, no, we can't have that!” and added at least the ‘e’s. So the pretzel thing is purely coincidental anyway (pretzel(s) is/are called ‘Bretzel(n)’ in Germany). As for ‘Nicholas’, it's from Greek meaning ‘victory of the people/the people shall overcome’. The only jobs that that suggests to me are campaigner, activist or politician. I wouldn't even know where to start to make a living from the first two, nor do any of them remotely resemble any job I've ever done. My lifelong, abiding and occasionally professional passion is music: primarily I'm a drummer, but (in decreasing order of proficiency) I also play flute, acoustic guitar, bass & keyboards and am also a sound engineer/producer. Of the numerous ‘proper jobs’ I've done, my favourite was Library Assistant at the RSM (Royal Society of Medicine), the second longest was as Software Engineer (I did a degree in Computer Science & Discrete Mathematics as a mature student when I was 34–37) and the longest, ongoing and most significant was being a single father.
If it's not prying, did you ever work in aviation? Do you have a pilot's licence, private or commercial, or maybe you've worked in air traffic control? Or maybe you're a balloonist? There are so many possibilities: ground crew, baggage control, navigator, steward, engineer, designer, aeronautics… Please, don't feel obliged to answer if you'd rather not, I’m just curious. I don't usually ask people directly, not because I'm not interested, but rather because I prefer for them to tell me when they feel comfortable or that it's relevant to do so. There was another discussion, after an article about British dinner party etiquette, which got onto how “what do you do?” is a no-no. It's usually the least interesting thing about anyone and often a conversation killer.
Anyway, thank you so much for engaging with me, I've really enjoyed our exchange. Take care and all the best.
It's strange to give Iran credit for anything at all, but here we are.
Concerning this fiasco visited upon them, I give them a whole LOT of credit: for patience, remarkable restraint, intelligence, strategy, integrity and dignity.
I agree, Celeste !
Any improvements in Iran are entire Iran's sovereign business--nobody else's. In this case of the unprovoked attack on them, I have nothing but admiration for their conduct.
Typical. Always forcing himself on people and places when he’s not wanted.
Because no one stops him….he says mean things and there are no other adults around apparently.
Malignant narcissist cannot admit he was wrong or denied EVER...No means nothing to him
The money spent by individuals, non-profits, government agencies, etc. defending/fighting against Trump’s idiocy has to be in the billions. I’m sure no other administration has been responsible for this much waste. What a frigging waste of money that could be used for GOOD. If it weren’t for Trump’s narcissistic decisions, we’d all be better off.
I've read that subscriptions and donations to The Kennedy Center and its orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, have declined significantly since Trumplethinskin insisted on adding his name to it. Never mind the irony of such a Philistine's name being on a national centre for the performing arts. It suggests that the board's decision to put Trumplethinskin's name back on the building will prove to be, at best an extremely bad one. I don't wish to encourage litigation, the US strikes me as far too litigious already. However, I am curious as to whether a case against the board would be feasible? Dereliction of duty, or something along those lines? My guess is that it would be far too difficult to prove, let alone win, but anything that puts a spanner into Trumplethinskin's works gets my approval, despite my reservations about further litigation.
As always, thank you, Jay, for your as ever illuminating, thoughtful and informative articles.
Many of us are living in states where our State Tax Dollars are fighting with our Federal Tax Dollars, and we are all running short of dollars!
Like a baby. His narcissist ego has no limits.
Jay, you read Marcy Wheeler still? She’s written pieces of the cases: Davey Hearn, MN 15, the Tx group, etc. Last night she put a video out abt the immunity ruling (and of course Trump’s own words abt being a dictator)… her concern is that the immunity ruling allows for Trump to be involved in these cases and tell Blanche et al to charge and even ways to get indictments. I think these “less” important cases are the stepping stone to see what lines they can cross quickly and they are related in that manner. It’s crazy. SCOTUS 6 are shameful and have no excuse to not have seen this coming.
Marcy’s work is solid, and we trade DMs from time to time!
Was thinking of her video and writings as I read your piece. I know I asked you a few years ago abt her. I think it had to do with Hunter’s laptop. lol. Her legal dives are sometimes over my head.
Why wouldn’t they? Our system has failed the American people. Is it even possible the trump team will suddenly become legitimate and law abiding? What’s the best predictor of future behavior????
Perhaps you will encounter this situation with your children:
"Don't run in the house!"
"I told you not to run in the house!"
"I wasn't running, I was skipping."
"Don't run or skip in the house!"
"I wasn't running or skipping, I was hopping."
Don't run, skip, or hop in the house!"
"I wasn't...."
DJT is not a child, but he certainly (and this comparison is unfair to children) acts like one!
Very good analogy!
IMO trump acts just the way he was raised to act, including the mentoring by Roy Cohn. Refusing to admit to ever being wrong is the only way he can hold himself together, even when the "together" is only in his own mind.
Young children have an excuse--it takes time and experience to be able to understand, and especially to have the sense that they are not the only one to have needs. Normal human beings develop to have that understanding!
Emphasis on "normal"!
When my kiddo was young, the advice was to state what you would like them to do: "Please use your walking feet!" instead of "Stop running!" will (in theory!) save you from arguments about what counts as running, but it also means you're not constantly emphasizing the thing you don't want them to do.
I'm not sure this would work on Trump ("Donald, please write a list of who exactly is funding your ballroom!") but it does remind me of the advice not to repeat the administration's lies because that just reinforces them. Instead of saying, "DOGE didn't root out waste, fraud, and abuse," framing it as "DOGE just wanted to fire federal employees and steal all our personal data."
The man is exhausting. Thank you, Jay, for helping us see his ploys and patterns more clearly!
Hear, hear!
He’s a rapist and a racist. Literally everything he does flows from one or both of those two things.
Yes! And a grifter/thief … 😖
Yup. He's a common thief.
Uncommon thievery, he’s always thinking of new ways to steal from the rest of us.
He is the very worst specimen of our species. No redeeming qualities that I've seen.
Roy Cohn: the apotheosis of "shitheel." A tragedy for civilization that his teachings fell on such fertile ground and gave rise to arguably the worst human being to sully this planet since Hitler, or maybe Pol Pot.
Unfair to babies. I love your work, Jay, but please stop comparing T***p to a baby. Babies are nice and their babyish behavior is age-appropriate. Same goes for toddlers and children. T***p is evil, malevolent, sadistic, and a criminal. A fully adult one.
I fully sympathise with your comment, but I think the same can be said for anything you compare Trumplethinskin to, e.g. pigs, weasels, even cockroaches: it's an insult to them. Then there's the added confusion that ‘baby’ is often a term of endearment. Context is important, but perhaps ‘spoilt brat’ might be more appropriate (with apologies to spoilt brats 😉)?
My dad's favorite slur for an annoying child would fit Trump to a T -- pisspot!
In a sane world, DT might get credit for the upgrades to the Kennedy Center, but formal recognition would come after the work was completed, not when it is just a thought in process. I heard a piece on Public Radio yesterday about the large drop in groups preforming there and the drop in attendance to whatever is still happening. Plus, given that there isn't a real timeline, groups won't book an event a few years out in the future. The commentator stated that the disruption will take years to get through.
I envision DT's "concept of a plan" for restoration to be gaudy gold leafing in abundance & a defilement of The Kennedy Center, not a a refined renovation.
And after he gets Senate approval!
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