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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne thing I don't get: With the entire KGOP at his feet, why be a raging maniac all the time?
Dear Leader is so angry and hateful all the time. Like, if I were him, I would be joyous every day. Everyone in the KGOP will still defend him even after Mueller finds he is culpable for obstruction and conspiracy. Unless he knows that 17 GOP senators will vote to convict, why be so deranged, insane, and unhappy all the time? I mean he can fear losing the house but that didnt stop Reagan, Clinton, or Obama.
Please dont misunderstand. I dont care that he is a raging maniac but just the psychology of him is interesting to me. Reagan, Clinton, and Obama didnt lose their minds over substantial midterm losses. Why is he?
Again, hes not fit to shine those 3s shoes (well maybe Reagan who just put a smily face on evil). Thats beside the point though. No other president has ever come this unglued or unhappy over an IC/SC investigation or substantial midterm losses.
He got his tax break for millionaires through. So, again, why wake up a raging hysterical unhappy lunatic maniac Every. Single. Day?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,748 posts)Some people get off on anger. A lot of his cult followers are rageaholics, too. Anger makes them feel energized and powerful.
NewsCenter28
(1,835 posts)And he cant stand the fact he is hated rather than adored.
Boomerproud
(7,955 posts)They don't know how to function any other way.
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)Helplessness is at the very bottom. Trumpsters live in perpetual helplessness and are always victims. Anger gives them relief and yes, its like a drug to them.
lindysalsagal
(20,693 posts)Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)NewsCenter28
(1,835 posts)It helps me to understand why some people in my own life seem so angry as well.
lindysalsagal
(20,693 posts)I can see it happening in many relationships, at work and home. Makes sense. I love DU!
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)...the only Republicans who will speak out against Trump are those leaving office or those not in office. Because, as sad as it is, Trump can make or break Republican candidates. This primary season has made that abundantly clear.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)NewsCenter28
(1,835 posts)Yeah his master told him to incite as much chaos in the US as he can or else. Thats probably the primary reason.
potone
(1,701 posts)That is why he cant stop talking about the election, and so vindictively aspires to overturn everything Obama did. He is a hollow man.
Arkansas Granny
(31,519 posts)He's trying to change the subject and focus attention elsewhere.
pecosbob
(7,541 posts)They're dismantling the government, privatizing everything they can and doing everything they can to neutralize government regulation of corporations...
gulliver
(13,186 posts)Maxheader
(4,373 posts)Playing to his voters hatred of the democrats and everything
we stand for..They can't live with it....
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,359 posts)pay attention to him.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)The maniacal rages were pretty much what he ran on.
A narcissist president could never feel safe in a society with any remaining amount of democratic oversight, and Trump's erratic behavior will never stand up to even a moment's scrutiny. He's been afraid for decades that his career of fakery is always just that close to becoming common knowledge, and the sheer magnitude of questioning he's dodged since the inauguration has him terrified.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)The more malignant the narcissist, the less the satisfaction.
It's not enough to be prez. He has to have the biggest crowds, biggest parades, biggest numbers. He is always inflating his numbers and making every story / issue about him.
CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)Constant outrage at how life has been so unfair to them.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)meadowlander
(4,399 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)No amount of adoration or attention will ever fill him up because he knows that deep down inside he is an empty black hole. He is too self-absorbed to ever feel the joy of loving anyone else because he has no love to give.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)Combine that with the self-control of a two-year-old, and, well, here we are.
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)Charges of money laundering (unlikely he will be charged)
Losing all future money laundering (at least 50-50)
thegoose
(3,115 posts)Isn't that what he did on his fucking TV show? I never watched it because he's always repulsed me.
"You are bright, you are charming, you are the anti-Trump.' -- Bea Arthur to Merv Griffin on The Golden Girls 26 years ago! Remember when you could just ignore the circus peanut? Good times.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)yonder
(9,667 posts)Has he ever laughed?