Trump Is an Abusive Deadbeat Dad, and America Is Sick of It

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There's a concept about the Emotional Bank Accounts we have with each other. Biden's sitting on a pile. Trump is overdrawn.

Matt Lewis
Senior Columnist
Updated Jun. 12, 2020 5:35PM

If you’ve ever tried to cram for the SATs after partying all senior year, you know how desperate Donald Trump’s current situation is. He is running for his political life. He’s running out of gas. And he’s running out of time.

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Here’s how it works: “If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve,” Covey explains in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. “Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to. I can even make mistakes and that trust level, that emotional reserve, will compensate for it.”

The opposite, Covey warns, results in your emotional bank account being overdrawn. And that is exactly where Trump finds himself in the summer of 2020. Trump has made significant withdrawals against the nation’s emotional (and physical) bank account.

He’s like an abusive deadbeat dad who misses years’ worth of birthdays but thinks he can make up for it all with one weekend road trip.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-an-abusive-deadbeat-dad-and-america-is-sick-of-it

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1. Yes. In some ways he is even worse than that....

He is the dad who leaves his kids in a hot car.
They hope and pray he comes back in time while wondering if they are going to die in there.

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2. Thinks he can make up for it with one weekend road trip? What weekend road trip?

No, Donnie isn't trying to make up for it with any weekend road trip.

He doesn't think he's done anything wrong in the first place, and he isn't producing any nice gesture at all.

I'll agree he's way overdrawn on the emotional bank account, but he's more like an abusive dad who gets frustrated when he's screwed everything up but can't accept it, so he takes it out on the family even harder than before.

He still thinks he can bully us into submission.