Donald Trump's Mockery of a Disabled Man is Middle School Crap

[MineralMan]

I remember kids mocking people who had crippling disabilities doing exactly the same back in Junior High School. We had a student in my class who had muscular dystrophy. Mean kids would do just what Trump did behind that student's back, and used words like "Spaz" to refer to him.

It pissed me off then, and it still pisses me off. I called out kids who did that then, and I call adults who do it now nothing but insensitive assholes. While juvenile behavior is not unusual in juveniles, it should have been outgrown by an adult. Clearly, Donald Trump is still stuck in middle school pubertal behavior. He never grew out of it.

Maybe none of his peers called him out on his behavior then. Maybe his peers joined in on the "fun." I don't know, but for a President-elect to still be mocking disabled people in public and then lying about what is clear in a video is a sign of a boy in a man's body. Will nobody explain to him that he's still acting like a 13-year-old?

What will he do when he meets the head of the nation of China. Will he make some stupid statement about "ching chong chinamen" to him or about him? Will he pull his eyelids to the side to mock him? Is he going to call Italians "wops?" Will he call Korean and Vietnames people "gooks?"

Donald Trump is a fool and he's likely to create an international incident at any time. Someone needs to give him some straight talk about his juvenile behaviors. It's freaking embarrassing to the entire nation and dangerous, to boot.

[MineralMan]

1. Donald Trump was a mean kid and a bully.

He hasn't changed a bit with age. He's still a mean kid and a bully.

[Golden Raisin]

2. It is also a classical trait of adult Narcissists

to humiliate and belittle others. Physical disabilities included. I agree that Trump's behavior exhibits a lot of unresolved childhood/adolescent issues. Disturbing for any adult --- but lethally frightening for the President of the U.S.A.

[MineralMan]

4. Yes, and isn't it bizarre that our President is someone like that?

I'm gobsmacked and alarmed.

[niyad]

8. please, he is not yet the president. the universe might still be kind.

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[Hekate]

12. Pray

But I've given up hope that he won't be sworn in.

[niyad]

14. still holding on to that ever-dminishing teeny sliver of hope, but it grows smaller daily.

then we will have to pray that we survive this international nightmare intact.

[Hekate]

16. Yes

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Exactly.

I remember mocking people with disabilities (mental or physical) was funny to a lot of people in middle school, but by the time high school came around, believe it or not most kids had matured to the point they no longer found it amusing. It was just mean spirited.

Trump never grew up emotionally like the rest of us.

[MineralMan]

5. Yes. Normally someone makes it clear to kids like

that. Apparently that never took with Trump, or nobody every told him it was an ugly, mean-spirited thing to do.

How will this affect international relationships? I'm thinking it will affect them very badly.

[PearliePoo2]

6. Daddy was rich and as a kid, Donald was tall and strong.

Apparently, nobody ever put a fist to his face. Too bad.

[CousinIT]

7. sophomoric. n/t

[hunter]

9. I was a skinny squeaky reactive kid who got hammered by bullies in middle and high school.

They called me "queerbait." They'd torture me on the school bus. I'd ride my bike to school and they'd vandalize my bike, spitting on the seats or letting the air out of my tires. (Hah, I'm still riding that bike more than 40 years later, but is it the same bike if half the parts have been replaced?)

I quit high school for college and all the violence stopped. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made. Boo fucking who, I never went to a dance, prom or a football game.

Yep, I can recognize a middle school bully.

I think schools have gotten better. Our kids' schools seemed to take bullying very seriously. It was reassuring to me to see anti-bullying posters in the cafeterias and on the bulletin boards of their schools.

[MineralMan]

10. I was in high school in a small California town from 1959-63.

We had a bullying problem, but it got solved when a bunch of us started a campaign to call out bullying when it happened. That started after a meeting of about 50 high school kids at the church I attended at the time, along with the church's pastor. We also enlisted a number of teachers at that school, including the football coach. Student athletes were a big part of the bullying problem, as is not atypical.

That coach was a member of the same church, and the pastor and we kids talked to him about it. So, he instituted a rule for the team. Anyone engaging in bullying behavior would be cut from the team. He also strongly urged the team to join in the fight against bullying by calling out bullies and helping to make it not cool to bully.

The change was fairly fast and effective. The amount of bullying dropped dramatically. As a side benefit those of us who were involved got to know many of the kids who were being bullied much better. We found new friends among that group. In some ways, that was the first time I became an activist.

[Hekate]

13. Those high school experiences can shape a kid for life, for good or ill

I can see you in that kid.

[MineralMan]

17. Yah, I guess that kid still lives on in me.

In more ways than one. I can still be astonished by learning new things, just as I was when I was a teenager.

I didn't really think that anti-bullying thing was all that unusual at the time, but I guess it was. I've often thought that it would be a good model for such programs in other schools. Peer pressure is the best way to change behavior in teens, I think.

[CentralMass]

11. An article on Trumps childhood.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/young-donald-trump-military-school/2016/06/22/f0b3b164-317c-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html?utm_term=.ab914cd88de1

[Hekate]

15. Charles Krauthammer made a jawdropping statement recently about Red Don's mental development....

Apparently after Krauthammer's crippling car accident in college he not only finished his MD but studied psychiatry -- didn't know that.

Something along the lines of: I used to think DT was stuck at a developmental age of 11, but now I realize I was 10 years off. He has the emotional needs of a one-year-old; the unending infantile craving for constant approval and praise.

He had more to say, but that was the gist and it was devastating.

The only question is, when Tinyhands gets wind of it, what form will his mockery of the quadriplegic Conservative take?