It is getting worse and worse, if this is even possible. Trump is kicking a hornets nest and seems oblivious to the possible, if not likely consequences. He is demonstrating that he is unbalanced. He is recklessly and thoughtlessly pushing the boundaries of his propaganda successes by saying there is a witch hunt regarding the Russian hacking, and now wanting Congress to investigate NBC News.
His Arnold Schwarzenegger Tweets are the stuff of absurdist comedy.
Pundits are calling Trump thin skinned. What they means is that his ego is so fragile that he looses it and lashes out at the slightest perceived slight. A commander in chief who has an Achille’s Heel that runs from his ankle to his groin can easily be exploited. Worse, in seeking revenge his reactions could effect the stock market, and most dangerously, incite an international incident.
Can he become so unarguably unhinged before the 20th that something is done by Republicans to start the process of removing him from office?
Republicans don’t want to be perceived as saying their party’s president needs professional help, while Democrats have already shown a willingness to wield Trump’s psyche as a political weapon.
Appearing at the Democratic National Convention in July to support Hillary Clinton, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that America should reject Trump and vote for the “sane, competent person.” David Plouffe said in August, “We basically have a psychopath running for president. I mean, [Trump] meets the clinical definition.” Plouffe went on to diagnose Trump as having a “grandiose notion of self-worth, pathological lying, lack of empathy and self-worth,” before saying “I don’t have a degree in psychology.”
Reporters interviewed a few psychiatrists throughout the campaign asking them to assess Trump’s mental health despite never having met him. The Atlantic had a cover story about “the mind of Donald Trump.” Bob Woodward has told audiences that a notable psychiatrist says Trump appears to be “the most classic example of narcissistic personality disorder I’ve ever seen.”
Meanwhile the evidence has grown like a wildfire that Trump has impulses he can’t mediate or moderate. He is a deeply insecure man with an exquisitely fragile ego, whose self esteem hasn’t been satisfied by becoming president. He carries his anger, even his rage, just under the surface, but like all adept people with sociopathic traits he can hide this when things are going well for him and come across as charming.
It isn’t just that his agenda is leading us down the road to demography and despotism, it’s that he is psychologically unstable.
Postscript:
Micheal Moore just said on MSNBC “when Trump doesn’t feel someone (important) isn’t enamored with him he looses it.”
Poor Michael Moore, he can’t even get a coherent sentence out he’s so exercised over Trump: “He has revenge on the mind constantly, he’s like a 12 yr. old, no…. mumbles… and the way he seeks his revenge… he’ll even go against his own show.”
Moore went on to say (to paraphrase — I can’t type that fast and he’s on a roll) Trump gets upset if there are 10 people outside of Trump Tower… and he Tweets about it…. and this was the day after he won… this man is slightly unhinged if I can say this, he’s a malignant narcissist… he’s going to be very upset if there are thousands of people in Washington on the Inauguration weekend.
Saturday, Jan 7, 2017 · 4:17:19 AM +00:00 · HalBrown
Here’s another preliminary thought. I’ll have to put my shrink’s thinking cap on for awhile, but I wouldn’t rule out his resigning rather than risk being removed either by impeachment or because he realizes that he will be temporarily be relieved of power because he’s medically unable to fulfill the duties of president. Psychiatry, after all, is a branch of medicine.
The risk is that he has that paranoid tendency and if he gets wind of it while in power he could do something rash.