My first of over 300 diaries/stories for Daily Kos was from March 23, 2017. I hadn’t even begun to write about Trump’s malignant narcissism, nor had I become one of the early psychotherapist members along with Drs. John Gartner, Howard Covitz, and several others in the Duty to Warn movement. I then wrote many articles about Trump’s psychopathology on Daily Kos — The first story I wrote about Trump being mentally unfit to be president was on April 19, 2016. It was originally titled “Trump’ s 7-11-misspeak-tells us a lot about him.” I started diagnosing him as having garden variety narcissistic personality disorder, however, in short order I realized it was much worse and far more dangerous than that: malignant narcissism.
Too Bad The Republicans Can’t Nominate The Trumpinator
by Hal Brown
March 23, 2016
Too bad the Republicans can’t nominate the Trumpinator. Just think, were it not for two words in Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, Republican and former Mr. Universe, two term governor of our largest state, world renown movie star, and the man selected to replace Donald Trump as host of “Celebrity Apprentice" Arnold Schwarzenegger could be running for president. Take out the words “natural born” from our Constitution and it could have happened.
Adding to his appeal is the fact that Arnold has actually governed; but he also fathered a child with the family housekeeper showing he is truly a man of the people as opposed to Trump who only has had affairs with supermodels.
Of course Trump couldn’t discredit him with the birther attack, and even if he could, who would care since Austria last I knew was a mostly white country.
I can visualize a debate where one candidate is a real actor, one who can effect an ominous presence and a voice that would prompt urinary incontinence in his competition.
I can hear in my head Schwarzenegger saying things like “whose finger do you want on the nuclear button, mine or one of these guys” or for that matter, “who do you really want going mano a mano with Putin, tiny fingers Donald, sweaty Cruz, or Conan the Destroyer?"
Finally, can you imagine Trump trying to stand on the same stage with him and try to dismiss his candidacy by calling him little Arnold?
I wonder if the Terminator ever thinks about all this.
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“Ja, whose fingah doo yuu vant on dee nooklee-ur button, mine or dese gurly men?”
What makes you think Trump didn’t diddle the help, too?
...Except, by current bat-shit repub standards, Arnold nowadays qualifies as a slightly right-of-center democrat — and could never win the repub conservative base for a wide assortment of other reasons, besides. And — to his credit, I suppose — I also doubt he could have riled up the latent Trump base to anywhere near the same fervor. Arnold may have a narcissistic streak, but [1] I’ve never seen evidence of quite that level Narcistic-Personality-Disorder-induced quasi-sociopathy, nor shamelessness that extended that far beyond his own sordid (but ideally undisclosed) pleasures, whereas [2] I do think he tried, more or less in good faith, to governate CA productively (whether or not he was ultimately successful or even equipped to do so), and [3] he has regularly and conspicuously used his notoriety to aid numerous laudable causes (e.g. *1*, *2* below), (seemingly) in return for only/primarily whatever attendant public ‘kudos’.
But then, such ‘kudos’ may be more strategically valuable than any material compensation: once he hits 70 or so, I won’t be surprised to see him running for the senate — as a democrat (or maybe independent).
Wasn't he the only Republican to go to the global climate change conference? Out of how many thousands? Crazy that no one else would join him. He is also pro marriage equality and told a fan who said he wouldn't watch his movies anymore for supporting gay marriage “hasta la vista baby” on Facebook.