As Trump Tweets make the news on two separate domestic fronts today, prompting teenagers in Parkland to go in front of the cameras to address him directly, and digging himself into a deep hole he’ll never get out of once the whole truth comes out about his collusion or possible conspiracy with Russia, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is telling our allies to ignore his Tweets.
He is saying that the Twitter Trump is not the real Trump.
In the book “All I Ever Wanted to Know about Donald Trump I Learned From His Tweets” by Duty to Warn founder John Gartner, PhD, and Rachel Montgomery lay out why the Twitter Trump is the real Trump.
To make sense of his aberrant behavior, you need to understand, specifically, what is psychologically wrong with Donald Trump. His diagnosis is the Rosetta Stone to cracking the Trump Twitter code, revealing its underlying structure, and unfortunately, how much danger all the rest of us are in as a result. He is a malignant narcissist who is also on the bipolar spectrum. From a psychiatric perspective, the prognosis could not be more dire—for us.
You can read a longer excerpt from the book here.
Trump presents the most unfiltered view of a president we’ve ever seen because his Tweets are so representative of how he feels and what he thinks. As far as Trump is concerned, public perception be damned. As far as the world, why be concerned about how his Tweets are interpreted since foreign citizens can’ t vote in American elections.
Though Twitter Trump has put himself on the traditional psychoanalyst’s couch where the only instruction the analyst gives to the patient is to free-associate, i.e., to say whatever comes into their mind.
He doesn't care about optics because he believes he is the optics (not that this makes sense, but then I'm writing about Trump). The president is a runaway train causing spokespersons to tear their hair out over how to best do damage control., to mix metaphors.
Today The Washington Post headline (illustration above) shows how U.S. Director of National Intelligence is trying to reassure our allies that they should assume a semblance of sanity in the president, basically saying that his Tweets are nothing more than a bad stand-up comic’ s act.
MUNICH — Amid global anxiety about President Trump’s approach to global affairs, U.S. officials had a message to a gathering of Europe’s foreign policy elite this weekend: pay no attention to the man tweeting behind the curtain.
U.S. lawmakers — both Democrats and Republicans — and top national security officials in the Trump administration offered the same advice publicly and privately, often clashing with Trump’s Twitter stream: the United States remains staunchly committed to its European allies, is furious with the Kremlin about election interference and isn’t contemplating a preemptive strike on North Korea to halt its nuclear program.
But Trump himself engaged in a running counterpoint to the message, taking aim on social media at his own national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, because he “forgot” on Saturday to tell the Munich Security Conference that the results of the 2016 weren’t affected by Russian interference, a conclusion that is not supported by U.S. intelligence agencies. They say they will likely never be able to determine whether the Russian involvement swung the election toward Trump.
But we know that the Twitter Trump is the real Trump and I do believe that our allies think any differently.
Americans know Twitter Trump is the real Trump. They believe this, whether they are Trump supporters or not. So how is Dan Coats going to sell the contrary story to the world?
Sunday, Feb 18, 2018 · 8:58:12 PM +00:00
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One of the saddest things I’ve read in reference to the current optics of our country from
the diary linked WAPO article:
The question of whom they should believe — the president or his advisers — has befuddled European officials. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel confessed Saturday that he didn’t know where to look to understand America.
“Is it deeds? Is it words? Is it tweets?” he asked.
He said he was not sure whether he could recognize the United States.
One of the scariest things I’ve read (from the same article)
Away from the glare of television cameras, many European diplomats and policymakers echoed the same concerns. One diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid provoking Trump, asked whether policymakers like McMaster who adhere largely to traditional U.S. foreign policy positions were falling into the same trap as Germany’s elite during Hitler’s rise, when they continued to serve in government in the name of protecting their nation.
In a year or so, it has come to this.
Which should scare the shite out of anyone paying attention.