You know who I’m talking about. Individual #1. Cadet Bone Spurs. 45. The Orange One. Twitler. Mrs. Putin. Don the Con. Yep, that guy.
He hates it when you laugh at him.
He loves it when you’re angry at him! He feeds on your anger. To him it’s a mark of achievement to piss off the Democrats, a proud moment he revels in.
But he hates it when you laugh at him.
Why does he keep skipping the White House Correspondents’ dinner? Three years in a row? Can’t stand the heat of a roast. He has such a thin skin that instead of going and laughing good-naturedly at himself, he attacks the event, organizers and entertainers to deflect from the fact that…
He hates it when you laugh at him.
How many times has he threatened and insulted Saturday Night Live for portraying him? Seeing an accurate reflection of himself is something that he just can’t stomach. It tears at his self-image, and malignant narcissists cannot tolerate looking in a mirror that reflects their true ugliness.
That’s why he hates it when you laugh at him. He thinks you should be afraid of him, angry at him, in awe of him and in love with him. It gives him power when you get outraged. He wants that attention along with the adoration. But he cannot stand being a joke or a failure, and he will go to great lengths including obstructing justice to maintain his self-image.
All the rule breaking, dirty talking, norm smashing, civility trampling crap that oozes from his mouth and off his filthy little fingers. It just makes you soooo damn angry. The kids separated from their families, the ‘shithole’ nations, the man-made tragedy after natural disaster in Puerto Rico? The gutted health care regulations, the denigrated minorities of literally every stripe, the raped wildlife reserves, and speaking of rapists, the Judicial nominees! So hard not to be angry constantly, a constant rage.
And you know what? You’re making Individual #1 so happy by expressing that anger. Because it’s not just him that feeds off the anger and frustration, it’s also his supporters. Uncle Billy who has the Confederate flag on his truck even though he was born and raised in a Union state? He does a little happy dance when we get outraged. It makes him feel superior, it makes him feel all like, “yeah, stick it to them! Pointy headed libruls.” And when they are happy, they cheer even harder for him, a vicious cycle.
How do we even deal with this? How do we control our anger and outrage at the daily offenses?
Personally, I’d love to see an all out campaign of mocking and ridicule, civility be damned. I’d like to have silly catchy stupid songs about him being spread around. And I want Uncle Billy to feel ashamed of himself when he hears it playing on his truck radio.
And I want a good nickname adopted widely so we finally give him a little of his own medicine. Cadet Bone Spurs is awfully good, maybe my favorite. It just has so many layers to it. It’s somehow lighthearted while hitting hard on his hypocrisy. Don the Con is pretty good too. Individual #1 is what I have been trying to address him as in normal conversation. But none of these has really stuck, so maybe there’s room for something better.
He’s going to play the victim card of course, if this were to catch steam. I mean it would be like the biggest witch hunt ever! Or perhaps the worst case of presidential harassment ever! Jesus H Christ on the cross, you’d think he traveled hundreds of miles on foot to escape violence and oppression only to be penned up in cages and ripped away from his parents or something.
Anyway…. We need more giant Trump baby balloons. More mocking. More ignoring. Less feeding the narcissist and his minions. Let’s give them the medicine for their cruelty which is the ridicule they so richly deserve. I’m not feeling charitable or civil, none of this comity or collegial bullshit. When they go low, we block low. Time to get every entertainer, song writer, rapper and artist doing a full out comic assault on his fragile ego.