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orangecrush

(19,551 posts)
Mon Sep 9, 2019, 10:14 PM Sep 2019

"He pisses ice water"

Trump Is Not Well
Accepting the reality about the president’s disordered personality is important—even essential.

6:00 AM ET
Peter Wehner
Contributing editor at The Atlantic and senior fellow at EPPC



"Donald Trump’s disordered personality—his unhealthy patterns of thinking, functioning, and behaving—has become the defining characteristic of his presidency. It manifests itself in multiple ways: his extreme narcissism; his addiction to lying about things large and small, including his finances and bullying and silencing those who could expose them; his detachment from reality, including denying things he said even when there is video evidence to the contrary; his affinity for conspiracy theories; his demand for total loyalty from others while showing none to others; and his self-aggrandizement and petty cheating.





It manifests itself in Trump’s impulsiveness and vindictiveness; his craving for adulation; his misogyny, predatory sexual behavior, and sexualization of his daughters; his open admiration for brutal dictators; his remorselessness; and his lack of empathy and sympathy, including attacking a family whose son died while fighting for this country, mocking a reporter with a disability, and ridiculing a former POW. (When asked about Trump’s feelings for his fellow human beings, Trump’s mentor, the notorious lawyer Roy Cohn, reportedly said, “He pisses ice water.”)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/donald-trump-not-well/597640/


If democratic leadership expects some inner sense of decency or limits to stop Trump on his chosen path to become the first American dictator, they are making a fatal mistake.

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"He pisses ice water" (Original Post) orangecrush Sep 2019 OP
K&R, Trump called himself the chosen one and wasn't kidding at the time he said it uponit7771 Sep 2019 #1
Serious as a heart attack. orangecrush Sep 2019 #2
Rec'd. Great writing; succinct and true. nt babylonsister Sep 2019 #3
Yes, but... JoeOtterbein Sep 2019 #4
A sick, sick man Poiuyt Sep 2019 #5
A dangerous sick fuck. dalton99a Sep 2019 #6
I just hate what he is doing to this country yuiyoshida Sep 2019 #7
knowing he is a sick man in no way tempers my utter hatred and disgust for him Skittles Sep 2019 #8

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
7. I just hate what he is doing to this country
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 01:13 AM
Sep 2019

mark my words, if he gets re-elected we will not have a democracy any longer, but a Banana Republic style Dictator.


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