Fragile male ego

[struggle4progress]

Joan Smith
Sunday 19 February 2017 13.49 EST
Last modified on Sunday 19 February 2017 17.45 EST

Therapy has never been so expensive. At the weekend, it cost American taxpayers millions of dollars to fly Donald Trump down to Florida so he could hold a session with thousands of adoring fans after another trying week in the White House. At a cost of roughly $3m per trip, it would have been cheaper to hire Dr Freud but, sadly, aides who tried to contact him discovered he has been dead since 1939.

Instead, the 45th president of the US invited on stage a man who later revealed he has a 6ft cardboard model of his hero and talks to it every day.

Let’s just pause and think about that. This is a leader whose ego is so fragile, he wants to appear on stage with someone most of us would change seats to avoid if he sat next to us on a train ...

The trick all along has been to disguise neediness as empathy. When Trump talks about love to the crowds who turn out to see him, they think it’s what he’s offering. In reality, it’s what he demands ...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/19/donald-trump-fragile-male-ego

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Here's a great idea from this article:

"I sometimes wonder if we couldn’t build a theme park where Trump is president for life, presiding in a replica Oval Office and flying in a pretend version of Air Force One that never actually leaves the ground."

Shut him up in his fake presidential theme park with an accurate replica of the Oval Office, a limo, hired crowds to cheer and wear their #MAGA hats, actors playing world leaders he could insult on the telephone, a closed-loop Twitter account seen by nobody but employees of the theme park who could respond with toadying encouragement.

[CrispyQ]

2. "Just love me."

Few politicians, no matter how thin-skinned, have displayed such neediness nor demanded such displays of unconditional love from their supporters. Neediness is not usually considered attractive in men who like to be thought of as tough, but Trump is rewriting the rulebook on masculinity.

The trick all along has been to disguise neediness as empathy. When Trump talks about love to the crowds who turn out to see him, they think it’s what he’s offering. In reality, it’s what he demands from them, needing it to fuel the endorphin rush that keeps him going. You can see this process in action as he gets hyped up on stage, prompting a stream-of-consciousness outpouring of personal attacks, weird fabrications and outright lies.

[longship]

3. "Pull my finger!" nt

[justgamma]

4. Can you imagine what this egomaniac

demands from Melania. "Who's the best?" "Why you are Mr. Trump" as she clenches her teeth and tries not to heave.

[ProudLib72]

5. When tRump was a kid

did he watch Snow White and identify with the queen? "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" Do you think he actually imagined himself adored by everyone in the kingdom?