Do you think it bothers Trump that he is loathed and mocked, especially by the so called elites?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

That was the genesis of much of RMN's animus.

[jodymarie aimee]

1. My Mother is a narcissist and

their reality is their reality. They are superior and we are mere planets revolving around their sun. So no. He will continue to watch the FOX dupes and bathe in that reality.

[malaise]

5. Then why did he beg Theresa May for guaranteed good press coverage

before he comes to visit

[lunatica]

10. Because he was mightily impressed with Poland's press

[malaise]

14. and Saudi Arabia's

[teamster633]

2. Not that he would admit it...even to himself...

...but deep down his pathological narcissism craves universal approval. The fact that he has always been looked down upon by his betters fuels the dysfunction we are all forced to witness on a daily basis now.

[Iliyah]

3. Personally I would not trust none of them.

I would be watching my back constantly just like what GOPers and t-rump administration is doing right now to each other. This life style is totally stressful no matter how much money you have you are always afraid of losing it by someone who you think is your friend and or business partner.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

4. I hope it's eating him alive!

[MFM008]

11. It is

Otherwise he would go to places that he doesn't own. He is a sniveling coward .

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Trump loathes "the Elites" (as well as his base).

Part of his problem is that he has a big persecution complex from being locked out of the Elites' associations and clubs since he moved out of Queens into Manhattan. The Maidstone Club in Easthampton told him not to even bother filling out an application because it would not be considered. (One of the oldest and poshest clubs in the Hamptons for the Old Rich). He's not a member of exclusive golf clubs like Tuxedo Park, National Golf Course or Shinnecock Hills (the latter two in Southampton), so he goes around the world building his own golf courses and clubs for other noveau riches and arrivistes. He's not on a single Board of Directors of any corporation. He's not invited to social events that charities throw. He doesn't even support the NYC arts like the Koch Brothers.

Not to mention, he's Hell to bear as company. The Elites want someone who can do passable repartee.

Nah, he's got a real chip on his shoulder that he's not part of New York's aristocracy despite his wealth.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. He loathes the elites because they withhold the praise he desperately craves, like Nixon.

[JHan]

26. yep +++

Trump is actually the personification of elitism given what he's gotten away with over decades.

I could understand Nixon's gripes to a point.. Not Trump's.

[avebury]

7. In The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnson

Johnson reports that Trump has a deep seated fear of being publicly humiliated. That is why he gets to upset over anything that makes it appears that he is an illegitimate President. He wants to think that he won the election fair and square and that it was not won by election fraud.

[Nitram]

9. That would explain why he goes out his way to horribly and publicly humiliate

people around him, including his sons.

[Golden Raisin]

12. Narcissists often use ridicule, public

and private humiliation, body-shaming, etc. to mentally undermine others while simultaneously boosting their own inflated sense of superiority.

[avebury]

13. WATCH, Donald Trump humiliate Jennifer Hawkins during speech in Sydney

[Swagman]

37. I worked on Jennifer Hawkins return pr tour in Australia for Trump

He bilked me for $3000.
He bilked our agent who paid all the travel & hotel costs for the 4 Trump employees for $45,000.
At night after a few drinks the Trump employees admitted how much they loathed the man.
They said they were hoping a job with Trump was a stepping stone to a better job in NY but were finding when applying for jobs and saying they worked for Trump it worked against them.

That was in 2007 and we thought it an anomaly until NY pals in the media said Trump was one of the most loathed persons in New York, renowned for not paying bills, sending small contractors broke.

[Hamlette]

18. Others customers bought: (on Amazon for Johnson's book) "Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris"

ha ha

[Kentonio]

33. That's a great book incidentally.

[Nitram]

8. Narcissists never believe that anyone could really dislike them.

Envy them, be afraid of them, but what's to dislike?

[jodymarie aimee]

16. exactly

altered reality.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

15. I think that is the only reason he ran for president

I think he poked some billionaire in the chest in a country club locker room and said something along the lines of "Fuck you, I am going to burn your world to fucking the ground" and then crazy populist racist birther Trump emerged shortly there after.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. OMG yes. It seethes and hurts within him. The only thing he wants is people to love him,

and if they don't, he hurts them.

Sad thing is, the man is a pile of shit, but yet he's also just a broken little boy looking for the love and congratulations and "I'm proud of ya" that he probably never got from his parents. And his anti-social behavior doesn't help anyone to like him, either.

The man is fucked up.

[geek tragedy]

19. He has an outer borough resentment at Manhattan elites nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

23. He loathes the elites because they withhold the praise he desperately craves, like Nixon.

[geek tragedy]

24. Goes back farther, when the old money types on the

Upper East Side looked down on tacky rich kids from places like Queens with unpolished accents and iffy pedigrees.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. I'm from Queens but never thought of those things.

[geek tragedy]

31. You're not Trump. nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

32. No. We lived in a $175.00 a month rent controlled apartment in Forest Hills.

But it was Forest Hills and that meant a lot to my mom.

[geek tragedy]

34. It bothered Tr*mp that he could be rich and still

have people look down on him.

Kind of pathology that spares working class and middle class folks.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

35. My dad owned a candy store down the street from Jamaica Hospital where Trump was born.

Right where Jamaica Avenue intersected with the Van Wyck.

[Vinca]

20. I think it drives him nuts because he craves the love and adoration of EVERYONE.

You can tell it gets to him by his tweets. His handlers seem to keep him away from the twitter machine for a couple of days, then, like a teenager's ripe pimple, he spews forth his nasty BS.

[Goonch]

21. MAD HATTER

[nikibatts]

27. More than we'll ever know.

[Motley13]

28. I definitely think it bothers him, especially the mocking

calling him a LOSER gets to him the most, that is his word for all who criticize him.

He goes to rallies cause he wants to feel the love.

[JI7]

29. He really is a loser and failure. He was given hundreds of millions and lost it all

That's why he had to do shit reality shows like apprentice .

And all the tacky trump steaks water and other crap.

Is not even about traditional old v new money .

The guy is a failure either way.

[Paula Sims]

30. My brother is JUST like Trump and yes it does

All my brother cares about is "what other people think" and how he's "better and more educated than others". He lauds his DDS (really? he's a dentist!) over everyone and even socially introduces himself as Dr. Peter. He divorced his first wife because he stopped being the center of her universe -- why? they had kids and he blamed it on her paying attention to the kids and not him.

They fear what they'll look like to others and absolutely fear humiliation. That's why it doesn't matter to Cheetolini if he goes broke, he cares what it looks like when he goes broke and has to be in jail.

Here's a new motto -- "It's the humiliation, stupid!"

[Wounded Bear]

36. Trump, as he sees himself...