Will TFG choose megalomania over country?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Two weeks ago, I opined here that I didn't believe former President Trump would run again in 2024. Boy, did I get some serious push-back from political friends telling me that Trump is a megalomaniac and there is no way he is not going to run in the next presidential election.

My rationale in that piece for his not running was: "My hope is that Trump's massive ego will allow enough room for him to contemplate that his name is so toxic to tens of millions of Americans that his nomination might instigate massive civil unrest. If Trump does believe in our nation, as he says he does, then he should know it would be much better to sit out the election and try to use his influence to help the party's nominee."

One of my friends, who had a high-level political career, openly laughed in my face when I offered up that opinion. He, in turn, gave me a definition of a megalomaniac that he had just looked up on his phone: "A megalomaniac is a pathological egotist - that is, someone with a psychological disorder with symptoms like delusions of grandeur and an obsession with power."

"Trump," my friend continued over a coffee, "is the personification of that definition. He doesn't care if he's toxic to tens of millions of voters or who turns out in the streets to protest his run. Do you believe his ego actually allows him to logically think things through? Look at Arizona. Look at Georgia."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/will-trump-choose-megalomania-over-country/ar-AAPRVsB

I'll have to go with the megalomania.

[Ocelot II]

1. What do you think?

I’ll go with megalomania.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Massive civil unrest would delight him and Bannon and Putin. I thought we figured that out by now.

[leftieNanner]

3. I have Thought That He Would Not Run

But for a different reason. He is afraid of losing TWICE. He hasn't acknowledged the first loss yet anyway. Mary Trump said as much.

He is doing his best (with the help of the Red states) to rig the election for himself. If he thinks he has it in the bag, then he might do it.

He is a megalomaniac though. Through and through.

It's difficult to imagine any person living with that kind of a fevered brain. And just imagine being married to it...........

ick

[Irish_Dem]

6. If he can rig the voting process he won't have to face a humiliating loss.

That is probably what he is planning.

[leftieNanner]

8. 100%

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you expected.......

[bahboo]

4. he already has....

who could doubt it...

[Blue Owl]

5. Magalomania

[Irish_Dem]

7. Tump has no concern for anyone else but himself.