Donald J. Trump, meanest of mean girls: He so doesn't want to be our friend anymore

[marmar]

Donald J. Trump, meanest of mean girls: He so doesn't want to be our friend anymore
Trump's evident criminality is no big surprise at this point. But his whiny, wounded immaturity is astonishing

By KIRK SWEARINGEN


(Salon) Testimony before the House Jan. 6 committee has often been cringeworthy, primarily because what Donald Trump was actively trying to do — his steadfast intent, in the face of all evidence and most of the advice from the approximately sane people around him — is abundantly clear to anyone who has an open mind.

But it gets especially excruciating when we have to hear accounts of Trump getting all hissy and hurt, his tantrums turning to vindictiveness, like an immature, petulant high school student. (Most likely a ninth-grader with emotional problems.)

None of that behavior is surprising, because Donald John Trump has always shown everyone around him — and indeed everyone, period — precisely who he is, a shameless man-boy who lies and cheats to get ahead and takes pleasure in bullying others, all the while bleating about how others treat him unfairly because they accurately point out that he's a liar, cheat and bully.

He's a human Möbius strip of misdirection, misinformation and misappropriation of funds from his supporters.

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Trump's deepest fear, through all this, was that he might wind up being thought of as a loser. As reported by the New York Times, the day before Trump and his many co-conspirators — in the West Wing, in the "war room" at the Willard hotel and in the Capitol itself — kicked off the insurrection for real, he admitted as much to people around him:

The president has told several people privately that he would rather lose with people thinking it was stolen from him than that he simply lost, according to people familiar with his remarks.

That is so, so high school. And there it is again, the knowledge that what he was doing was based on a lie (in case "Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen" wasn't enough for you). Trump always planned to say the 2020 election was stolen if he didn't win. He started undermining the process in the eyes of his supporters back in the 2016 primaries and then when he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million. .............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/07/02/donald-j-trump-meanest-of-mean-girls-he-isoi-doesnt-want-to-be-our-friend-anymore/

[Irish_Dem]

1. To avoid personal embarrassment, Trump is willing to destroy democracy and burn down the country.

[Martin68]

2. This is right on the money. "He would rather lose with people thinking it was stolen from him than

than that he simply lost." Remember, he started the election he actually won by accusing the Democrats of electoral fraud.