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tacocat  ·  2509 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump Grows Discontented With Attorney General Jeff Sessions

    “They [Tweets] wholly undercut the idea that there is some rational process behind the president’s decisions,”

Makes me wonder if Trump truly despises every single human except himself and Ivanka. Sessions could not be a more perfect asshole for this administration. Still absolutely unacceptable to even mildly disagree with the man.





Isherwood  ·  2509 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think he has a deeply flawed view of the world that rotates around conspiracies excluding or against him which result in him being an outsider from the rich and powerful.

When he wants people to act, he wants them to act in accordance with the world he assumes exists. Of course, people can't act that way because that world doesn't exist and so he's faced with a dilemma - it's their fault in acting or it's his fault in understanding.

He seems to see his position and path through life as proof it's not his fault and so the only option left is to be mad about everyone else.

kleinbl00  ·  2509 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Donald Trump is easy to understand if you consider him to be a person with a noteworthy lack of empathy. As a man who cannot figuratively put himself in someone else's shoes, everything that thwarts his will is malice or incompetence. He lashes out because he has done everything right, but everyone around him constantly screws up (deliberately or accidentally) to cause an outcome other than the one he desires. And if the outcome he desires changes over time, then those he entrusts to carry out his wishes are deficient if they do not anticipate his vision.

(clearly, it takes an exercise of empathy to appreciate someone who lacks it)

tacocat  ·  2509 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So a sociopath?

Kidding. Not really kidding.

b_b  ·  2509 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  
tacocat  ·  2509 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank you. I needed to laugh

b_b  ·  2509 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Can't you imagine some hack screenwriter pitching a story about villain who steals money from children's cancer research getting laughed out of the room? Yet this is reality, a horribly written caricature of a movie bad guy.