The Death Of Conscience
Trump is an outstandingly shrewd and intelligent political operator, most will recognise his mastery of the art of BS. But he is also an in-your-face narcissist and a showman who is forever seeking attention on TV and his Truth Social platform. What is the character behind this?
Though he is a highly manipulative speaker with scant respect for the truth, where persuasion fails he will bully and dominate the obdurate.
He is someone who needs constant attention and admiration, who feeds off validation, and who has little natural feel or compassion for the suffering or perspective of others.
There is a strong sense of entitlement here, he thinks he is deserving of privileges or special treatment because he is Donald Trump. This is where the arrogance comes from.
He is a visionary thinker, but the downside of being a visionary is that Trump is weak at follow through - this is why he is branded "TACO Trump". (Trump always chickens out.)
Under pressure, these traits don’t soften, they harden, he doubles down. His tone becomes sharper, more confrontational, more absolute, more personal, to the point of vulgarity and profanity.
He talks as if the rules don’t actually apply to him, as if international law is optional, and as if decisions come down to what he feels is right in the moment. That is instinct and impulse and someone controlled less by reason and more by emotion, the sense of grandeur and their dopamine cycles, at times more frequent than daily. He's quite open about this, as he is disarmingly open and direct about everything. Running on impulse makes for a transactional tactical personality, someone who has the Vision but doesn't see the planning needed, someone who doesn't appreciate the second and third order effects of their actions.
And then there is age. Trump is pushing 80. Even the strongest people slow down in different ways, though he remains someone with enormous energy. The slowdown is not only physical, but as they age - especially past 80 - older people lose judgement, patience, and emotional control. It doesn’t happen all at once (as anyone knows who watches older people), and it doesn’t happen the same way for everyone, but it is there in the background, and some are already seeing signs of dementia and even madness.
So that's for his character, attitude and age.
Politically, when you combine the enormous power of rhe POTUS, with a reactive personality, and a taste for confrontation, you end up with something that makes people everywhere uneasy if not outright anxious... and not without reason. He may be Taco Trump, but look at what he's done and what he's threatening to do this time - blowing up the whole of Iran because he is being disrespected, sending it back to the Stone Age, destroying a millennial civilisation, and it's obvious that he or Netanyahu will turn to nukes if they don't get their way. (Netanyahu has this Zionist vision for a greater Israel, but Israel is essentially a puppet of America, a "settler colony".)
Glossary
Feeds off validation - needs praise and approval to feel good about himself, is highly responsive to compliments, reacts strongly to criticism, constantly looking for signs of admiration
Narcissism - a personality style built around self-importance, need for admiration, and low empathy.
Sense of entitlement - he believes he deserves special treatment or privileges, without necessarily needing to earn them. He assumes - and states! - that rules don’t apply to him, he believes he should get whatever he wants and others should move out of his way. And if things don't go his way he gets impatient and very angry...angry if challenged by what he sees as disrespect. He just fires people at will if he thinks they are disloyal or disobedient oh incompetent (he sees himself as genius competent) .
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