He views people as either servants or enemies. Clearly, any servant asking for a refund has become an enemy.
A white nationalist one, yes. They dream of a world ruled by them, in which everyone else is dead. As is typical of fascists.
This American has be aware of it for quite some time. It saddens me, but I understand why this is happening. Completely understandable.
[@Smapti quoting Trump]
You know… I absolutely believe this is the truth.
Has anyone told The Orange One that one has to be dead to appear on US currency? (Or is that postage stamps? Both?)
I remember the good old days, when whack-jobs believed THEY were going to create a “North American Union” to oppress the US, by making them have to live with Mexicans and Canadians.
I have to wonder what those guys are thinking now, seeing the US president openly talking about adding “51st States” from all over North and South America.
“Now that Foreigncountryistan is America, you’re already in America, so just stay there!”
The United States already has practice with that stunt in the Philippines.
Yeah, any 79 year old, let alone the POTUS, who routinely publicly posted debunked conspiracy theories, delusions of grandeur about themselves, diatribes against public figures, and just completely rando crap all hours of the night, including one obsessive jag where they posted 55 times in a 3 hour period, would raise serious concerns for their mental health and hopefully convince those closest to them that some sort of intervention was in order. I don’t get how anyone can witness all that and not think there was some sort of mental health issue.
You all must come from very different families. The specific behaviour seems regular bizarre bad judgement, not “mental health.”
Again, he has buckets of other obvious mental health issues: just this one seems to be normal stupid.
Are we all so terminally online now that someone posting 55 times in three hours is just the new normal?
What behavior would constitute visible manifestation of “mental health issues” to you? Specific examples.
BTW, Heather Cox Richardson disagreed with you yesterday:
The biggest story in the country, today and always, is that the president of the United States is mentally unwell.
She goes on to summarize the 55 truthies (or whatever he calls them).
As much as I hate to be fair to Trump, it’s not just him doing the posting. Natalie Harp is on his social media team, and will present him with different options for things to tweet, and she does a lot of the posting on his behalf.
Though I’ll concede that I don’t know if she has to do it round the clock, or if she only has a certain window for when she’s available to do so.
During the overnight hours when he’s averaging one every few minutes (and sometimes bursts of several in the same minute)? Nah, it’s sometimes abundantly clear when he’s the one posting.
Also, when his handlers are doing it, there’s a noticeable shift in spelling and grammar
I’m not sure how specific I can be without having to pay attention to the man. He’s such an odious person, but my understanding is broken down as follows:
Mental Health
• Narcissism, as evidenced by pretty much every interaction he has: constant focus on himself, obsession with his name, inability to pay attention to other people, etc.
• Age-related cognitive decline, as evidenced by simpler vocabulary and syntax when comparing his post-2024 speech with his (say) 1980s or even 2010s speech; inability to stay alert and awake in professional contexts.
In other words, two major things: a severe psychological disorder at his core, exacerbated by slowly losing his marbles.
Physical Health
A bit doddery. The age-related cognitive decline mentioned above. Weird skin.
Bad Character
He’s a pretty typical example of what I think of as Beer-Bellied Old Guy: the kind who holds court in the corner of the local McDonald’s, who is convinced of his own importance and has spent his entire life outsourcing actual work to wives and employees, and yet doesn’t value them or their work but thinks he’s a genius.
Everything from his involvement with beauty pageants to his choice of wives to his court convictions suggests his selfish entitlement extents to male-female relations and sex, meaning that I find the allegations of assault and rape 100% credible and am also inclined to believe allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards minors.
It’s obviously all mixed together: coming from a rich but toxic family set him up for odious entitlement (character) as well as the narcissism (personality disorder), and now age is making it harder for him to fake normalcy. It’s just that to me, the unhinged texting comes more from the entitlement-and-conspiracy-theory basket than the narcissism-and-dementia basket.
I do see your point, but that seems like chicken & egg hair-splitting to me, along the lines of “po-TAY-to” / “po-TAH-to.” Excuse the multiple mixed metaphors.
I asked:
Don’t even use trump as an example. What specific behaviors in a family member, or someone you work with, or the parent/spouse of a friend would say to you “mental health issues”? I’m really curious now.
Oh, okay.
It depends a bit as to whether someone has known mental health issues or not. I have someone with severe depression: there are often specific signs, including very turns of phrase, that signal an episode is coming on, as well as the need to be alone and, yes, sitting down in front of the internet for hours (not posting in this case, just reading). My elderly dad gets down and forgets to eat. My grandmother’s issues manifested with attention-seeking self-injury (most memorably with a gun); my cousin’s with alcoholic binges.
In all of those cases, there was a pretty clear line between “this person is being normal” and “this person is having a mental health episode.”
For someone who didn’t have prior issues, I guess I’d be alert for real and problematic changes in behaviour. That’s one of the things with Trump: he’s problematic all the time, due to the personality disorder, so I don’t see him as really having “episodes.” He doesn’t have a normal.
True.
I tried to do that much better a couple of years ago.
I found out that I could send text messages to my cell phone via e-mail.
So I configured my internet facing servers to send me an e-mail address any time someone connected with ssh (secure shell) and failed to log in. I’ve seen more than 1.5 million attempts per month before so I was expecting to received millions of text messages a month. (I hate text messages and was looking forward to those masking the regular text messages I get but hate to see and refuse to read.
Unfortunately, after about four or five messages in a few minutes, the cell phone company started blocking the e-mails.
If I got on truth social, would it perhaps allow me to post a message each and every time someone tried to break into my servers?
Trump doesn’t have mental health episodes. He is a mental health episode.