Think it fits here well:
I'm also wondering if Trump has any idea that there are perfectly legal and legitimate channels through which he could have been surveilled. He seems to believe that the simple fact that he or members of his team were captured by surveillance is an outrage and illegal. I mean, the FBI is investigating your campaign, you typically don't want to call attention to the fact that you were under government surveillance. You try to minimize anything that casts suspicion on you. Trump has taken the opposite tack, and I simply can't figure out the reasoning behind it, unless there really was deep collusion throughout all levels of the campaign and he wants to make it look like fruit of the poisonous tree - or he's just ignorant and doesn't understand how bad this looks.
I think to understand what we're seeing here you have to think back to how some conservatives try to lay claim to the label of 'classical liberal'. They're not. And Trump is the archetype of being not a classical liberal. What he actually is is a classical pre-Enlightenment conservative. What I mean by that is that Trump demonstrates the personality differences between someone who believes in a nation of laws to those who believe in a nation of men. Trump sees himself as a great man, and great men aren't subject to laws. His is a conservatism which at its foundation rejects the precepts of classical liberalism.
You can see it in his actions with the Russians, and about the Russian scandal. But you can also see it in his tweets, where he is constantly attempting to create his own reality. And you can see it in that terrible Time interview, where he lied constantly, and then claimed that it was the truth because he was the president, and he said it, and that makes it the truth! This is a man who thinks that he should be above the law, and above standards of conduct, decency, morality, that apply to 'lesser' men.
Just watched Trump along Merkel in TV. He looked like a petulant child in his gesture and attitude. And Merkel apparently was trying to sweet-talk him like you would do to a petulant child. Never saw a world leader behaving like that.
He's nothing more than a trust fund baby who never grew up.
Agreed. I think of him as having the mentality of a 14-year-old boy, and his actions then make perfect sense.
Trump was better socialized back in the 70s and 80s but then a series of setbacks led to him delving into pure self delusion, and it doesn't help that he is already displaying symptoms of Alzheimers's.
I'm picturing a YUGE, Game-Show style wheel ala Wheel of Fortune or Price is Right, with the beeping/clicking sounds... that has stuff on it like "Delusional", "Dementia", "Lies", "Ignorance" etc, instead of dollar amounts...How would you separate any such symptoms from his usual delusions?
That gives him way too much credit. He believes what he says is above reproach because he is an ultra-privileged simpleton who has spent his 70 years on this planet being rewarded for doing and saying whatever he wants, surrounding himself with lackeys and sycophants that will reinforce that what he says is correct and wise because his favor and therefore their livelihoods depend on them saying so.
In short, he believes that what he says is always right because for almost all of his time on this Earth, there hasn't been anyone around to tell him otherwise. When you live a life so privileged that you never have to face negative consequences for your actions, you naturally conclude you are an unusually gifted person for having been constantly right.
He's nothing more than a trust fund baby who never grew up.
But he has the finger on the button!
nothing more than a trust fund baby who never grew up.