2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThis might be what set off Trump's tweet-storm this morning
Possibly it was a pitying but scathing column by David Brooks on "Donald Trumps Sad, Lonely Life"
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/opinion/donald-trumps-sad-lonely-life.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
and Art of the Deal (co)author and Trump critic Tony Schwartz's tweet about it
https://twitter.com/tonyschwartz/status/785813630658883584
which was posted just 11 minutes before the first of Trump's tweets this morning.
Given their past history, I suspect Schwartz's Twitter account is one Trump watches.
From the Brooks column:
He was a germophobe through most of his life and cut off contact with others, and now I just picture him alone in the middle of the night, tweeting out hatred.
-snip-
Bullies only experience peace when they are cruel. Their blood pressure drops the moment they beat the kid on the playground.
Imagine you are Trump. You are trying to bluff your way through a debate. Youre running for an office youre completely unqualified for. You are chasing some glimmer of validation that recedes ever further from view.
Your only rest comes when you are insulting somebody, when you are threatening to throw your opponent in jail, when you are looming over her menacingly like a mafioso thug on the precipice of a hit, when you are bellowing that she has tremendous hate in her heart when it is clear to everyone you are only projecting what is in your own.
Trumps emotional makeup means he can hit only a few notes: fury and aggression. In some ways, his debate performances look like primate dominance displays filled with chest beating and looming growls. But at least primates have bands to connect with, whereas Trump is so alone, if a tree fell in his emotional forest, it would not make a sound.
Now think of Trump, already in the mood to tweet out hatred early this morning, running across that column courtesy of Tony Schwartz saying Brooks has it just right.
If this is what set him off, he might have thought of lashing out at Brooks and/or Schwartz, but even Trump could have realized that would make his insecurity too obvious.
But he had lots of other targets to take out his anger and insecurity on....
blm
(113,063 posts).
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)riversedge
(70,242 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)...how will he handle a cup of colder, fresher milk?
rurallib
(62,420 posts)Or is there another one I haven't heard about? Thanks.
highplainsdem
(48,997 posts)Brooks, since I don't think he'd have wanted to call any more attention to the Brooks column or let people know how upset he was about it. But I started wondering about whether Trump had seen it because it was published just a few hours before the tweet-storm. And then I wondered whether Tony Schwartz had tweeted about it (primarily because I'd simply wondered if he''d commented on it, what he thought of it), and once I saw that he had, I compared the time of his tweet to the time of Trump's first tweet this morning.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Thanks for the link.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)reading about his loneliness...
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)This excerpt explains a lot:
To prove their own existence, they hunger for endless attention from outside. Lacking internal measures of their own worth, they rely on external but insecure criteria like wealth, beauty, fame and others submission.
He will be apoplectic when he loses.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)he won't be able to pronounce the word
anamandujano
(7,004 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)Where we are meant to have empathy for the poor bully. Especially those of us that were bullied ourselves by such creatures.
What about poor poor Adolf Hitler as a boy? He was physically abused along with his sister. So we should give him a little slack for his behavior later in life.
barbtries
(28,798 posts)If he wasn't hell bent on spreading his sick misery all over the world.
As it is I've no pity for trump, none.
adigal
(7,581 posts)So far today, since 9AM, he's tweeted 9 times.
He's won the debate in a landslide.
Republicans don't know how to win - He will teach them
Paul Ryan had members go wild on him at a conference call.
John McCain has a potty mouth
Bernie Sanders, something, something
Hillary Clinton, hacked emails
Hillary Clinton, unfit to run (but a nutjob tweeting like a lunatic, is??)
He has the shackles off now and he's SO relieved!! (nice slavery reference there, douche.)
Off the rails.
bora13
(860 posts)mary shelley was a forward thinking and looking writer.
she must have envisioned a large, orange and lumbering man to be "The Monster".
Once he broke his "shackles", it was on.
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)'Trump continues to display the symptoms of narcissistic alexithymia, the inability to understand or describe the emotions in the self. Unable to know themselves, sufferers are unable to understand, relate or attach to others.
To prove their own existence, they hunger for endless attention from outside. Lacking internal measures of their own worth, they rely on external but insecure criteria like wealth, beauty, fame and others
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Style is of no concern as the old models of strength, power and decisiveness built by Hollywood, T.V., and sports figures have died away. Now, anyone can smear a war hero, a humanitarian or a strong role model by just barking and slinging insults. o-o-o-o-o, that's sexy!
Blech.
RaymondLuxuryYacht
(66 posts)world wide wally
(21,744 posts)unblock
(52,243 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)he has no reason to pretend he's not what he is.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)TonyPDX
(962 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts).... really hard over the demise of his party. Believe me, I don't always agree, but he's good on PBS.
duncang
(1,907 posts)His tweets directed against ryan may be because of his advisors. See here for more info
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028223664
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)None of us would want to live in the howling wilderness of his own solitude, no matter how thick the gilding.
On Nov. 9, the day after Trump loses, there wont be solidarity and howls of outrage. Everyone will just walk away.
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)I have to take exception to the idea of them blaming Trump for his coming defeat, although that been put forth by some pretty intelligent people and it does have some merit.
No, I believe the alt right will somehow shift the blame to Ryan, the GOP establishment and "crooked Hillary" somehow committing fraud by having illegals vote in the millions against their Fuhrer.
Because these people are authority worshipers and who's gonna replace Trump as their master? There's no other viable candidate I can think of.
keithbvadu2
(36,819 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,196 posts)The only worth another human being has to him is what he can get out of them. He doesn't love. He uses. He doesn't really care when someone uses him back (trophy wives) because that's all he understands.
Certain Republicans were happy to use him for their selfish ends, but now they are abandoning him and he's angry. The typical narcissist, he must get what HE wants. When he gets what he wants, he wins. He's outraged because they no longer want to transact with him. He's the playgroound bully who's mad because no one will play with him and that makes them all LOSERS.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Yeah, yeah, I know, they've been brainwashed by the mighty RW propaganda machine, and they are addicted to their rage against the "libruls", but, c'mon people, the guy is so obliviously the epitome of everything he tries to put on his opponents. If any of his accusations are true at all about them--and for the most part they're not--they a million times more true about him. I mean, seriously, just look at him.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)a few parents of young children and read on a number of websites: Trump SCARES their kids when they see him on TV because "he always looks so mean and mad (angry)".
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)I **almost** feel sorry for the empty pumpkin man, but NOT for his zillions of racist, misogynist, xenophobic followers.
fierywoman
(7,684 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
(Macbeth, Act V, Sc.,v)
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)... that's what gets him going ... sniff/snort ...
... tweaki ... uh ... snuff ... tweeting ... sniff ... between 3 ... sniff ... and 5 AM ... snuffle ...
freebrew
(1,917 posts)he'll just slink away into nowhere.
Or, maybe he'll just explode.
Either way. Good f*cking riddance.
Slimeball.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)What a buffoon!