Mod: A couple of articles posted to the world in the past 48 hours that shell Trump in perfectly appropriate ways, and ought to be read by all.
Trump ripped in the NYT as a ‘tone-deaf showman’ whose stage is a ‘mountain of corpses’(
Raw Storylink): President
Donald Trump continues to receive harsh criticism for his response to the
COVID-19 pandemic as
America continues to lead the world in coronavirus fatalities.
Columnist
Frank Bruni argued that the reality of
Trump’s failures will plague is 2020 election campaign in a
New York Times column.
“While
Trump may indeed be careening toward four more years, it’s at least as possible that he’s self-destructing before our eyes,”
Bruni wrote. “He can read the polls as well as the rest of us can, and they show that while he stands there nightly in the
White House briefing room and blows kisses at himself,
Americans aren’t blowing kisses back.”
“There’s incessant talk of how fervent his base is, but the many
Americans appalled by him have a commensurate zeal. For every
Sean Hannity, there’s a
Rachel Maddow. For every
Kellyanne Conway, a
George Conway. She and her ilk may be wily in their defense of the president. He and his tribe are even better in their evisceration of him,”
Bruni explained.
“Don’t tell me that his nightly briefings are just a new version of the old stadium rallies; their backdrop of profound suffering makes them exponentially harder to stomach.
Americans who take any comfort from them were
Trump-drunk long ago. The unbesotted see and hear the president for what he is: a tone-deaf showman who regards everything, even a mountain of corpses, as a stage,” he wrote.
Mod: If you wish to read the entire Frank Bruni column you can do so by clickinghere.
Psychologist John Gartner: Trump is a "sexual sadist" who is "actively engaging in sabotage" (
Salon link): As of Friday, the coronavirus pandemic has killed at least 50,000 people in the
United States. That number is likely to be an undercount, and it's possible we will never have a true reckoning.
At almost every juncture,
Donald Trump has made decisions about the coronavirus pandemic that have led to more death. His behavior is that of a person who has no care or concern for the health, safety and welfare of the
American people. Nothing could epitomize that more perfectly than his grotesque suggestion this week that "injecting" disinfectants or household cleaning products might kill the coronavirus. This would seem comical, and entirely unbelievable, if it had not actually happened.
Psychologist and psychotherapist
John Gartner, contributor to the bestselling book "
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" and co-founder of the
Duty to WARN PAC, has an answer:
Donald Trump is a malignant narcissist. Our president's mental pathologies inexorably compel him to hurt and kill large numbers of people — including his own supporters.
Dr. Gartner taught for many years at the
Johns Hopkins University Medical School, and has private therapeutic practices in
Baltimore and
New York, specializing in the treatment of borderline personality disorders. In our most recent conversation, he explains that sadism and violence are central to
Trump's malignant narcissism and his decision-making about the coronavirus pandemic.
Gartner also warns that
Donald Trump is an abuser locked into a deeply dysfunctional relationship with the
American people and that, like other sadists,
Trump enjoys causing harm and suffering.
Ultimately,
Gartner concludes that
Donald Trump is engaging in "democidal behavior" and cautions that the tens of thousands of dead (so far) from the coronavirus pandemic are not simply collateral damage from
Trump's policies, but rather the logical outcome of
Trump's apparent mental pathologies and the poor decisions that flow from them.
Mod: There is much more to be found at the link.
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