The Many Faces of US Politics...

[J70]

Is Trump a nasty version of Mel Brooks' deluded, clueless, William J. Le Petomane?

If so, who is  Hedley Lamarr? Bannon?

[seafoid]

Is Trump a nasty version of Mel Brooks' deluded, clueless, William J. Le Petomane?

If so, who is  Hedley Lamarr? Bannon?

Either Koch may be Lamarr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRB1mpEFeCQ

[seafoid]

"The Russia thing is a ruse."

It's even more chaotic than when Banty managed Meath

[seafoid]

Peter Beinart ‏@PeterBeinart  50 min

Trump begins presser boasting about alliance w/ billionaire donor Paul Singer, then says he's "taking on this entrenched power structure"

[omaghjoe]

"The Russia thing is a ruse."

It's even more chaotic than when Banty managed Meath

LOL

I knew you'd eventually find a witty quip seafoid

[seafoid]

Joe Scarborough

‏@JoeNBC

FWIW, Republicans on the Hill were panicked behind the scenes by Trump's performance today.

[J70]

Is Trump a nasty version of Mel Brooks' deluded, clueless, William J. Le Petomane?

If so, who is  Hedley Lamarr? Bannon?

Either Koch may be Lamarr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRB1mpEFeCQ

Never gets old!

[Eamonnca1]

If Trump is so fond of bragging about the fact that he won, why does he keep holding campaign rallies? What does he think his job is?

[LeoMc]

"270 which you need, that was laughable. We got 306 because people came out and voted like they've never seen before so that's the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan."

WTF??

Is the man incapable of opening his mouth without making up the most ridiculous, self-aggrandizing, lying bullshit? Is he utterly deluded? Are his staff back there blowing smoke up his arse to the extent that he really believes this shit? 

Yes Donald, you had the biggest electoral college win since Obama 2012. 

I think he corrected himself to say it was the biggest Republican electoral college win since Reagan.
Reporter then pointed out George HW had also got more.

[LeoMc]

Joe Scarborough

‏@JoeNBC

FWIW, Republicans on the Hill were panicked behind the scenes by Trump's performance today.

I think the GOP is playing the long game. They cant be seen to push Trump until he loses his fan base or it will bite them in the mid-terms. They are hoping to get some of their big ticket items through (repeal of Obamacare, light touch financial and environmental regulations) before he does too much damage.

[gallsman]

That's exactly what happened. Couldn't believe what I was watching half the time last night, it was completely surreal. He was getting heckled ffs!

[seafoid]

FT :
.""Harward is conflicted between the call of duty and the obvious dysfunctionality," said one person with first hand knowledge of the discussions between Mr Trump and Mr Harward


Guardian :
But there can only be one takeaway from the press conference – Trump may have become president, but he will never be presidential. It has only been 27 days since the president took office. There are still at least three years and 11 months left to go, and it is never going to be normal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk

[Declan]

Letter to the NYT

To the Editor:

Fevered media speculation about Donald Trump's psychological motivations and psychiatric diagnosis has recently encouraged mental health professionals to disregard the usual ethical constraints against diagnosing public figures at a distance. They have sponsored several petitions and a Feb. 14 letter to The New York Times suggesting that Mr. Trump is incapable, on psychiatric grounds, of serving as president.

Most amateur diagnosticians have mislabeled President Trump with the diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder. I wrote the criteria that define this disorder, and Mr. Trump doesn't meet them. He may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesn't make him mentally ill, because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder.

Mr. Trump causes severe distress rather than experiencing it and has been richly rewarded, rather than punished, for his grandiosity, self-absorption and lack of empathy. It is a stigmatizing insult to the mentally ill (who are mostly well behaved and well meaning) to be lumped with Mr. Trump (who is neither).

Bad behavior is rarely a sign of mental illness, and the mentally ill behave badly only rarely. Psychiatric name-calling is a misguided way of countering Mr. Trump's attack on democracy. He can, and should, be appropriately denounced for his ignorance, incompetence, impulsivity and pursuit of dictatorial powers.

His psychological motivations are too obvious to be interesting, and analyzing them will not halt his headlong power grab. The antidote to a dystopic Trumpean dark age is political, not psychological.

ALLEN FRANCES

Coronado, Calif.

The writer, professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical College, was chairman of the task force that wrote the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (D.S.M.-IV).

[J70]

"270 which you need, that was laughable. We got 306 because people came out and voted like they've never seen before so that's the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan."

WTF??

Is the man incapable of opening his mouth without making up the most ridiculous, self-aggrandizing, lying bullshit? Is he utterly deluded? Are his staff back there blowing smoke up his arse to the extent that he really believes this shit? 

Yes Donald, you had the biggest electoral college win since Obama 2012. 

I think he corrected himself to say it was the biggest Republican electoral college win since Reagan.
Reporter then pointed out George HW had also got more.

He defended himself with "someone told me".

Basically another version of his "a lot of people are saying" that he uses to spread lies and conspiracies.

[Declan]

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