A lot of us have been waitng for him "to reap what he has sown". We can't wait any longer, we have to make it happen. DON'T be afraid to speak up. Support BTC and others like him.
All traits of a weapons grade malignant narcissist . But he must have a talent - WH twice; a cult of cowards wanting only money and power ; a private anonymous poorly trained well subsidized gestapo army and the ability to cast out all those who oppose in favor of incompetents
On their knees with mouths ajar. Says a lot about a dysfunctional opposition .
MidwestGal, you are correct, but all this comes down to, in my view, has all this made families' lives better today? Are you better off than yesterday? Keep asking the 30-odd percent who still support Trump that question and the world can be changed one heartbeat at a time..
It's been fairly well-documented that most of the 30% can't be reached. Trump could turn from orange to red and grow a forked tongue, a set of horns, and cloven hooves, and the cult would chatter about how God works in mysterious ways.
Even if we can't reach the 25-30% who will most likely support Trump no matter what, there's about another 25%, independents, young new voters, people who voted conservative while holding their noses about Trump the guy, that we can reach with your powerful questions. Especially if we refrain from name-calling, and face the fact that Democrats have ignored residents of "red states" for decades. So all they've ever heard is Fox news, AM radio, and far right podcasters. Democrats needs to get much better and broader - not only with those questions, but with Democratic answers!
Young independents have issues with name-calling? How quaint. Sorry, I'm a few generations ahead of them, and that word policing thing gets on my last nerve. I've never kissed anybody's ass to get them to do anything. 🙄
His followers are just like him. They idolize him because they identify with him. They are just as racist, just as vindictive, just as hateful and soulless as he is and they adore him. He can do no wrong. Somehow Trump has managed to see inside them and be able to CONvince them that he cares. Trump knows they are weak minded, and looking for a “leader” who will take care of them. Those with any sense will eventually admit to themselves that he lied. Others never will.
Between the booing at the Knicks game and the removal of his name (behind a tarp) at the Kennedy Center, it's been a humiliating week for Trump as he can't avoid seeing how the legacy he imagined he was creating will be eradicated.
The good news? Forecast still calls for thunderstorms this evening in DC. If it happens, I expect him to claim the weather was "rigged."
If asked about it this morning, I'm sure we will hear that weather forecasts are fake news. If asked about it tomorrow, we will hear that nobody ever heard of thunderstorms in DC in June.
Also, I'm really hoping for a tarp malfunction (malicious compliance?) around 8 PM at the Kennedy Center today.
I'll believe it when I see it and not before. I know how he ALWAYS obeys court orders... NOT. (and I don't believe there's a peace deal, either. - call me cynical.)
Only Cynical. I don't do sarcastic ever since my English teacher quoted Oscar Wilde saying "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," although she omitted to continue the sentence, "but the highest form of intelligence." If she had done so, I might do sarcasm too.
Just think how much this country could have been spared if:
• he’d been correctly charged w/insurrection, or
• Elon had not ensured he won (in return for those gov. contracts), or
• If MAGA-R’s in Congress had honored their oaths to adhere to Constitutional law & abide by the Bill of Rights, & completed their responsibility of providing checks & balances, or
• If 6 of 9 S.C. judges had not shamelessly permitted a convicted felon to be given immunity (!) when past presidents were not, or
• If 6 of 9 S.C. judges honored their oaths that requires them to act in a neutral manner w/their decisions grounded in the Constitution—rather than agree to hear sooo many of the felon’s grievances, use a “Shadow Docket” (WTH??) & siding w/him.
Yes, of course! But I fear that too many red hats don't see a problem at all, and even strain to ignore it. Perhaps this is because many of them never had any kind of voice or following before Rump and his cronies arrived, having to nurse their various resentments in silence until a champion appeared to hurt everyone that threatens them. Now they can get back at brown people, women, gays, immigrants, Jews, those who run colleges and the media, etc. etc. ad nauseum. And not only that, but suddenly there are millions of people they can easily reach who also agree with their Dear Leader, cheering him on as he makes such resentments the law of the land. Honestly, do you think they'll be very quick to give it all up?
Oh . . . I think there is a vacuum in him so strong I would make the upper atmosphere seem like a pressure cooker. I am thinking of Mary Trump's book: "Too Much and Never Enough". It almost made me feel bad for him . . . almost.
I heard they are trying to blame The Weather Channel for the bad weather. Shows what happens when you elect a moron who has no clue about how weather works.
Yep. I read that too. Trump blaming The Weather Channel for their storm predicted for evening of 6/14. More evidence of how unqualified trump is as POTUS.
There will much to be done post-Trump, including criminal prosecutions and repairing the damage and enacting reforms so it can never happen again, but the public humiliations will be a start.
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You’re certainly right about November. Time since January 2025 has been like a stretched rubber band or a taffy pull. November sometimes seems farther and farther and…
Yeah, no doubt - of course, his big tell is he’s always bragging about how he doesn’t drink, like he’s such a Stoic - meanwhile, the rest of his undisciplined life is a testament to poor impulse control and substance abuse…ugh
I didn’t save it or anything. I saw it around here somewhere. You can also check YouTube and see if there’s a short of people taking pics of it. I’m sure I saw it here, tho, not a video. I also did see a YouTube video of them stacking letters on a truck while they worked on it; tarp was over it. You’re just not looking in the right places.
I wish people would quit using the trailer park comparison. They're not all trash. There are a lot of people living in trailer parks doing the absolute best they can. To be honest, we hardly ever hear about trouble in the trailer parks. It's usually apartments and regular neighborhoods.
Trump is trashy no matter where he lives and no matter how many of our tax dollars he steals for himself and his family. His character flaws didn't go away when he moved into our Whitehouse.
He's gaudy AF! He thinks painting something gold will fool people. He is the definition of 'Lipstick on a pig.'
Mud wrestling would be awesome. I would watch that. When my son was 8, one of his friend’s parents dug a mud pit in the backyard for his birthday party. Epic. It was Woodstock for 8 year olds. It was declared the best birthday party ever. Imagine Donald in a mud pit.
I think you credit him with too much self-awareness. You are forgetting his ability to transform reality into fantasy, as in hearing cheers at Madison Square Garden, instead of the boos they were.
I hypothesize that Donald maps his own biographical story of the unfairly disempowered but virtuous one who eventually conquers and reins supreme, onto the entity called America. He’s never thinking of America, however. All his intense affect is driven by unconscious reminders of his personal injuries and longings to avenge the wronged self of his infancy and childhood.
Donald was a neglected baby and a ridiculed, dominated, and disempowered child. He’s been impotently enraged his entire life. This powerless fury is endless. Every moment of the day Trump tries to erase the felt memory of utter powerlessness in relation to a neglectful mother and indifferent father, with actions and images of physical potency with which he identifies. The cage fight is a metaphor for his life story…he is both the caged child bound to lose, and the fantasied victor, bloodied but heroic, whom he longs to be.
This scene, which captures how he felt as a child and is analogized perfectly in the real-life cage fight, is enacted daily in every decision he makes. He is driven by the fear of feeling like the caged child who loses, and the longing to be the triumphant hero of the battle.
trump is entirely evil and cancerous to all he touches~ The people and the nation have suffered enough~ i want him gone. He's irredeemable and destructive.
Well said and probably very true. But just file it on the lengthening list of psychologically aware and carefully-expressed analysis, and then tell me: whatcha want to do about it?
Hi Judith, one of my short and long-term reasons for understanding the inner motivations of Trump and anyone in a position to make decisions that affect the rest of us, is to help spread awareness that the content of someone’s character is not revealed only by what they say or any other superficial metric.
There are behavioral clues that indicate dangerous personality traits that the general population can become more sophisticated in recognizing. So writing about this is part of my mission to plant seeds of awareness in order to better protect the public from dangerous personalities in politics.
Many others in the helping professions do this as well, and I hope that many more will contribute their professional knowledge so that it becomes more common-place to wonder, “what really motivates that candidate I’m thinking of voting for?”
Hi Madeline, Of course I agree with you. My PhD is in psychology, and so I agree there is much to be learned about the mental innards of those who are ruling us nowadays. I just have a problem with all this intellectual analyzing to no great effect, when there are many reasons why Americans tolerate dangerous leaders that have more to do with them than the leader himself (another subject altogether!).
Basically, I think it all comes down to speaking truth to whomever will listen and hope that some of it sinks in - that their minds creak open an inch or two. Short of sudden and complete regime change from top to bottom, that's about all we can hope for right now!!
Judith, I agree that the reason malignant, narcissistic, psychopaths get where they get in politics and elsewhere, is multi determined, including the psychological vulnerabilities of millions of people who long to believe that someone “strong” cares about them.
For the last 10 years, I’ve been writing about that also, just as others have, but right now I think unmasking this pathological phony is starting to cause the cult followers to fall away. It’s a non-linear project that has many entry points.
There are many forms of political action that I engage in. 😊💙💪
He’s always been a taker. Never a giver. Lacks the attitude of those who give. Truly a waste of a human soul. May he reap what he has sown.
A lot of us have been waitng for him "to reap what he has sown". We can't wait any longer, we have to make it happen. DON'T be afraid to speak up. Support BTC and others like him.
Maybe it’s time to become the reaper…
All traits of a weapons grade malignant narcissist . But he must have a talent - WH twice; a cult of cowards wanting only money and power ; a private anonymous poorly trained well subsidized gestapo army and the ability to cast out all those who oppose in favor of incompetents
On their knees with mouths ajar. Says a lot about a dysfunctional opposition .
MidwestGal, you are correct, but all this comes down to, in my view, has all this made families' lives better today? Are you better off than yesterday? Keep asking the 30-odd percent who still support Trump that question and the world can be changed one heartbeat at a time..
It's been fairly well-documented that most of the 30% can't be reached. Trump could turn from orange to red and grow a forked tongue, a set of horns, and cloven hooves, and the cult would chatter about how God works in mysterious ways.
I've given up on the 30-odd percent. They don't listen to facts, logic or reason. Everything miraculously can be traced back to BIDEN!
Rachel Maddow did a run down one night , showing how voters have divided over the past years . Astoundingly, there has always been a 30% .
Remember, 100 is the average IQ.
Even if we can't reach the 25-30% who will most likely support Trump no matter what, there's about another 25%, independents, young new voters, people who voted conservative while holding their noses about Trump the guy, that we can reach with your powerful questions. Especially if we refrain from name-calling, and face the fact that Democrats have ignored residents of "red states" for decades. So all they've ever heard is Fox news, AM radio, and far right podcasters. Democrats needs to get much better and broader - not only with those questions, but with Democratic answers!
Young independents have issues with name-calling? How quaint. Sorry, I'm a few generations ahead of them, and that word policing thing gets on my last nerve. I've never kissed anybody's ass to get them to do anything. 🙄
He was a giver with Bubba.
And hopefully he’ll have another Bubba in his life who he can trade a pack of cigarettes for‼️
You really think he has a soul? Somehow, I don’t.
He has no soul!
and yet and still he has devotees. The problem has never been who he is at his core but what drive his followers to stay with him.
His followers are just like him. They idolize him because they identify with him. They are just as racist, just as vindictive, just as hateful and soulless as he is and they adore him. He can do no wrong. Somehow Trump has managed to see inside them and be able to CONvince them that he cares. Trump knows they are weak minded, and looking for a “leader” who will take care of them. Those with any sense will eventually admit to themselves that he lied. Others never will.
You really think he HAS a soul?
No, unless the antichrist has one. Does he?
You better believe it.
Between the booing at the Knicks game and the removal of his name (behind a tarp) at the Kennedy Center, it's been a humiliating week for Trump as he can't avoid seeing how the legacy he imagined he was creating will be eradicated.
The good news? Forecast still calls for thunderstorms this evening in DC. If it happens, I expect him to claim the weather was "rigged."
If asked about it this morning, I'm sure we will hear that weather forecasts are fake news. If asked about it tomorrow, we will hear that nobody ever heard of thunderstorms in DC in June.
Also, I'm really hoping for a tarp malfunction (malicious compliance?) around 8 PM at the Kennedy Center today.
I bet you dollars to donuts that those letters are still up there right now...
You lose
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972.59.1_3.pdf#
I'll believe it when I see it and not before. I know how he ALWAYS obeys court orders... NOT. (and I don't believe there's a peace deal, either. - call me cynical.)
There isn't. It's an extension of the ceasefire, certain to be violated, and not even to be signed until Friday... if that ever happens.
Cynical and sarcastic: It’s so hard to tell these days.
I’m also cynical and sarcastic, so I often label my sarcastic comments with /s, to make my meaning more clear.
Only Cynical. I don't do sarcastic ever since my English teacher quoted Oscar Wilde saying "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," although she omitted to continue the sentence, "but the highest form of intelligence." If she had done so, I might do sarcasm too.
Actually not. Old press releases with the illegal false name are still on the website.
https://www.kennedy-center.org/news-room/press-release-landing-page/bill-maher-27-mark-twain-prize/
I’m hoping not… but why is everyone so afraid of confronting him?
Or a windstorm? 💨
Great post, Brian. I disagree with your last sentence though. I don’t think he’s capable of being self-aware enough to feel small.
Deep down I bet he does feel it. He'll just never be able to admit it to himself.
Just think how much this country could have been spared if he had gone into therapy.
Just think how much this country could have been spared if:
• he’d been correctly charged w/insurrection, or
• Elon had not ensured he won (in return for those gov. contracts), or
• If MAGA-R’s in Congress had honored their oaths to adhere to Constitutional law & abide by the Bill of Rights, & completed their responsibility of providing checks & balances, or
• If 6 of 9 S.C. judges had not shamelessly permitted a convicted felon to be given immunity (!) when past presidents were not, or
• If 6 of 9 S.C. judges honored their oaths that requires them to act in a neutral manner w/their decisions grounded in the Constitution—rather than agree to hear sooo many of the felon’s grievances, use a “Shadow Docket” (WTH??) & siding w/him.
I’m sure others could think of more…..
To paraphrase (i.e., clean up) Jeff Tiedrich, we are in the worst possible timeline.
You have a lot of faith in therapy!
I do, but I acknowledge that to address a problem one must first acknowledge it exists.
Yes, of course! But I fear that too many red hats don't see a problem at all, and even strain to ignore it. Perhaps this is because many of them never had any kind of voice or following before Rump and his cronies arrived, having to nurse their various resentments in silence until a champion appeared to hurt everyone that threatens them. Now they can get back at brown people, women, gays, immigrants, Jews, those who run colleges and the media, etc. etc. ad nauseum. And not only that, but suddenly there are millions of people they can easily reach who also agree with their Dear Leader, cheering him on as he makes such resentments the law of the land. Honestly, do you think they'll be very quick to give it all up?
Oh . . . I think there is a vacuum in him so strong I would make the upper atmosphere seem like a pressure cooker. I am thinking of Mary Trump's book: "Too Much and Never Enough". It almost made me feel bad for him . . . almost.
Strom chances appear to be lessening. Still hoping they come!
As far as he goes, doubtful he will see anything except how much attention he got from those he seems to like.
I read that he is angry at the Weather Channel because of the weather in DC. Good Lord! He's as stupid as his MAGA cult.
How can that be? He told us he had an uncle who taught at MIT. :)
Hahahahahahaha 😆😆😆
I heard they are trying to blame The Weather Channel for the bad weather. Shows what happens when you elect a moron who has no clue about how weather works.
Yep. I read that too. Trump blaming The Weather Channel for their storm predicted for evening of 6/14. More evidence of how unqualified trump is as POTUS.
As my people say at the Passover seder, "Why is this night different from all other nights?"
In this case, the answer is that it isn't.
Not enough!
There will much to be done post-Trump, including criminal prosecutions and repairing the damage and enacting reforms so it can never happen again, but the public humiliations will be a start.
Still a few hours to send your comments on the arch Trump wants built.
https://savingplaces.org/monumental-arch
One can. Or wait until 2029 and demand the bulldozers get to work.
One or the other. I’d rather not pay coming and going. Best to stop this now.
Agreed, but until after the midterms, it's not looking good.
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You’re certainly right about November. Time since January 2025 has been like a stretched rubber band or a taffy pull. November sometimes seems farther and farther and…
By Biden
By Biden.
Noooo, what we'll see in his pin point pupils is a long time amphetamine addiction and not much more....
I'll bet dollars to donuts the Orange Pedo has several drug addictions other then just amphetamine!
Yeah, no doubt - of course, his big tell is he’s always bragging about how he doesn’t drink, like he’s such a Stoic - meanwhile, the rest of his undisciplined life is a testament to poor impulse control and substance abuse…ugh
A lot of what you wrote Bryan could have been said about Elon Musk too.
Absolutely.
Humiliation and defeat are 2 of the milder things I wish upon the fanta menace. Anything further that I said would land me on a watch list. 86 47
Don't think he is capable of feeling humiliation.
Trump shows his humiliation as anger. Leaving the scaffolding & tarps up is his defeat.
Don't think he is capable of feeling humiliation.
I fear that I am already on a watch list. 86 47
💯...and hope you're right about your conclusion as well...He's an empty shell pretending to be a powerful "man."
And a reminder too-- his name is off the Kennedy center but still prominent in the Epstein files
Do you really believe that it is off?
There was a small photo taken through a gap in the tarp that shows a worker with a D in his hands. IDK, nothing is real anymore.
It's off. Haven't you seen the pics? Or do you think they're manufactured from the past? I think it's off.
Where are the pics? I've seen pics of the tarps and one worker with a D in his hand but that's all. I still don't think they are off, it's all a show.
I didn’t save it or anything. I saw it around here somewhere. You can also check YouTube and see if there’s a short of people taking pics of it. I’m sure I saw it here, tho, not a video. I also did see a YouTube video of them stacking letters on a truck while they worked on it; tarp was over it. You’re just not looking in the right places.
I guess there will be mud wrestling next. Trump has turned the Whitehouse into a trailer park. So ghetto! 🤣
I wish people would quit using the trailer park comparison. They're not all trash. There are a lot of people living in trailer parks doing the absolute best they can. To be honest, we hardly ever hear about trouble in the trailer parks. It's usually apartments and regular neighborhoods.
Haha 50-60 year old mobile homes in San Diego County are going for over a half a million dollars these days.
Same in Florida.
Yep, and around my way, they're slum.
Speak for the trailer parks in your area.
I am.
Trump is trashy no matter where he lives and no matter how many of our tax dollars he steals for himself and his family. His character flaws didn't go away when he moved into our Whitehouse.
He's gaudy AF! He thinks painting something gold will fool people. He is the definition of 'Lipstick on a pig.'
Mud wrestling would be awesome. I would watch that. When my son was 8, one of his friend’s parents dug a mud pit in the backyard for his birthday party. Epic. It was Woodstock for 8 year olds. It was declared the best birthday party ever. Imagine Donald in a mud pit.
How about a quicksand pit?
Or a criminal pedo enterprise clown show circus act of brutes, babies, and bimbos.
His “America First” agenda was always a “Me First” agenda.
Thanks for writing this. I’m praying that the heavens will open with an epic thunderstorm.
I think you credit him with too much self-awareness. You are forgetting his ability to transform reality into fantasy, as in hearing cheers at Madison Square Garden, instead of the boos they were.
Brian,
I hypothesize that Donald maps his own biographical story of the unfairly disempowered but virtuous one who eventually conquers and reins supreme, onto the entity called America. He’s never thinking of America, however. All his intense affect is driven by unconscious reminders of his personal injuries and longings to avenge the wronged self of his infancy and childhood.
Donald was a neglected baby and a ridiculed, dominated, and disempowered child. He’s been impotently enraged his entire life. This powerless fury is endless. Every moment of the day Trump tries to erase the felt memory of utter powerlessness in relation to a neglectful mother and indifferent father, with actions and images of physical potency with which he identifies. The cage fight is a metaphor for his life story…he is both the caged child bound to lose, and the fantasied victor, bloodied but heroic, whom he longs to be.
This scene, which captures how he felt as a child and is analogized perfectly in the real-life cage fight, is enacted daily in every decision he makes. He is driven by the fear of feeling like the caged child who loses, and the longing to be the triumphant hero of the battle.
trump is entirely evil and cancerous to all he touches~ The people and the nation have suffered enough~ i want him gone. He's irredeemable and destructive.
⚡∆√∆⚡
Totally…
Well said and probably very true. But just file it on the lengthening list of psychologically aware and carefully-expressed analysis, and then tell me: whatcha want to do about it?
Hi Judith, one of my short and long-term reasons for understanding the inner motivations of Trump and anyone in a position to make decisions that affect the rest of us, is to help spread awareness that the content of someone’s character is not revealed only by what they say or any other superficial metric.
There are behavioral clues that indicate dangerous personality traits that the general population can become more sophisticated in recognizing. So writing about this is part of my mission to plant seeds of awareness in order to better protect the public from dangerous personalities in politics.
Many others in the helping professions do this as well, and I hope that many more will contribute their professional knowledge so that it becomes more common-place to wonder, “what really motivates that candidate I’m thinking of voting for?”
Hi Madeline, Of course I agree with you. My PhD is in psychology, and so I agree there is much to be learned about the mental innards of those who are ruling us nowadays. I just have a problem with all this intellectual analyzing to no great effect, when there are many reasons why Americans tolerate dangerous leaders that have more to do with them than the leader himself (another subject altogether!).
Basically, I think it all comes down to speaking truth to whomever will listen and hope that some of it sinks in - that their minds creak open an inch or two. Short of sudden and complete regime change from top to bottom, that's about all we can hope for right now!!
Judith, I agree that the reason malignant, narcissistic, psychopaths get where they get in politics and elsewhere, is multi determined, including the psychological vulnerabilities of millions of people who long to believe that someone “strong” cares about them.
For the last 10 years, I’ve been writing about that also, just as others have, but right now I think unmasking this pathological phony is starting to cause the cult followers to fall away. It’s a non-linear project that has many entry points.
There are many forms of political action that I engage in. 😊💙💪
I remember the coach having me eat peanut butter all the time...
I don't want trump to enjoy his birthday, but I DO want him outside attending this event.
∆√∆ ⚡L'Indépendant⚡
I’ll be cheering for the Thunder, lightning, bugs and humidity.
And swarms of mosquitoes also!
Mosquitoes can carry deadly diseases. I hope they bite the crap out of him!
It’s like the seven plagues of Egypt. This man is bringing down upon himself.‼️
Heat, humidity, thunderstorms. He's going to be miserable.
What will he do about his hair? Oh, a MAGA cap, of course.
As usual, well said BTC. Every American should read these words, especially the workers who voted for this poor excuse.
Great thoughts, BTC!
Hope that you're right.
Bro. I’m pretty sure that this is all gonna be far more scripted than any WWE event in history… even more so than André versus Hogan.
*Post note: The fighter arrested inside the White House was definitely not part of the script. 😂