Trump: "He's Still a Scared Child."
If you were watching on election night as the results were announced, you saw it in his eyes--Donald Trump was afraid. For just a moment, he had that deer in the headlights look that the entire Bush clan wore on election night 2004 when it was clear that Ohio had been stolen and they were certain that someone was going to notice. Why? Maybe he knew that the election had been hacked. Maybe he wondered how he was going to keep all those impossible campaign promises he had made in exchange for bribes a la Producers.
Whatever the cause, the look of fear did not last long. Donald Trump and fear go way back. He has become adept at hiding his greatest weakness behind a pompadour and mask of bravado. But on election night 2016, it was there for all to see.
And even if you did not catch that that "Blink and you missed it" revelatory moment, anyone who understands human nature could surmise it from Trump's behavior. Only a truly frightened little boy plays the bully 24-7. Bullies make a preemptive strike on the weak because they are obsessed with the fear that someone is going to bully them. They seize any opportunity to flex their muscles. They take out their rage on inanimate objects--like a friends baseball bat, when little Donald struck out--or on women and children and the weak and powerless.
Only a pathetic child will say or do anything to win the approval of those he admires, even brag about "pussy grabbing" and under age beauty queen ogling. Only a insecure child must shout back "am not!" when criticized. Only a frightened child meekly does the bidding of the Russian masters who installed him into the White House after the inauguration.
Fear is a powerful motivator. The Nazi Party exploited fear to create the Third Reich and the Holocaust---persuading people to violate their most basic human instincts. Some of history's most awful, terrible tyrants were driven by fear---Hitler was a battered child, failed artist, citizen of a fallen country. The coalition of German(and some American) businessmen and aristocrats who chose Hitler to lead their fascist movement chose well. No doubt, Russia chose Trump for much the same reason. He may boast about being bold, but he is still a frightened child, according to some who know him well, like Tony Schwartz, who co-authored The Art of the Deal.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2018/jan/18/fear-donald-trump-us-president-art-of-the-deal
There are two Trumps. The one he presents to the world is all bluster, bullying and certainty. The other, which I have long felt haunts his inner world, is the frightened child of a relentlessly critical and bullying father and a distant and disengaged mother who couldn’t or wouldn’t protect him.
Schwartz's analysis explains so much. Like the way that Trump sucks up to powerful men, as if afraid that they will reject and hurt him if he does not please them. And the way he flirts shamelessly with women---and the way he abuses them if they do not give him the unconditional love that he craved but was denied by his mother. In the world of the frightened child of the critical father, the father is scary, but the mother is the villain. If the child tries hard enough, maybe he can be perfect enough to get his father's approval. But he will never earn the love of a cold mother. How many of Trump's supporters are like him, woman haters because a single woman let them down? When they chant "Lock her up!" do they really mean "Mommy, why didn't you love me?" Children want to be told their emotions count. When they are ignored, they develop low self esteem. When they are banished to military school for having fun, they learn that the world is a very scary place indeed.
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