Trump's unpopularity puts his presidency at risk and he would 'go to war with the world' to keep it

[bdamomma]

https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/trumps-unpopularity-puts-his-presidency-at-risk-and-he-would-go-to-war-with-the-world-to-keep-it/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1139&recip_id=21760&list_id=2

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The other thing we should keep in mind based on Trump’s unpopularity is what we’ve learned over the past few years about how he deals with losing. The best explanation of that came from Tony Schwartz, ghostwriter of Art of the Deal.

To survive, I concluded from our conversations, Trump felt compelled to go to war with the world. It was a binary, zero-sum choice for him: You either dominated or you submitted. You either created and exploited fear, or you succumbed to it…Trump grew up fighting for his life and taking no prisoners. In countless conversations, he made clear to me that he treated every encounter as a contest he had to win, because the only other option from his perspective was to lose, and that was the equivalent of obliteration.

We should know by now that there is no bottom to the depths Trump will go in a battle like this. To lose means obliteration, so he’ll pull out every ugly trick he can concoct. Given his positional power, that could be dangerous, so buckle up for a very bumpy ride with an overgrown toddler, who also happens to occupy the Oval Office.


Oh we need a strait jacket for him cause he will cause mayhem and chaos and death.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. It is really about feeding his pathology. The presidency is a way to maintain his "high"

[Baitball Blogger]

2. It's scary the way he has the power to follow any lame-brain idea and his

followers will agree with his explanation. Today he's tweeting that the Federal Reserve is to blame for the bad stock numbers and not his stoopid tariff war with China. The way that China is going headlong into Hong Kong, it would not surprise me if they go scorched earth just to get rid of him.

[bdamomma]

3. Well the Psychiatric and Psychology

Community has been warning us about his mental illness we need to pull him aside for he is a threat to himself and to others.

[Wounded Bear]

4. K & R...for truth...nt

[Hortensis]

5. I'm pretty sure he's both a coward when confronted

(we've seen that a number of times) and afraid of the immensity of his power. He's fundamentally a tremendous weakling because of many profound flaws and lacks, especially inability to take in information and understand complex situations (all of them). We've seen that many times over, such as when Putin trotted him out at Helsinki like his pet poodle.

Which is to say, I wouldn't be worried about stopping Trump for a moment if only the Republican leadership weren't busily using him and betraying their country to keep and grow their power. THEY're neither cowards nor weaklings, they have massive powers foreign and domestic supporting them, and they're the ones I fear and the ones we have to stop.

[lagomorph777]

6. "Putin trotted him out at Helsinki like his pet poodle"

Like this giraffe:

[Hortensis]

11. :) To my mind that couch thing steals even that scene. nt

[smirkymonkey]

7. I don't think he even wants the job, it's just that now that he has it, he doesn't want to "lose".

He would want it if he could tailor it to his expectations, that is if he could spend the whole day sitting on a throne watching TV, tweeting, screaming at people on the phone, barking orders at people, eating fast food and drinking Diet Coke, playing golf, going to rallies with his adoring cult chanting his name.

In other words, he doesn't really want to be POTUS, he wants to be a brutal dictator who can harm and punish those who do not love or worship him.

[sdfernando]

8. but he already DOES most of these things

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spend the whole day sitting on a throne (gold plated toilet) watching TV (Faux News), tweeting, screaming at people on the phone, barking orders at people, eating fast food and drinking Diet Coke, playing golf, going to rallies with his adoring cult chanting his name.

Its the people around him (Stephen Miller, et. al) that we need to be watching.

[bdamomma]

10. There's that name again

Stephen Miller, he needs to be thrown out, and in front of a House Committee, we need to put the spotlight on him. All this immigration poison he is spreading.

[Hortensis]

13. Agree with all. Miller is scary, I suspect capable of anything.

Trump doesn't do all those things, but would if not stopped. He's constantly frustrated by limits on and threats to his power, frequently goes into rages at being thwarted, and is breaking every treaty and law he can get away with to eliminate them.

When someone like him admires Kim Jong Un's ability to terrify, imprison, torture, send to forced labor camps, and murder his 25 million people at will and wants "my people to sit up in attention" like his do, we should of course believe him. And his horse-whisperer Miller wants it perhaps just as much.

[Javaman]

9. so in other words...

if the orange asshole loses next years, he's going to nuke the world.

yeah, dark humor...very very very dark humor.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

12. A toddler with control of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, who has said, "If we have them,

why don't we use them?"

The next year and a half is going to be very dangerous for the people of Tehran.