Developmental age of Trump: your best guess ? Mine is TEN

[steve2470]

Developmental age = the age at which he stopped growing emotionally

as opposed to his chronological age, which is 70.

My best guess is, hmm..... 10 ? Am I being too generous ? What do you think ?

[appleannie1943]

1. Maybe an immature 10 that has never been disciplined or told "no".

[Phentex]

9. I'll go with this...

I was going to say 8 or 9 but an immature 10 is good

[Afromania]

2. maybe 13 or 14

spoiled rotten with no sense of others that is.

[dalton99a]

3. Middle school

[emulatorloo]

4. As I remember, 10 year-olds are past having tantrums

[kimbutgar]

5. At 10 they start realizing being cruel and mean can be fun

I see it in some kids when I substitute teach, when you call them out they don't get remorseful but emboldened.

[unblock]

6. early teens, though he's deteriorated in some areas.

the comparisons to childhood are overdone and a bit misplaced in benedict donald's case.

as others have noted elsewhere, there are many ways likening him to a child fails.

he lacks a child's joy, inquisitiveness, ability to learn, compassion, etc.

i don't think he'd have been able to pull off his whole career of con jobs without the emotional maturity of at least a teenager. you have to be aware of other peoples' emotions and how to manipulate them.

that said, he's clearly in mental decline in several areas, and he definitely lacks the emotional maturity to cope with this well, hence the tantrums. so he's probably reverted in practice to the emotional maturity of a 5-year old, but mostly because his present circumstances are playing to his weaknesses.

[kwassa]

8. I don't think he is in decline, he has always been this way.

Tony Schwartz had a great article in the WaPo yesterday about his experience of writing "Art of the Deal" with Trump 30 years ago. Nothing has changed. Trump was like this back then.

[unblock]

11. his communication has definitely deteriorated

he was far more fluent in his younger days. spoke quickly and in complete sentences, with a decent vocabulary.
he is much slower, uses general words, filler words, speaks in disjointed, halting phrases, etc. his communication is very much limited to base emotional reactions and regurgitation of catch-phrases.

his frustration level appears to have increased, partly due to this decline in other areas and partly due to the fact that he's now in much less familiar territory, in circumstances he can't control as easily as when he was boss of essentially a sole proprietorship.

what i'll agree hasn't changed is that he's always been an *sshole, a bigot, a sexist, a narcissist, etc.

[imanamerican63]

7. Who said he has any development?

Just like the GOP, No, development HERE!

[meow2u3]

10. I'd say his emotional age is about 2

Even 4-year-olds don't throw public temper tantrums when they don't get their way. Even 3-year-olds have begun learning to share and consider others.
The Sunkist Psycho has learned neither.

[athena]

12. Three or four. Remember, he's a narcissist.

Children go through a narcissistic phase during which they don't understand that everyone else is exactly as conscious as they are. I believe that by age five, they have outgrown this stage. Psychologically, Trump is a four-year old who looks like an adult but is not. Think about all his bragging about his electoral college victory, his lying even when he should realize how easily he'll get caught, and his manipulation of others. It's scary but it's true. He's a four-year-old.

[Runningdawg]

13. I don't have kids

but I have heard they go through a phase when they like to play with their own poop? That age seems about right.