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douglas9

(4,833 posts)
Sat Jun 14, 2025, 12:53 PM Yesterday

Born loser: Inside Donald Trump's troubled life

I must admit, if Trump wasn't such a power-hungry demagogue, a danger to democracy, a sexual predator, racist, sociopath, pathological liar, bully, and impulsive and unstable megalomaniac, I might feel sorry for him.

He has no real friends, just sycophants. All his relationships are transactions, including with his three wives and his children. When people are no longer useful to him—wives, lawyers, advisors, Cabinet members—he discards them.

His current wife Melania is transactional, too. She married him for his money. She obviously doesn't love or respect him and she occasionally displays her disdain for him in public. She didn’t even campaign for him last year, except to make a few public appearances.

Trump hardly ever laughs. He has an almost-constant angry scowl on his face. To Trump, the world is a dark and foreboding place, where, like him, people are consumed by greed and lust. He relies on money and intimidation to get what he wants because he has no capacity for empathy or love—or any belief that people can be motivated by idealism and compassion.

Trump grew up in a world of vast privilege, but that doesn't mean that he wasn't emotionally wounded.


https://www.alternet.org/trump-is-a-loser/

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Born loser: Inside Donald Trump's troubled life (Original Post) douglas9 Yesterday OP
And so... GiqueCee Yesterday #1

GiqueCee

(2,353 posts)
1. And so...
Sat Jun 14, 2025, 01:05 PM
Yesterday

... in his fevered brainpan, a life of unbridled privilege entitles him to take all his juvenile grievances and inchoate resentments out on the rest of us. His insufferable arrogance and overinflated ego blind him to the irrefutable fact that this is going to end badly for him, though probably not as badly as he deserves.
I'm only a year younger than Trumpleforeskin, but I hope I live long enough to piss on his fuckin' grave.

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