The View from the Titanic
The grievous problem is that he is never wrong.
And when he is, which is virtually always, he admits nothing.
So what does Donald Trump, a man with absolute tunnel vision, do when not only is the rest of the world screaming at him but America is begging him to turn the Titanic around because there is an iceberg directly in our path?
In the face of the 2020 election defeat, Mr. Trump spent four years telling anyone and everyone the election was rigged. After civil and criminal verdicts were rendered against him, he showed no contrition but loudly and continuously complained that the judge, the jury, and the planet of the lefty, liberal apes were out to get him.
Donald Trump did not end up in jail, broke, broken, ridiculed and humiliated. Rather, he found himself back on the top of the heap this past November.
So there has been only one lesson learned by him: never blink.
We are now faced with a cataclysmic series of events. This country ripped apart by Mr. Trump's war on the foundations of our society. But even more than that, he has kicked sand in the face of every single nation on the planet. A bully, daring them to fight back. Telling them he was the new sheriff in their town. In everyone's town.
Their universal unequivocal response has sent our stock market, and markets around the globe into a tailspin. And the reaction of our provocateur in chief? As you would expect.
So we find ourselves in the gunfight at OK Corral. Our leader shooting off his mouth and shooting us in the foot with his lunacy.
Who in this country will stand up to Mr. Trump, shake the hubris and stupidity out of him, make him do what he must to try to save all of us from watching our retirement plans slam into the iceberg and instead map a prudent and reasoned course until we can step safely onto the shore?
If history be our guide, the next sight we witness will be Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the icy waters, trying to stay afloat. We will surely follow thereafter. Our life jacket in tatters.
Donald Trump, the Master of disaster. None of it his fault.
An astute and, I believe, wholly accurate observation from Jennifer
Yes. That he is never wrong, however, is not his only problem. His malignant narcissism includes another feature, sadism=enjoyment of cruelty to others. Those of us in mental health who have been shouting "malignant narcissist" since 2016 (and whose warnings were largely ignored) have seen his enjoyment of cruelty to others as an ominous feature of his psychopathology. Some expert clinicians see this cruelty feature as prominent to the diagnosis. In light of his sadism we can't assume that every blunder he makes is simply a product of his stupidity, coupled with narcissistic pride in having to be right. There's that, and then there's also his delight in creating chaos and suffering.