O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant! . . .
O come, let us adore Him
O come, let us adore Him
O come, let us adore Him
Traditional song, "O come all ye faithful"
By now most readers of this blog will have seen this:
Trump claims he thought it was simply a depiction of a compassionate president doing Red Cross rescue. Possibly a Dr. Trump, improbably wearing a robe, and for some reason holding fire in the palm of his left hand, while doing a hand-on-forehead test to check for a fever.
It was a laughable story. No one can look at this image and fail to see that it is an image of Trump acting as Jesus in a modern war setting. Trump must have. The important thing to consider is that Trump failed to recognize the peril, failed to see it was dangerously inappropriate.
This is another incremental step in Trump's decline, another instance of the disinhibition that sometimes accompanies age-related decline.
This is part of a pattern that is crossing over from mere peccadillo-quirk into pathology. This isn't Trump being unpresidential. It is Trump failing to comprehend his circumstances, particularly as it relates to his narcissism. Anyone can see that the over-the-top flattery that Trump has his cabinet officers offer at meetings looks silly; Trump is so needy. Trump likes watching the competitive flattery game, grading cabinet members on who does it most fulsomely. The White House lets it be displayed to the public. Trump's pleasure in getting the symbols for other people's awards looks childish, but the White House gatekeepers allow the public to see it. Businesses bring him tribute gifts of gold (but not yet frankincense and myrrh) from which he takes obvious pleasure. We see that, too.
Trump is losing it. I saw it from time to time in brokerage clients and family members as I watched them age. At some point, I needed to suggest -- gently -- that a brokerage client bring on a trusted adult to be a "co-pilot," as I put it, on their accounts. My father has good judgement his entire 92-plus years, except when it came to when to when to stop driving. But Dad was a superb cribbage player and story-teller; he was fully competent for the life he lived. He did not have the nuclear launch codes.
Readers will get a better sense of Trump's cocoon of fawning and pandering if they watch as much as they can of this three-minute video. Trump's spiritual advisor, without irony, treats Trump as God's own anointed savior, an object of adoration here on Earth. The video had been posted on the official White House website, but, like the image of Trump-Jesus, it has been taken down. The White House staff is doing what it can to protect Trump from revealing his condition. Too late, but they see what Trump no longer can.
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5 comments:
There's a good chance he won't make it to 2028. Either a mental decline or physical. Then Vance takes over. In the meantime, we get the crazy shit.
It’s been pretty obvious for a while as I have written in this blog previously. I think Trump fancies himself as Christ like so he posted the picture. The North Korea leader as well as Egyptian pharaohs were happy to suggest they were God. I think the country will be forced to take away his car keys before the end of his term as his dementia will only become worse as he becomes even more dangerous. Will the military refuse crazy orders? Will Republicans see what is obvious to the world.
What a bizarre and repulsive image. And the middle figure, on top in the sky? It looks like some sort of demon descending.
It isn’t just age-related decline we’re observing. He’s obviously demented, but he’s also experiencing “narcissistic collapse,” a complication faced by narcissists when their delusions of grandeur crash into reality, as Trump’s have in Iran. He thrives on ratings and his have never been lower, yet a significant percentage of the electorate remain firmly entrenched in his cult, the Trumplickin’ Party. What we have here is a serious case of mass insanity. “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.”
Good, keep pointing out the degeneracy, but don't lose sight of the real problem; the Republican party and specifically our own representatives who need to be voted out!
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