Our Nation’s history reveals a mixed experience of good, and not-so-good, Presidential leadership, One might compare the laudable Presidential services of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklyn Roosevelt, and more recently,of Barack Obama, with the less-than-desirable service of Presidents, Andrew Jackson or Richard Nixon; however, there exists no valid empirical comparison with the bizarre, nightmarish record of the persona of President Donald Trump.
We had endeavored for a considerable period to comprehend Trump’s nuanced persona. whose single term of twice-impeached Presidency, evinced an egoistic incapability, and proclivity to criminality but, nevertheless persists as a hazardous, highly toxic threat to the endurance of our Republican Democracy.
Donald Trump’s singular record in office presented a singularly inept misrule and a shockingly demonstrated perverse persona, whose distorted perception challenges empirical analysis. We may have in past writings, commented sufficiently on his bizarre and neurotic egocentrism, one, manifested in the perverse exclusion of empirical reality from consideration, an unabashed incompetency, and a demonstrated lack of moral compass,. At the risk of redundancy, we find ourselves unable to resist another challenging essay at such comprehension; our present attempt, founded in our non-profession. presumed, account of his errant development and later maturation.
In such challenging endeavor, two French expressions appear to be descriptively utilitarian:viz., “mauvais enfant,” and “infant terrible.” To simply define these closely related appellations, one might visualize an obnoxious child, who maintains a combination of an unencumbered and unrestrainable ego, adamantly unrestrained by his anarchistic behavioral resolve, in a limitless and neurotic drive for constante recognition and adored celebrity.
We have,permissibly presumed, Donald Trump’s childhood, as evincing early and grossly distorted traits of self-presumed celebrity and a consequent, unrequitable need for adoration; later developing into an adult-age demonstrated need for unlimited adulation (“cult worship”) regarding his distorted perceptions and singular anti-societal behavior. Our protagonist’s innate and insatiable need for attention and adoration may be illustrated by the anecdotal example of the young child who tactically and painfully, kicks his sitting mother in the shins, despite the expectation of a punitive response, yet prioritizing his desperate, neurotic need for personal attention. By performing in the latter, analogous style, Trump can in garnering such needed attention, delude himself into believing that he is successful (“a winner”), but, each such neurotic success is experienced only temporarily,.
Such lifelong, all-consuming egocentric preoccupation with his neurotic agenda has, predictably, led to Presidential failures and shameful disgrace to the Nation, internationally. and domestically. In the category of international malpractice, for example, because of his personal neurotic preoccupations, and his consequent indifference to the National interest, he has befriended autocratic leaders like Putin and other tyrannical American enemies in comforting exchange for their tactical adoration, In said personal endeavors, he has threatened Ukraine and the existence of NATO, the latter constituting the most essential peacekeeping force since the end of the Second World, withdrew from the Paris Treaty on the environment, castigated immigrants, and separated their families, and in general so comported himself, (because of his self-absorbed, infantile egomania ) to be an international laughingstock. A small, but representative sample of his domestic catastrophes might include, his gross negligence during the pandemic, resulting in tens of thousands of unnecessary American mortalities, his elimination of regulatory protections, his bigotry against, and abuse of women, ultimately resulting in a reversal of their right to abortion (with the necessary assistance of certain Justices of SCOTUS, appointed by him, his support of Christian White Nationalists, not to mention his election denial and sponsorship of an insurrection against the American Government. Is it necessary to add to this dumpster-full sample of disgrace, his two Congressional impeachments, his criminal convictions and a full cornucopia of his criminal indictments?
In support of our thematic,. neurotic, “enfant terrible,” or “mauvais enfant,” Trump, obviously unabashed, and with the encouragement of his adoring MAGA cult, continues, at age 71 to reprise his insatiable, lifelong infantile aspiration for special attention and demonstrated adoration. By his empirical acts and pronouncements, we are obliged to conclude that Trump is hampered by his neurotic drive for attention and perceived love, which has persevered in his corpulent maturity, orange-dyed hair, and attainment of 71 years of age.
We are obliged, by our dedicated principles of candor, to admit that Donald J. Trump has, indeed, been enormously successful in his efforts to attract personal attention through T.V. news and otherwise. His visage, red tie, and orange-dyed hair have proven to be irresistible to the public view, albeit with the analogous aesthetic and irresistible impetus of an unsuccessful attempt to avoid looking at roadkill.
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