The less-than-genial, tight-lipped Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, referring to Donald J. Trump, as reported. stated: “He is the worst person I ever met in my life.” Canada’s Prime Minister, Carney, publicly declared… “Trump has destroyed the World Order.”
For quite some time, we had unsuccessfully sought some conceivable answer to the intriguing question of Trump’s singularly nuanced persona and motivation. However, we have recently come to affirm our earliest thematic caricature of Donald J. Trump, as a life-long veritable “enfant terrible,” one who would, expectedly, kick his mother in the shins to neurotically gain her exclusive attention. Despite his awareness of its predictable retribution, the irresistible lust for childish personal attention overriding all other considerations. We are now confident that our early caricatured analogy has analogical merit in understanding Donald Trump’s systematic motivation.
In our considered view, contrary to Trump’s ostensible portrayal of himself as a confident and celebrated leader, he suffers from a neurotically insatiable appetite for acceptance and approval, with the possibility of success analogous to the ultimate inability to fill a wooden bucket rife with leaks at its bottom. Like the Grecian mythological Tantalus, the desired grapes remain, eternally “out of reach.”
Neither arrogantly overriding the Nation’s constitution and rule of law, unilaterally declaring war, organizing a private, masked army to arrest and make the lives of Hispanic Americans unbearable, aggressively employing his misunderstanding of tariffs to purportedly intimidate other trading nations, nor arbitrary elimination of the utilitarian Federal Civil Service, the gauche act of gilding of the Nation’s White House, notably, at a time when 40% of the Nation is living, patcheck to paycheck, his directed demolition of its historical “East Wing,” the arrogant and improper placement of his name on the Nation’s venerated cultural Centers, the romancing of foreign autocrats, suicidal attacks on NATO, aggrandizing threats to take over foreign sovereign nations, like Greenland and our good neighbor, Canada, his asserted intimidation of our Nation’s institutions of Higher Education, and Cultural Centers, demands for the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and senseless intimidation of Panama, his autocratic elimination of funding to National Educationa Radio and Television, nor his bizarre assertion of entitlement to the Nobel Prize, has sufficed to assuage his insecure and eternally frustrated need for admiration. The law of gravity seems bent on leaking all of the watery substance of his desperate acts through the eternally present leakholes in his empirical bucket.
We have come to the empirically based realization that, to the exclusion of other conceivably laudable aspirations, such as a sense of competent achievement, moral reverence, honor, and recognizedly wise mature judgment, contrastingly Trump’s desperately nuanced thirst for general approval as a “winner” has been the singular North Star in his lifelong misdirected voyage to the land of perceived potential sainthood or reverential honor. The more impure water added to the leaky bucket of his neurotically monomaniacal need, the more leaky his biographical bucket.
The “leaky wooden bucket” analogy, we have, at last, come to realize, is the dynamic motivation for his insatiable egocentrism and the systemic attribution for his dystopian behavior. Regardless of his asserted bravado and vociferous pretension, the underlying dynamic energy source is fear and infantile insecurity.
We must be more selective in our acceptance of Presidential aspirants.
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