Our leaders bring with them the sum-total of who they are. Donald Trump is someone who suffers from various emotional issues, issues that he brings with him into the Oval Office. To begin with he does not tell the truth and is considered a pathological liar. The 2021 election was stolen from him when, in fact he lost the election. He still asserts this misinformation to this day.
He is delusional in his view of himself. He considers himself to be like Jesus or Nelson Mandela. He often has ideas and fails to see the cause-and-effect relationship between his idea and what he needs to do to bring his idea to fruition. He asserted that Mexico would build the border wall and pay for it. Mexico did not pay for the wall that Trump wanted them to build.
He behaves like a racist. He has distain for immigrants and wants immigrants to be rounded up and shipped out of the country. This is another example of his not considering the cause-and-effect relationship between his thoughts and his solutions to deal with an issue. IF he deports immigrants who will plant the crops, work in the vineyards, provide necessary services for restaurants, provide medical care for the sick or serve as teacher aides in the school, provide trained skills in the building trades? And these individuals pay taxes. What would we do with the void that his plan to deport immigrants would leave in our communities?
When he was President, wanted to stop the reports about the spread of the COVID virus. His solution was to stop testing for COVID so that the statistics would be reduced. He also suggested that to overcome COVID, people should drink bleach. His cognitive processing often appears to be incoherent as is his expression of his thoughts.
He is insecure and suspicious of others and feels and demands total loyalty from those who work with him. He wants those who work with him to believe that the 2021 election was stolen as a precondition to be on his staff in any capacity.
He has been deemed to be a sociopath by the mental health community. This means that he disregards other peoples’ needs and feelings. He is often vulgar in his description of others who he dislikes; ‘who would vote for a face like that?’ He has shown himself to regard women as eye candy and as objects for sexual pleasure. One only need listen to the Access Hollywood Tapes to get a picture of his views of women.
He is also a staunch supporter of the White Male Christian group, the Oath Keepers, and the Proud Boys. He supports and believes in the use of violence in relation to those who are antagonistic to his will and ways. Using executive orders, he pardoned those who participated in the violent attempt to disrupt and overturn the peaceful transition of power from his administration to the Biden Administration.
He loves to create shock and awe. He thrives on destroying programs and institutional ways of providing necessary services to citizens. He is interested in cutting back on veteran’s services, enforcing hiring freezes on trained medical staff. He wants to cut back on FEMA which provides monetary support to communities that have been impacted by natural disasters. He is even considering eliminating FEMA altogether and having the states take care of their own natural disasters.
Trumps emotional illness is infecting our country. His desire is to destroy the essence of what America is made of. He thrives on being the center of attention and will say things that are not true or behave in ways that that are deliberately provocative. As was mentioned previously his thought process and expressing of himself is often incoherent. This is who we have residing in the Oval Office, today.
What do we need to do to begin to relate to this flawed, limited human being? His use of retaliation intimidates those who would stand up to him. Our need is to stand by what is true for us and express that truth to anyone who tries to control us by intimidation. Trump is the man child who craves to have limits set for him. Our need is to express our truth and by doing so, we set our limits to all whose path we cross in life.
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