It is being reported that Trump is considering releasing the surveillance tapes from the period covering the time the FBI was at Mar a Lago executing the search warrant. If he does this, and he probably will, it is sure to inflame his well-armed based. There were already reports of armed Trump idiots parading in front of the FBI office in Phoenix. Surely, if the tape is released it will be played and replayed on all conservative and right wind media outlets with the sole purpose of stirring things up regardless of what they say the stated intent is. It would essentially be like Trump’s speech before the march on the Capitol.
Will all of this provoke another Jan. 6th or at least attacks on FBI and other government officials? It very well could. Trump instigated the attack of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th and then sat on his butt while his supporters violently attacked police officers and the Capitol, all the while shouting, “Hang Mike Pence.” If there is violence, any blood shed will be the sole responsibility of Trump, just like the blood spilled during the January 6th insurrection. Does Trump care – absolutely not! The man has no soul.
I finished the article in The Atlantic about the Zero Tolerance policy implemented by the Trump administration that resulted in at least 4,000 children being separated from their families. Some have still not been reunited. The article documents unending examples of blatant incompetence but worse yet, profiles people who were absolutely heartless in the implementation of the policy supported by Trump which resulted in a huge disaster of human suffering and government waste. There is great fear amongst many of the people who lived through this very sad moment in American history that, short of Congressional action, if Trump returns to the White House, it will be done all over again because that’s what Trump wants. Again, the man has no soul.
It is truly depressing for me when I think of all of the people who have bought into the ‘Make American Great’ nonsense when the simple fact is, Donald J. Trump does not give one whit about America. Like I said, he is a soulless man who has zero empathy for anyone. It has been written multiple times about Trump’s narcissism. Lack of empathy is one of the characteristics of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).
I have written about this before a long time ago, but perhaps its time for a reminder. The characteristics of someone suffering from NPD are1:
- Grandiose Sense of Self-Importance
- Preoccupation of fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love
- Belief that he or she is special and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutions
- Need for excessive admiration
- Sense of entitlement
- Interpersonally exploitative behavior (i.e., use other people as tools)
- Lack of empathy
- Envy or others or belief that others are envious of him or her
- Demonstration of arrogant and haughty behaviors of attitudes
- Identity (what others think of you)
- Self-direction (driven by desire to prove they are better than others)
- Intimacy (only able to develop superficial relationships)
If Trump doesn’t check all of these boxes, I don’t know who does.
The sooner all of the Trumplicans understand that Trump is not interested in Making America Great, he is simply interested in Making Trump Great and whatever the cost in human lives, undermining Democracy, or anything else, he is willing to pay. The question is, are the majority of Americans really willing to pay the price for the dubious privilege of kneeling at Trump’s feet and living under Trump’s thumb? I certainly am not.
Just for curiosity, I Googled ‘Famous People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder’ and the first two people on the list were Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. I found another list that had Joseph Mengele (former Nazi who was known as the Angel of Death). There were also a bunch of celebrities, but they can’t do much damage to an entire country. Hitler, Stalin, Mengele and Trump? A different story.
All signs point to the fact that Trump should never be near the levers of power again. All the signs were probably there for Hitler and Stalin as well – and look what happened. That should scare the crap out of you! Unfortunately, just like what happened in Germany and Russia with Hitler and Stalin, by the time people realize how dangerous a man Trump is, it will be too late.