he's spent his whole life dealing with people who are susceptible to that shit
Now he's up against some supremely poised and measured people who can recognise and exploit his frailties in an instant
(, Fri 26 May 2017, 13:07, Share, Reply)
The general public?
Trump's problem is that for years he's lived in a bubble where everybody he's been around has blown smoke up his arse because it favoured them. If you want Trump to buy your property/invest in your business/fuck your daughter, you stroke his ego and make him feel like the most wonderful, intelligent and powerful being in the universe. Somewhere along the way, Trump lost all grip on reality and began to believe that all the flattery and empty gestures were genuine. He was never really in the public eye, so he was never directly scrutinised to any major degree.
Now that's all changed and the eyes of the world are on him, he's going I to fucking meltdown. He can't understand that people don't like him and that he can't have his own way, and it's completely boggling his mind.
He's like the AI in Wargames, except instead of realising that Noughts and Crosses is futile and can never be won, he's perpetually playing the game until he reaches a different conclusion and going a little more insane with every round.
(, Fri 26 May 2017, 13:10, Share, Reply)