Comment on Fund managers worry about Trump’s mental state amid tariff debacle
sj_zero 1 week ago
To be honest, I am so sick and tired of all these articles...
If you're too stupid to understand the guys way of thinking don't advertise it like you're proud of it. It isn't because it is impossible to understand what he's doing, it's because you just haven't wrapped your head around it.
You don't even have to agree with what he's doing. It's perfectly reasonable to take a look at what someone is trying to do and decide that you don't like it even if it has an internal logic to it, but it isn't some big own on the guy that you don't understand what he's doing.
And to preempt anyone going "well then what's he doing"? The same thing he's been doing since the '80s! It's called the big ask. Start off by asking for something that no one is going to agree to, then when everyone freaks out you pull back a little bit and everyone breathes aside relief not realizing that you just took more territory than they would have originally agreed to. Again, you can disagree with the strategy, but it's perfectly rational to do.
I mean that's even what he was doing with the 51st state nonsense. He asked for the entire country to be annexed, and then he's eventually going to settle for some favorable trade terms. Same with annexing the panama canal. It becomes so routine that the only reason that people aren't realizing what it is is that it is politically expedient to pretend that you don't understand the very basic tactics that he's using. If you can't figure it out by now, that's not something to brag about, that's something to be ashamed of. You've seen this movie so many times and you don't know that the guy with the knife is going to stab the pretty girl who just had sex, it means you're stupid!
EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sure, that’s what Trump is doing - but does he even realize it?
A toddler learning to walk gets a lot of attention from his parents when he tries to stick a fork in an outlet.
If that Toddler wants more attention, they’ll do it again and again without ever realizing how close to being electrocuted they are. Eventually that Toddler grows up learning all the wrong lessons, and if they come from enough money they never suffer or learn the consequences for acting that way. That Toddler, now adult, still craves negative attention from adults, and acts like an insufferable asshole to get it, grabbing people by their genitals, doing drugs, and never getting punished because of their parents wealth.
Do they know they’re an insufferable asshole? Do they know their actions - done purely for attention - have a bigger impact on those around them?
I don’t think they do.
They are too emotionally underdeveloped and intellectually stunted to ever understand their own motivations.
When it comes to Trump, I don’t think there’s a chance I hell he knows he’s even doing his “big ask” strategy. I think he’s at the mental capacity of a toddler doing to the world what worked for him to get attention from his deranged parents.
He’d ask them for big things, like an entire business he can run to get their respect, then settle for a small loan or something else he’d never get from them otherwise because his parents hated and mocked him for taking their handouts instead of working on anything himself.
He’s a toddler doing what worked for him to get his parents attention on a national scale, and I sincerely doubt he even understands his compulsion to behave that way.