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.