I Was Wrong About Donald Trump But It’s Not My Fault

[corbe]

I Was Wrong About Donald Trump But It’s Not My Fault

By Steve Berman  |  October 23, 2016, 08:22am  |  @stevengberman



See, I believed, like most people who don’t know him well, that there are two Donald Trumps; the public one–“The Donald”–who appears in front of cameras, and the private one, let’s call him “Donnie,” who is the one people see in private. That’s the narrative so many people who’ve endorsed and supported Trump have offered.

But it’s a false narrative. There’s only one Trump, and he is deeply, profoundly damaged goods. I thought Trump could actually control his temperament and do what he claimed–become anything he wants. I thought he actually was playing a role for the TV cameras, like in “The Apprentice.”

Despite the fact that I have always believed he’d be a terrible president, I believed he was–not to mince words–sane.

But he’s not. I’m not talking in the clinical sense, and I cannot speak as a psychiatrist, because I’m not a psychiatrist. I’m talking in the “let’s have cup of coffee at Waffle House and wow Trump is insane, isn’t he?” sense.

Trump lacks the self-control to become “so presidential you people will be so bored.” He is incapable of doing it. As in “cannot.” No amount of coaching, prompting, begging, teleprompters, speech writers, or threats can make him do it, because he cannot.

There is in fact one Donald Trump, and the one we see on TV in “The Apprentice” is the same one on the debate stage insulting Jeb Bush, or calling Marco Rubio “Liddle Marco” (spelled L-I-D-D-L-E), or latching onto wacky conspiracy theories about Ted Cruz’s father. It’s the same Trump we saw in the debates with Hillary Clinton, and the same one we saw at the Alfred E. Smith charity dinner, behaving like he was 70-years-old going on four.

If I knew a person like that very well, I would more than encourage them not to run for president. I’d take active steps to prevent it.


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[Right_in_Virginia]

It's stunning that "little Marco" matters more to you @corbe than does this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHsZxJlxHYw

[Oceander]

It's stunning that "little Marco" matters more to you @corbe than does this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHsZxJlxHYw

It's stunning that being emotionally jacked off by Trump matters more to you than the facts or the future of this country, or the fact that the facts demonstrate that Trump is nothing more than a liberal con man.

It's stunning that you have willfully chosen to ignore the exchange between Clinton and Trump at the Al Smith dinner, where - as testified to by Cardinal Dolan - Trump and Clinton agreed that they should work together after the election.  Or are you going to tell me that Cardinal Dolan lied about what they said to each other while he was sitting in the middle?

[corbe]

   'Liddle Marco' quit mattering to me when he was swayed by Schumer and Durbin to Join the Gang of 8, He is Florida's problem now.

    Your Video about the Clinton's (which I didn't watch) would teach me nothing new about their abhorrent behavior and all the crap being flung at Trump is also not surprising to me.

    I Wrote-In Darrell Castle already so it'd probably save you some time to move on to someone that hasn't already Voted to try and convince them the New Reagan is Trump. 

[Suppressed]

Trump lacks the self-control to become “so presidential you people will be so bored.” He is incapable of doing it. As in “cannot.” No amount of coaching, prompting, begging, teleprompters, speech writers, or threats can make him do it, because he cannot.

That is the nature of an untreated mental illness such as his.

With treatment, he could perhaps learn to recognize the problem and learn to overcome it, at least somewhat.  But people who think he's being calculating, or alternatively, those who can't figure out why he does stupid things, are ignoring the fact that he's mentally ill.

[Right_in_Virginia]

It's stunning that being emotionally jacked off

Watch your words when you post to me.  You don't always need to sound like a pervert.

[Right_in_Virginia]

     Your Video about the Clinton's (which I didn't watch)

So why the hell should I care what you have to say about it?   

[corbe]

So why the hell should I care what you have to say about it?   

   Actually, @Right_in_Virginia, you shouldn't. 

   It's a Political Blog not a self induced morality/principles test.

[HonestJohn]

How could you not know?!?

It's been blindingly obvious from the moment he launched his campaign!

[txradioguy]

Watch your words when you post to me.  You don't always need to sound like a pervert.

It's just "locker room talk"...why are you offended?

[HonestJohn]

Watch your words when you post to me.  You don't always need to sound like a pervert.

So, would you rather be grabbed in the p(meow)y?  That's Trump talk, so it must be okay (with you).

Your hypocrisy is showing over vulgarisms.

[txradioguy]

So why the hell should I care what you have to say about it?   

Why do you keep posting it then?

[Night Hides Not]

Watch your words when you post to me.  You don't always need to sound like a pervert.

Although I agree we should raise the level of discourse, you've been silent when your fellow Friends of Trump threw out doozies of their own.

[Oceander]

Watch your words when you post to me.  You don't always need to sound like a pervert.

What, you'll support an actual sex offender, but you can't deal with a little metaphor?  You are seriously pathetic.

[Norm Lenhart]

What, you'll support an actual sex offender, but you can't deal with a little metaphor?  You are seriously pathetic.

Thats why they have a safe space. they can use all their circular BS and  'OK for me/not for thee" there amongst like 'minded' (loose use of 'mind' there) and it doesn't impact their FEEEEEELings. Out in the real world, they get offended when simple truths intrude on their virtual worlds.

[jmyrlefuller]

Watch your words when you post to me.  You don't always need to sound like a pervert.

Says the poster who supports a man whose idea of treating a woman right is to "grab her by the" nether regions and say she let him.

[Silver Pines]

It's just "locker room talk"...why are you offended?

@txradioguy

LOL!   

 

[geronl]

Anyone who did the barest research on Trump would know he is a POS

[ConstitutionRose]

Anyone who did the barest research on Trump would know he is a POS

Which makes you wonder why the GOP allowed him to run as a party candidate.

[txradioguy]

Which makes you wonder why the GOP allowed him to run as a party candidate.

Progressives and RINO's both have a common enemy...Conservative Republicans.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.  Trump is the perfect candidate to achieve the goals of both the RINO's and the Progressives.

[AllThatJazzZ]

It's just "locker room talk"...why are you offended?

That's gonna leave a mark! 

[XenaLee]

So why the hell should I care what you have to say about it?   

Then again.... if you really didn't 'care' what others have to say.....

you wouldn't always be instructing/dictating to others on what to say or what not to say. 

Just sayin.....

[XenaLee]

It's just "locker room talk"...why are you offended?

Much like the double-standard Democrats.....the Trumpocrats are only A-OK with locker room talk if it's coming from their little pawed orange god.   It's typical.

[Rivergirl]

Living in NJ, we all knew all there was to know about Donald Trump and none of it was good.

[HonestJohn]

Which makes you wonder why the GOP allowed him to run as a party candidate.

He threatened to run as an independent.  The GOP remembered how Ross Perot split the GOP vote in 1992 and thought that, if they co-opted Trump into the Republican primaries, one of their 17 candidates would beat him.  That would have folded the Trump voter back into the GOP by the end of the primaries and stopped another Perot-like split.

They did not expect Trump to beat out their candidates.