Donald Trumpās debate performance was far worse than even his inner circle anticipated.
While Donald Trumpās team is publicly pushing a postdebate victory lap, many in his camp were privately disappointed in the Republican candidateās performance on Tuesday.
CNNās Kaitlan CollinsĀ reportedĀ Wednesday night that several Trump insiders were āstunnedā by his poor performance and byĀ just how easily he fellĀ for all of Kamala HarrisāsĀ attempts to provoke him.
āIām told that as soon as Donald Trump exited that debate stage, he immediately began quizzing those waiting in his viewing room about how the last 90 minutes had gone,ā said Collins. āWhile several people praised him to his face, telling him they did a great job, thatās not what a lot of them are saying privately today.
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Apparently, all that practice with members of his team, such as former Hawaii RepresentativeĀ Tulsi Gabbard, had ultimately amounted to very little when it came time to debate.
Considering his rapidly deteriorating mental faculties and the fact thatās heās surrounded himself with yesmen; he probably really believes that he did well in that debate.
A person like this does not have inner reflection the way youāre imagining. I vouchsafe this fact to you: he sought external validation immediately, real and imagined, and then moved on to the next pissing contest without ever thinking genuinely about his choices leading up to that display
Spot on. Iāve read 10,000 comments regarding Trump that miss the most basic aspect of the man: Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Everything he says or does flows from this.
I donāt mean narcissist in the way most people sling the word around, I mean the actual mental illness. People slap that title on anyone selfish, lying or bullying. No, words have meaning.
No he doesnāt have any sort of internal reflection. My mother suffered NPD, I can tell you all about it. She didnāt have the mental space to consider, āAm I wrong?ā. Such thoughts were literally impossible, her brain could not work that way. In the 50-years I knew that woman I never heard her admit fault or apologize. Not once. Thatās pretty stunning if you think on it a few. And Trump makes mom look positively of sound mind!
Nothing the man says or does surprises me, yet people continue to be appalled. We keep trying view his thought processes through the lens of our own. Nah. That dog donāt hunt.
Nmom kid here too, youāre spot on. Itās actually fascinating if you forget the horrors. Like for example no empathy, and not like very very very low (hi dad!) empathy, but totally devoid of it. Just ācannot computeā level.
Hope youāre doing fine btw!
I agree. Nmom kid here. I thought she didnāt have a concept of ātruthā. To her, every statement was equally valid as long as it was useful to her. Just complete and total lack of a consistent worldview.
Iām not entirely sure he doesnāt stew on this.
Hitler, famously, obsessed over negative news coverage/press about him. Even to the point where he threatened violence/war with New York if they didnāt redact a column about him being a wannabe dictator.
Trump is the same kind of narcissist Hitler was, and gets similarly obsessed with negative press about him.
I agree that I doubt heās reflecting on this, but heās absolutely aware the rest of the world thinks he screwed up and thatās why he thinks theyāre lying. Because everyone else around him says he won, so how could, literally every news agency, including Fox Entertainment ānewsā, say Kamala beat him?
But he is absolutely pissed and stewing in his own piss right now at all the negative coverage after his debate performance.
There is one exception to the āTrump hates negative pressā that Iād like to note. When Dr. Fauci was called to meet with Trump after he corrected him on live TV about drinking bleach, he found Trump in his office saying āMy god these ratings are amazing, theyāre better than cableā. Oddly enough sometimes Trump sees any news is good news so long as heās the main focus.
The times Iāve seen him really go off is when the news cycle stops paying attention to him.
Yep.
Isnāt it crazy how common it now is to understand and converse with people about the specifics of an otherwise rare personality disorder?
TIL
Oh yeah. That was a very nice choice of words.
A cromulent lexical affixation.
Iām sure he doesnāt even care that people are mocking him about it, the fact that everybody is talking about āconcepts of a planā and ātheyāre eating the catsā is still a victory in his mind. Good attention or bad attention doesnāt matter, attention for the sake of attention is the only thing he cares about. Nobody is really talking about anything specific Harris said or did, she didnāt really have any really breakout moments that I can recall after having watched it, it was just Trump being a jackass and saying dumb shit.