"Don't look now, but while our best conservative is running a political campaign, Trump is leading a rebellion. Not as a liberal or a conservative politician, but as a successful red-blooded, can-do American capitalist.", Jim Robinson
Posted on 01/27/2016 8:18:44 AM PST by conservativejoy
What would you say Donald Trump's emotional age is? The reason I ask is because of his very questionable, even childish behavior. Everyone he disagrees with is called a "loser" or "stupid" or "failing". This is the language children use in criticizing one another. Instead of responding to each other's arguments, children just give blanket assertions that the others around them are bad. That is exactly what Trump does.
Ted Cruz may say he disagrees with Donald Trump's longstanding support for partial birth abortion, but Donald Trump will just respond that Ted Cruz is "dumb" or "unlikeable". It's no different from a child calling another child a dootie-head.
Another childish characteristic is excessive egotism. When Mitt Romney and John McCain were ahead in primary polls, they didn't spend 20 minutes of each rally reading off each and every poll. They touched on it and moved on. But Trump can't talk about it enough; he does it to such excess, that he is like a child at a swimming pool calling for his parents' attention, saying "Look at me, look at me!".
The same goes for Trump repeating how smart he is, because he transferred into Wharton college and has an uncle who taught at MIT (as if that has anything to do with anything). Ted Cruz is way smarter than Donald Trump, but somehow Cruz doesn't start every speech by saying, "I know I'm smart; I went to Harvard." There is something very insecure, very childlike, about a candidate who needs to repeat how smart he is over and over, like a teenager who is unsure of himself.
Children also get easily offended. Because Trump feels offended by Megyn Kelly, he is avoiding the next debate. That is not the behavior of a rational adult. Nor is going on twitter to "poll" his supporters to get their opinion. A rational adult is not afraid of tough questioning, even from biased questioners. But Trump is acting like a small child saying, "It's not fair! It's not fair!"
Even his policy prescriptions are childlike. When asked about Obamacare, he says he will replace it with something "great". The same goes for veteran's care and a whole host of issues. The solution will be "great", but unspecified. This is what fifth graders are chided for when they write essays without getting into specifics. But Trump is not writing a fifth grade essay, he is running for President. "Make America Great!" is as childish as it is unspecific. What, exactly, does Great mean? I suspect even Donald does not know.
The lack of filter on his thoughts, such as when he called people in Iowa "stupid", or when he "jokes" about shooting people on fifth avenue, is another example of childlike behavior. Children start to grow up when they learn not to say every thought that crosses their minds, and to express things in a way that doesn't offend others. Donald Trump never learned that.
In fact, Donald Trump has a child-like unawareness of how the things he says comes off as offensive. I would put his emotional age at about 10 years old, but not just an average 10 years old but a self-absorbed 10 year old, perhaps suffering from a form of autism. Part of the problem may be genetic (maybe he got it from that uncle who was an MIT professor!) but a lot of it, I think, probably originated from being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. When he's given hundreds of millions of dollars at a young age that's going to change a person. It short circuits a person's need to get along with others and makes them arrogant and unresponsive, like a child. That's Donald Trump.
Eleben. And a half.
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Look at what his own wives have said:
“The little boy that still wants attention”, said Marla Maples, his second wife.
“He wants to be noticed,” said Ivana Trump, wife No. 1, who recalled sending him into a fit of rage by skiing past him on a hill in Aspen, Colo. Mr. Trump stopped, took off his skis and walked off the trail. “He could not take it, that I could do something better than he did,” she said.
On his publicity seeking: “The show is Trump,” and it is sold-out performances everywhere,” he told Playboy.
On his feelings of superiority: “For the most part, you can’t respect people because most people aren’t worthy of respect,” he told Mr. D’Antonio.
Perhaps his most revealing statement applies to the time-honored virtue of self-reflection. Mr. Trump is not in favor of it.
“When you start studying yourself too deeply, you start seeing things that maybe you don’t want to see,” Mr. Trump once told Time. “And if there’s a rhyme and reason,” he continued, “people can figure you out, and once they can figure you out, you’re in big trouble.”
? Hate much? 10 hateful posts in an hour against TRUMP?
Just sayin
high school
"Don't look now, but while our best conservative is running a political campaign, Trump is leading a rebellion. Not as a liberal or a conservative politician, but as a successful red-blooded, can-do American capitalist.", Jim Robinson
I assume you would like Trump, the 4th grader’s, net worth?
If I were a political cartoonist ( and had the talent ) I would make a cartoon with Donald and the American people ( commoners like me ) standing on one side of a wall and the GOPE, GOP, Establishment, MSM, Democrats, gloBULList, ( basically everyone else ) on the other side.
Which statement:
1. Ted believes in the Constitution?
2. The Constitution says in order to be President you have to be born on American soil, or, if you are born abroad, both your parents have to be American citizens?
3. Ted believes the Constitution is a “living document”?
that’s what I thought.
I’ve read 7 of Trump’s books. Someone took his ramblings and tried to make something coherent out of each of them, but none were directly written by Trump.
Trump is more emotionally immature even than OBama, the ManChild
How emotionally mature is it to write an article questioning the emotion maturity of the leading presidential candidate?
You guys are not just a cult, you're a retarded cult. Who on earth would make a statement like that about any book? Let alone a book by a real estate guy?
Not a big Trump fan either, but I'll have to respectfully disagree. Trump may be overly aggressive at times, but Zero is just plain petulant. Like a 12-yo girl.
Check out symptoms of early Alzheimer's. Emotional instability is a biggie.
Maybe Trump’s family just seems happy because if they didn’t, Trump would cut off their cash flow.
A real estate guy who is single-handedly defeating the presstitute/establishment/crony-corporatist complex.
Check out Ted Cruz’s twitter and FB page for an example of really childish behavior.
https://twitter.com/tedcruz
https://www.facebook.com/tedcruzpage/
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