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.
“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.”
Older than the current President.
No more emotionally mature than a 4th grader.
I’d say somebody who hasn’t read “The Art of the Deal” has no idea what they are talking about when it comes to Trump, and are exhibiting the emotional and intellectual maturity of a two-year old.
https://www.google.com/search?q=art+of+the+deal+download&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
ROFL!!!
That isn’t saying much ...
Something is really wrong here. These “conservatives” who are coming out of the woodwork to attack Donald Trump are the same ones who have given Barack Obama a pass for the last eight years. What do they think? Donald is white so he is fair game? Well those days are over!
Does Ed have a problem with children?
Trump built a real estate empire.
Cruz can’t even get his bills passed in the senate.
I have come to the conclusion that his actions only seem childish when he is attacking someone you like.
When he goes after people you hate.. you kind of like it.
Face it. What conservative wouldn’t LOVE to call Bush or McCain or any other RINO sell out something like “dootie-head” on national TV.
It’s priceless.
But your right.
Pushing 70, but mentality of a sophomore.
About 50 years older than the infantile loser who wrote this tripe.
I’ve wondered if you and youre recently zotted friends over at the losers forum are actually adults yourselves, because your behavior is reminiscent of junior high.
I’d think an adult would tire of playing these games.
Seven.
I think his emotional age is what we used to call “the terrible two’s”.
Although Mr. Trump is leading in the polls and draws large crowds, it would be worth some time to check out his Liberty Approval Rating. I no longer see him as electable.
That is an very low bar. Every day is another Trumpster Fire with The Donald. His supporters excuse every denigrating remark he makes, whether it is about the media or the likes of Michelle Malkin.
He really lost me when he went off on Malkin, saying she was ‘born stupid’. What kind of person hurls insults like that at a person who, more than anyone perhaps, has spent the last 7 years uncovering and writing about the blatant corruption of the Obama Adminsitration in regards to Fast and Furious, IRS targeting, Benghaazi, etc?
FALSE STATEMENT.
high school or college?
If we’re taking a poll then put me down for seven. Maybe seven-and-a-half.
Not much of an argument when you consider he tries to uphold the Constitution while the Senate is filled with dems and rino dem enablers. And you are using an apples to oranges argument. I too very much dislike the area Trump has descended to, and it doesn't matter who he goes after. If I have to vote Rickles for President I will, but I hope he tones down his pie hole.
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