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.
“When he goes after people you hate.. you kind of like it.”
Oh they frigging LOVED it.
Cruz would be battling against Perry for 4th place behind Bush, Walker, and Rubio, if Trump wasn’t here.
About 20 years older than Urkel and a hell of a lot more innocent than Cankles
... 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.
Here is the fact: Hardcore trumpees are blinded by a progressive no nothing.
My sister never comes to FR anymore because it a one-sided Cruz bashing, protecting trump fest that is disgusting and repelling. Many have left here for the same reason!
FR is dissolving. There isn’t debate here. It is mob rule and those who drank the koolaid care nothing about truth, only about lying and trashing all who disagree with their Dear Leader who is as worthy as Kim un-Jong.
“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.’
Well! Well! Well!
In the words of Trump “nobody likes you”.
How sane is teddy and his father believing teddy is the Seventh King?
Kelly disqualified herself after the first debate. She was unprofessional and violated journalistic standards, if there are such a thing. She should have recused herself from this debate to avoid even the hint of partisanship. She owed that to Fox.
Trump is smart enough to understand that this is a trap. This debate wasn't even part of the original schedule. It is a setup between Fox and Google. The founders of Google endorsed Obama in both elections. The are open borders and amnesty supporters. Murdoch is part of this cabal. They use of YouTube videos featuring an openly anti-Trump Muslim and a Mexican immigrant are just ambush journalism. Trump outsmarted them again.
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I’ll peg him around “13”, because that would account for his fascination with bottle blonde bimbos too.
Kind of a hard question but I can guarantee Trump doesn’t have to take off even one shoe to show you how old he is emotionally.
Trump can show you how old he is emotionally with one hand behind his back.
Trump won’t even need to use his thumb and pinky to show you how old he is emotionally.
OH! Donald told me to tell you “nobody likes you”.
Trump is so smart he could have a debate with himself on all of the weird ideas he held just a couple of years ago. Now, I know his supporters will say that those were childish indiscretions, which would prove the point of the article you posted. Meanwhile, he’s now seeking a safety zone, like a liberal college kid, to avoid the big meanie, Megyn Kelly.
lol Donald Trump (Realtor-NYC)
To me, it sounds more like his left...
Donald Trump calls Union Leader publisher a ‘lowlife’
Trump throws a tantrum each and every time someone is slightly critical of him. It is an Achilles heel and extremely dangerous.
http://m.wmur.com/politics/exclusive-donald-trump-calls-union-leader-publisher-a-lowlife/37161026
Daily Trump hit piece by Ed Straker right on time. LOL!
No more or less older than Paris Hilton.
Well you comparison lacks in substance.
Willard lost because A) he couldn’t respond to he 47% freeloader comment with any credible rebuttal and B) he was to polite and let Candy walk all over him in the debate.
If he really believed in what he was saying he should have stood his ground. He caved. He LET Crowley own him.
That is a whole lot different than throwing a temper tantrum and proclaiming those mean ole people are not treating me fair so I am taking my marbles and going home.
He’s coming unhinged just like Ross Perot did when the Clintons used him to take out H. Bush and bubba waltzed into the White House.
Emulated? Really?
Yeah, Ed Straker is a “dootie head”!
Is that your age?
I agree with the author as well. I want to hear Donald clearly articulate his positions on policy matters. And his standing in the polls stuff is tiresome. We can read. I know Donald is smart. Now I want him to sound smart.
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