I do not believe this of Donald Trump.
However, I do believe he has an ego as big as Obama and as narcissistic.
He has made promises that he will not be able to achieve without bypassing Congress as Obama has done.
This is not a Constitutional republican form of Government that the Founders envisioned and this is why I cannot support him
I agree with you about the illegal executive orders.
But as far as the ego business, how do you think someone would be able to do what Trump has done, to go outside the system and start carrying the election away from the ones who thought they owned it, without a mighty self-confidence?
In the face of all the attacks against him, he has shown a strength of character and will seen in very few people.
Call it ego if you like. Everyone tosses that term around very freely, but when Freud coined the word, it simply meant the part of the human spirit that gets things done, as opposed to the id, which is pure desire, and the superego, which makes us aware of a higher purpose than getting what we want.
If you watch Trump, and I think many do not, you see that much of this so-called ego is either a restoring of people’s trust in qualities in him that have been torn down spitefully by others, or else tongue-in-cheek, as when he talks about how rich he is or how handsome. He never laughs at his own jokes and the audience doesn’t always fully appreciate them either, but there is less seriousness there, often, than is seen by the casual observer.
I know narcissists. No matter what you say to them, their next sentence always begins with “I.” They see absolutely everything in terms of themselves. You can say, “Look! That man in the blue sweater just got hit by that car!” and they’ll say, “I had a blue sweater one time . . .” They are trapped in a loop and can very rarely see outside themselves to the other person. This is not what we have in Donald Trump. He is task-oriented, not self-oriented.
Anyway, I hope we’ll see you on the Trump threads someday soon.