This is an eyebrow-raising possibility. Have a read. We live in bizarre times.
The president, I was told, “no longer trusts Israel. He now believes he was misled” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
More evidence for a theory I have about Trump.
I think that at least some significant number of Trump’s lies aren’t technically “lies,” in that they’re not conscious attempts to knowingly substitute a falsehood for the truth.
Rather, I think that he’s so egotistical and so narcissistic and so sociopathic that he’s effectively delusional - that his primary measure for the truth or falsity of a statement is simply whether or not he believes it.
In his private universe of Trump, whatever he believes to be true is and can only be true, and whatever he believes to be false is and can only be false.
For example, that (combined with the fact that he has the emotional maturity of a toddler) is why he takes it so personally when someone influential and/or close to him takes a position contrary to his. In his private universe, the fact that it’s contrary to his position means that it’s false, which means that they’re lying, which means that they’ve betrayed him.
It’s also why he initially believed Netanyahu - a corrupt and self-serving piece of shit that anybody with a working brain would recognize as a liar in mere seconds.
Netanyahu certainly got through to Trump in the easiest way possible, and the way that’s available to anyone dealing with a delusional narcissist - he simply told him what he wanted to hear.
Spot on. Trump’s behaviour needs to be viewed through the lens of narcissistic personality disorder combined with ADHD. All of his actions are in pursuit of narcissistic supply. We have a crisis of sane washing in mainstream media. He has no strategies. He acts based on his psychological needs. He doesn’t have beliefs, he has dispositional states. He is easily manipulated by those who can see that. This is why sucking up to him fails. Anyone who has lived with a narcissist can understand this.
This is even more evidenced by that interview where he said he had a psychological need to be president again. Like it was medicine for him.
[Netanyahu] simply told him what he wanted to hear.
AND, made sure the Israel lobby and wealthy connections paid up big to Trump’s last election campaign. Money is the other language that Trump understands.
Netanyahu… simply told him what he wanted to hear.
“Hey Donny. I’ve been trying to push this since a Bush or a Clinton were your only options for president. Unfortunately, nobody had the BIG, STRONG, MANLY HANDS to handle such a difficult scenario. But we finally have YOU! You big strong manly business GENIE-US, you.”
God i wish there really was a hell just so I could know for certain that this obtuse ghoul and all his soulless enablers would spend an eternity in unspeakable torment.
Since we cannot possibly know for certain I propose that we start making their lives hell now.
I honestly don’t care where he goes to after this. I want accountability for his crimes against humanity and the environment and future humanity, now.
But even more than that, I wish we would rise to the occasion and understand there will always be trumps, and that we need to harden our society and communities against these populist demagogues. That’s the only true solution.
Like when Jordan Klepper talks to the cult on the ground, don’t just make fun of them, talk about their feelings, their childhood, their traumas. What got them there?
It would bring much comfort but I can’t delude myself like that. I’ve tried.
So… If a bully empties his pockets for a fight he chose to start, that counts as a win, right?
He was right, I’m quite tired of all his “winning”
If this motherfucker ends up paying 25 billion to Iran just to stop a war that he himself started… I will slap him.
Just don’t say that in seashells. You could get in trouble.
Get in line
You mean the crisis he totally manufactured on his own?
They should send Hegseth as a hostage to insure the ceasefire.
