WHITE SUPREMACISTS ARE TOTALLY EMBOLDENED BY THE PRESIDENT

…America’s White Supremacists in the flesh

 



Trump blames the media for nearly all of his problems as president.

 

Before I get started on this article, I would like to offer the following just in case you might come across the need to determine if a friend or acquaintance might have the following issues: For decades, psychologists have been working to determine just what the traits are that define a real “Sociopath”.  However, even if we go back to 1941 when the researcher Hervey Cleckley's wrote his clinical profile that was called The Mask of Sanity, Cleckley distilled the 16 key behavioral characteristics that defined a "Sociopath".  Most of these factors are still being used today to diagnose sociopaths and those individuals with anti-social disorders.

 

Here are those 16 traits:

 

·       Superficial charm and basic intelligence 

·        Signs of irrational thinking

·        Lack of showing any nervousness

·        Unreliability, (can change mind from second to second)

·        Untruthfulness and insincerity

·        Lack of remorse and shame

·        Motivated antisocial behavior

·        Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience

·        Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for real love & affection

·        General lack of affective reactions & thinking (Not a strategic thinker)

·        Lack of having insight, irrational thinker

·        Unresponsive in interpersonal relationships

·        Outlandish and uninviting behavior, with or without alcohol 

·        Sometimes makes serious threats, but rarely carries them out

·        Sex life: impersonal, trivial, and seldom relevant

·        Usually fails to have a true life-plan

 

Does this remind you of anyone?  This is exactly what other psychologists have already used to describe the current resident in the White House.

 

If you watched or heard any of the campaign style rally that President Trump had in Phoenix this week, you would probably have said “Yep, that man is a true sociopath!”

 

When the president Trump stepped on stage in Phoenix on Tuesday night there was something clearly eating at him. Minutes into his style rally, we learned what it was.  It wasn't the white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazis who threw the nation into chaos and that killed a woman in Virginia last week. Or the intractable 17-year war in Afghanistan that he just announced he's sending more US troops.

 

After he lied to the audience about what he says he said against those white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazis.  He then blamed all of his problems on the dishonest media.

 

He even said that the longest war the US has ever been part of, he even blamed that on his so called “dishonest media”.   Trump then kept saying that the networks were turning off their cameras so the TV audience could not see the giant size of his rally attendants.  But as this was being said, we were all watching a TV camera angle showing us the actual crowd at that Trump rally.

Trump spent nearly a third of his 90-minute rally rehashing and lying about his public remarks in the wake of Charlottesville.  He did this as he complained that he was being widely criticized for his remarks, which was true. In fact, about the only time he mentioned the racial tensions and violence that he stirred up last week was in the context of him trying to defend himself. 

 

He then switched the subject and talked against the local Arizona Senator, John McCain that voted against the very poor ACA repeal & replace bill.  But he had nothing to say about the fact that McCain is currently receiving chemotherapy for a brain tumor.  Not one word about McCain or his family’s difficult health circumstances.  In fact, he hinted that perhaps McCain should just die!  McCain’s daughter heard this and immediately Tweeted a response against what the president said.

 

Then without saying his name, he went after the other GOP Arizona Senator. 

 

This president doesn’t seem to care that he seriously needs these all of these Republican senators if he wants to get any of his programs accomplished with this congress.

Clearly, Trump's lashing out against the Charlottesville coverage was all pre-planned for this rally.  The fact that being against the media was the theme for his first trip back to Arizona since he won the state, it underscores two serious issues about Trump:

 

1.     As a sociopath, his ego demands that he seriously care about the media coverage he receives.  Trump cares a lot.

 

2. Trump also blames the media for nearly all of his problems as president.

 

Actually, Trump didn't just blame the media for his problems. But after one of the worst weeks of his tumultuous presidency, he stretched his attack and basically blamed the media for all of the nation's problems. In this one speech he:

 

-Accused the fake media of turning “a blind eye" to all gang violence.

-Accused the fake media of “trying to take away our history and heritage” (i.e.: The Confederate statues that the states and cities are taking down after Charlottesville).

-Accused the fake media of giving a platform to all the hate groups (“The only people giving the platform to these hate groups is the media itself," said Trump.)

-Trump called all journalists “sick people”  And he said this: “You would think they would want to make our country great again. I honestly believe they don't.”

-He blamed the media for "the source of division in our country."  (Typical sociopath that won’t take responsibility or apologize for any negative issues.)  “If you want to discover the source of our division in the country, look no further than the fake news and the crooked media, which would rather get ratings and clicks than tell the truth,” Trump said.

 

During the rally, President Trump continued to attack the media, including criticizing the New York Times, CNN and the Washington Post.  But he said, "Fox has treated me fairly, How good is Hannity? ... And Fox & Friends in the morning is the best show."  Oh brother……

 

Trump usually leaves out all context and facts when it suits him, such as him saying that the country is divided over the media's coverage of his Charlottesville remarks.  The country isn't divided on the media coverage and most disapprove of Trump's position.

 

The truth is, Trump's sociopathic personality refuses to admit is that the nation is divided over the white supremacists who initially showed up in Charlottesville to prevent the tearing down of a Confederate statue.  But they came totally armed and they were prepared to become violent.

 

A majority of Americans, 56% don't approve of the president equating these white supremacists with the counter-protesters that came to support the removal of the statue.  This is all according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll.

 

The actual poll results were;

 

Here is the poll's question: “Given what you know, do you approve or disapprove of Trump’s response to the Charlottesville events:”  

 

·       All US Adults: 28% approve / 56% Disapprove

 

·       Democrats: 6% Approve / 84% Disapprove

 

·       Republicans: 62% Approve / 19% Disapprove

 

·       Independents: 28% Approve / 55% Disapprove

 

Many key politicians of Trump's own party do not approve of the way he handled the event. “The president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate, in order to be successful," Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said this after Trump's news conference where Trump backed off denouncing white supremacists.

 

“I do believe that he messed up in his comments Tuesday,” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said at a CNN town hall on Monday. “When it sounded like moral equivalency, or at the very least, moral ambiguity, when we need extreme moral clarity.”

 

And because of this, the white supremacists now feel totally emboldened by this American president.

But based on his actions, the president is acting exactly as a dyed-in-the-wool, egocentric, narcissistic sociopath would respond.

 

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