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What’s Wrong With Donald Trump?

I think there’s an answer. But it’s not age — or, at least, it’s not just age.

You’ve probably seen the clip by now. Donald Trump is holding a town hall. It’s Monday, Oct. 14, in Pennsylvania. He was being asked softball questions by Kristi Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota, and there is a medical emergency in the crowd. The rally stops for a while. They play “Ave Maria” while the medics respond. Then Trump and Noem begin again. Then someone else in the crowd needs medical help. The rally stops again, begins again. Noem is settling back in when Trump announces he’s had enough.

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        Donald Trump: Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music. Let’s make it into a music. [Cheers.] Who the hell wants to hear questions, right? [Laughter.]

What comes next is something I’ve never seen before. Trump, swaying dreamily to his playlist, in front of a rally full of people, for nearly 40 minutes. It was like he was D.J.’ing his own bar mitzvah.

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We’ve never had good language for talking about Donald Trump. We’ve never had good language for talking about the way he thinks and the way in which it is different from how other people think and talk and act. And so we circle it. We imply it. I don’t think this is bias so much as it’s confusion. In order to talk about something, you need the words for it. But for me, something clicked watching him up there, swaying to that music.

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We have language to describe Trump, and have had for about a century.
Fascist. Nazi. Psychopath.
Or we could go with much older language and call him incompetent, insane, crooked, twisted, sadistic, power-hungry, evil...
It's not that hard.
- Rapist, fraud, sociopath, pathological liar. There’s more.
  
  Convicted felon
- Let's settle on 'cunt'
  
  He has neither the warmth nor depth.
  
  He's multi-faceted; he has many qualities

TL;DR: Trump is disinhibited, perhaps pathologically so. Sometimes this has served him well; at other times it has led him to walk into trouble when others would have the sense to shut up. In his first presidency his impulsive urges ("can't you just shoot them?") were moderated by professional staff who would not always act on what he said. Trump hated this and Project 2025 is largely about ensuring that, in a second Trump presidency, the govenment at all levels is packed with Trump loyalists who will put his every order into action. So next time he orders protestors shot, it may happen.

There's an age range, maybe 10-13, where girls have developed the decision-making portion of the brain but boys are still working on it. At these ages, boys are more likely to make decisions based on instant gratification, then fiercely deny any wrongdoing and reject any blame.
It's like Trump never developed that part of his brain.
His frontal lobe is like that of a young teen boy.
- trump isn't the first...
  His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
  https://phdn.org/archives/www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/osssection3pt1.htm
- Trump definitely stopped developing around the age of 10. I noticed this when he was still president and went to a baseball game. He walked in with a smile and I could see for a brief moment that he was once a real child before his father destroyed him. Then the crowd started to boo and I never saw him exhibit that again.
  In the end I really feel sorry for Trump but can never pardon the person he became.

Don't you think he looks tired?
- If only you were the doctor

What’s Wrong With Donald Trump?
How much time you got?

I just assumed he was capitalizing on the situation to avoid answering town hall questions.

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You need to remember that Trump is just a human being and is capable of human activities. Another thing is, there are 2 trumps here. There is real-life trump, and then there is the charactature the media portrays him as. The media does this to everyone, intentionally or not.
I don’t think this is bias so much as it’s confusion.
It's both... don't kid yourself. it is a worrying thing when one can not recognize his own bias. It's especially worrying here because the bias is so blatantly obvious. Hint: context

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