@dmfrensley - #332342
timb – Absolutely agree with you, although I’m not sure you could really call him an adult. He is more like a large 6-year-old who won’t play if he can’t win. Wish he would take his toys and go home and left the grown-ups talk now.
ditto, although Noam Shpancer Ph.D. in Psychological Today would disagree
Psychological Science Says Trump Is a Four-Year-Old
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… And therein lies the key: The core Trump dissonance is that he’s an elderly man who possesses the outward appearance and trappings of adulthood—and who occupies the public role we most strongly associate with adulthood—but who is on the inside predominantly infantile. It is that specific dissonance that is wholly novel on the political scene.
Over and above the contested considerations of ideology, temperament, character, or intelligence, we all expect (and are used to) a modicum of maturity in our presidents. In our collective imagination the president is a grownup, not a child; not immature in his fundamental bearing and cast of mind. Trump is, and as such he dramatically violates both our experience and our cultural expectations. He calls up the incongruent fascination and dread of a child-king or the baby-faced assassin.
To say Trump is ‘infantile,’ in this context is to say two related yet distinct things:
That he fails to demonstrate some behavioral and attitudinal quality we call ‘maturity’.
That his cast of mind, the way he processes information, appears qualitatively different from an adult mind. …
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TRUMPOLOGY
Donald Trump’s Mommy Issues
He may not have bonded successfully with his mother and that made him the adult—and the politician—that he is.
By PETER LOVENHEIM
May 13, 2018
www _ politico _ com/magazine/story/2018/05/13/trump-mothers-day-218363
Peter Lovenheim lives in Washington, D.C. His book, The Attachment Effect: Exploring the Powerful Ways Our Earliest Bond Shapes Our Relationships and Lives will be published by Penguin Random House on June 5.
Donald Trump is easily the most psychoanalyzed president of modern times. His decision-making style and behavior have been hotly debated by journalists, voters, politicians, world leaders and pundits who have bestowed upon him any number of fanciful, grave-sounding mental conditions, calling him, among other things, a narcissist, a sociopath, a psychopath and a paranoiac. Trump has said he distrusts mental health professionals, so we don’t have access to a formal assessment of his psychology. But colloquially speaking, perhaps the best explanation for the president’s behavior dates back to his earliest interactions with his mother. …
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01-20-17
INFOGRAPHIC OF THE DAY
Data Proves It: Trump Has The Emotional Maturity Of A Toddler
Face-tracking algorithms and data visualization reveal that Trump speeches take us on an emotional roller coaster.
www _ fastcompany _ com/3067394/data-proves-it-trump-has-the-emotional-maturity-of-a-toddler
BY MARK WILSON
Donald Trump doesn’t always speak with proper grammar. And he doesn’t always speak with facts. But he does speak with two other powerful tools: anger, and even more so, volatility.
The data visualization firm Periscopic lays it out in a new data visualization called On The Trump Emoto-Coaster. “If it felt like you were on an emotional roller coaster during this past Presidential election, just look at what was happening to Donald Trump,” the team writes. “As shown in 10 of the major speeches he gave from July through December, there’s a rise and fall of intense emotion.” As Trevor Noah so cuttingly put it last year, Trump has the unmodulated mentality of a toddler. …