Okay, so, continuing our running convo re: Trump's narcissistic personality disorder and what we'll see from him next...
We appear to have potentially fast-fwded right thru the manic panic I talked about yest (AKA the Loco Lawn Sprinkler).
Looks like it's cocooning time.
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We appear to have potentially fast-fwded right thru the manic panic I talked about yest (AKA the Loco Lawn Sprinkler).
Looks like it's cocooning time.
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https://twitter.com/dsupervilleap/status/1068197225694732288
Per yesterday's thread, narcissists absolutely come undone when the freight train of public shaming or embarrassment is bearing down and can't be avoided...
...but then, when it arrives, they often run and hide from judging eyes. They cocoon. They go underground.
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...but then, when it arrives, they often run and hide from judging eyes. They cocoon. They go underground.
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Trump has done that for varying lengths of time after his worst public shamings... after Charlottesville... at the height of the border separation policy outrage...
Usually lasts anywhere from a day to a few days but he basically hides from sight, floored by what hit him.
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Usually lasts anywhere from a day to a few days but he basically hides from sight, floored by what hit him.
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Then, he starts to regroup.
He cooks up some bullsh** he thinks he can use to deflect culpability, create plausible denial and shift the focus.
He then trial-balloons a flurry of new lines, seizes on the ones that do best, refines them and then is back on his feet.
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He cooks up some bullsh** he thinks he can use to deflect culpability, create plausible denial and shift the focus.
He then trial-balloons a flurry of new lines, seizes on the ones that do best, refines them and then is back on his feet.
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So, we've got a bit of a wild card with Trump getting on a plane to Argentina for the G-20. That makes the cocooning possibility both more and less likely.
Trump hates nothing more than being forced to walk the plank in front of world leaders as a newly weakened figure.
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Trump hates nothing more than being forced to walk the plank in front of world leaders as a newly weakened figure.
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Left to his druthers, he'd cancel the whole G-20 and hide out all weekend at the White House.
He can't do that though... and being forced to face his "peers" feels to him like punishment inflicted ON him BY them. He'll be mad at THEM that he has to face them right now.
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He can't do that though... and being forced to face his "peers" feels to him like punishment inflicted ON him BY them. He'll be mad at THEM that he has to face them right now.
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Soooo... let's watch what unfolds.
The Vegas odds-on favorite would be:
Trump dodges as many of the G-20 sessions as he can and then lashes out in stupid, nonsense-filled tantrums in the meetings he can't avoid.
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The Vegas odds-on favorite would be:
Trump dodges as many of the G-20 sessions as he can and then lashes out in stupid, nonsense-filled tantrums in the meetings he can't avoid.
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The bettor's second choice:
Full dodge. Goes dark. Hides out in his hotel. Barely shows his face. Skips meetings. Aides allege he's having "private meetings" but he's basically doing the barest possible minimum of leaving the hotel room.
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Full dodge. Goes dark. Hides out in his hotel. Barely shows his face. Skips meetings. Aides allege he's having "private meetings" but he's basically doing the barest possible minimum of leaving the hotel room.
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The dark horse possibility:
If Trump knows for a fact what other bad news is about to break - and is therefore still in the manic-panic-tortured helplessness described yesterday - he'll go loco lawn sprinkler as described in ranty all over the place screeds.
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If Trump knows for a fact what other bad news is about to break - and is therefore still in the manic-panic-tortured helplessness described yesterday - he'll go loco lawn sprinkler as described in ranty all over the place screeds.
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So, now we get to play along at home. Where on the narc cycle is Trump?
If Trump rants incoherently about all manner of things, he's focused on what's coming next.
If he hides out, he knows what already happened today was a major blow.
Either way, prepare thy popcorn.
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If Trump rants incoherently about all manner of things, he's focused on what's coming next.
If he hides out, he knows what already happened today was a major blow.
Either way, prepare thy popcorn.
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