The numbers of emotional swings, contradictions, and media blow-ups from Donald Trump has me seriously wondering if he has some form of schizophrenia.
Google popped up this definition of schizophrenia.
In general use: “a mentality or approach characterized by inconsistent or contradictory elements.”
Contradictions vs. Broken Promises
During the campaign, Trump said: “If I win I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation.”
At rallies Trump described Hillary as “guilty as hell” and said she “has to go to jail”.
Now, in a dramatic reversal of campaign pledges, an aide stated Trump Will Not Go After Hillary.
Treasury Secretary Field Narrowed
Trump attacked Hillary on numerous occasions for pandering to Wall Street. On November 21, CNN proclaimed Trump Down to Two Choices for Treasury Secretary.
President-elect Donald Trump has narrowed the field of candidates for Treasury secretary to Steven Mnuchin and Jonathan Gray, multiple sources tell CNN.
Mnuchin, who worked at Goldman Sachs for 17 years, joined the Trump campaign as finance chairman in May.
These days Mnuchin is a Hollywood producer, putting out films including this past summer’s “Suicide Squad,” as well as “American Sniper” and “The Lego Movie.” His latest film, due in theaters this month, is called “Rules Don’t Apply.”
Mnuchin also worked with George Soros, the billionaire financier who has bankrolled liberal candidates and causes — and who was depicted as a villain in Trump’s last campaign ad.
Gray has worked his entire career at Blackstone, which manages more than $300 billion in assets and owns part of the Hilton hotel chain. He is on the board of directors and is considered heir apparent to Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman.
Gray built Blackstone’s real estate business from next to nothing into a behemoth — $102 billion in assets, with investments from China to Latin America. He is worth $1.66 billion, according to Forbes.
Rules Don’t Apply
“Rules don’t apply” appropriately sums things up, not only for Trump’s campaign, but what we have seen following the election.
Trump now praises Hillary for her service to the country. Amazing.
Let’s write off all of that simply as campaign lies. Other things?
UK Ambassador
Yesterday, Trump interjected himself into UK politics, outright requesting Nigel Farage as the UK ambassador to the US.
OK, let’s label that as peculiar or arrogant. How about peculiarly arrogant?
New York Times
During the campaign Trump said the New York Times was “failing”
This morning Trump cancelled a scheduled press meeting with the New York Times. And instead of talking with the media, he addressed the nation on You-Tube.
Trump blamed the New York Times for changing the meeting conditions.
The New York Times denied changing the conditions.
Trump also made this Tweet:
Trump the Chameleon
Eight hours later, the meeting was back on. Coming out of the meeting he called the New York Times as a “great, great American jewel.”
“The Times is a great, great American jewel,” Mr. Trump declared as he prepared to leave the gathering in the newspaper’s 16th-floor boardroom, where portraits of former presidents adorn the walls.
“A world jewel,” added Mr. Trump, who was seated next to Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the paper’s publisher. “And I hope we can all get along.”
In an extraordinary 75-minute meeting — parrying, debating and, at times, joking with the leaders of a publication that has long been an object of Mr. Trump’s fascination and frustration — the president-elect’s chameleon-like approach to the news media was on full display.
Mr. Trump is inclined to label himself aggrieved and betrayed by a “dishonest” news media, barring some reporters from his rallies and claiming that news outlets were trying to rig the election. Only a day earlier, Mr. Trump assailed the nation’s most prominent television news anchors and producers in a tense meeting at Trump Tower.
He dismissed his earlier talk of strengthening libel laws, telling the assembled journalists, “I think you’ll be O.K.” He expressed interest in improving his relationship with the paper, saying, “I think it would make the job I am doing much easier.”
Mr. Trump has cultivated a talent for both courting and condemning the press — sometimes in the same breath. The gossip columnist Liz Smith recalled Mr. Trump once threatening to buy her newspaper — “in order to have the pleasure of firing me” — before warmly inviting her to his wedding.
It was clear on Tuesday, however, that any new conciliatory approach toward the news media would have its limits.
“I think I’ve been treated very rough,” Mr. Trump said, as he spent the first several minutes of the session criticizing The Times’s coverage. “I’ve been treated extremely unfairly, in a sense, in a true sense.”
By Tuesday evening, Mr. Trump had not yet posted on Twitter his opinion of how things went at The Times. But during the lunch, he made a confession: He remains a regular reader.
“I do read it — unfortunately,” the president-elect said. “I’d live about 20 years longer if I didn’t.”
The New Yorker
Yesterday, Trump called a meeting with the press only to blast them. The New Yorker did not mince words in its report: Donald Trump Personally Blasts the Press.
The fantasy of the normalization of Donald Trump—the idea that a demagogic candidate would somehow be transformed into a statesman of poise and deliberation after his Election Day victory—should now be a distant memory, an illusion shattered.
In the presence of television executives and anchors, Trump whined about everything from NBC News reporter Katy Tur’s coverage of him to a photograph the news network has used that shows him with a double chin. Why didn’t they use “nicer” pictures?
For more than twenty minutes, Trump railed about “outrageous” and “dishonest” coverage. When he was asked about the sort of “fake news” that now clogs social media, Trump replied that it was the networks that were guilty of spreading fake news. The “worst,” he said, were CNN (“liars!”) and NBC.
The over-all impression of the meeting from the attendees I spoke with was that Trump showed no signs of having been sobered or changed by his elevation to the country’s highest office. Rather, said one, “He is the same kind of blustering, bluffing blowhard as he was during the campaign.”
Another participant at the meeting said that Trump’s behavior was “totally inappropriate” and “f***ing outrageous.” The television people thought that they were being summoned to ask questions; Trump has not held a press conference since late July. Instead, they were subjected to a stream of insults and complaints—and not everyone absorbed it with pleasure.
Kellyanne Conway, who managed Trump’s campaign and who is now his senior adviser, said that the meeting had been “very cordial, candid, and honest.”
Build Me Up Trumpercup
Trump has clear habit of building people up to trample over them, or trampling over them first, then making an effort to build them back up.
I offer this musical tribute
In case anyone is wondering, I do not regret my vote. I would rather have unpredictable results than a preordained bad outcome.
Question to doctors tuning in: What do you make of Trump’s sudden, dramatic, mood and position reversals?
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
He is just a pathological liar like all politicians
Worse, he’s also a pathological liar from New York.
A place that wouldn’t even exist, in anything even remotely resembling it’s current form, if it wasn’t designated recipient of the greatest looting scheme (by debasement and laws aimed at promoting the financial class) of the rest of the country, that has ever taken place.
Trump probably himself thinks he is a “great businessman.” Which he may be. Or not. It wouldn’t really have mattered, given the trillions the Fed has doused Manhattan in, since Nixon went full fiat 40 years ago. Just as the Donald happened to take over a real estate firm, in the city designated to house and pamper America’s exponentially growing class of loot recipients.
Ditto for the Wall Streeters he now seem to think are somehow good at something, other than getting doused in debased loot. Again, maybe they are. I’m sure some may be. Most, not so. As well as the publishers who have gotten rich enough to promote themselves as some sort of “Paper of Record” by having ad space in locations of prime visibility to loot enriched New Yorkers. Never mind having been essentially dead wrong about everything, since back when Hazlitt helmed their economics practice.
Megalomaniac, to be sure, but not schizoid. That’s par for the course in strong-man leaders. They’re all ‘tough-guy’ talk until they get what they want, then they’re Mr. Teddybear. Until next time.
I’d go with narcissistic personality with ADHD … megalomaniacal is a bit OTT. I’ve never seen Trump do or say something evil.
Trump tells people what they want to hear.
When he is with journalists he flatters them.
He schmoozed democrats for over 20 years.
When he is speaking in front of angry voters he says what they want to hear.
He is NO great wise man full of wisdom, he just has good social instincts and reads the mood of people well so he is NOT autistic.
Trump became president because he read Ann Coulter’s Adios America book which tells the insanity of open borders and Americas failure to control immigration and the crimes and low wages and unemployment caused on americans by the bad apples among illegal immigrants.
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Then he had employees listen to hundreds of hours of Talk Radio and report which issues energize people and what they are worried about.
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When he came down the escalator to start the campaign the campaign speech was bland at first and AFTER noticing the mood of the room (no enthusiasm at first and reporters being bored looking) he mentioned that mexico is sending rapists and criminals also to make sure the speech is reported on and at the same time that it’s reported he is seeking the presidency.
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The Trump presidency will be a FAILURE and BETRAYAL of the voters unless the voters keep the public atmosphere such that borders have to be closed, wall has to be built ( ridiculous talk of just fencing or only drones which Paul Ryan and other republiCANTs have already made must not be allowed to become public opinion of good enough so republican establishment must be criticized and wall demanded CONTINUALLY).
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Public atmosphere must be such that e-verify is made MANDATORY and ALL illegals are DEPORTED and those employing illegals will be PUNISHED.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar and war-mongering in the Middle-East to protect Saudi and Qatari interests must be challenged and sunni-supremacism of Saudi Arabia and Qatar must be treated like North Korea instead of calling these terrorist sponsoring and terrorism ideologizing and spreading countries “allies”
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Those who receive funding and consultancy fees and paychecks in USA from Saudi Arabia and Qatar must be treated like those receiving paychecks from North Korea.
Currently there are paid for crazies aka “analysts” in US TV networks calling Saudi Arabia an ally and warning that Putin is insane guy who just wants to kill americans.
In truth its the opposite despite Putin being an undemocratic thug from the mold of Hillary Clinton with complete media control in Russia.
Saudi paychecks make people speak against american interests.
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Healthcare must be made affordable with COMPETITION in hospitals and doctors and drug prices and MRI’s and CAT-scans instead of just creating competition in health insurance like Trump is concentrating on.
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Health insurance competition will not fix the problems which are collusion between hospitals, hiding prices from consumers until after treatment and operation and anti-competitive permitting process which stops a competitor putting up an MRI-focused reception for 100 dollars MRI’s next to hospital charging 1500 dollars for a MRI. etc. etc.
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There is NO reason why the MRI scanning does not cost 100 dollars in USA like it does in Japan. The 1500 dollar price is just because of anti-competitive practices and centralization of hospital chains where competitors are bought and no further competitors are permitted to start hospitals near the existing hospitals.
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While I voted for Trump simply because he was an “outsider” and not just another political hack I recognized that taken as a whole he is a fairly flawed human being with a lot of personality quirks. I would say that rather than being Schizophrenic he is simply doing what he has always done which is live in the moment. Kind of like a cat (which is an animal with very low impulse control) Trump just simply jumps at the nearest mouse. Its worked for him in business and the entertainment business so will be interesting to see if it works running the country. No matter what though he promises to be the most entertaining President we’ve ever had or will have.
He’s also fairly smart at manipulating people and events so I would not put it past him that this is some sort of ploy to catch the other side off guard as he is good at playing that sort game.
We elected a reality TV host as President. Nothing wrong with that.
After watching the video (at 4:29am below) it seems impossible that the Powerz would allow it. However, they did enthrone an uncredentialed “community organizer” who was speechless without his teleprompter; after the idiot son of a CIA Jefe; following a bumpkin from “Arkansaw”; after an “empty suit” actor(!); after a “nucear” engineer with no credentials for ruling, after Nixon. What’s this country coming to?
Perhaps it’s the triumph of Forced Public Schooling (Gatto), creating “The New Socialist Man” in the form of Snowflake Millennial Bigot Socialist JustUs Whiners? Will be interesting how this combination handles the coming inevitable 4th Turning financial storm.
FYI, President Carter pronounced it “nucular”, not “nucear”.
I have been down this primrose path before… with Putin.
I expected great things from Putin. And I received great things at least some of the time. But other times Putin said and did the exact opposite. Initially, I thought maybe Putin was playing a psy-op to confuse his enemies. But I was the one confused by his constant double-mindedness; and I couldn’t decide which Putin was the real Putin. 17 years later, I’ve come to the conclusion the Pentagon might be right when they said Putin is autistic.
In an ironic way… Trump and Putin may indeed be playing on the same team.
Now I worry why I am attracted to both of these double-minded men.
You can also add Merkel to the global insanity team.
In 2010 Merkel said multiculturalism was a total failure.
Today she welcomes in hordes of muslim immigrants guaranteed to cause a ‘clash of cultures’ that will destroy Germany.
Given the stress, responsibility, difficulty and exposure to ridicule high office brings it could be that anyone volunteering for it does indeed have a mental problem.
I forget who it was – one of the ancient Chinese or Greeks – that said the one that should lead is the one that doesn’t volunteer because they fully understand the difficulties in doing the job properly and therefore would do it most responsibly if they really had to.
Some truth in that. Beware those putting themselves forward for high office.
Yup! Cannot agree more. I sometimes wonder when it is so difficult to manage a family with all its different issues, imagine taking on something which is multitude more difficult. I would agree if you want to do a honest job, it is but natural to shy away from it.
In many organizations you will see that responsible people dread being put in charge, all the sleepless night involved in putting people out to pasture, defunding departments, complex decisions, etc. By default, you get people who would never lose a night’s sleep over offing somebody and who have no qualms making instant decisions about complicated dossiers despite (or thanks to) not knowing a thing.
Not only does demented Merkel want to destroy Germany with third world weapons of mass destruction…. she wants to punish Germans who hate their genocide.
“Germany’s Merkel says supports efforts against hate speech
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday threw her support behind efforts to fight the use of hate speech posted on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube. ”
more at link
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/germanys-merkel-says-supports-efforts-against-hate-speech-090242543–finance.html
This is synchronistic…
Leftist Rosie O’Donnell has made the sparks fly by suggesting Trump’s son is autistic.
Personally, I think autism is one of God’s ways of protecting some from all the evil and perversion now running amok in this satanic world order. Trump has the opportunity to cure what the evil cultural marxist disease has done to destroy decent society.
The erratic behaviors, his nastiness, belittling of others and “twitteritis,” similar to the “telephonitis” in which alcoholics often engage (making numerous “drunk dialing” calls in the middle of the night), strongly suggest a substance addiction, any one of which can cause what appears to be schizophrenia. The best explanation, in my opinion, is amphetamine addiction (addiction requires, by my re-definition of addiction, destructive behaviors that can be linked to use of a psychotropic drug). Amphetamines often cause behaviors that look like or actually trigger schizophrenia and paranoia disorders.
Find some pictures in which you can see his pupils. There are several online in which his pupils appear larger than half the size of the iris. The typical iris is 12 mm in diameter; pupils, in normal light, are generally one-fourth that size, or 3 mm. His appear to be 6 mm or 7 mm in a number of pics. While that usually suggests alcohol or marijuana on board, the behaviors and his history belie the idea, but do indicate a drug of some sort. While amphetamines usually create a pupil size “as big as the moon” (find a few pic’s of Yasser Arafat and you’ll see what I mean), amphetamines are the best explanation for his obvious erratic and other-destructive behaviors.
FYI, I write an addiction report in which I view the news through the lens of alcohol and other-drug addiction and have authored four books on the subject. I’ve put about 20,000 hours into researching and writing on the subject over the last 22 yeas. If I had a degree or credential on the topic I’d never have been able to write these books and reports, as I’d have had too much to unlearn. On numerous occasions, I’ve predicted addiction where no one suspected, proven only with deep digging or later in time when it became obvious. While we might know in the fullness of time whether this prediction proves correct, unfortunately, biographers, historians and journalists don’t have a clue as to its importance and don’t look for it or report the possibility. Too often absolute proof is unobtainable, but we can hope.
A subject in a dark environment can have large pupils in a flash photo, because the pupils can’t constrict fast enough when the camera flashes. So you have to weed out those images before you can make a decision. Some meds can cause dilated pupils too.
One good way would be to look at a subset of photos which include other people, and compare pupil-iris ratios in the various individuals in the photos. If Trumps pupil size is out of the normal range, that is mildly interesting but certainly not diagnostic of amphetamine use.
That’s why I’m not looking solely at pupil size. His behaviors give away the “likely” secret. I’m right about 80% of the time, so as I often say to my wife, I could be wrong.
Omg , please get a life , really ?
Trump does not drink or take drugs. His brother died an alcoholic. It steered him away from alcohol and drugs long ago.
Never believe a substance addict. How do you know an alcohol or other-drug addict is lying? He moves his lips. Because of his abusive alcoholic step-father, Hitler chose never to drink. Instead, his feel-good doctor, Dr. Morrell (sp?), fed him amphetamines and, probably but unproven, barbiturates. And addicts never self-identify as such, until they’re in recovery. “Thank God I’m an alcoholic, because when I was drinking I wasn’t” is a common refrain at AA meetings. Ditto other drugs, and especially the legally prescribed ones (the doctor gave them to me! I can’t be an addict!).
Not everything an addict says is a lie. Just because you’re a recovered alcoholic that was a pathologically lying POS does not mean that all addicts lie all the time.
The thing addicts are most likely to lie about is their substance abuse habit. Most people aren’t going to admit incriminating evidence to everyone around them. They don’t go around telling people they’re on drugs because it could get them in legal problems, social problems, job problems, or cause people to harass them about quitting when they don’t want to quit.
Really, what someone else does to their own body is really none of my business if it’s not affecting me directly.
Also, it’s pretty stupid to waste your time typing an entire post telling people not to trust anything a substance abuser says and then say you’re an alcoholic. Obviously your entire post is a lie and so is everything you say.
Having spent a few years around cokers, he looked like had just snorted some high grade stuff before the first two debates with Hillary.
He couldn’t focus, he couldn’t stand still and he kept interrupting, just like my old buddies did.
These are classic physical clues to amphetamine or cocaine addiction, along with the large pupils. My expertise is behavioral clues (having written several books on the subject), of which he exhibits enough to get me to 80% odds of addiction. The physical clues get me to nearly 100%, but not quite there without absolute proof of use.
This piece qualifies you to skip the entire applicaton and vetting process and go directly into a position hosting a 1/2 hour opinion/interview program on MSNBC … possibly immediately following (or leading into) the Rachel Maddow Show.
I think he is funny.
You are now in the same category as Peggy Noonan of the.WSJ, who published an
Infamous column about Trump during the campaign dreaming of how great he
Would be if he were sane.
Mish, part of the problem is you are relying on the media accounts of what happened in closed meetings. Don’t do that. They are known liars, with a social justice and profit motive that conflicts with truth.
Trump’s own conflicting statements can be attributed to misplaced optimism and trust. He feels wronged and lashes out. Then after receiving an obsequious apology and promise to do better, he backs down and praises. This gets repeated because the people apologizing are the same deceitful jackasses described in my first paragraph.
That definition refers to lay use, not medical use. I’m an ED doc, not a psychiatrist, but I would bet a good psych doc would label him at least as “Narcissistic Personality disorder” if not outright “Antisocial Personality Disorder”.
Most narcissism is rooted in alcohol/other-drug addiction, so this fits the addiction hypothesis as well.
No, narcissism is not rooted in drug addiction. It’s an independent disorder that’ has different causes than substance abuse disorder. Narcissism may be correlated with substance abuse, but correlation is not causation.
I am also a physician, an internist by training but my life’s work was in the emergency department. And I agree with you.
But I would add that Mr. Trump is actually the resurrection of P.T. Barnum. Wikipedia’s first sentence about P.T. Barnum begins “Phineas Taylor “P. T.” Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American politician, showman, and businessman…. Although Barnum was also an author, publisher, philanthropist, and for some time a politician, he said of himself, “I am a showman by profession…and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me”,[2] and his personal aim was “to put money in his own coffers” Barnum served four terms in the Connecticut legislature and served as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut. But he was always out to make a buck. “Around 1850, he was involved in a hoax about a weed that would turn black people white.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum
That’s Trump: a politician, showman and businessman. Trump’s personal aim is to put money in his coffers.
Curious how Trump’s Thanksgiving message focused on the inner cities.
I agree with you, doctor. Trump appears to “suffer” from Narcissism and possibly anti-social personality disorder.
People believe he is disconnected from reality, but really he is lying constantly, gas-lighting, and manipulating. He is sane.
You might want to add this guy to the list of potential schizophrenic heads of state too – Tayyip Erdogan.
“Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on November 20 that Turkey did not need to join the European Union «at all costs». Instead, it could become part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), or Shanghai Pact.
…..Turkey formally applied to become a member of the European Union in 1987 and accession talks began in 2005. Its ambition to become part of the bloc dates back to the 1960s.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-22/major-foreign-policy-shift-turkey-abandoning-eu-sco
We have been used to this, the question of schizophrenia is not new.
The real question now is to see if the NYT will change the way it talks about Trump.
I imagine already reading “Trump was indeed the best choice for America. We love Trump. He will make a great, great President, probably the best we’ve ever had”.
The question on Trump’s schizophrenia is not exactly new.
The interesting question is now if we will start reading in the NYT:
“Trump is and has always been our first choice for the next President.
He will make a great, great President. We really love him”
15 Trump Flip-Flops in 15 Days
The president-elect has made changing his mind a way of life. Why would his young presidency be any different?
By Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna
November 22, 2016
In May, Politico compiled the most comprehensive list ever of the then likely GOP presidential nominee’s history of self-contradictions, flip-flops and even flip-flop-flips. Over the course of four decades of radio and TV interviews, newspaper and magazine profiles, books written about him and books written by him, rambling campaign speeches and late-night tweets, Donald Trump has created a vast archive of arguments with himself.
Well, the candidate who told his supporters he likes to “tell it like it is” is now the president-elect—and he still hasn’t found a comfortable resting place on many of the issues that defined his history-making candidacy. Since his surprising election, Trump has switched his stands on everything from his signature border wall to his rather low opinion of the man he is replacing in the Oval Office. He has a way to go to before he matches the sheer volume of self-disagreement that he racked up prior to Election Day, but his batting average over his brief time as the 45th president is perfection itself—15 about-faces in 15 days.
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/trump-flip-flops-president-elect-214478
Trump appears to be a narcissist (i.e, self-centered with an exaggerated sense of self-worth) of average range intelligence (which helps him connect with “average” and uneducated folk) and poor impulse control. He tends to be very careless with his words and may lack understanding of how his words/actions affect others. He also appears to lack familiarity with social and political norms, perhaps due to living in a billionaire bubble and not keeping up with current events and political discussion on topics that don’t interest him. He seems prone to overstate his positions on issues he cares about, and lie about issues he doesn’t care about (like prosecuting Hillary) for strategic reasons. Though these are not stellar traits for a president, I’ve seen no signs of schizophrenia or psychotic disorders.
Exactly. There IS a constant throughout all these flip flops. That is the Trump persona who is GREAT, with a greatness that attaches to anything he does or comes in contact with. Trump is also completely unreflective because reflection seeks truth and a norm: for Trump everything he touches is equally great. He is not actually changing his mind. He is thinking out loud, enumerating possibilities, comparing arguments, trying out various concepts or attitudes. His every expression is not the result of a decision or some inner life, it is just random things going through his mind (like anybody’s), except that he expresses them all out loud, convinced that anything that stirs his consciousness is GREAT. He perceives any random thing as either adding to or subtracting from his megalomaniacal image and entourage.
“I would rather have unpredictable results than a preordained bad outcome.”
Someone had mentioned the choice between Trump and Hillary for him was Hillary because it was the case of better the devil you know. I had disagreed with him because the world cannot have more of the same any longer so one has to take a chance and hence I would vote for Trump any day. I still stand by it though he can make you wonder what you have voted for often. Any way you can never believe any one in politics as you can never be sure how they will turn after elections. But it was not as if we had great choices. So we have to make do with what you have
IMO, the silver lining is as the election was not about Trump and more about anti-establishment, his victory gave the anti-establishment movement further momentum (and jolted the establishment at least a little) and I can only hope Europe takes the baton now. At some point there can be no turning back and the movement will take a strong hold and with more and more momentum it will be only a matter of time before we find a politician who will do what needs to be done. I view Trump as only a small part in this movement. IMO, Trump was right about this being a movement.
He could put other populations off change if he doesn’t have a firm compass and then their own anti-establishment movements get tarred with the same brush. Some firm direction would help, some predictability.
4 thoughts:
a) He might help galvanise the left ready for the next showing at the polls in 4 years.
Good or bad thing?
b) He might get anti-establishment candidates a bad name leading to less change?
c) Whomever is behind the throne may become the power wielder if he’s unpredictable. Who are they?
d) If he gets it right (or at least not wrong) the left could be out for many, many years.
I agree that there could be a lot of things that could go wrong. I can only wish I had a better choice. I am keeping my fingers crossed on the outcome. But voting him in was the only choice if you are in the “NO MORE OF THE SAME” camp (I am in this camp).
Bernie Sanders represents the left. The left hasn’t had power in this country since the 1960s.
My money isn’t on schizophrenia. Rather, narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is consistent with all of his behavior, both now and throughout the campaign. As someone intimately familiar with NPD, the self-aggrandizing, the gaslighting, the victim narrative, the persecution of those who cross him, his rewarding of those who never question him, and today’s documentation of his need for validation, even to the point of reversing his previous positions to elicit it from his audience (see http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/opinion/donald-trumps-demand-for-love.html) are all classic NPD behaviors.
I have said to everyone who would listen. There are 2 things for certain I can say about this man. He is a walking erection and insanely focused on winning. Neither of which I can fault him for. Anyone who thought he was a super right winger was seeing what they wanted to see, and that came from both the right and left sides.
Personally I give him a lot of credit. He saw a field of 16. Found a bloc that he grabbed onto that gave him a base greater than 10% from the get go, and moved himself into the forefront of a rather lame pack. From there… “Good morning Mr. President.”
Now he has what he wants, and you’re just seeing who he is.
…and to the uber-right wingers… several of whom like making veiled comments here. Daughter married to a ‘member of the tribe’, combined with being successful in NYC, and you were foolish enough to think he was some rabid anti-semite. ROFLMAO!!! Funny when people are so dumb that their only substantiation for superiority are their color and religion… ROFLMAO!!!
Last I heard Trump is going to move the US embassy to Jerusalem and Putin is going to rebuild Herod’s temple.
Isn’t the Anitchrist supposed to break a pact he made with the jews ?
Personally, I don’t believe in that fairy tale… but there are many who do.
Trump said he wanted to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and Putin said he wanted to rebuild Herod’s temple.
Isn’t the Antichrist supposed to break a pact he makes with the jews ??
Personally, I don’t believe in those fairy tales… but there are many who do.
“Anyone who thought he was a super right winger was seeing what they wanted to see, and that came from both the right and left sides.”
That is Trump’s genius in a phrase. He’s the reincarnation of P.T.Barnum. He can read a crowd and tell them exactly what they want to hear.
The core of his support has been making excuses for the right wing politicians that have been stealing them blind for decades. Sticking up for Trump when he drops his alt right promises will be second nature.
BTW, the left does the same thing. They apologized and made excuses for Obama and Clinton when they getting screwed by them.
Maybe schizophrenic, but definitely a narcissist.
As long as we don’t allow him to go all Erdogan on us, we may end up ok.
respond2u – actually presidents, on average, are more narcissistic than the average American. See link:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/11/14/the-most-narcissistic-u-s-presidents/
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
he hasn’t even been inaugurated yet.
could we dispense with the hysteria and bitching for a little while?
floridasandy – best comment of the day. I agree.
floriasandy well stated. None of us know how Trump will lead. None of us know if he will actually make it to be inauguration. Most of the media are just speculating on his cabinet because he is interviewing individuals for positions and has not announced all of them yet.
Many forget the media is not allowed into his office unless invited. If many of you think this is all about helping Americans, wait and see. Just like the election everything is still in the spin cycle.
Agree that this is the best comment of the day. Mish is being hysterical to drive traffic to his blog. Ultimately Trump will be judged on his results. All this hyperbole is just chewing spit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
Mish, this video has attracted the attention of your peer, Chris Martensen. It may simply be that Trump is trying to consolidate power. Then again, it may be as you say — or as one of the other posters says.
I didn’t vote for the guy — I wrote in the 2009 CEO of McDonalds for President, and Dan Cathy for Vice President, because in my opinion none of the candidates were close to worthy. My state (Virginia) went for Hillary.
Whether it’s related, our Democrat governor ordered 2 million extra ballots “just in case”.
Truly, I can say I made my vote matter as much as it possibly could under the circumstances.
How do you order up 2 million extra ballots on a computer? Btw, paper ballots would be great for the really corrupt states like Wisconsin and Florida.
While MISH may be correct on his personality traits, there may be a simpler explanation. Perhaps he believes in the carrot and stick approach. “I’ll be nice to you if you agree with my views. If not, you will have hell to pay.” But this may be more bark than bite.
Judging from his actions on Hillary etc. he is smart enough to realize that if he actually went on to prosecute Hillary, there would be a civil war given that the country is so divided. Besides, being in high circles, he would lose a lot of political friends who are common to him and Hillary. (Birds of a feather flock together).
On political appointees, he has very few choices. You have to choose a GS representative for Treasury Secretary as all other recent Presidents have done or you will have zero cooperation from the banking sector. Remember Obama’s entire cabinet was constituted by Citi Bank. He virtually had no choice or particular preference on cabinet appointees.
Like many, I would say, give him a chance to prove his worth. Obama had 8 years of tolerance from both sides of the aisle and has very little to show for it. The Donald has been left with a completely tattered economy and it is always the economy that that creates a political divide with the left wanting more assistance in these circumstances and the right saying it came to all this because of the poor policies of the left and that a immediate course correction is in order.
Every politician I ever voted for disappointed me, every single one, and I have voted for 44 years. No matter how low I set my expectations, my candidate always disappoints. I love all the posters (and Mish) who think that if someone doesn’t do their bidding, or changes their mind is some how mentally ill. If that’s the case everyone I voted for is mentally ill. Unless you have the same information that Trump (or anyone else) has to process, you have no idea why he does what he does.
I have learned a lot from the Trump candidacy and election, and I am not too proud to admit it. Every time he did or said something I thought was stupid, it turned out fine for him. His republican opponents in the primary (some the best and brightest according to conservative pundits) are either ruined or have sworn their fealty to him. And those pundits that don’t recognize his achievement(s) and continue to criticize everything he does look small and petty to those who have objectively followed the entire campaign. These pundits have a very high opinion of themselves to their detriment.
I have very little expectations that he can do anything to make the unsustainable institutions ( government, education, healthcare, etc.) viable again. My only expectation is that we have a Supreme Court that upholds the Constitution. Based on my experience with politicians, we have a 50 / 50 chance with that.
“I have very little expectations that he can do anything to make the unsustainable institutions ( government, education, healthcare, etc.) viable again. My only expectation is that we have a Supreme Court that upholds the Constitution.”
Same expectations here. Also, he can revoke as many executive orders as he pleases. I’ll bet there are many valid candidates for that.
BTW, I believe I’ve posted here before the loophole in the US Code related to the hiring and employment of aliens that you could drive an 18 wheeler full of illegals through. The paragraph is even offset from all others within the code as if to highlight it.
It basically says that if the ID a person provides appears to be valid, no further investigation or INS reporting is required nor will the employer be held responsible if the employee turns out to be an illegal alien. So, for instance, as long as the diver’s license or whatever ITSELF looks valid, it doesn’t matter one iota that the 25 year old very Latino looking guy who can’t speak English is listed on it as “John Smith” from Maine to use an unlikely example. Oh, and guess who is identified by title within the same code, the individual who is not only the sole person responsible for making sure the code is effective, but also the one solely responsible for having it changed if it isn’t? The POTUS!
So, a wall is an absolute joke. The most effective BY FAR method of deterring illegal immigration is to make those who hire them seriously legally liable. That alone shows you the treatment this subject receives is a farce. Dems want Dem voters and the owners of both major parties and government want cheap, hard working labor that can’t complain about working conditions who receive their “workers’ benefits” from the taxpayer.
Job creators are our heros. Even if most of the jobs they create are for illegals or in China. Ayn Rand taught us to worship them. They can do no wrong. Better that Trump raises our taxes so that we, the humble and low, build a gigantic wall across the country.
And let us hope that our Mexican (and Canadian?) neighbors haven’t discovered ladders yet.
Most of AynRandinists are as crazy as communists.
Ayn Rand was a fifth-column immgrant from the Communist Soviet Union.
The wall must be made FIRST and it must be a REAL wall like the walls Israel has that stop palestinian suicide bombers.
NO fake border-fencing like wanted by Paul “lying” Ryan or idiotic let’s just have drones on the border and no fence like Ryans 2nd in command said.
REAL israeli style WALL.
NO fence, NO double-fence, NO fence that stops cars but not people, NO impotent drones on the sky and no fence.
REAL israeli style WALL.
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At the same time as wall is being built criminal illegal immigrants must be DEPORTED and there are 2 million of them including the mexican gang members.
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Then e-verify must be made MANDATORY on the threat of prison sentence and million dollar fines for those not using e-verify on NEW hires state by state leaving only California as a state that does not require e-verify on new hires.
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Then state by state starting from all the republican voting states e-verify must be made mandatory for current employees, this will make all illegal immigrants go to California so that Zuckerburger and all open borders californians get nice new neighbors and all of the USA except California is free from illegal immigrants.
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Once California has all the illegal immigrants California will turn republican and stay republican for the next 100 years and californians will DEMAND e-verify on new hires and existing employees and immediate deportations which will be by now really close to mexico and concentrated in one place for easy deportation after most will leave voluntarily after E-verify reaches California.
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For those who’ll say it’s not the employer’s responsibility to check the validity of ID verifying the LEGALITY of employment and for them to do so if something doesn’t seem right is discriminatory, please explain how it’s entirely permissible to check for the validity of job qualifying references on a resume’, but is somehow not OK when the most important “reference” is a government sourced ID?
It is permissible to check that the applicant is either US citizen or legal immigrant but employers do not do that because there are no requirements to check it and no penalties for not checking and they want the illegal labor to keep workers productive and keep wages low.
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If there was 2 years in prison and a 1,000,000 dollar fine for every illegal immigrant found working in a company then illegals would not be employed anywhere.
Expectations are the root of all disappointment
Why not abstain from voting? Try it … you’ll like it!
Trump is not schizophrenic. I had a schizophrenic relative. She was unable to distinguish regular daydreams from reality. That’s not Trump.
Trump is just using bullying as a negotiation technique. He is letting the press know his expectations and how they can be successful together. That’s what he does because it has worked for him in the past.
I also read this morning that he is walking back his opposition to the Paris global warming accord. That was why I wouldn’t vote for him. So I am now pro-Trump if he continues to move in the right direction.
Of course Trump is going to take back most of the crazy stuff he said. You can say any lie to become president. Being President requires dealing with reality.
Agreed – I worked in the Manhattan developer-construction community for a decade and Trump’s style is very typical of the NYC construction industry culture.
He is very consistent in his specific policies and actually chooses his words very carefully when discussing specifics, you just need to listen and he always signals his “reservation price” in a theatrical way.
It’s amusing to read old media going on & on about his crazy inconsistencies. I observe very few.
But then I worked, negotiated, fought, yelled, poked my fingers in their chests, got fingers jabbed in my chest, and got drunk with these goombas for a decade.
I just want to see his opponents driven crazy by their own perceptions, never mind what he actually does.
Announce that his White House press secretary will be handling all inquiries to Mr. Trump or his family. Then float a rumor that Billy Bush is being interviewed for the press secretary job.
And here I was hoping “Daddy” would appoint Milo!
Billy Bush is not very bright.
He was bragging about the tape to colleagues when covering Rio olympics according to reports so he just made himself unemployed as he was kicked out of the morning show because of the tape.
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The Access Hollywood Trump tape was released THE SAME DAY as Wikileaks started publishing around 1000 emails from John Podestas hacked Gmail account per day.
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I think the Access Hollywood tape was Hillarys November surprise to be used just a few days before the election but Wikileaks releases caused it to be released early to try to bury the wikileaks stories
The tape was released by Bezos owned Washington Post.
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This Wikileaks forced early leak of the tape gave Trump time to make a comeback and people had time to think about issues instead of just feeling and voting based on manipulated feelings.
He wanted to let us know “He’s unpredictable” A promise He’ll always keep.
“Being President requires dealing with reality.” That didn’t seem to inhibit W much. Nor O come to that. Slick Willie showed that you can be Prez even if you are little more than a bundle of adolescent appetites.
I would not leap to any particular conclusion, but it seems that most people sense there is something gravely wrong with the guy. Trump’s pattern of overly-belligerent behavior followed by nearly complete capitulation could have many causations including undiagnosed bipolar disorder, ADHD, or substance abuse either by itself or leading to various psychoses. As a billionaire, however, he’s mostly had people kissing his butt all his life so it is highly likely his inner circle has given him a pass on behavior that would have led any normal person down a very negative road. Strangely enough, these potential problems would be one of the better causations because most of these conditions are entirely treatable if he could be made to understand that it’s not normal behavior.
Another alternative is that he’s way out of his league, has been all his life, and is simply using covering or maladaptive behavior to distract and deter or diffuse the extreme stress he must feel not only from his holdings and the demands on his time, but now from politics as well. This causation wouldn’t be particularly surprising as very few normally-functioning people are drawn to the ridiculously harsh and twisting arena of politics. By the same measure, however, very few people must bear the various stresses which are borne by billionaires either (and yes, there are severe stresses). Nevertheless, if these are lifelong patterns and coping mechanisms, then there is very little hope of changing them, particularly when he is entering the most stressful job in the free world.
The third, and least appealing possibility is that he is being completely played by the Democrats. By all accounts, he is not a stupid man, however leaving Clinton’s wildly corrupt and criminal enterprises completely intact along with all of the various players who supported it under the guise of “healing” seems ludicrous. The Democrats are not going to “work with him” and are not going to suddenly change their wicked ways unless and until there is a public prosecution and conviction of people who break the law. They must be laughing hysterically since they no longer have to worry about their networks being unraveled and can now focus on smashing the Republicans in 2018 and 2020. This would be a spectacularly poor strategic decision, so it would seem likely that there is more in play than sheer stupidity.
Smashing the Republican party in 2018 and 2020 ??
Really,,,, It’s so funny to hear all of these comments
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As I am pretty sure that both establishment parties
Are toast
And this will become even more apparent in 2018
As the process of draining the swamp is slowly
And methodically put into place by a very methodical
Man, who is playing the players
But by the time they figure it out,,
Lights out Irene
And the winner is…the Deep State, again. Trump will be easy to control because he so petty.
He is more concerned about his image and his brand than he is about matters of state.
The Oligarchs are lined up waiting for their appointments to key post to foster a seamless transition from the 1% the 1%.
Every major anti-establishment promise that got him elected, except for the TTP, is now off the table. Makes you wonder why this particular item was scuttled. Probably because it excluded China and that’s kinda a major oversight. That’s where all the money is and 1% want a piece of that action.
The TPP will be ratified during the lame duck session in December and there nothing on the Earth Trump can do to stop it.
Mish, are you going to be opposition media the entire presidency (even before he has yet to be inaugurated)?
What a crock. Trump is simply a person who vents in public instead of private. He is a fighter and a dominant personality. He is quickly showing people to don’t mess with him on a personal level. He is saying things all of us have thought for years. He is a force to be reckoned with and I predict he will have most of the world tiptoeing around him before long. Sometimes the best offense is being unpredictable. STOP! No he will not drop a nuclear bomb.
He is where it counts to be, and he did not waft in there. Anyone is deluded if they think a president runs the country, but he does set the tone of government and hence nation, and if he is good will continue to make sure it fits with those that asked his representation of it, the public. Despite his faults he is clearly a talented individual, I hope that his uniqueness inspires the rest of you, and that people hold a set of values strong enough to discern and discriminate out that which is truly excessive. He walks a fine line and is at the brink of events, so it is necessary that he has a support and understanding, but not one that is blind, I am sure he knows the difference but he maybe has to learn how to buffer its presence or its effect. Being in the whitehouse and out of campaign will hopefully allow him to recentre his attention, he is going to need to if he has any possibility of dealing with what he is up against, his enemies in state will be relentless.
Concur.
All I see is Trump being Trump that I’ve known the past 30 years. And you know what? He almost always wins. There is method to his madness.
I mentioned this before, but before “grope tape” came out I thought election slipping away. Acting too Presidential (no doubt he was told by Establishment Republicans to tone it down as he was hurting down ballot races). Controversy is where DJT operates best. And when the tape came out, Establishment Republicans abandoned him so Trump went back to being The Donald – as seen in third debate … and carried forward to the election.
I think Trump has keen intuition on how to keep opponents off their feet … which he exploits to his benefit.
Trump: “If I win I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation.”
Hillary:
“Great! I’ve got an assassination he can look into while he’s at it.”
Funny how the legacy press never called obama schizophrenic…
Shall I remind?
“I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.”
— obama 2007
“The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents — number 43 added $4 trillion dollars by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.”
— obama 2008 (the obama debt in now at $20T)
“I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.”
— obama 2008
This is a dance between Trump and all those who fought against him, or at least would not support him, the media, Wall Street, etc. because now they all need each other. I think the ridiculous 180 degree change in how Wall Street is supposedly viewing him and the meteoric rise in the stock market is Wall Street’s way of saying “sorry,” so they can continue to control from behind the scenes. Wall Street will corrupt Trump too, just like it has the rest of us.
I wonder, how long before you do an update on your post wondering whether or not Hillary has Late Stage Parkison’s disease?
I sense you’re setting the stage to distance yourself from Trump. Just now you’re discovering he’s erratic and contradicts himself almost in mid-sentence?!
More likely he is a pyschopath. Look up the PCL-R test and try to score Trump. Anything score over 30 is considered psychopathic. I got him at 31.
Yepper!
Have you seen his kids? Kunstler describes them as “… a litter of high-functioning kids of his own. Not a tattoo or an earplug among them. No apparent gender confusion. All holding rather responsible positions in the family business.”
Clearly dangerous!
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/09/25/blond-cheerful-families-dangerous-right/
Psychopathic people raise nightmare kids.
Trump is not a psychopath based on his kids.
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Chelsea who has never actually worked even a day in real job (NBC corruption job as a lifestyle reporter that never did any actual work and got paid lots for a couple feelgood stories is not a real job) on the other hand….
He possibly stopped because there were so many Republicans intertwined with the Clinton foundation that any investigation would expose them. Seems that the leadership pushed this and I am betting that a lot of them are knee deep in the corruption.
I hope you’re wrong because those Republicans who are knee deep in it are going to be outed the next time Democrats need something.
Maybe Trump does NOT want the 1000’s of career-Clintonistas and Clinton donors and Clinton corrupters to continually plot gainst him because they are fearful that their political and bureaucratic careers and business careers or donor influence will be destroyed and many put to prison by investigation of Hillary Clintons crimes?
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In corruption both the corruptor and corruptee are GUILTY so Trump is not just protecting Clinton he is protecting those that CORRUPTED HER.
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It’s practical in one hand to try to get peace but it also lets 100’s of corrupt or incompetent officials stay in place in FBI and DOJ which completely bungled the email server investigation by letting Hillary destroy 33,000 emails and pick the “evidence” she would give to FBI investigating her server.
This was such a banana republic way to handle things that either EVERYONE at FBI and DOJ are incompetent or DOJ and FBI have corrupt or partisan people in leadership positions.
I am sure many emails about Clinton foundation corruption got deleted among yoga emails and Chelseas wedding planning emails.
The server should have been immediately subpoaned to get all emails instead of letting Hillary pick which emails to give to FBI and let her technician destroy 33k emails with bleachbit.
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The most outrageous part is that the emails could have still been gotten from the back up provider after deletion of the 33k emails, the emails could have still been gotten from Google after deletion of the 33k emails (the bleachbit using technician copied database containing all emails first to his gmail account and then copied it elsewhere and deleted 33k emails with bleachbit) so since Googles servers save EVERYTHING you have ever copied into your Gmail simple Subpoena to Google would have shown all the crimes Hillary tried to hide by deleting 33k emails.
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FBI and DOJ should subpoena Google to get the 33k deleted emails and they should subpoena the backup provider to get the 33k deleted emails.
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Trump is PROTECTING Hillary Clinton and those that CORRUPTED CLINTONS.
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Maybe the truth is just too ugly and American elite would not survive the truth so Trump protects the Elite and doing this hopes the Elite will not wage war against him and his other election promises..
He is making the right moves. Being pragmatic.
Consider that he is coming at these with a critical eye.
A politician doing the opposite of what he says? Shocking, absolutely shocking.
Trump appears to be the consummate liberal democrat style personality. They love you if you are with them, they hate you, actually want to kill you, if you disagree.
The only difference between Trump and them is he does not wait for a new news cycle, it is literally instantaneous.
And, in afterthought, this is probably another reason he won. He lays right down in the same mud the left wingers do. Lets hope he is just not as mentally ill as they all are and can actually get something done.
NYT, “All that’s fit to print.” A running joke among journalists.
Not Mish’s most inspired article.
Mish,
It is inappropriate to “diagnose” someone without ever meeting/assessing them. That goes for all of them… Trump, Obama and Hillary. I am surprised you would post something like that.
Mish, you do Trump and everyone a disservice by this post. Trump is a cluster B personality disorder. He does not have schizophrenia. Far from it, in fact. Last spring I posted this fact and urged everyone to read up on borderline personality disorders and how to deal with them.
He has an emotional disorder. It is important to make that distinction if you have any hope of dealing with what is coming. There are many resources on the internet but I will just leave with the Wikileaks entries on cluster B personality traits. Another avenue of research could include “living with a borderline personality person”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_B_personality_disorders
This is why his wife will stay in New York. I understood the meaning of that immediately. It does not mean she does not love him. She does it for her own emotional stability and that of her children.
“What do you make of Trump’s sudden, dramatic, mood and position reversals?”
It is not a president’s job to go after Hillary. It is the Justice Department’s. Even the Attorney General should not have a say in this, whether it’s Sessions or Lynch. Trump should stay out of it and so should Obama.
Trump also appears to be backing off torture on the advice of General Mattis who, some say, might get the Pentagon job.
We don’t know who the Treasury Secretary is going to be yet and neither does CNN but international trade barriers are the most significant change Trump talked about while campaigning and that is where a Treasury Secretary would matter. Those who think trade barriers are a bad idea needn’t be too upset with the supposed contenders. The TPP isn’t really about trade.
Romney is supposedly a State candidate but he might be better at HHS. Nicky Haley is to be UN Ambassador. She has no experience which is a good thing.
A lot of these stories about Trump’s waffling are coming from his enemies (MSM). Some off-hand comments he has made may be taken out of context and (deliberately) misinterpreted. He shouldn’t talk to MSM at all and should replace them in the WH press corps with internet journalists.
I didn’t vote in the election but I am glad Hillary didn’t win or we would soon be at war with Russia. Trump’s worst pick so far, IMHO, is his CIA director who wanted to bomb Syria in 2013. Hopefully, he has changed his mind.
” Nicky Haley is to be UN Ambassador ”
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I didn’t realize until Trump chose her that she is East Indian with no traditional American roots. As governor of SC [the first state to secede and fight in the civil war], it’s no wonder she had no problem trashing the historic Confederate flag.
Only folks who have ‘traditional roots’ are American Natives! Rest are immigrants or descendants of immigrants!
Humbug!
My Dutch family American roots go back to 17th century New Amsterdam [now called New York.]
My forefathers fought [on both sides] of the American revolution and the American civil war… THOSE are the kind of traditional American roots I was referencing.
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TRADITIONAL roots??
We all immigrants or descendants of immigrants, unless you are a NATIVE American or their descendants!
Maybe there’s a method in Trump’s madness ?!
Maybe it’s time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.
Maybe Trump can build another Trump tower where the UN now stands.
” Trump Ally Promoted to Governor After Nikki Haley’s Appointment ”
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2016/11/23/trump-ally-promoted-to-governor-after-nikki-haleys-appointment-n2249578
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I wonder if Trump has his own red army of internet trolls… or maybe he just borrows Putin’s.
Scott Adams thinks Trump is just being flexible and pragmatic:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153559105081/a-lesson-in-cognitive-dissonance
Adams also says most Trump critics will double-down on their hallucinations, which makes me think of some commenters here.
Medical schizophrenia is definitely not what characterizes Trump. However, it is used as a figure of speech to describe flip-flopping.
Trump was a nice fairy tale… but the prince is now turning back into a toad.
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Lol. He is not even president yet and his critics have already decided how he will govern. People are not used to a president who is principled and leads the nation. Reagan was the last one and you have to be 50 years old to even remember him.
Reagan gave amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
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Reagan was the one who STARTED THE RUSH TO USA because Reagans stupid and idiotic amnesty in 1986 for millions of illegals caused tens of millions more to come because everybody was sure that another amnesty was just a matter of time.
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Reagan was a fool that was played completely by democrats and media and donors wanting more illegals to grant the 1986 amnesty.
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I suspect Reagan already had alzheimers on the brain in 1986…
Thanks for your insightful post.
I suspect Reagan was VP Bush’s puppet.
The Bush family loves open borders. Jeb Bush married a Mexican.
Haven’t you ever worked for a boss who was nice one day and a tyrant the next – so you never really knew where you stood with him? So you walked on eggshells and were overly eager to please him to stay on his good side?
It’s a psychological ploy for an added measure of control. It keeps everyone on edge and in a hypervigilant state of awareness.
As much as Trump has been unfairly targeted by the media, et al, he needs to use every trick in the bag to keep an upper hand on these piranha.
Hi Mish – This kind of reminds me of a quote I heard once….looks like it’s an Oscar Wilde quote: “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative”.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Evelyn D. Williams | Annuities West, Inc.
Mish
I too am worried about our President-elect’s mental state. His behavior very much reminds me of a neighbors kid who upon being paroled after serving five years of a twenty-year sentence for sexual abuse and kidnapping was required to undergo psychological testing. The diagnosis determined that he was a narcissistic-sociopath.
After parole he managed to control himself as long as his father was alive. However upon his fathers passing he reverted to his diagnosed personality disorder. In Trump’s case at this point he apparently recognizes no authority above his own.
The neighbors kid could charm the birds out of the trees when he wanted to but I eventually came to understand that his sincerity was based on his recollection of a flawed narrative that he would concoct by remembering things not as they occurred but rather what he thought would enhance the image he projected.
After seeing the 60 minutes interview and looking into Trump’s eyes I had that eerie feeling that I was watching the neighbors kid again as he was reaching back into his distorted recollections with all the sincerity of a child.
I am no great believer in politicians in general but personally my feeling at this point is we are dealing with a whole different breed of cat.
If I ever hope to be wrong about anything, I hope that I am wrong about this. The damage that such a personality can do to the psyche of the nation boggles my mind.
I also think it important that you continue to monitor and point out inconsistencies in the President elect’s behavior as they occur. Since your platform is as an alternate source of objective information and one that in all likelihood won’t see the kind of pressure that major news outlets with be put under may become important in the near future.
Comparing Trump to your juvenile criminal neighbor? lol.
Do you really expect us to buy it?
I am loving seeing the Trumpers eat a big turd sandwich. The Hillary reversal is the first of many turd sandwiches they are going to be eating for four years. I hope all the morons in Ohio and Pennsylvania who voted for him thinking their coal mines and steel mills were going to reopen (yes they actually think this) also enjoy the big turd sandwich they will be eating. All Trump cares about is Trump. Sieg heil!
Go away you obnoxious loser troll.
Your sick demands of nuclear war in tens of your previous comments against Middle-East are bad trolling or you are paid to try to inflame crazy people to make all commenters to seem crazy extremists.
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Trump will fail at many of is campaign promises but hopefully he will keep the wall and the deportations of criminals and making e-verify mandatory so employers can only hire americans and legal immigrants so tens of millions of illegals will go home themselves.
The Bible defines it another way, calling it a time when “the power of the holy people is totally broken.”
In other words, the end of this evil age.
Mish, don’t do this kind of thing. This makes you look like a writer for the NYT,WP, etc.
I am disappointed. Ron
Mish
This is definitely an important wake up from you that Trump needs to remember: This will be the last election that will be fought on the ballot box if Trump fails and pulls an Obama on the US. There will be hell to pay.
Trump better remember that.
His supporters were Rabid. But they can be Rabid when they turn against him.
Let this post and the messages in this blog be a warning to Trump from the people.
Slasher
Trump lost by 2 million votes… don’t be surprised if he swings toward the majority of voters. He just wants to be liked. Trump voters will have 4 years to enjoy getting sold out and laughed at by the majority of Americans. What a bunch of gullible fools.
Speaking as a physician, Trump is not schizophrenic. He probable has elements of a few personality disorders. He’s a bit sociopathic but so are pretty much all politicians. He’s a little bit paranoid and appears to be narcisistic also. I think that what concerns you as the behaviors of a psychotic individual are just normal behaviors of politicians.
“Question to doctors tuning in: What do you make of Trump’s sudden, dramatic, mood and position reversals?”
Question for Mish: were you paying attention prior to the election?
This is new for you?
Two things
1. There are campaign promises that few believed
2. This 100% reversal in a matter of hours is much different
So yes, it was newsworthy
Surprised?
Not really