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heelinhell said:
Trump experienced a very significant narcissistic injury when he was not accepted and was rejected by the sophisticated NYC elite.

The attaching of his name to the Kennedy Center is just one more futile effort to find acceptance among the sophisticated elite.

He is a crude sad pathetic poor soul yearning to be loved and adored.
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Having read some biographies over the years of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his reign of terror during the Second Red Scare in the early-to-mid 50s I've always thought there were some striking parallels in the personalities and drives and temperament of McCarthy and Trump, even though they came from very different backgrounds.

Trump may have grown up wealthy in NYC and McCarthy was the son of farmers in rural, small-town Wisconsin, but they both were natural bullies with an instinctive sense of how to frighten and intimidate others into backing down, didn't believe in ever apologizing or backing down themselves but instead on always remaining constantly on the attack, had no conscience or ethics and thought nothing of telling flat-out lies to smear the reputations of anyone who dared to criticize them ("If you're against McCarthy, boys" he once told some friendly reporters "you've got to be either a Communist or a cocksucker"), and they were both basically spoiled, lazy, and undisciplined and led far more by impulse than by discipline or even ambition. Neither man was particularly intelligent (reporter George Reedy once said of McCarthy that "he wouldn't know Karl Marx from Groucho, but he was a Senator" and was thus able to make news with his accusations anyway) but they both operated in a time of fear and had powerful (and much smarter) political and media allies who for their own reasons saw them as vehicles they could use to achieve their own objectives.

And as you said of Trump, both men were strongly motivated by their insecurity and hatred and resentment of the "elites" in the country and were extremely petty and vindictive towards anyone they thought was looking down on them or who dared to publicly criticize them. And they even had a personal connection via notorious attorney Roy Cohn, who served as McCarthy's top aide and later became a personal lawyer for a young Donald J. Trump.

Of course McCarthy had a serious drinking problem that developed into full-blown alcoholism and Trump doesn't drink, and McCarthy, while terrorizing many people with his Senate committee during his Commie Witch Hunt, never achieved the kind of power that Trump now has, I do think that both men illustrate the ugliness and sense of resentment and paranoia and anger that lies in so many Americans, just waiting for someone like a McCarthy or Trump to bring it out and attack their perceived mutual enemies.

ETA: Another similarity I left out was that they were both crass, crude, vulgar, and low-class, yet deeply desired to be accepted socially by the respected "good people" in DC and the Eastern Establishment. In December 1950 Senator-elect Richard Nixon supposedly attended a party in DC and when he went to the cloakroom to get his coat to leave he found McCarthy literally beating up Drew Pearson, a well-known syndicated news columnist and radio broadcaster at the time, and who had repeatedly criticized McCarthy in his news column. Nixon broke up the fight, and then helped a drunken McCarthy find his car in the parking lot so he could leave. Pearson sued McCarthy for the injuries he suffered, and in return McCarthy in a Senate speech called Pearson a "Communist tool", which sounds exactly like something Trump would do to a critic.
 
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Mulberry Heel said:
Having read some biographies over the years of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his reign of terror during the Second Red Scare in the early-to-mid 50s I've always thought there were some striking parallels in the personalities and drives and temperament of McCarthy and Trump, even though they came from very different backgrounds.

Trump may have grown up wealthy in NYC and McCarthy was the son of farmers in rural, small-town Wisconsin, but they both were natural bullies with an instinctive sense of how to frighten and intimidate others into backing down, didn't believe in ever apologizing or backing down themselves but instead on always remaining constantly on the attack, had no conscience or ethics and thought nothing of telling flat-out lies to smear the reputations of anyone who dared to criticize them ("If you're against McCarthy, boys" he once told some friendly reporters "you've got to be either a Communist or a cocksucker"), and they were both basically spoiled, lazy, and undisciplined and led far more by impulse than by discipline or even ambition. Neither man was particularly intelligent (reporter George Reedy once said of McCarthy that "he wouldn't know Karl Marx from Groucho, but he was a Senator" and was thus able to make news with his accusations anyway) but they both operated in a time of fear and had powerful (and much smarter) political and media allies who for their own reasons saw them as vehicles they could use to achieve their own objectives.

And as you said of Trump, both men were strongly motivated by their insecurity and hatred and resentment of the "elites" in the country and were extremely petty and vindictive towards anyone they thought was looking down on them or who dared to publicly criticize them. And they even had a personal connection via notorious attorney Roy Cohn, who served as McCarthy's top aide and later became a personal lawyer for a young Donald J. Trump.

Of course McCarthy had a serious drinking problem that developed into full-blown alcoholism and Trump doesn't drink, and McCarthy, while terrorizing many people with his Senate committee during his Commie Witch Hunt, never achieved the kind of power that Trump now has, I do think that both men illustrate the ugliness and sense of resentment and paranoia and anger that lies in so many Americans, just waiting for someone like a McCarthy or Trump to bring it out and attack their perceived mutual enemies.
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Trump has an addiction problem as well. Just because he doesnt drink alcohol doesnt mean he isnt abusing any number of other substances.
 
In re: Nigeria bombing —>

“… Trump told POLITICO that the strike was originally to take place on Wednesday but the president ordered it delayed one day – for symbolic reasons.

“They were going to do it earlier,” Trump said. “And I said, ‘nope, let’s give a Christmas present.’ … They didn’t think that was coming, but we hit them hard. Every camp got decimated.”…”





 
nycfan said:
In re: Nigeria bombing —>

“… Trump told POLITICO that the strike was originally to take place on Wednesday but the president ordered it delayed one day – for symbolic reasons.

“They were going to do it earlier,” Trump said. “And I said, ‘nope, let’s give a Christmas present.’ … They didn’t think that was coming, but we hit them hard. Every camp got decimated.”…”





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Also in Politico interview:

“… Trump also confirmed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would visit him this weekend.

“I have Zelenskyy and I have Bibi coming. They’re all coming. They all come,” Trump said. “They respect our country again.”…”
 
“… “Does anyone know what Somaliland is, really?” Trump asked aloud from his golf course in West Palm Beach.

Trump sounded unimpressed by the Muslim-majority state offering to join the Abraham Accords — through which Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan and the UAE established relations with Israel — and equally unimpressed by Somaliland’s offer of land for a US naval base near the mouth of the Red Sea.

Asked about Somaliland’s offer to the US of a port on the strategically important Gulf of Aden, Trump dismissively replied, “Big deal.”

“Everything is under study,” the president added.

“We’ll study it. I study a lot of things and always make great decisions and they turn out to be correct.”

… Trump said in August that he was considering granting Somaliland recognition, saying at the time: “We’re looking into that right now. Good question, actually. And another complex one, as you know. But we’re working on that right now — Somaliland.”“

nypost.com

Exclusive | Trump tells The Post he’s not ready to embrace Somaliland independence — unlike pal Netanyahu

Israel on Friday became the world’s first country to recognize Somaliland’s split from anarchic Somalia, with Netanyahu planning to deliver a message to Trump at their Monday Mar-a-Lago…
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nycfan said:
“… “Does anyone know what Somaliland is, really?” Trump asked aloud from his golf course in West Palm Beach.

Trump sounded unimpressed by the Muslim-majority state offering to join the Abraham Accords — through which Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan and the UAE established relations with Israel — and equally unimpressed by Somaliland’s offer of land for a US naval base near the mouth of the Red Sea.

Asked about Somaliland’s offer to the US of a port on the strategically important Gulf of Aden, Trump dismissively replied, “Big deal.”

“Everything is under study,” the president added.

“We’ll study it. I study a lot of things and always make great decisions and they turn out to be correct.”

… Trump said in August that he was considering granting Somaliland recognition, saying at the time: “We’re looking into that right now. Good question, actually. And another complex one, as you know. But we’re working on that right now — Somaliland.”“

nypost.com

Exclusive | Trump tells The Post he’s not ready to embrace Somaliland independence — unlike pal Netanyahu

Israel on Friday became the world’s first country to recognize Somaliland’s split from anarchic Somalia, with Netanyahu planning to deliver a message to Trump at their Monday Mar-a-Lago…
nypost.com nypost.com
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Whoever wants Trump to do this should tell Trump that Ilhan Omar opposes independence for Somaliland … that will probably change his tune. But he ought to value a naval base on the Gulf of Aden a lot more than his flippant response here.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Having read some biographies over the years of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his reign of terror during the Second Red Scare in the early-to-mid 50s I've always thought there were some striking parallels in the personalities and drives and temperament of McCarthy and Trump, even though they came from very different backgrounds.

Trump may have grown up wealthy in NYC and McCarthy was the son of farmers in rural, small-town Wisconsin, but they both were natural bullies with an instinctive sense of how to frighten and intimidate others into backing down, didn't believe in ever apologizing or backing down themselves but instead on always remaining constantly on the attack, had no conscience or ethics and thought nothing of telling flat-out lies to smear the reputations of anyone who dared to criticize them ("If you're against McCarthy, boys" he once told some friendly reporters "you've got to be either a Communist or a cocksucker"), and they were both basically spoiled, lazy, and undisciplined and led far more by impulse than by discipline or even ambition. Neither man was particularly intelligent (reporter George Reedy once said of McCarthy that "he wouldn't know Karl Marx from Groucho, but he was a Senator" and was thus able to make news with his accusations anyway) but they both operated in a time of fear and had powerful (and much smarter) political and media allies who for their own reasons saw them as vehicles they could use to achieve their own objectives.

And as you said of Trump, both men were strongly motivated by their insecurity and hatred and resentment of the "elites" in the country and were extremely petty and vindictive towards anyone they thought was looking down on them or who dared to publicly criticize them. And they even had a personal connection via notorious attorney Roy Cohn, who served as McCarthy's top aide and later became a personal lawyer for a young Donald J. Trump.

Of course McCarthy had a serious drinking problem that developed into full-blown alcoholism and Trump doesn't drink, and McCarthy, while terrorizing many people with his Senate committee during his Commie Witch Hunt, never achieved the kind of power that Trump now has, I do think that both men illustrate the ugliness and sense of resentment and paranoia and anger that lies in so many Americans, just waiting for someone like a McCarthy or Trump to bring it out and attack their perceived mutual enemies.

ETA: Another similarity I left out was that they were both crass, crude, vulgar, and low-class, yet deeply desired to be accepted socially by the respected "good people" in DC and the Eastern Establishment. In December 1950 Senator-elect Richard Nixon supposedly attended a party in DC and when he went to the cloakroom to get his coat to leave he found McCarthy literally beating up Drew Pearson, a well-known syndicated news columnist and radio broadcaster at the time, and who had repeatedly criticized McCarthy in his news column. Nixon broke up the fight, and then helped a drunken McCarthy find his car in the parking lot so he could leave. Pearson sued McCarthy for the injuries he suffered, and in return McCarthy in a Senate speech called Pearson a "Communist tool", which sounds exactly like something Trump would do to a critic.
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more rejection of Trump resulting in a million dollar lawsuit ?

www.rawstory.com

Trump's Kennedy Center ally hits musician with $1M demand over Christmas Eve cancelation

The president of the Kennedy Center’s board is once again lashing out at critics of President Donald Trump – this time targeting a veteran jazz musician who abruptly canceled a Christmas Eve performance following the center’s MAGA-style renaming to the “Trump-Kennedy Center.”Richard Grenell, a...
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nycfan said:
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Lie: ‘I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water’
“… Trump lied about a supposed problem and then lied about his supposed solution to it. During his pre-inauguration transition period in January, the president baselessly linked wildfires in Los Angeles to a completely unrelated effort to use some of California’s water to protect a fish species hundreds of miles to the north.

Then, as president in March, he conjured up a heroic tale: “I broke into Los Angeles. Can you believe it? I had a break-in. I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water and the water is now flowing down.”

What Trump actually did was pull a stunt unrelated to Los Angeles, pointlessly sending about two billion gallons of water from one part of California’s Central Valley to another part of that valley.…”
 
For any completists out there:



Since I am in airports and on airplanes all day and night, I might be bored/trapped enough to peruse it to see if we obviously missed any of these stories this year.
 
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