George Conway: Trump went ballistic at me on Twitter. Here’s why he reacts with such rage.

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By

George T. Conway III 

Contributing columnist

May 6, 2020 at 6:16 p.m. EDT

Americans died from covid-19 at the rate of about one every 42 seconds during the past month. That ought to keep any president awake at night.

Not Donald Trump.

Just days ago, the president flipped out at a detailed New York Times article that described how he watches television at all hours, obsessed about how he’s covered in the news. As though to prove the story’s thesis, Trump rage-tweeted that it was a “phony story” and that the media would say “Anything to demean!”

And then, as though to prove the point again, at 12:46 a.m. on Tuesday, Trump went ballistic on Twitter — at me.

In a four-tweet screed, he attacked me and my colleagues at the Lincoln Project as “LOSERS,” “loser types,” “crazed” and “a disgrace to Honest Abe.” About me, he said, “I don’t know what Kellyanne did to her deranged loser of a husband, Moonface, but it must have been really bad.” Ten hours later, on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, Trump was still enraged, ranting about us for nearly two minutes in front of the media.

What triggered his ire was a 60-second online ad we released Monday. Entitled “Mourning in America,” it’s an inversion of President Ronald Reagan’s famous 1984 reelection campaign ad, “Morning in America.” Reagan’s ad took credit for the resurgence of the American economy. Our ad puts the blame for the government’s failures in responding to covid-19 right where it belongs — on Trump. He dithered for 10 weeks, from January to mid-March, misleading the public about the severity of the crisis, pretending that the virus would never take hold here. History will record that each day of delay cost American lives.

It may strike you as deranged that a sitting president facing a pandemic has busied himself attacking journalists, political opponents, television news hosts and late-night comedians — even deriding a former president who merely called for empathy and unity in response to the virus. It may strike you as nuts that Trump bragged about his supposed Facebook ranking in the middle of a virus task-force briefing, asserted that millions would have died were it not for him, boasted that “the ‘Ratings’ of my News Conferences etc.” were driving “the Lamestream Media . . . CRAZY,” and floated bogus miracle cures, including suggesting that scientists consider injecting humans with household disinfectants such as Clorox.

If so, you’re not alone. Tens of thousands of mental-health professionals, testing the bounds of professional ethics, have warned for years about Trump’s unfitness for office.

Some people listened; many, including myself, did not, until it was too late.

Now, it’s more obvious than ever. Trump’s narcissism deadens any ability he might otherwise have had to carry out the duties of a president in the manner the Constitution requires. He’s so self-obsessed, he can only act for himself, not for the nation. It’s why he was impeached, and why he should have been removed from office.

And it’s why he reacts with such rage. He fears the truth. He fears being revealed for what he truly is. Extreme narcissists exaggerate their achievements and talents, and so Trump has spent his life building up a false image of himself — not just for others, but for himself, to protect his deeply fragile ego. He lies endlessly, not just in the way sociopaths do, which is to con others, but also to delude himself. He claims to be a “genius,” even though he apparently can’t spell, can’t punctuate, can’t do math and lacks geographic literacy, and even though his own appointees have privately called him a “moron,” an “idiot,” a “dope,” and “dumb.” Now, God help us, he fancies himself an expert in virology and infectious diseases.

But the jig is up. When Trump lied and claimed credit for “the greatest economy in the history of our country,” even though it wasn’t, and even though he inherited a strong economy, and goosed it up with trillions of dollars in debt, it didn’t matter to most people. The economy was good — so what? The debt? That won’t come due for decades.

When he tried to obstruct the Mueller investigation, that didn’t move them either. The rule of law and the violation of a presidential oath are abstractions; the Dow Jones industrial average and the unemployment rate aren’t. And when he used his presidential power to try to extort a foreign ally into smearing a political opponent, not enough cared then, either.

Now it all matters, painfully and concretely. Trump’s lying, his self-regard, his self-soothing, his lack of empathy, his narcissistic rage, his contempt for norms, rules, laws, facts and simple truths — have all come home to roost. Now he sees his poll numbers fall accordingly, and lashes out with ever-increasing anger. For deep in his psyche he knows the truth. Because he fears being revealed as a fake or deranged, he’ll call others fake or deranged. Because he fears losing, he’ll call them losers instead.

And while Trump’s mind roils in rage, too many Americans are losing their lives. That’s the losing that matters, to everyone but him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/06/george-conway-trump-lashed-out-me-twitter-its-because-he-knows-truth/

 

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Mental Health Professionals Declare Trump is Mentally Ill And Must Be Removed

John Gartner Ph.D. started this petition to President Trump's Cabinet

We, the undersigned mental health professionals (please state your degree), believe in our professional judgment that Donald Trump manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States. And we respectfully request he be removed from office, according to article 4 of the 25th amendment to the Constitution, which states that the president will be replaced if he is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”

This petition had 70,597 supporters

https://www.change.org/p/trump-is-mentally-ill-and-must-be-removed

[Grumps 3,704]

3 hours ago, homersapien said:

Mental Health Professionals Declare Trump is Mentally Ill And Must Be Removed

John Gartner Ph.D. started this petition to President Trump's Cabinet

We, the undersigned mental health professionals (please state your degree), believe in our professional judgment that Donald Trump manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States. And we respectfully request he be removed from office, according to article 4 of the 25th amendment to the Constitution, which states that the president will be replaced if he is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”

This petition had 70,597 supporters

https://www.change.org/p/trump-is-mentally-ill-and-must-be-removed

I am not saying that Trump is mentally competent, but it seems ridiculous that a petition signed by "professionals" who have never sat down and talked to a person would be deemed worthy of anything but a shredder.

[TitanTiger 20,506]

4 hours ago, homersapien said:

By

George T. Conway III 

Contributing columnist

May 6, 2020 at 6:16 p.m. EDT

Americans died from covid-19 at the rate of about one every 42 seconds during the past month. That ought to keep any president awake at night.

Not Donald Trump.

Just days ago, the president flipped out at a detailed New York Times article that described how he watches television at all hours, obsessed about how he’s covered in the news. As though to prove the story’s thesis, Trump rage-tweeted that it was a “phony story” and that the media would say “Anything to demean!”

And then, as though to prove the point again, at 12:46 a.m. on Tuesday, Trump went ballistic on Twitter — at me.

In a four-tweet screed, he attacked me and my colleagues at the Lincoln Project as “LOSERS,” “loser types,” “crazed” and “a disgrace to Honest Abe.” About me, he said, “I don’t know what Kellyanne did to her deranged loser of a husband, Moonface, but it must have been really bad.” Ten hours later, on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, Trump was still enraged, ranting about us for nearly two minutes in front of the media.

What triggered his ire was a 60-second online ad we released Monday. Entitled “Mourning in America,” it’s an inversion of President Ronald Reagan’s famous 1984 reelection campaign ad, “Morning in America.” Reagan’s ad took credit for the resurgence of the American economy. Our ad puts the blame for the government’s failures in responding to covid-19 right where it belongs — on Trump. He dithered for 10 weeks, from January to mid-March, misleading the public about the severity of the crisis, pretending that the virus would never take hold here. History will record that each day of delay cost American lives.

It may strike you as deranged that a sitting president facing a pandemic has busied himself attacking journalists, political opponents, television news hosts and late-night comedians — even deriding a former president who merely called for empathy and unity in response to the virus. It may strike you as nuts that Trump bragged about his supposed Facebook ranking in the middle of a virus task-force briefing, asserted that millions would have died were it not for him, boasted that “the ‘Ratings’ of my News Conferences etc.” were driving “the Lamestream Media . . . CRAZY,” and floated bogus miracle cures, including suggesting that scientists consider injecting humans with household disinfectants such as Clorox.

If so, you’re not alone. Tens of thousands of mental-health professionals, testing the bounds of professional ethics, have warned for years about Trump’s unfitness for office.

Some people listened; many, including myself, did not, until it was too late.

Now, it’s more obvious than ever. Trump’s narcissism deadens any ability he might otherwise have had to carry out the duties of a president in the manner the Constitution requires. He’s so self-obsessed, he can only act for himself, not for the nation. It’s why he was impeached, and why he should have been removed from office.

And it’s why he reacts with such rage. He fears the truth. He fears being revealed for what he truly is. Extreme narcissists exaggerate their achievements and talents, and so Trump has spent his life building up a false image of himself — not just for others, but for himself, to protect his deeply fragile ego. He lies endlessly, not just in the way sociopaths do, which is to con others, but also to delude himself. He claims to be a “genius,” even though he apparently can’t spell, can’t punctuate, can’t do math and lacks geographic literacy, and even though his own appointees have privately called him a “moron,” an “idiot,” a “dope,” and “dumb.” Now, God help us, he fancies himself an expert in virology and infectious diseases.

But the jig is up. When Trump lied and claimed credit for “the greatest economy in the history of our country,” even though it wasn’t, and even though he inherited a strong economy, and goosed it up with trillions of dollars in debt, it didn’t matter to most people. The economy was good — so what? The debt? That won’t come due for decades.

When he tried to obstruct the Mueller investigation, that didn’t move them either. The rule of law and the violation of a presidential oath are abstractions; the Dow Jones industrial average and the unemployment rate aren’t. And when he used his presidential power to try to extort a foreign ally into smearing a political opponent, not enough cared then, either.

Now it all matters, painfully and concretely. Trump’s lying, his self-regard, his self-soothing, his lack of empathy, his narcissistic rage, his contempt for norms, rules, laws, facts and simple truths — have all come home to roost. Now he sees his poll numbers fall accordingly, and lashes out with ever-increasing anger. For deep in his psyche he knows the truth. Because he fears being revealed as a fake or deranged, he’ll call others fake or deranged. Because he fears losing, he’ll call them losers instead.

And while Trump’s mind roils in rage, too many Americans are losing their lives. That’s the losing that matters, to everyone but him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/06/george-conway-trump-lashed-out-me-twitter-its-because-he-knows-truth/

 

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4 hours ago, homersapien said:

a sitting president facing a pandemic has busied himself attacking journalists, political opponents, television news hosts and late-night comedians — even deriding a former president who merely called for empathy and unity in response to the virus. It may strike you as nuts that Trump bragged about his supposed Facebook ranking in the middle of a virus task-force briefing, asserted that millions would have died were it not for him, boasted that “the ‘Ratings’ of my News Conferences etc.” were driving “the Lamestream Media . . . CRAZY,” and floated bogus miracle cures, including suggesting that scientists consider injecting humans with household disinfectants

I don't know why people even talk about that stuff. It's just who he is. Lol! Those libtard dumbocrats should just get over it and tell Bill Clinton jokes or worry about Joe Biden's psyche instead. 

 

 

 

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17 minutes ago, McLoofus said:

I don't know why people even talk about that stuff. It's just who he is. Lol! Those libtard dumbocrats should just get over it and tell Bill Clinton jokes or worry about Joe Biden's psyche instead. 

 

 

 

Doesn't take much to get under your skin I see. Hung up with the past, that was yesterday. 

[McLoofus 35,182]

1 minute ago, wdefromtx said:

Doesn't take much to get under your skin I see. Hung up with the past, that was yesterday. 

Oh, your sentiments on the topic have changed since then? Good, glad you were able to listen to reason. 

[wdefromtx 3,159]

Just now, McLoofus said:

Oh, your sentiments on the topic have changed since then? Good, glad you were able to listen to reason. 

Nah, a good Clinton/Lewinsky joke always stands the test of time. 

[McLoofus 35,182]

2 minutes ago, wdefromtx said:

Nah, a good Clinton/Lewinsky joke always stands the test of time. 

Not the joke, bud, but the claim that people discussing the sitting POTUS on a political forum are "obsessed". 

[wdefromtx 3,159]

Just now, McLoofus said:

Not the joke, bud, but the claim that people discussing the sitting POTUS on a political forum are "obsessed". 

When you take stuff so seriously you can't even stop to take it what it is a.....a joke. Then yeah, I'd say you are obsessed a bit. I am already well aware of trump's marital transgressions. 

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4 minutes ago, wdefromtx said:

When you take stuff so seriously you can't even stop to take it what it is a.....a joke. Then yeah, I'd say you are obsessed a bit. I am already well aware of trump's marital transgressions. 

Not sure how many times I have to tell you that I was well aware that it was a joke. 

I don't know. Maybe I do take good jokes too seriously. You might have a point there. 

[wdefromtx 3,159]

Just now, McLoofus said:

Not sure how many times I have to tell you that I was well aware that it was a joke. 

I don't know. Maybe I do take good jokes too seriously. You might have a point there. 

I am just saying that some of y'all take this stuff to another level (which if that's your thing, cool). Sometimes it's good to relax, I only say that because I should be dead from a massive heart attack in December and I have learned to not stress over things. And I am being sincere when I say this. 

[McLoofus 35,182]

7 minutes ago, wdefromtx said:

I am just saying that some of y'all take this stuff to another level (which if that's your thing, cool). Sometimes it's good to relax, I only say that because I should be dead from a massive heart attack in December and I have learned to not stress over things. And I am being sincere when I say this. 

And sincere congrats on your recovery. Just know, though, that that is a very popular misconception and rhetorical tool that is usually used very short-sightedly and often disingenuously. Regardless, you would do well not to project things onto people based on the limited conversations in here. Feel free to make assumptions about my political beliefs but I'd advise against making assumptions about my life or anyone else's away from this forum. I will certainly extend to you the same courtesy.

[wdefromtx 3,159]

2 minutes ago, McLoofus said:

And sincere congrats on your recovery. Just know, though, that that is a very popular misconception and rhetorical tool that is usually used very short-sightedly and often disingenuously. Regardless, you would do well not to project things onto people based on the limited conversations in here. Feel free to make assumptions about my political beliefs but I'd advise against making assumptions about my life or anyone else's away from this forum. I will certainly extend to you the same courtesy.

Thanks, and that sound's like a plan. Just know it wasn't used disingenuously, but you are correct I shouldn't have assumed it extended beyond your political beliefs.