Here's a guy, he's in his late 20s, maybe early 30s, he owns a big hotel in midtown Manhattan, he's a millionaire many times over, he's in the papers so much that he's famous just for being who he is, he can have anything he wants in life, he can have any woman he wants. He's on a cross-country flight from L.A. to New York seated in first class next to an attractive woman. So what does he do after they have the first-class dinner service seated side by side?
He leans over, and without asking or even saying a word, he starts kissing her on the mouth and groping her breasts. When he takes his hand and starts reaching up her skirt, the woman picks up her purse and flees through the drawn curtains into the coach cabin.
When several years later he sees the woman at a big charity event in Manhattan, what does he do? Does he turn away and try to avoid her for the rest of the evening? Does he leave the event? No, he strides right up to her and with people all around them in their evening finery, he calls her a cunt.
It’s Donald Trump, of course, but why? Why did this man do so much that is simply imponderable, commit so many crimes, take so many risks?
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People confused deceit with intelligence. TRump is amoral. Unless you’ve had experience with a sociopath, it’s hard to understand that you are dealing with a criminally-minded animal. On top of that, he really is stupid. I know, we aren’t supposed to denigrate people with low IQs, yada, yada . . . But tRump, who MIGHT read at a third-grade level, is a stupid man. He has been groomed and trained by attorney’s all his life. He has learned how to exploit. That does not make him clever. He has been taught to believe he can take whatever he wants, whenever it presents itself. His circle of enablers led his the way. As a malignant narcissist, Trump serves himself ONLY. He even fantasizes of sexual relations with his daughter, for Chrissakes. Trump represents degraded humanity. That’s why.
It's about POWER. Sexual assault is never about sex, it's always about power. Being President of the United States gave him more power than he could have ever imagined, and he wants it again. The power-hungry malignant narcissist egomaniac cannot get enough of it. But he has a void so deep in his psyche that NOTHING will ever fill it. He always has been, and always will be miserable and unhappy.