Trump says “Don’t be rude”
Trump’s exchange with Jim Acosta of CNN:
Here's the exchange where CNN's Jim @Acosta tries to ask Trump a question and the President-elect refuses pic.twitter.com/LlwmhPj5w3
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) January 11, 2017
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Did he make that phrase up himself, or did someone actually say that to him once?
Boggle.
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What was Trump’s father like? Would he have been proud of his son’s behavior? Trump acts like he was abused or ignored or both.
Well, his father was SS Obergruppenfuhrer Trumpkopf, one of Adolf’s personal guard, later to be posted to the Gestapo to question captured allied soldiers.The family name was Americanised after he was taken to the US in 1945 to train the American security forces in enhanced interrogation techniques.By all accounts he raised his children in a strictly Teutonic fashion.
Nah, not really, but this post-truth thing is quite infectious.
Everything he does and says drips with boorishness and petulence.
Could we please just stop? Why do we assume that every asshole was abused? So many, many people are abused, and don’t turn out like this…it can be really disheartening to those of us struggling with post-abuse issues to see people being let off the hook for awful behavior because of assumptions (undemonstrated) of abuse.
To me, Trump acts less like someone who has been abused than like someone who has been catered to his whole life. Oh, not necessarily with great, loving parents, no, but someone who was brought up in the belief that he was something above and beyond others, who was praised for even the smallest thing, like doing the basic things he was expected to do. He acts like someone who hasn’t known real adversity, and who has been given the message his whole life that what he wants is his to take, because he is a member of the master class of supermen that are better, smarter, handsomer, etc, than the ordinary losers who actually work their asses off for a few dollars of take home pay to put “food on their family” as another spoiled rich brat once said.
I second iknklast re. Trump. His are the actions of one who has never had to take ‘no’ as an answer, who has been raised to disregard the feelings of others because others don’t matter, to believe that winning is everything and anybody who opposes him is an enemy to be crushed and humiliated as publically as possible.
I wouldn’t necessarily blame all of his faults on his upbringing, I believe his personality would still be nasty and vindictive irrespective of how he was raised, but the sense of entitlement was most likely a result of his massively over-privileged upbringing, and with this in combination with his awful personality, it would have been a miracle had he not turned out to be such an absolute shit.
Certainly his parents might have recognised the problems early enough to maybe at least try to curb his excesses, but then again they might not have been concerned as long as he was successful. Unfortunately we can only speculate, his parents are no longer here to defend either themselves or their son, and I would expect that his siblings and others close to the family daren’t say too much of a negative nature about him for fear of the consequences.
In short, his parents almost certainly cannot be accused of abusing him, but the vast privilege he experienced as a child surely helped shape the man, and for that the parents are to blame.
iknklast: I agree. I was somewhat circuitously suggesting he had been ‘abused’ in the way that you say: catered to his whole life. And abuse can lead to greatness just as much as failure. And so unfortunate for us all we must endure this particular failure through the fulcrum of the executive branch.
Okay, Kevin, but I think that is stretching the word “abuse”. I think “coddled” would be a better word. It may have been by nannies or other servants rather than his parents, but it has also apparently continued throughout his life. His horrible temper means that people who work for him or with him are not likely to do much other than bow and scrape and tell him how great he is – that’s how they survive in his world.
President Dudley Dursley.