Today's Thought, June 19, 2018

"Help me!"

I sometimes wonder if most things Donald does is really just a quiet scream for help to save him from his ego being crushed -- the implicit calls of a narcissist?

His current rant blaming Democrats for child separations at the border can, in a sense, be understood as a plea for Democrats to save his ego by explicitly banning child separations. From the start of his administration, his call to the Mexican President was a plea for Pieto to save him from embarrassment over the wall.

He didn't understand healthcare policy so his claims of how great his plans were, were actually a call to Republicans to draw up a plan to match his rhetoric. Same goes for Afghanistan, North Korea, global trade, etc.

Those tariffs could actually be his way of pleading with other nations to look the other way to give him foreign policy wins he needs, right before he quietly drops the tariffs and let things resettle back to where they were before.

Absent the response he was looking for, his ego is left with no other choice than to escalate and push through -- until someone saves him, that is.