It Will *Always*
Be About Trump
In the “Harry Potter” book series by J. K. Rowling, there is a constant rule
that you do not mention the name of the big bad villain that they fear. You do not say “Voldemort”. Ever.
Not in passing. Not under your
breath. The pale nose-less caricature of
evil is always referred to by everyone else in that fictional world as “You-Know-Who”
or “The Dark Lord”.
Harry Potter and his friends never really understood why, and they never
explain why in the movies, but apparently Voldemort had invoked a spell that
would let him know whenever anyone said his name. People feared his revenge, even after believing
he was dead, so they refused to say his name, and they told everyone else to
never say his name. Of course, that did
not stop him from returning and causing havoc and death everywhere he went.
So the willful ignorance of supposed “wizards” was a huge stinking failure.
We have something of a similar problem with a certain orange-skinned self-promoting
clown act who is currently infesting the White House.
Narcissist President Donald Trump seems to confound the air-fluffed
ego-driven members of the media, not to mention the thinking members of the
United States, with all of the weird things that he does. They don’t understand why he makes personal
attacks on people who criticize him. They
don’t understand why he goes to places where he knows that he is not welcomed and
why they turn into some PR rally complete with seemingly starstruck fans and
followers who worship him as a messiah.
They don’t understand why he makes asinine comments about himself at
events that are clearly about something that doesn’t involve him. They don’t understand why he makes BS claims
and boasts and lies and why he supposedly wants
to buy Greenland. He certainly doesn’t
act like anyone else in his position of importance would do.
The air-fluffed ego-driven members of the media – TV, radio, newsprint, and
Internet combined – either refuse to acknowledge or refuse to accept the one
thing that makes Narcissist Trump different from most people. That one thing is something that this
commentator has strived to include with as many references to him as possible since
he took office.
The one word that they refuse to say: Narcissist.
President Donald Trump is a narcissist.
It’s almost like there is this unwritten rule that you cannot give that pronouncement
on radio or TV. Talk radio personalities
on the progressive side (yes, they exist)
seemingly refuse to say the word “narcissist”.
So-called political “experts” on TV refuse to acknowledge Trump’s
narcissism when they try to comprehend the things that he does.
It’s a word. It’s a word used to
describe a person’s mental state. You do
not need a PhD to say it. We had no
problem hearing Tony Stark admitting to his “textbook narcissism” in “Iron Man 2”,
and yet we are somehow afraid of saying it about Narcissist Trump.
Narcissist.
Narcissism.
Say it. Understand it. Accept it.
Acknowledge it. This is what you
elected. This is what occupies the White
House.
Because our refusal to say that word also prevents us from understanding
the truth about Narcissist Trump and why he does what he does. We are dumbfounded
by his actions and attitudes because we refuse to acknowledge this one word
that describes him.
Let’s get brutally honest here... When it comes to Narcissist Trump, everything
that he does will *always* be about him.
Always.
When Narcissist Trump goes to a scene of tragedy, such as a mass shooting
or an area devastated by a natural disaster, he isn’t going there to offer
support or sympathy to the victims of that tragedy. Because at that point it is not about the
victims. It is about Narcissist Trump
being there.
That’s why he’s always smiling and giving thumbs-up amidst tragedy and
surrounded by supposed idol worshipers.
That’s why he’s seen in El Paso with his current wife holding
a baby who was just orphaned and acting like it was a trophy. That’s why he was seen gleefully
tossing paper towels to survivors of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico like he
was in a wrestling event in Madison Square Garden. It’s not about the tragedy. It’s not about giving solace and support to
those who were the victims of tragedy.
It’s not even about that little orphaned baby. It is about Narcissist Trump being there. It is always about him, and his reactions, and
his presence there, and how *he* is welcomed and treated by everyone.
“Marcia, Marcia, Marcia,” meet “Trump, Trump, Trump!”
Yes, Narcissist Trump makes personal attacks on his critics, and even
seems to go out of his way to do it, because that is what a narcissist does. Everything is personal. It is about him, after all. He is not playing “seven-dimensional chess”
or any other kind of made-up excuse that the overpaid so-called “experts” are
trying to claim that he is doing. He is really
not that complex. The President is a
narcissist. Narcissists see only two sides:
with the narcissist or against the narcissist.
If you’re with him, then you have to blindly support and agree with and
defend everything that he says or does or thinks. And if you can’t, then you’re “the enemy”. It really is that simple.
I might even suggest that the media is willfully refusing to acknowledge
Trump’s narcissism because that gives the illusion of him being a “complex”
person. That his petty antics are all
part of some act, some grand deception by a master tactician, instead of the
symptoms of someone with a personality disorder.
It was ultimately wrong for the people in the “Harry Potter” series to
willfully not mention Voldemort by name.
It only allowed him to regroup and recover and return, hiding in plain
sight through the willful ignorance and stupidity of supposed “wizards”. Likewise, it is wrong for us to refrain from
using a word that can best describe the person occupying the White House. It’s like not being able to say his hair is
yellow or that his skin is orangish. It
only serves to give him more power over us that no person should ever have,
especially in a country that supposedly cherishes freedom of speech.
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