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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe steroids have intensified Trump's personality
including his psychological pathologies. It is obvious in his all caps tweets from the last days and especially in his new pledge to hold the stimulus hostage to his re-election efforts.
His statement that he wants McConnell to double down on efforts to steamroll Amy Covid Barrett onto the SCOTUS. He knows she is key to getting his way in whatever Machiavellian scheme they are are utilizing.
Cirque du So-What
(29,732 posts)Hes already an asshole. Intensely so.
Mc Mike
(9,260 posts)agingdem
(8,849 posts)and if he's on a mega dose of this particular steroid he's going to have his pus infested head in the toilet...this is major withdrawal...
FarPoint
(14,765 posts)shortness of breathe, refusal to comply with anything he is told....Tic, Tic, Tc....Yeap.
agingdem
(8,849 posts)this is excruciating body pain, burning skin, vertigo, violent nausea and major brain fog..except this is Trump so no brain/no fog...
FarPoint
(14,765 posts)I sense he had at least 1 GM/1000 mg in 100 ml NS Infusion daily. .at a minimum of 3 doses...now, probably oral Prednisone taper down plan...
Captain Zero
(8,905 posts)Getting off strong and long use of steroids is hell. And dangerous. HE Will need psych medications.
agingdem
(8,849 posts)and you're correct...hallucinations and then hitting the wall...this is major raging bi-polar in pill form...
fleur-de-lisa
(14,704 posts)agingdem
(8,849 posts)he's a depraved sadist, a malignant narcissist, and a psychopath with the emotional age of an 8 year old pyromaniac ...if he can't get his way then he's going to burn it down
samnsara
(18,767 posts)brewens
(15,359 posts)enhances your personality. Okay fine. But what if you're and asshole!
The Blue Flower
(6,490 posts)A memorable line for sure!
FarPoint
(14,765 posts)Wait for steroid " crash"....he should be tapering off since he was discharged but the mood swings will be volatile!
Tanuki
(16,448 posts)but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story." ....(more)
-Poe, The Tell-tale Heart ❤
https://www.poemuseum.org/the-tell-tale-heart
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I really believe that.
The Blue Flower
(6,490 posts)I expect more will see it and all the spinning in the world won't help.
LeftInTX
(34,295 posts)He's the world's biggest A-hole.
He's facing humiliation and loss of control for the first time in his life. That is enough to make him unhinged.