After watching that fabulous interview with Mary Trump that was posted on DU

[malaise]

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I understood what he means when he says 'your favorite president'. His only goal in life was being his father's favorite child. He was prepared to do anything to achieve it. So the two crooks fed off each other.

Mary Trump joins hosts Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi to make sense of President Trump’s past actions and policies and to help us evaluate his underlying psychology and potential for future harm in the next few weeks and possibly, in the next four years. Mary Trump is the niece of Donald Trump, a psychologist, and the author of

[Mike 03]

1. Kicking

Mary Trump's book is "The Donald Trump User's Manual."

[panader0]

2. All of that Dad's favorite or Mom's favorite stuff is pretty childish.

When you come of age, you become your own person, and shouldn't blame your upbringing
for anything.

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. So, abused children should not place any blame on those who abused them as children?

There are plenty of reason to blame a faulty childhood. To ignore this is to ignore healing.

[panader0]

4. You are your own best psychiatrist.

I wouldn't go to a psychiatrist and spend a fortune to have someone else tell me what I
already know, anymore that I would go to a church and have someone else tell me now to
think, or what to believe.

[OldBaldy1701E]

5. Very true.

Unfortunately, no one will believe you if you don't. Regardless of the reams of evidence, if someone doesn't get that 'stamp of illness', they are not ill and therefore should STFU and get back to work making someone richer. Which means no insurance coverage. Which means most of us won't get the help we need. Which means we will not be making someone else richer. Which means homelessness and despair. Which leads to a decision that maybe this existence is not for someone like me. Which leads to... you get the idea. I agree with the surplus of posturing when it comes to mental health, but there is a real need for it, and it is not happening. Unfortunately, cutting off avenues of treatment by belittling aspects of that treatment, (i.e.: saying there is no reason to blame upbringing for example) will just turn people away from getting help. I'd rather err on the side of healing myself. Even if someone is telling me that their life is shit because they never got that PS3 back in the day.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Perhaps not "best" but certainly you are your own psychiatrist of first and last resort

With practice, that tends to be all that is needed.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Being Dad-focused is a cause, not an excuse. tRump has no excuse as an adult, as you point out.

You can blame your upbringing. But as an adult who is aware of it enough to place that blame, then you are an adult capable of taking action to fix it. Either by introspection and self-teaching or with professional assistance.

A cause, once recognized, quickly loses its power as an excuse the more time passes from the moment of recognition.

Further, a cause like Dad-focusing has effects that only partly contribute to the composition of an adult. As such it is never more than a weak excuse and again becomes weaker the more time passes, quickly becoming a dodge rather than an excuse.

[malaise]

10. I'm not making excuses

I'm analyzing a monster

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Not you or the person I was replying to. tRump would be the first to make excuses & do nothing. nt

[AllyCat]

7. 45 is a childish person. And a narcissist

And a criminal. But Donnie 2 Scoops is the first one to throw childish temper tantrums when life doesn’t go his way.

[malaise]

11. I was lucky - I was literally THE middle child

We generally don't give a shit about these things.

[gab13by13]

9. I read the interview that Mary Trump gave.

It scared the shit out of me. I am just an internet psychiatrist but I knew way back that Trump was mentally ill but she explains his illness in pretty stark terms. This is the last person any country should have as president. General Kelly refused to give Jared security clearance so Trump overruled him. Just imagine all of the state/ military secrets that Jared could have sold to Saudi Arabia, Israel, whoever.

[malaise]

12. +1,000

He has more baggage than the busiest airport carousel. Additionally this one knows nothing about anything but but creating chaos and dividing people to achieve his ends.