Impersonating Trump
Impersonating Trump
Impersonating Trump has become a growth industry. I’d like to see a Trump AI robot. But have you noticed that Trump officials and followers are beginning to impersonate him—his bluster, his insults, his nastiness? I wonder how much his personality and style have seeped into the culture—here and abroad. One Donald Trump is bad enough, but millions?
I am convinced to a high degree that the person playing the part of Donald J Trump is not the REAL Trump, but an impersonator- if people wish to doubt that men walked on the moon or that Sinatra was involved in killing the Kennedys this is my conspiracy theory. First, who would not want to be Trump, the greatest human to ever live? Second, there are tons of Elivs impersonators- why not Trump. Finally, when he got sick from COVID in a previous era, he sadly, died and since Trump’s survival is pivotal to Make America Great Again, bypassing the consitution saying that Pence was the successor, a subsitute Trump was arranged- or an impersonator, or robot- the difference with this Trump imperonsator was that he just did it for the money and knew chess openings cold- that’s my theory, make of it what you may
But there has to have been a real original Trump, because no one could have invented that character.
I wonder whether “charismatic” figures like Trump who hijack history have deformed or abnormal psychology. Professor McAdams authored a psychological study on Trump, and on actual psychological dimensions he is unusual. People like Trump and Hitler have unusual life histories to say the least. I’m asking this in all seriousness.
I think he has highly unusual psychology.
Professor McAdams found the subject Trump to be high on extraversion, low on agreability and low on conscietiousness, and curiously found him to live entirely in the moment, each encounter being a world unto its own, with no sense of past or future, plus a desire, a need to win each moment..That’s just the highlights. Plus he’s according to Professor Collins, high in front stage charisma and a premodern Mafiosi like the Sopranos.
All this means we can if not quantify, then specifiy what is so abnormal about this shall we say man.
He also seems to me to suffer from senile infantilism.
A Trump, of one sort or another, has been in the cards for long. It did percolate, in this particularly virulent form, practically everywhere since. Listening the radio in the taxicab, upon arrival in the States, was already an experience two or three decades ago. This was in the Northeast Coast, mind you.
I agree: America was just waiting for him to show up, and he did in garish form.
I always liked Rene Girard’s mimetic theory and Trump’s phenomenon to which you bring attention exemplifies its usability and socially valid correctness. Copying desires of others (e.g. Trump) and looking for scapegoats to blame for all your real and imaginary problems (e.g. Canada, Europe, Mexico, China) is very much human and not in a good sense.
Indubitably.
Plus, he’s on the Dark Tetrad spectrum- let’s not forget.