The combination of those traits is very dangerous. The deep problem with Trump is that he is a bully. ![]() In fact, Trump's emotional maturity may actually be closer to a ten-year-old. Trump's emotional maturity level is perhaps that of a teenager, a 13-year-old who has just hit puberty and wants to fight people and destroy things. ![]() How would you assess Donald Trump's emotional maturity level?įirst, Trump never grew up. I don't know exactly what will happen with the likes of Trump because such human predators are usually denied bail or committed to a hospital for supervision - and medication. When Trump is cornered, as he is now with this felony case, he will become increasingly paranoid or defeated. When a predator is hunting or otherwise looking for a target he becomes hypervigilant for danger. When a predator is cornered, he generally exhibits paranoia, because one of the things that a predator tries to resist is his paranoid anxiety. That's why we have secure padded cells (euphemized as "quiet rooms") inside locked wards in mental hospitals. They lash out and need to be restrained for their safety and that of their caregivers. Predators can massively regress in such circumstances and lose even a modicum of self-control. How do such people react when they are caged, either literally or metaphorically? What does someone like Donald Trump do when they're finally reined in? In Trump's case, he is being held criminally responsible and perhaps even faces removal from society. Trump is possessed by his death instinct. ![]() The death instinct is about how people take pleasure in destruction, to destroy and hurt others. Trump in his defeat is also an example and reminder of Sigmund Freud's theories about the life instinct and the death instinct. "I don't know exactly what will happen with the likes of Trump because such human predators are usually denied bail or committed to a hospital for supervision - and medication." As we've seen time and again - with Michael Cohen, for example - Trump does not merit or inspire sympathy in those he treats badly. What I also saw that was very striking in that moment was that Trump looked like he was full of self-pity, he was defeated and alone he seemed to realize that nobody feels sorry for him. "Evil" is not a psychoanalytic term, but that was his affect in the moment. At his core, what we see in that moment with Trump in Manhattan was that he knows he is a criminal who has finally been caught and may be held responsible for his wrongdoing. To be even blunter, Trump looked like a predatory animal that had been caged. That moment did in fact reveal the true Donald Trump.īut here is the complexity: There is really more than one real, or true, Donald Trump people are multilayered. As a therapist and a human being what did you see? Trump was revealing, even more, his true evil self. As you know I use the correct moral language when discussing fascism and the likes of Trump and his movement. That was the real Trump: he looked violent, enraged, and like a killer from a horror movie. When I looked at Donald Trump being arraigned in New York, in particular, that one moment when he glared at the news reporters and cameras, I saw his true self. This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. Frank also explores how someone with Trump's antisocial personality (and resulting attraction to violence and death) behaves when they are confronted by the law and other powerful forces who are (finally) trying to stop them. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and the author of "Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President." In this wide-ranging conversation, he explains how Trump is likely responding on an emotional and psychological level to being arrested on Tuesday and facing the prospect of true accountability for his decades-long crime spree. With his indictment in New York this week, and the other more serious cases looming over him in connection to election fraud and interference, as well as stealing top secret and highly classified federal documents, this is the first time in Trump's life that he is facing real and substantial – and potentially life-altering – consequences for his pathological and corrupt behavior.ĭr. 6 coup attempt and the ongoing and escalating attempts by the Republican-fascist party and MAGA and "conservative" movement to end America's multiracial democracy. ![]() Crime helped Trump to almost succeed in his Jan. Crime helped Trump to takeover the White House in 2016. Crime helped Trump to become a billionaire. In many ways, Trump is one of the most successful criminals in American history. As a person ages, they become more their true self Donald Trump has been engaging in criminal and other antisocial behavior for decades.
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