Trump's mental health

by NoahThey say you can tell a lot about a person by their signature. President Crazy Pants likes to make a big deal of displaying his signature every time he signs one of his big executive order coloring books or whatever they are. Cartoonist editorial additions aside, it's quite a signature. Could it be a way of compensating for a shortcoming? Or, something far more serious?

Tweeter by Nancy OhanianA new CNN poll was released yesterday afternoon and the dip in favorable ratings for Trump-- from 42% to 41%-- was too small to be significant.

The new Emerson Poll of Wisconsin voters shows only three Democrats into double-digits in their primary:

by NoahI'm glad Senator Whitehouse has said what he said (above), but it's horrifying to me that it has taken more than two years for even a handful of people in Washington to even begin talking about Donald Trump's obvious severe mental illness and treachery.

Reporting for Vanity Fair this week, Emily Jane Fox, wrote that "Stephanie Winston Wolkoff was the mastermind event producer behind Trump’s inaugural celebration, which has since come under S.D.N.Y. investigation.

Can you just chalk Trump up to extraordinarily bad genes? Extraordinarily bad parenting? A really, really diseased mind? For sure, no one ever taught him/he never learned/he's incapable of being... someone who isn't a sociopathic malignant narcissist.Dean Heller, like most Republican senators, figured out Trump is a truly dangerous sociopath early on.

by NoahSen. Mark Warner (D-VA) isn't on my list of favorite Senators. But he's right this time. We are now into a three week agreement that, more properly should be called a truce or a temporary cease-fire, instead of being trumpeted as an end to the shutdown. End?

Friday, Michael Bloomberg was campaigning in front of the Democratic Business Council of Northern Virginia when he assailed Señor Trumpanzee for what he called "a complete failure of presidential leadership" and "totally incompetent management." Addressing the Trump-McConnell shutdown, he added that "The whole episode really is a cynical, political stunt, and, unfortunately, we’re the ones paying the price.

by NoahJust look at this baboon!OK, I apologize to the baboon community. Might as well apologize to orangutans and sloths, as well. It's just that, well... you know, since Trump maybe some sort of hybrid...

Wikipedia has a simple explanation for projection-- one of the most obvious and clearest cornerstones of Trump's psychological makeup: "a defence mechanism in which the human ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others. For example, a person who is habitually rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude.