Did you hear Trump complain about the Media’s “tone”?
Trump complained about the Media being mean and vicious toward him. “I’m a nice guy,” he says. Asking why they are so mean spirited toward him.
Wait! This is the guy who regularly called Hilary, “Crooked Hilary.” This is the guy who referred to the “so-called Judge” in reaction to the Judge who ruled against his ban against travelers from 7 selected Middle Eastern nations. This is the same guy who viciously and publically attacks and questions the moral character or the believability or the intelligence and/or the integrity of anyone that opposes him or questions his own veracity.
If anyone has had demonstrative negative mean-spirited “tone” toward others in the public forum, it’s Donald Trump!
Trump has attitude. And I do not mean this in a good way. As I see him, he is like a spoiled child who, when things do not go his way, he throws a fit. He whines and pouts and throws temper tantrums—in an adult way, of course. He goes on the attack, belittling and blaming his adversaries and detractors, basically saying that all the bad things that are happening around him are either outright lies or have nothing to do with him and everything to do with his critics and opponents. Yet, he speaks of the ill-tone from the Media, asserting that he’s Mr. Nice Guy.
Have you heard of the Psychological term, “projection”? “Projection” is when a person accuses others of having the very tendencies or behavior or attitude or feelings that the person him/herself actually has deep within him or herself—though unacknowledged or disowned. That is, the subject tends to displace negative thoughts (or feelings, actions, and attitudes) onto others, externalizing on to others what is really going on within one’s own inner self.
So, for example, a common form of projection is when someone (like Trump) accuses others of having very angry feelings toward him, when in fact the hostility and anger is originating from within the subject (Trump) himself.
Thus, Trump accuses the Media of exuding hateful and hurtful, mean-spirited “tone” toward him. But in actuality, it is Trump himself who seems to have initially harbored hateful, mean-spirited, and hostile “tone” toward others—against the Media, against the Judiciary, against Congressional Reps, against the Intelligence Agency, and so-on and so forth.
Hence, Trump is an expert in playing the blame game, painting himself as the innocent victim while pointing to his detractors as perpetrators of evil against him, as people who are intent at taking him down: “It’s not me; it’s them!” “I’m the good guy here; they’re the bad guys.” “I’m innocent, they are the guilty ones.” “I love everyone; why they hate me so much, I don’t know!” and so-on and so-forth.
What’s so sad about all this is that Trump-supporters really do believe that he is the innocent victim here (in his opposition to the Media, for example). They don’t see him as he really is. Like Trump, they are ready and willing to denounce others in the name of truth and integrity or justice and fair play, regardless of actual facts as presented by real and concrete evidence that contradict Trump’s assertions. Trump is being given great latitude and freedom to make striking falsehoods, while everyone else is held to exact account for the slightest error in statement or reporting. It is a case of willful blindness in behalf of Trump.
It is in fact the greatest weakness of a democracy—the blindness and gullibility of the masses that are willing to be led by a demagogue who promises to deliver peace and prosperity for all rightful citizens, which, in the long run, usually results in great loss with much agony for all.
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