Here's the biggest puzzle for me abt Trump. His biggest fear is to be mocked (cf WHCD 2011), to appear weak. His capitulation to Putin rightly makes him a mockery among those who aren't horrified. Why doesn't he care?
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Wonder if inviting him to the WH so quickly was a way of pretending that what we all saw wasn't weakness but entirely what he wanted to do.
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I think Vlad made him do it to humiliate him further and show him who’s boss.
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Yeah, that's plausible too; probably more plausible.
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We know this and Putin certainly does too. Having Trump look so subservient on the world stage is the ultimate flex of Putin's muscles.
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Which is exactly why Putin continues to make him look weak. It’s all about blatant power. Putin is flexing.
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Alternate view: Trump is really in his element under siege from those he thinks are too weak to cause him meaningful harm.
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We're looking at him lurch around trying to find a way to retell the story in a way that he's the hero, strong & infallible. REMEMBER: As a psychopathic narcissist the one fact in his mind is that he is perfect & infallible. Facts that refute that have to be changed or ignored /1
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When the facts are too strong and too public, you see increasingly bizarre behavior & lashing out, until things stabilize. (When psycho-narcs. find themselves imprisoned, then they spin a self-pitying tale of martyrdom, heroism & being a political prisoner, or whatever)/2
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Oh yes, he hates it. Like all pathological narcissists, he has several coping mechanisms: lying to himself and others, hiding the truth,overcompensating, denial, etc But deep down, it still eats him up. And sometimes, when the failure and humiliation is still fresh, it showspic.twitter.com/iRYq15Oiqy
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I'm sure he hates it, but Putin has him in zugzwang. (I'm sure
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I also think there is a slight possibility that Trump actually wants to be impeached or forced to resign. He will play it as he was "wronged" & that the deep state won. He'll go to his grave playing that line...but being in the WH is too restrictive for him...costing him...
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Can't ignore the power of having your own cable news network telling people they didn't actually see what they just saw. Fox News has already convinced Trump, and his followers, that Monday's press conference with Putin was a 'bigly success'.
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Which, of course, led to his 'course correction', and the feeble 'double-negative' excuse. And they gladly accepted it, and moved on. Never happened. Just a big misunderstanding. Yeah. Sure.

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Yes, that “clarification” gave most everyone an excuse all is well. Does he look well here?pic.twitter.com/HoFfrg5pTE
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He looks like he's trying to remember all of the instructions he just got from his boss.
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I took it as he just got chewed out by his boss
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