As I mentioned in the morning thread comments, the walking collection of untreated personality disorders who will be president in two weeks took time out of his busy schedule to trash his reality TV show replacement’s ratings:
@realDonaldTrump Seriously — seek help! https://t.co/b45ahlhEao
— Betty Cracker (@bettycrackerfl) January 6, 2017
Some folks believe Trump is playing eleventy-dimensional checkers, hoping to distract the media from the Russian hacking thing by starting a catfight with Ahnuld. I think that gives Trump too much credit. He sees everything through the filter of his disease, so he can’t resist wanking over ratings.
That also explains why he tells easily disprovable lies about stuff like the not-landslide Electoral College victory and outrageous whoppers about voter fraud being responsible for Clinton’s historic margin in the popular vote total. The truth causes an unbearable injury to his ego, so the truth must be denied.
It’ll be interesting to see how that dynamic plays out around the report on Russian hacking in the U.S. election. President Obama was briefed on it yesterday, and Trump will be briefed today. Then a heavily redacted public version is expected to be released sometime next week.
Even multimillionaire media figures find it odd that Trump won’t accept the intel community’s consensus that Russia was behind the hacks. CNN’s Chris Cuomo tried to pin Kellyanne Conway down on that this morning, causing Conway to spin faster than a particle beam in the Hadron Collider:
Unless you’re feeling particularly masochistic, I don’t recommend watching her simper and obfuscate for the full 17-plus minutes, but she did say something right before the 10-minute mark that might come back to bite Team Shitgibbon on the ass: She insisted that the Russians didn’t want Trump to win.
However, U.S. intel intercepts allegedly captured proof that Russian poohbahs were high-fiving one another over the success of their operation when the race was called for Trump. There are rumors — unsubstantiated, as far as I can tell — that the Russians used an unflattering nickname for Trump that is more offensive than “bitch” but with similar connotations in shirtless macho horse-riding circles.
So how will the brittle narcissist react when presented with this information? Will he continue to dismiss the intel? Will he accept the intel about the hacking, blame it on Obama’s “weakness” and get into a pissing contest with Putin?
I suspect this and every other decision Trump makes — ever has made, and ever will make — will be driven by the overriding goal of minimizing damage to his fragile self-esteem, with national security considerations and even political expediency far down on the list of factors to be considered. This is who he is.
To paraphrase a line from “The Birdcage,” for Americans, the Trump presidency will be like riding a psychotic horse toward a burning barn. Shorter: WASF.