{"id":43726,"date":"2020-01-11T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T21:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43726"},"modified":"2020-05-12T08:01:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:01:53","slug":"the-trump-thing-how-ego-and-fear-pushes-trump-to-tweet-fake-95-approval-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43726","title":{"rendered":"The Trump ‘Thing’: How Ego and Fear Pushes Trump to Tweet Fake 95% Approval Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"

The depths of Donald Trump’s dissociation from reality seem to have no discernible bottom. And it isn’t just how fiercely he clings to obvious lies to exalt himself and malign his foes. Trump desperately needs to continually reinforce his own self image as an infallible, all-knowing, winner at everything he endeavors to attempt.<\/p>\n

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There is no better indicator of severe, mentally crippling insecurity than having to repeatedly declare that you are smarter, handsomer, and more successful than everyone else. In fact, that’s something that intelligent, attractive people almost never do. Yet this is a core component of Trump’s character, or lack thereof. Never mind that he is the most unpopular president in the history of modern polling. He has never reached 50% in his three years in office. Currently, a growing majority of the American people say that he is guilty of impeachable offenses<\/a><\/strong>. And his standing around the world is just as dismal<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So naturally, someone as psychologically broken as Trump spent his Saturday morning boasting about what he imagines in his universal appeal. In one tweet he claimed that…<\/p>\n

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New polling shows that the totally partisan Impeachment Hoax is going nowhere. A vast majority want the Do Nothing Democrats to move on to other things now!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n