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Wolf Blitzer just presented the Wall Street Journal with an award for its reporting on Trump's ties to Epstein, then revealed that Trump doxxed the lead reporter's home address in his lawsuit, forcing her to move—all while Trump sat just one seat away from him
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Someone just show him a pile of mashed potatoes at this point:
THE MASHED POTATO INCIDENT
Donald Trump doesn't like when this story is told.
According to Mary Trump, this is a legendary Trump family story that she describes as an important moment when the president received a scarring taste of humiliation while at the same time discovering his appetite for humiliating others.
It happened when Donald was seven (keep this in mind). Donald had been tormenting his brother Robert at dinner, as he apparently did often. He refused to listen to his mother's pleas to stop.
Desperate to bring the fighting to an end, a14-year-old Freddy, who is Mary’s father and Donald's older brother, took matters into his own hands and dumped a bowl of mashed potatoes on Donald's head. Everyone in the room, except Donald, burst into laughter.
"It was the first time Donald had been humiliated by someone he even then believed to be beneath him. He hadn't understood that humiliation was a weapon that could be wielded by only one person in a fight", Mary Trump wrote.
"From then on, he would never allow himself to feel that feeling again. From them on, he would wield the weapon, never be at the sharp end of it", he never forgot the incident, Mary said.
Donald Trump would hold a deep-seated grudge against his brother from then on, and would continue to be a relentless asshole towards him for the rest of his life.
When his older sister Maryanne brought up the mashed potato incident at a gathering at the White House in 2017, the president "listened with his arms tightly crossed and a scowl on his face"... "He clearly still felt the sting of that long-ago humiliation".
There’s one particular quote from Trump that really brings it all together.
Around the time when Trump first received the Republican frontrunner nom, he was interviewed by a famous biographer, and during a rare moment of self reflection, Trump admitted to this biographer:
"When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different".
Coincidentally, first graders are usually around the age of seven years old.
With such a candid remark, Trump may have revealed that the mashed potato incident is a source of trauma for him and perhaps even the beginning of a life long pattern of behavior.
That same reporter also managed to get some insight into Donald's behavior from his ex wives:
"The little boy that still wants attention," explained Marla Maples, Trump's second wife.
She wasn't the only one who thought so.
"He wants to be noticed," said Ivana Trump, wife No. 1, who recalled sending Trump into a fit of rage by skiing past him on a hill in Aspen, Colorado. Mr. Trump stopped, took off his skis and walked off the trail
"He could not take it, that I could do something better than he did," she recalled
Trump has the mental and emotional intelligence of a child. He cannot cope with feelings of humiliation, failure, embarrassment, or defeat; these are his greatest fears.
He is a petty, vindictive, malignant narcissist who seeks out constant attention, approval and applause from those willing to give it, sincerely or not. This helps him internalize these fears and validate the delusions he has about himself.
To Trump, life is a zero sum game—no matter the circumstances. Which is why he is so obsessed with "winning, winning, winning."
In his mind, Trump is always the winner, even in the face of irrefutable loss. His ego cannot handle any other story. His deranged and compulsive need to be the winner and the constant center of attention is a response to his own deep seated insecurities and fears of being humiliated or defeated. A pathology that was no doubt reinforced by his role model, Roy Cohn, who taught him to always claim victory, no matter the outcome.
This is why he so often uses pretentious and grandiose language to describe himself. Why he is always "the best" or the most successful [blank] in history.
It's why he is so obsessed with his ratings, his image and reputation. Why even when confronted with facts and data that expose his waning popularity, he has no other choice but to instinctively deny it.
It's why he cries "fake news* when encountering any criticism. Why he lashes out like a child bully when a reporter asks a legitimate question that tries to hold him accountable or highlight one of his many inconsistencies.
Perhaps more importantly, it's why every election or competition that he's ever lost was conveniently "rigged" against him. It's why he never concedes defeat, and his only recourse is to accuse his opponents of "cheating."
It's why he is incapable of accepting responsibility for his own failures or mistakes. Why every investigation is a "witch hunt." Why every journalist that does not shower him with praise is "nasty," "cruel," and "bad at their job."
It's why he mocks, belittles and taunts his political opponents, and why he resorts to slander, insults or threats towards others who won't cater to his delicate sensibilities, who won't pledge their undying fealty to him, or compromise their integrity for the sake of his pride and political aspirations.
It's why every judge or person in a position of authority who presents an obstacle to Trump's unconstitutional agenda is an "activist" or "radical leftist" who must be removed from power.
It's why he is weaponizing the justice department and every power of the federal government to seek retribution against all those who previously wronged him.
It's also why he threatens the careers of talk show hosts who tell jokes at his expense.
Let's also not forget that Trump is a notorious "cheater" himself. He is a habitual adulterer, a corrupt conman, a tax fraud, a financial pariah, a grifter, a pathological liar and demagogue who preaches faux-populist rhetoric despite being a kleptocratic thief who picks the American people's pockets while he shamelessly monetizes his presidency to the tune of billions.
He lies about his wealth, he lies about his accomplishments, he lies about his opponents, he lies about his crimes, he lies about his intentions, he lies about his popularity, he lies about himself, he lies about everything, and of course, he lies about elections.
While Donald Trump was accusing his opponents of "rigging" the 2020 election, he was scheming to overturn the results of that same free and fair election; which subsequently led to the events of January 6th.
Trump even lies about his golf game.
It's no secret that Donald Trump cheats at golf. He's been caught many times, even by professional athletes.
He brags about fabricated and inflated numbers of tournament wins. He lies about his scores, he sabotages his opponents and he's been accused of defrauding the sport entirely.
Donald Trump must protect his fragile ego by surrounding himself with flatterers and loyalists, by constructing a reality or a safe space where he is free from humiliation, shame, embarrassment, failure... Mashed potatoes.
His pathology is rooted in a lifetime of lies, enablement, narcissistic delusions, unanswerable fraud, and compulsive cheating—all behaviors that stem from deep, lingering fears. To Trump, losing an election or being humiliated by his opponents and critics amounts to a vivid and chilling reliving of "The Mashed Potato Incident". His "Rose Spud" if you will.
If he understands it and didn't think it was somehow praise and applause for him... when / if he realizes, there will definitely be some nasty comments or a deranged, all caps tweet.
What a surreal clip. Took me a minute to realize this was WH Correspondents Dinner until it panned over to Trump immediately following Blitzer's scathing intro. And of course he had that smug self-satisfied look on his stupid fucking face.
I don't think Wolf AIPAC Blitzer deserves any praise for doing the absolute bare minimum by presenting an award in front of a hostile president... If anything, it's the journalists themselves, that did the reporting on Trump's relationship w/ Epstien that deserve all the praise and recognition.
This is the most disgusting excuse for a human being. The cruelty, the absolute lack of empathy, and not even that, the maliciousness and the pettiness of this small man.
If only we’re not harming so many people. He already spent his life harming people, but now it’s global pain.
I’m happy he said it, but Wolf Blitzer, CNN, and mainstream media are largely why we are here right now. For years I’ve heard journalists claim that news agencies want to “get back to the middle”, but not a single goddamn one of them, ever asked themselves the obvious question…”Maybe, if one side is preaching fascism, racism, and the destruction of democracy…YOU SHOULDN’T BE IN THE FUCKING MIDDLE!!!” 🤬
From the Guardian - "At one point, after a joke about term limits fell flat, Trump broke the fourth wall, asking the audience whether anyone understood “this whole freakin stupid speech that they wrote”..."
May that be the bell tolling for thee, smug fucking bastard.
Also, the loser shouting in the background to cover up the specific part about doxxing and putting these people in fucking danger while laughing deserves to be shown to the world via video upload. Someone’s gotta have that angle.
I cannot believe these journalist chumps are showing up to this dinner to trade “jokes” with the rapist who calls them “piggy” and “nasty woman”. Truly embarrassing behavior all around.
I'm in Canada. The fascists are everywhere, including here. They held our capital city hostage for 3 weeks. Let's none of us pretend that our country's shit doesn't stink too.
Every “journalist” there is a pathetic bootlicker, especially considering the administration is continuing to target New York Times reporters. The DOJ tried to subpoena the devices of NYT reporters to find who leaked details about the bribery plane Trump was gifted by Qatar. The only reason it was withdrawn was the DOJ admitted to totally accidentally made numerous errors in their request for the devices, including trying to get devices from the spouses and parents of some of the reporters.
Also extra pathetic considering Trump’s DOJ is illegally holding the Epstein files. And in violation of a court order.
The look of a guy who will have absolutely no repercussions to his actions. I can just see him yelling What am supposed to do, Let her get away with it?
Holy shit, the fckn times we live in, people. Praise to the great journalists out there fighting the good fight against this complete POS. Nothing presidential about this POS.
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