I think he knows he's a fake, but proud, as in hubris, that he fools people. His combined with his huge inheritance (which Robert Reich claims would have made him richer in a passive index fund) his shame-free sociopathy is his superpower. But it's also his huge potential liability. He must brutally attack any kid who comments on his nudity.
My guess, like yours, is that he knows he’s not in the classy class. Not that being in the classy class is necessarily admirable, but it’s important to him. He desperately wants to be one of them, and he wears his desperation on his sleeve. He knows that the only people he’s fooling are rubes and boobies, people he despises but knows are the source if his power. That realization constantly humiliates him from the inside out. Humiliation produces the worst sort of anger, and his reaction to that anger is what he exhibits in public.
He was never accepted, even while he was president, by the people he desperately wants to respect him. For example, other world leaders laughed at him in public and weren’t even surreptitious about it. He knows that, and it eats away af his insides.
Absolutely true, but it was like crowd size, seen through a skewed lens. He had the cult and sycophants at his beck and call every day. And, of course, he thought that Putin loved him. And he did and does. Puppets are valuable, as other oligarchs have discovered. Sad to say.
Or McNuggets if you're Trump.
He’s a poor excuse for classy elite…if only he knew
I think he knows he's a fake, but proud, as in hubris, that he fools people. His combined with his huge inheritance (which Robert Reich claims would have made him richer in a passive index fund) his shame-free sociopathy is his superpower. But it's also his huge potential liability. He must brutally attack any kid who comments on his nudity.
My guess, like yours, is that he knows he’s not in the classy class. Not that being in the classy class is necessarily admirable, but it’s important to him. He desperately wants to be one of them, and he wears his desperation on his sleeve. He knows that the only people he’s fooling are rubes and boobies, people he despises but knows are the source if his power. That realization constantly humiliates him from the inside out. Humiliation produces the worst sort of anger, and his reaction to that anger is what he exhibits in public.
Nose pressed to the glass. The Presidency gave him a clue of what acceptance felt like. Temporarily
He was never accepted, even while he was president, by the people he desperately wants to respect him. For example, other world leaders laughed at him in public and weren’t even surreptitious about it. He knows that, and it eats away af his insides.
Absolutely true, but it was like crowd size, seen through a skewed lens. He had the cult and sycophants at his beck and call every day. And, of course, he thought that Putin loved him. And he did and does. Puppets are valuable, as other oligarchs have discovered. Sad to say.