A Mini-Psychological Portrait of Donald Trump
by Jordan Cooper
Donald Trump was sent to a military school in his childhood because he wasn’t being accepted and couldn’t come into agreement with his classmates, schoolmates, and teachers. Donald Trump didn’t get accepted to an Ivy League school, upon his graduation from high school, even though he came from a very wealthy family, in the North where all the Ivy League colleges are located. Moreover, he has had his problems behaviorally, academically, and socially at many levels. These problems are a lash of simmering sweat onto Americans’, each time they hear a speech, debate response, and media interview from him. Trump still blames the media for treating him ‘unfairly’, as if they’re bullying him, and alluding to the generally positive media coverage white Americans receive. Then, it is double irony when he says it, as if a person on the high-end of the one percent in America cannot be mistreated, and what would the proper response be to a billionaire getting discriminated against. So, he still sees himself as the defenseless victim of an American culture that he thinks is ostracizing him.
Next, he uses the term ‘jobs’ to paint the picture of lazy, lackluster energy, and government feeding citizens. This is a sly attempt to boast about his billions and private school education for his entire life. He continues by saying, I’m going to get jobs back from other countries and secure the borders in America. As a result, he wanted to imply that economic development needed to be started again, and too many people are getting a free ride into America. This is a false statement because we have more immigrants returning to their home countries in our nation’s history, and many states have seen jobs climb up in historic ways in the last decade. His words are a rhetorical spin-off to appeal to rustically-based people, which is similar to the people who hold onto their guns comment that President Obama made in Iowa in 2008.
These are the conservative landowners (gentry) and working class folk, which make up most of the people in America. He is offending concerned blacks thru his comments on the police, average Hispanics thru his comments on immigration, some Jews thru his criticism of Anthony Weiner for perceived psychological problems, and Muslims for his support of a temporary ban on their entry into America. However, he is only doing this to again, get ‘accepted’ as the GOP nominee.
He will try to swivel to more moderate positions by formally apologizing to the aforesaid groups, outreach in these communities, and drafting plans on ‘Americanism’ for them if he wins enough states to become the GOP nominee. This will show his ‘soft side’ for a multi-billionaire. Americans will be yearning for this pillow after getting pummeled in our heads by his rhetoric. They have to be prepared for this strategy, and know that before all of these efforts for cultural togetherness, he was just a heavily desperate demagogue. Americans don’t need another empty suit in office, they need a well-endowed human being.
Jordan Thomas Cooper is a 2015 graduate of the University of South Carolina with a degree in History and a 2010 graduate of the Real Estate School of Success in Irmo. He is the first African-American to serve in both the governor and lieutenant governor’s office as an aide and first to serve in the Inspector General’s Office in S.C. (Haley) He is also the first to serve in the top three offices in the gubernatorial line of succession in South Carolina (Haley, Bauer, McConnell). He happens to be the second black presidential campaign speechwriter in American History and the first for a GOP presidential campaign (Bush 2015). He also played football for Coach Steve Spurrier.
Photo by Michael Vadon [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons