He's afraid of everything!

By the way, Trump doesn't work in the residence. He doesn't really work at all. He watches TV and tweets. That's work?!

I wouldn't trade lives with him for all of the money in the world, but he deserves all of the hell he's going through right now.

Trump is always angry, jealous, paranoid and just plain crazy.

His inner monologue must be a cacophony of nonsense.

What miserable piece of shit!

His severe narcissism means he must be "right" and "perfect" all the time.
So he has to work every minute to present a good front, to catch and "correct" anything that would make him look/sound "wrong".
Just that alone would be exhausting. Then he has to defend himself against the "wrongs", which in his case
is by attacking the source/person, with intent to utterly destroy the source. No middle ground.
Thus the bombastic tweets, the threat of lawsuits, etc.
Meanwhile, he has to lie constantly to convince everyone/himself he is the richest/tallest/ biggest/best/etc
person in the entire universe and all of history.
He can't shut up for a minute because in that silence he hears the accusing critical voice in his mind.

Just all of that sounds insurmountable. Add to the mix his amazing ignorance of most subjects, his inability to be taught anything ( because perfect people know everything all the time), and his total inability to understand people other than objects, certainly not their feelings....
which of course creates constant problems with other people's expectations and demands of at least, at a minimum, a veneer of civility, all this adds to a perpetual self defeating cycle.
In all honesty, I am surprised he has made it this far in his life, just from the Mental health standpoint.

Then there's the lousy lifestyle factor, which of course he cannot see/admit to. And god knows whatever drugs ...uhhh, I mean medications...he is on.
Really quite amazing.

Who needs to go asap, because he is destroying the rest of us as well.

Maleria would never bother him. She keeps her distance, waiting for the Mother Ship to beam her up and away.

A little sparrow sold into Trumps arms via Jeffrey Epstein.

We are paying for his playful and rude indulgences in many, many ways. This loser does this all on our dime and lives his lavish lifestyle without paying a price for it, just like his "business" career.

Now it becomes clearer how he needed lots of Daddy's money and an inheritance to stay afloat as well as how stiffing just about everyone along the way supported him. He bankrupted a casino, A CASINO, for gosh sakes.

So, his skill has been in crafting and maintaining a facade and it has some sociopath elements to go with the narcissism. That's all he really is good at as far as I can see, putting on and polishing a facade based on braggadocio and pomp and keeping the bull feces running on high. That's all Trump really is.

So, America has to retract from this confidence game, because that's what it turns out to be. His destructive tendencies are leaking out all over the place into our agencies, policies, economics, etc. It's a trumpian cancer, its malignant and that tumor has to go.

He has no friends, he’s paranoid, stupid and unhealthy. He will never be able to go out in public for the rest of his sorry life without being protested, mocked and jeered.

so it's unsurprising he's shirking. He's letting the country go further into decline. Either decisions won't be made, or the staffers will have to make them, and run the risk of him second-guessing them.

And I doubt the Oval Office has a prominent TV in it - it would give the game away in official photos that he spends his time watching Fox News rather than running the country.

Trump hires only people who swear personal loyalty or those who are just as corrupt as he is (like lying Mulvaney), not those with expertise who might tell him that he’s wrong. By holding meetings relating to government business in the residence without staff present, Trump is violating the open government/open records laws because I’m sure no records of the discussions are prepared.

Trump’s calendar also lists hours of executive time most days. I’ve long suspected that he is using this time to run the Trump Organization because his sons are not making buckets of money for him. We would have seen many more problems without career staff to keep the government functioning since Trump does nothing but work on the corrupt deals that benefit him personally. I suspect he also needs lots of coaching to memorize what he will say to press so he doesn’t come across as a mental patient, which he sometimes does.

into. Isolation and consulting mainly with those on speed dial are scary, but mostly I've always felt the less attention he pays to work the better.

I'd guess paranoia and other problems wouldn't allow him to stop his obsessive viewing, frightening and enraging as it must be. That 53-minute rant through Fox to his supporters must have been a way of getting what he thought of as positive coverage.

Now I'm remembering those videos, though, that staffers prepared of clips showing him in all his favorite moments. He reportedly loved to watch those for hours, also showing them repetitively to almost anyone, including to visiting dignitaries, and my guess is he's spending more time with them than ever. Probably while Miller admires them with him and whispers suggestions in his ear for who to take his rage out on next.

and reclusive existence in a hotel room, paranoid and obsessive, shuffling around with Kleenex boxes on his feet to protect himself from imaginary germs.

https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug05/hughes

Didn't he catch Tillerson on the crapper once - to fire his sorry ass?

Hughes, yes, also Nixon. Next thing we know Trump will be doing business from his bed.

bugged when he first moved there. As he gets crazier, I think he will move to his hotel in Washington - or even go so far as to move to Maralogo or even Camp David.

What he really needs to do is resign and move back to wherever it is that he feels safe.

He's not worried about security. He just wants to tweet and eat and watch TV all day without anyone around.

And maybe plan to never go back to the WH except for rare visits. No recordings, no staff, just his mightyness!

The twisted shit that gives him jollies isn't fit for humanity. THAT's what he doesn't want leaked out.

Because those are two things Trump doesn't do.

Man with personality disorder obsessively tweets nonsense about baseless conspiracy theories and they describe it as "He also uses it during working hours as a place to watch TV freely, tweet and serve as own his one-man communications director and political strategist". It gives him a veneer of rationality and normalcy that he in no way deserves.

regular readers of WaPo, NYT, etc., are not at all mislead and understand these carefully objective statements. "A place to watch TV freely" and "serving as his own one-man communications director and political strategist" really DO portray extreme functional disorder to those who have a good idea of what normalcy is and is not.

I often hie myself off to other sources for additional, hopefully juicier details that may or may not be true because they haven't been confirmed or not yet passed the WaPo's rigorous editorial scrutiny, or often just don't fit its journalistic style. Is it important to understanding current events to know that Trump's taken to scratching his balls a lot? I made that up, but if he does we'll learn about it at Daily Kos, or right here of course.

state of affairs.

To actually know or support him you have to be hateful, being close to him exposes you to his hate.

bunker mentality:

n. An attitude of extreme defensiveness and self-justification based on an often exaggerated sense of being under persistent attack from others.

He probably has little hoards of cocaine and Adderall within easy reach.

is when some brave souls should tap the room. Where all the crimes get perpetrated.

Btw - the term "executive residence" is laughable. More like the Ronald McDonald House. Or a locked, grease laden den of crime and slime.

No worries about trump not vacating when he loses. He won't be able to last 24 hrs without golf. As soon as he leaves, we pry the doors open and send in the hazmet teams to fumigate. Hell, not sure if our new president would even want to ever sleep there though.

There's a 'presidential study' close by that's more of a functional office with the usual office-y accoutrements. The Oval gets used for ceremonial stuff and projecting/bestowing power.

after he went to all the trouble to bug the Oval Office in the big after inauguration meeting.

And they decide to put Pence in place.

Which would explain the incredible patience Pence has been showing, the faithful uncomplaining understudy waiting for the chance to take to the stage.

... is eating him alive. His Friday morning call to Fox and Fiends from his bedroom was an example of his
descent into madness.

I think that is a pretty funny line, since Trump does neither.

...now Trump's trying to undo that, on top of every other norm he's busted.

Lots of tyrants, strongmen and dictators have done the same when the walls start closing in and they perceive they can't trust anyone. When things don't improve, they start distrusting even their most trusted inner circle. Seems that usually occurs towards the end of the spiral. I think he's just about spent, physically, emotionally and politically.

“He works more in the residence because he is not constrained there by staffers knocking on the door.”

What a line of BS. The "works more" what a laugh.

It's starting to sound a little like Hitler's bunker mentality.

Wondering if he did golf this weekend.....I know I read he did not go last weekend.

Ohhh...and 4 day holiday coming up, folks are gonna be too pre-occupied to engage in mindless chatter with him.

drive him out of the residence and into the closet or basement.

I've said it many times.

He might not have Howard Hughes’ money, but at least he’s got Howard Hughes’ paranoia.

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I could see that. Wouldn't want nurses hanging around the Oval Office - might look like the Con isn't in the perfect health his fake doctor claimed he was in.

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