Of course, the same could be said for any member of the animal kingdom.

A totally unhealthy annoyance that spreads diseases

Mike might be even more qualified, come to think of it.

Nevermind.

And I'm sure all of Chimpy's fans will line up behind Trump. I'm scared to find out how many have a visceral reaction to him.

he'll be throwing his feces.

It's believed it would inhibit Trump's aggressive displays, including feces throwing of course, and help the moderator keep control. For those reasons, he'd almost certainly never agree.

There's some indications that, craving "love" from others, he might be more timid/anxious face to face, at least when there is the dreadful threat of being disrespected or rejected. He didn't bring up paying for the wall when he was actually with President Pena Nieto, which might have resulted in rejection, and he backed right down when directly approached by that pastor in Flint who might have withdrawn her love. I'd love to hear Goodall on that. He apparently automatically tries charm before moving on to the inevitable rage reaction--slinging hostile BS from a distance.

Is that passive-agressive behaviour? He can't argue a point logically and calmly, so he either starts name-calling or clams up. Then later the aggression comes out.

get a lot of hits from people sharing their experiences with people with this disorder, but these lay people apparently divide them into grandiose and passive-aggressive imaginary-victim types according to the emotional weapons they prefer to wield.

Donald's definitely grandiose. I think he fits the standard pattern of craving love, admiration, adulation of crowds in his case, and reacting with the prototypical "rage" (not the same as anger in them) revenge attacks toward those who don't feed his need. Look at the switch in tone from agreeable to an alarmingly hard-core speech after he came back from Mexico and at his hostile tweets to the pastor after he'd left (imagining he was hitting her so hard her head spun no doubt).

And, of course, toward those he thinks he has power over, he is bullying, humiliating, exploitative, cheating, and manipulative, a very alarming pattern for a man who would be POTUS. Just being embarrassed by the president of Mexico caused him to later that same day promise to create a special force that would pound at the doors of perhaps millions of people and drag them away for deportation.

he is going to duck it and blame it on something stupid, like it's rigged or something. And his followers will lap it up.

Third one will have a fox moderator, so he'd have to be losing pretty badly to pass up the kid glove treatment he'd get at that one.

Chimps display to show dominance, but they don't (usually) specifically call for violence on another chimp.

Did he establish dominance or did the other chimps drive him away?

This primate is curious.

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People respond positively to such things when they're afraid and want to be protected by some big tribal leader. It's a limbic system response. Feelings of safety engender the ability to think rather than feel, to be generous rather than to hoard, to build bridges rather than walls.

Here is Trump's evil genius. He uses embers of fear and stokes them into terror, then makes those displays to convince the frightened that "Only I can fix it." The people responding truly believe him, not realizing that he IS the threat. We have to ride a fine line between not letting them get away with acting out of that fear and not stoking it ourselves by making them think they'll be abandoned by us.

The schizophrenics of their species.

in evaluating public behavior.

Clinton will be debating.

How would any of you like to be compared to Donald Trump? Jane Goodall of all people should know better!

a few analyses of Trump's style and he calls it dominance politics.

I am glad you brought this up. Josh Marshall of TPM has nailed it about djt being driven by dominance politics and seeing EVERYthing in binary terms of dominating or being dominated.

Like DU, TPM has become one of my main go-tos. I feel like he and his reporters read my mind -- except that they actually do some investigative reporting and then share that with the rest of us! Hoo boy. Also, Josh Marshall's "trump's razor" is really insightful -- funny, terrifying, but insightful.

At the time I posted, I was remembering a couple he'd done toward the end of the GOP primary, but he wrote about it again on Saturday.

they have SO much more intelligence than sTrumpet.

And, as with most primates, it's all about proving dominance. In his little mind, Hillary won't win the debate unless she proves clearly she's the "dominant male". On facts and substance, she will likely beat the monkey poop out of him, but to him and his followers, it won't be a win unless she beats her chest and stomps the ground better.

After all, they are the ones allowing him to climb the dominance hierarchy.