Crowd addict
I was saying how energized and high Trump gets from his rallies. This one from today is a good example.
The content is grotesque but leaving that aside for the moment – look at how juiced he is. Look at how much more fluent and confident and actory he is. It’s all disgusting but it’s skilled, in its way – which his non-rally performances just are not. Press conferences, speeches, announcements – he’s more like a gas station inflatable doll, luring in the crowds by lurching back and forth in the breeze and gesticulating.
It’s creepy. It’s creepy that he’s so tuned in to crowd-love. It’s creepy that crowd-love can change his speech patterns and energy levels and timing that much. It’s creepy that he needs it that badly.
It’s creepy that there are so many people willing to provide that for him.
I’d worry a whole lot more about the crowd’s addiction to Trump than his addiction to crowds.
And let us not forget that Exxon has released an official statement that this alleged conversation never occurred. It is just one more self-aggrandizing lie from the greatest liar on earth.
Reminds me of addicts I knew. Coming down they were nervous, tentative, unassertive but also stiff and awkward. Once they get their dose it is all very smooth, coordinated, surefooted and full of themselves. The change can be very abrupt. Like two different people.
Of course coming down they are worse off, but still human. If they don’t get their dose they start to Jones. Their mood can go from whining to monstrously violent in seconds if they think you are standing between them and their fix.
Oh, useful analogy. That’s the thing – when he’s doing his actual job (or making a dog’s breakfast of trying to do his job) he’s like Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster. When he’s preening in front of a screaming crowd he’s in his happy place.
He was doing “rallies” from day one. Remember that? I kept asking, “why is he doing rallies now? When he’s already got the job?” I guess because he’s addicted, and whenever he’s not doing them he’s in withdrawal, and he does not like that feeling.