{"id":38613,"date":"2026-02-20T16:19:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=38613"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:19:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:19:45","slug":"briefly-trumps-narcissistic-rage-makes-his-tantrums-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=38613","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Trump\u2019s narcissistic rage makes his tantrums dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A child having a tantrum understands only one thing: Did I get my way or not? He doesn\u2019t understand the issues involved. He doesn\u2019t understand the reasons that went into a decision. He doesn\u2019t understand any of the things that mature and reasonable adults have to understand in order to live healthy lives. By his reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s ruling<\/a> to strike down his disastrous tariff scheme, Donald Trump shows himself to be \u2014 once more \u2014 a screaming child having a tantrum. Outside the world of mob bosses who expect to get their way every time, normal adults don\u2019t act this way, but Trump isn\u2019t normal. He\u2019s an angry and vengeful man who has narcissistic personality disorder. And we are in danger as a result. Trump doesn\u2019t understand the legal issues involved in this ruling. He doesn\u2019t understand economics. He doesn\u2019t understand rule of law. He doesn\u2019t understand that he can ever be wrong. All he understands is that he didn\u2019t get his way. And he is now a narcissistic and raging little boy who also happens to hold life-and-death power over most humans on this planet. He\u2019s dangerous \u2014 and the system which gives him that power is even more dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A child having a tantrum understands only one thing: Did I get my way or not? He doesn\u2019t understand the issues involved. He doesn\u2019t understand the reasons that went into a decision. He doesn\u2019t understand any of the things that mature and reasonable adults have to understand in order to live healthy lives. By his Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-a2N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38613"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38621,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38613\/revisions\/38621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}