Ga naar inhoud

Algemene politieke discussie


k1ng

Aanbevolen berichten

Mocht je een keertje tijd overhebben, een uitgebreide analyse van de persoonlijkheid van Donald Trump door een Amerikaanse hoogleraar psychologie: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/ Mocht je een wat kortere rits voorbeelden van de afschuwelijkheid van Donald Trump willen, dan is dit artikel van vanochtend aan te raden: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/donald-trumps-cruel-streak/501554/ En ja. Ik ben gigantisch fan van The Atlantic.

Perfide Albion

Link naar reactie
Delen op andere sites

Ah weet je wat, ik ga gewoon een stukje uit het tweede artikel quoten. Om voor eens en voor altijd aan te geven wat voor een door en door afschuwelijk mens Donald Trump is (en al ver voor deze campagne was): >In fact, none of the examples offered thus far captures the depths of Trump’s cruelty. Understanding that requires hearing the story of the late Freddy Trump, the candidate’s older brother, who died an alcoholic in 1983. After college, Freddy had tried to join the family business, but his heart wasn’t in it. He became an airplane pilot, showing talent in the profession. When his heavy drinking posed a safety risk, however, he quit, and wound up living in an apartment owned by his father and working on one of his maintenance crews, even as his kid brother Donald began to make a name for himself. Here is the jaw-dropping conclusion to the story, as reported in the New York Times: >In 1977, Donald asked Freddy to be the best man at his first wedding, to the Czech model Ivana Winklmayr, an honor Donald said he hoped would be “a good thing for him.” But the drinking continued, and four years later, Freddy was dead. Over the next decades, Donald put the Trump name on skyscrapers, casinos and planes. In 1999, the family patriarch died, and 650 people, including many real estate executives and politicians, crowded his funeral at Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue. But the drama was hardly put to rest. Freddy’s son, Fred III, spoke at the funeral, and that night, his wife went into labor with their son, who developed seizures that led to cerebral palsy. The Trump family promised that it would take care of the medical bills. Then came the unveiling of Fred Sr.’s will, which Donald had helped draft. It divided the bulk of the inheritance, at least $20 million, among his children and their descendants, “other than my son Fred C. Trump Jr.” Freddy’s children sued, claiming that an earlier version of the will had entitled them to their father’s share of the estate, but that Donald and his siblings had used “undue influence” over their grandfather, who had dementia, to cut them out. A week later, Mr. Trump retaliated by withdrawing the medical benefits critical to his nephew’s infant child. “I was angry because they sued,” he explained during last week’s interview. >What kind of billionaire withdraws the health insurance of an infant with cerebral palsy in a fit of pique?

Perfide Albion

Link naar reactie
Delen op andere sites

Ik blijf maar fijne quotes vinden: >George Simon, a clinical psychologist who conducts seminars on manipulative behavior, says Trump is “so classic that I’m archiving video clips of him to use in workshops because there’s no better example” of narcissism. “Otherwise I would have had to hire actors and write vignettes. He’s like a dream come true.”

Perfide Albion

Link naar reactie
Delen op andere sites

Doe mee aan dit gesprek

Om te reageren, moet je eerst inloggen. Dit doe je door rechtsboven op inloggen te klikken.

Gast
Reageer op dit topic

×   Geplakt als verrijkte tekst.   Herstel opmaak

  Er zijn maximaal 75 emoji toegestaan.

×   Je link werd automatisch ingevoegd.   Tonen als normale link

×   Je vorige inhoud werd hersteld.   Leeg de tekstverwerker

×   Je kunt afbeeldingen niet direct plakken. Upload of voeg afbeeldingen vanaf een URL in

×
×
  • Nieuwe aanmaken...