Conservative attorney and President Donald Trump gadfly George Conway says there is no reason left to suspect the president has any real connection to reality anymore.
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This is not just a matter of Trump sleeping through briefings and public meetings. It’s a matter of psychosis.
“There’s a famous psychologist named Eric Fromm, who talked about malignant narcissists like Trump. I mean, the great evil people of history were malignant narcissists. And he basically says they tip into psychosis,” Conway told Bulwark podcaster Tim Miller. “They’re basically psychotic because they want to believe the fantasy world in which they control everything and everything is about them. And that’s where Trump has always been headed.”
“And I think at this point, he’s not even close to reality,” Cohen said. “And that’s just a scary thing. And that’s the thing that a little bothers me about the Natalie Harp episode is that people are treating this as a debate about whether it’s a low blow by the Democrats.”
Trump’s ubiquitous senior aid, dubbed the “human typewriter” or Trump’s “diaper nurse,” has been making news, most recently regarding her “extraordinary” and “unhinged” relationship with the octogenarian president.
But Conway said this is more than some poor young woman and her intimate relationship with a confirmed adulterer.
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“It would be better if they were just having sex because it would … be in the realm of normal human comprehension. But this is psychotic on both sides,” Conway told Miller. “She worships him as some kind of deity and he sucks that up and is using her as a tool to create and maintain his own fragile reality that is being tested each and every day.”
Trump increasing use of bizarre claims and meandering moments are doing nothing to convince voters that a stable genius is occupying the White House. The president was recently speaking at a General Motors plant in Milford, Michigan, when he wandered into an anecdote about his father, Fred Trump, who died in 1999, that left onlookers scratching their heads.
“I had a wonderful father, right, and he was a hard worker who was in the real estate business … He didn’t want planes,” said Trump. “They didn’t have planes in those days, I don’t think.”
The gaffes just keep coming, and Conway said his greatest fear is that the U.S. public is getting accustomed to having a maniac with a broken mind in the White House.
“There’s this kind of learned helplessness is what psychologists would call it,” said Conway. “We have reached this kind of what psychologists would call a malignant normality, where we’re accepting things, we’re accepting like a Watergate scandal, every level scandal, every week he does something that’s just incredibly — that would be paralyzing of an administration for a month, or two, or a month, or end an administration, but he, you know, it’s just, it’s Tuesday.”
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