Egos Are Like Balloons

 

Egos are like balloons. The bigger they get, the more fragile they are. This completely explains almost all of Donald Trump’s behavior. He is a narcissist through and through, so everything is about his wealth, his power, and his ego. He cares nothing about the well-being of ordinary Americans, unless they can serve to boost his ego. And the bigger his ego gets, the more precarious it becomes. In fact, it is consuming Trump’s life and, unfortunately, is negatively impacting the lives of most Americans.

Yesterday morning (February 5), at the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump openly admitted this a bizarre speech that had nothing to do with prayer or the welfare of his fellow citizens. In fact, I would wager that he has never really prayed in his life. Perhaps once or twice for show, but never because he wants to talk to God. Anyway, here is what he said: “They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would’ve had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego, though. Beating these lunatics was incredible, right? What a great feeling, winning every swing state, winning the popular vote. The first time, you know, they said I didn’t win the popular vote. I did.”

Of course, Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, both the popular vote (by more than 7 million votes) and the electoral college (306 to 232). And contrary to his incessant whining, there was no fraud. He and his lackeys filed 62 lawsuits to try to overturn the election. All but one failed. Thirty were dismissed by judges because they had no merit. Only one was initially decided in Trump’s favor, but it was eventually overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

When Trump says he won the popular vote “the first time,” he is referring to the 2016 election, which he won in the electoral college. But he lost the popular vote by about 2.9 million votes. And that absolutely galls him. He can’t bear to admit that he lost the popular vote to a woman, especially a woman named Hillary Clinton.

So, more than five years later, Trump is still obsessed with the fact that he lost the 2020 election, and he lost the popular vote in 2016. His massive and fragile ego just can’t take it. He’s still trying to rewrite history, trying to convince himself that he really won. What an utterly pathetic man. And to think that a majority of American voters wanted to give this abomination almost unlimited power to soothe his fragile ego. Oh, the damage he has caused, which is only exceeded by the damage he will undoubtedly yet cause in his futile crusade to satisfy his insatiable ego.