Remember Donald Trump? Well, as of today, he's still running! Sort of.So just why did The Donald give an emergency press conference yesterday from the Mar-a-lago ballroom? Where Trump would normally never be in the immediate wake of an August hurricane, no less?Short answer: it's ALL fake, folks!Unlike Trump's Bedminster golf club, Mar-a-lago is gold-plated and palatial, evoking subliminal Presidential vibes. Trump can't commandeer the White House, but he desperately needs to project maximum Presidential impact. So--back to Florida, instead of hitting the campaign trail.The short version of Trump's meandering, unscripted, off-the-cuff political diatribe: Trump projects a fake Presidential authority within his peculiar House of Cards that's structured as a fragile bubble of intersecting lies.At the center of his shocking, defensive display of unacknowledged angst is Trump's mental dysfunction of which he is unaware. In other words, Trump's denial of his mental illness, and his inability to see clearly that his propensity to live within a fake, constructed reality serves only his perceived self-interest, is a significant dimension of his mental illness.In short, it's self-destructive, malignant, delusionary narcissism propped up by political sycophants who do know better and armies of gullible MAGA worshippers who would rather believe Trump's Repugnant lies than confront their own personal truth.Trump's not exactly what anyone else would call a "stable genius."Fasten your seat belts, folks! It's already a bumpy election.Marshall Jones
