"Trump has an obvious weakness that makes America weak. He places the American economy at risk for the sake of a personal foible, a visible vulnerability." snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-psy... - ThreadSky

timothysnyder.bsky.social • 3 days ago

"Trump has an obvious weakness that makes America weak. He places the American economy at risk for the sake of a personal foible, a visible vulnerability."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-psychological-vulnerability

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lucygevy18.bsky.social•2 days ago

rxdavid.bsky.social•3 days ago

This also explains his election denials. Voters are ripping him off. 🤷‍♂️

berndschmid.bsky.social•3 days ago

Would be interesting from a psychological view where this feeling comes from to be ripped off.
Somewhere in his childhood I guess.
Certainly somebody has written a book about it.

rwhetsel.bsky.social•2 days ago

Look in verbatim court records of his father.

hmpersonalprogress.bsky.social•3 days ago

cheetodusty.bsky.social•3 days ago

Much appreciated this today- shrinking Trump podcast delves into this lack of object permanence of the president also

dominicholland.bsky.social•3 days ago

"Foible" is a wrong word for Trump's malignant narcissistic personality disorder. A foible is a minor thing.

pj0911.bsky.social•2 days ago

He has more foibles than Carter has pills.

dokterrudi.bsky.social•3 days ago

Or he’s just following orders…

liam-hughes.bsky.social•3 days ago

Bingo

clogtenberg.bsky.social•3 days ago

Volkskrant 🇾🇪 10/4

tokiolift.bsky.social•3 days ago

💰💰💰

a3beljaars.bsky.social•3 days ago

He should be removed from office...

billga2603.bsky.social•3 days ago

I doubt cornershop psychology will help get us out of this.

liam-hughes.bsky.social•3 days ago

I suspect somewhere bankers and generals are having discussions.

papitopuppito.bsky.social•3 days ago

frommeshed.bsky.social•2 days ago

Really? No sign yet! Need a mutiny. Only way they ll stop the Russian asset

liam-hughes.bsky.social•2 days ago

Don’t expect to get an email.

liam-hughes.bsky.social•3 days ago

By imposing tariffs Trump has surrendered in the battle for world markets. He has no confidence in America.

witch-of-the-north.bsky.social•3 days ago

fantastic analysis

evgenderson.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/evgenderson.bsky.social/post/3lmigscy37s2t

klassmi.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trump’s ‘Mafia tactics’ won’t work on the markets. 📉 #Trump #Tariffs #DOGE-bags

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_08cnFFLHI

rwhetsel.bsky.social•2 days ago

Genuine self-edu questions...
Fact or fiction?...

Have people in many lands invested in US-listed STOCKS because of relative good market management & transparency?

Have people in many lands held money in US BONDS because of a relative US stability assured by governmental checks & balances?

klassmi.bsky.social•2 days ago

Pre-Trump 🙋‍♂️

janetlinde.bsky.social•1 day ago

Just note that Trump's claim of trade imbalance is naive, bordering on imbecility. If one party puts forward x dollars and receives a good or service worth the same x dollars, it's *in balance*. But try explaining that to someone with the intellect of a four-year-old.

craigstamper.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's mind-boggling to me that more reasonably smart people in power haven't learned how to manipulate him after all these years, considering the transparent nature of his psychological profile.

bookwoman298.bsky.social•3 days ago

exactly, been baffled by it as well

susanna14.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because that's not how ordinary people interact with each other. They don't see a person and think: "how can I exploit his/her vulnerabilities?" Putin however does.

craigstamper.bsky.social•3 days ago

Politicians? People chasing, accumulating, and wielding power? Those are the people to whom I refer. No, the problem is that we've cluttered up Congress with featherweights, followers, sycophants, and lackeys.

susanna14.bsky.social•3 days ago

I guess that a lot of Trump's entourage indeed think on the lines of "how can I get him to do what I want?"

craigstamper.bsky.social•3 days ago

On his "team", first term we had some fairly conscientious people who managed to restrain him to a degree in certain instances. Now it's just lackeys or equally unfit, amoral wretches. Whatever influence the smartest of them might have is all directed toward self-interest.

onlytruthcansolve.bsky.social•3 days ago

possible"reality"? - I'm asking .... just attaching headline from weeks ago. The United States may Cross the Point of “No Return”. It sounds wild. Maybe even crazy. But every step is already in motion. On April 20, 2025, the United States may initiate its final steps into authoritarian rule.

waz001.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump is using the office to enact revenge against everyone he feels has slighted him. This revenge tour trumps any care he'd have for the country, which is already minimal. His slogan is only that: a used car salesman pitch meant to drum support on an emotional level, not based in truth or reality

ergoone.bsky.social•3 days ago

*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*!!!!!

henryschoenberger.bsky.social•3 days ago

SELF-EVIDENT FRAUD! MARKET MANIPULATIONS SHOW INSIDER TRADING. LEVERAGE ON CBOE COMBINED WITH INSIDE INFORMATION = HOME RUNS FOR TRUMPS SAVVY CABAL & NIGHTMARE FOR ALL NOT PRIVY TO LATEST TARIFF ASSERTIONS - IN A CONSTANT STATE OF FLUX.
https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/trumps-cabal-making-hay-from-putins

spi58.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’m sure it was for 💰💰💰

robynne-limoges.bsky.social•2 days ago

How can We the People, exploit that weakness in a way that will take him down. Thanks to you, we understand the malignancy of is weakness. How do we destroy it? I ask because America does not have the luxury of waiting until the Midterms, when we can only at best change the Congressional balance.

robertjordan1940.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hear, hear! The President is a reflection of the people. As long as President Trump is unstable, America and it's economy will be unstable.

yam-alrac.bsky.social•3 days ago

“We have thousands of years of political theory and indeed great literature to instruct us on this point: too much power brings out the worst in people -- especially among the worst of people.”

And trump is certainly among the worst of the worst people.

rwhetsel.bsky.social•2 days ago

Without being flip about very serious things, seriously, would any film company write what's going on into a movie and expect it to sell? Isn't it too cartoonish?

rwhetsel.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/melania-trumps-meme-coin-quietly-35020987

rwhetsel.bsky.social•3 days ago

Here also on weakening a strong people and harming another people--all unprocessed and allowed silently to continue to cause malaise and to create vulnerability to scoundrels ....
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/04/06/vietnam-war-robert-mcnamara-us-failure/82705336007/

rwhetsel.bsky.social•3 days ago

The part is on the wrong side.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNamara

rwhetsel.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/12/7497982/

Trump and Putin discussed the power of the dollar....

rwhetsel.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/katie0martin.ft.com/post/3lmen3u6yqs2k

rwhetsel.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-10/donald-trump-met-match-on-tariffs-in-bond-market-rout/105160436

justanothermaleusr.bsky.social•3 days ago

He is old

He knows he will not live for long

He only cares about himself

He needs to see results before being carried to the grave
.
.
Be careful, if you are around people with power that are in a hurry

They don't care about other peoples suffering

They don't have the time for that

justanothermaleusr.bsky.social•3 days ago

Besides what he perceives to have accomplished,which resides in his mind, there is another weakness

His legacy
Keep repeating that *his* legacy will be the destroyer of a SuperPower,the man that ruined the richest country ever,the man that lost to China
etc
Make him think that his legacy is a laugh

justanothermaleusr.bsky.social•3 days ago

He thinks of himself as "I know it all"

Expose him.

Publicly

Repeatedly.

Consistently.

It may not convince or change him, but the seeds of self-doubt will eat him up.

Satire, comics, jokes etc.
If you can get MAGA in on it too, even better.

thatmanglenn.bsky.social•3 days ago

He’s a weak man

rwhetsel.bsky.social•2 days ago

Self admiration has a way of blocking the development of self confidence. Self admiration is weak and insatiable. Self confidence is core and allows for looking around and experiencing/creating joy.

11alexandre11.bsky.social•3 days ago

“All his adult life, Trump has been ripping people off. That is his modus operandi.”

Most likely, he got ripped off many times bc he is a dumbass and sharks took advantage of him. And now he is insecure and afraid and paranoid about being ripped off.

rwhetsel.bsky.social•2 days ago

Being ripped off is an ugly front he sells to willing supporters? Behind the ugly front he does his things?

In paranoia there's a grain of truth, right? That's why paranoia is very hard to treat. But paranoid needs curing since it uses the grain wrong. You do not organize life around the grain.

frommeshed.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump happy as with yank companies taking advantage of cheap labour, crap working conditions for workers, in once third world countries. Now, they want some much deserved trade action , he cries like an orange blob of a bairn. America in LaLaLand. Worlds moved on

shafawn.bsky.social•3 days ago

That’s the kindest, most charitable construction I can imagine being placed on his crime-pattern in this area.

shafawn.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s also hilariously ironic because isn’t this the same explanation offered for the deficiencies during Biden’s stint in office? “He’s a feeble, infirm old man who’s not sound enough mentally to serve in office.”

manuelbb.bsky.social•3 days ago

When the Trump administration makes capricious decisions to impose an enormous tariffs increase and great uncertainty on manufacturers’ supply chains, the result will be reduced investment into the United States, raising interest rates on its debt. (10yr T-bonds in three days went from 4% to 4.5%)

rwhetsel.bsky.social•2 days ago

Big gap between, on the one hand, US people who "understand" (speak the language of, work with) capital markets and bond markets and, on the other hand, US people engaged in other productive activities and who perhaps don't wish to admit not understanding markets? If so, some helpful fireside chats?

janjohnson.bsky.social•3 days ago

Paranoia, and a need for dominance.

nofux.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s call small dick syndrome

42eyes2ears.bsky.social•3 days ago

When your party gets crashed:

susanna14.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thanks a lot! It makes perfect sense. Maybe I can add another example: his obsession with the 2020 election and with "sleepy Joe".

rwhetsel.bsky.social•2 days ago

The tone has been deliberately thrown down low. Reports say V Putin did the same language thing, correct? Some people seem to "buy" into low tone emotionally; many seem to wince?

Why do populations give control of their countries to coteries that put on "thug sound?" Can govs be thug-proofed?

larissaschwartz.bsky.social•3 days ago

Remember: Donald has the emotional intelligence of a five year old with the dementia of his father Fred. There is no there there

rwhetsel.bsky.social•2 days ago

Can't look it up right now, but doesn't archival verbatim testimony of US courts record the father changing the subject of the case at hand to the subject of how much the case at hand is hurting him?

frommeshed.bsky.social•2 days ago

Way too generous! What an arrogant brat he is ...' Everything is fantastic/ we re doing great things/ I.m the best at these deals/ I know all the other Presidents ...
Like Kim Jong IL Muppet every single day! 🤬🤬🤬🤡🤡🤡

allsky42.bsky.social•2 days ago

nailed it, tnx

cornelia.bsky.social•3 days ago

Dutch cartoon today
'meanwhile in America'

richardweld.bsky.social•3 days ago

To be frank, I think one could write a fairly large book on Trump's "obvious weaknesses".

hernandez888.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Against all enemies foreign and domestic" includes the President, Congress, the Supreme Court, & everyone down the list, including their supporters. The actions of free men speak louder than the words of slaves. Revolution is the solution. Rise up and overthrow them all.

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