The Future President, Donald Trump

She was always shrill, now she's gotten really, really loud. I can take about twenty seconds of it before I want to hang myself.

How does she work herself into so much anger over things she has the most superficial of knowledge about? She's a prime candidate for Prozac.

What a maroon!!

It's clear at this point that Donald Trump acts more like a bully than a "traditional" presidential candidate. The current leader in the GOP polls gleefully flouts all of the usual rules of political and social decorum, constantly launching attacks — many of them rather offensive — against both his political rivals and members of the media he believes have treated him unfairly.
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Part of what's been strange about the trajectory of the campaign so far is that Trump hasn't been punished, in any real sense, for engaging in the sort of behavior that almost everyone agrees is terrible in any setting. Yes, each gross incident is followed by a wave of denunciations, but they don't seem to have an impact — if anything, Trump seems to be gaining popularity by bullying. He's now the first GOP candidate to break 30 percent in the polls. Even non-supporters — the media very much included — seem more transfixed than indignant.

This isn't an unusual dynamic in many real-world bullying settings.

So examining Trump's behavior through the lens of bullying research can offer up some insights into how he has been so successful so far, and why his rivals have been unable to knock him down a peg.

Jaana Juvonen, a psychologist at UCLA who is the co-author of a recent literature review and an upcoming book chapter about bullying, said that Trump seems to tick many of the requisite boxes when it comes to how bullies act.

“Not that bullies are a uniform, homogeneous group, but the sort of classic bully is one who is narcissistic, is after power, often charismatic, and therefore popular,” she said. Check, check, check, and check.

But she said there’s an “important and interesting” distinction between being popular and being liked — many bullies may have high status in that their classmates rate them as popular, Juvonen explained, but when individual students are asked if they’d like to spend time with the bully, they respond with resounding nos. This dynamic might help explain some of the personnel shuffling and general chaos that went on in the early days of Trump’s campaign.

So, given that Trump pretty clearly fits the pattern of a bully, what’s the best move for political rivals hoping to counter him and his hot-tempered rhetoric?

Juvonen said she hasn’t seen much evidence of Trump’s targets unifying to aggressively go after Trump, and that this, too, fits a standard bullying pattern.

“That’s a classic bystander effect — they are No. 1, afraid of their reputation; they are afraid that he will next target them if they criticize him.

And again, in the school context, when we talk about bullying among kids — one of the most effective ways to deal with bullies is that the kids are united.

So in fact, if I were advising the Republican Party I’d say to the other candidates, 'You guys, together, should be shooting Trump down,' since there’s more power in numbers when the bystanders feel like they are not making themselves personally vulnerable by alone criticizing Trump, but if they were more united they would have a chance to deal with him.”

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It's clear at this point that Donald Trump acts more like a bully than a "traditional" presidential candidate

What a maroon!!

The blithering bloviating ego cloud is going to be on Colbert's show September 22nd. It may be the first time someone gets him to really show his ignorance and unfitness for POTUS. One can hope.

http://theweek.com/speedreads/576612/donald-trump-going-guest-late-show-stephen-colbert