He Doesn't Wanna Know What Love Is

 

     Dr. Mary Trump was on Alex Witt's show on MSNBC today and brought up a salient point- That her crazy uncle Donald doesn't know what it feels like to love and to be loved.

     The good doctor also expressed wonderment at how anyone, even her uncle, could synonymize the violence and spittle-flecked hatred vomited at the Capitol and the officers protecting it on January 6th with anything even remotely resembling love.

     That's because Trump never understood the difference between unilateral loyalty, however misguided, and love. And he never learned the difference because he never had to.

     Granted, I don't have a PhD in clinical psychology like Dr. Trump and so many others. But I know sociopathic behavior when I see it. After four years of the tire fire that was the Trump administration in which we heard the same and more of the same about how he'd been wronged and every iteration of white grievance, his behavior is well-documented by clinician and layman alike.

     .Using as context Trump's and Bill O's failed history tour that wrapped up last night in Texas, Alex Witt played a clip of Trump telling the sparse crowd that the January 6th mob that killed a cop and led four others to commit suicide was full of love, like they were singing fucking "Kumbaya" instead of screaming for Mike Pence's and Nancy Pelosi's deaths.

     Trump saw that not as a generic love for country but a love for him, despite there not being the slightest amount of love in evidence. This was why Trump didn't call out the National Guard even while being implored to do so by aides, relatives and Fox "News" personalities such as Hannity, Ingraham and Kilmeade.

     During that bit of historical whitewashing, Trump also stated that if he had to do it all over again, he would've called out the National Guard a lot sooner to "protect them." "Them" being, of course, not the cops trying to protect the Capitol but the people who, aside from Ashli Babbitt, were never fired upon nor arrested that day. He watched for as long as he could and, when he learned they won the battle but lost the war, then turned off the TV and hung them out to dry.

     That refers to that Mark Meadows memo in which he wrote on January 5th that the DC Guard was to be deployed the next day to "protect pro-Trump people".

     Again, against the police who were vainly trying to protect the Capitol and those who work in it.

     So, even in Trump's fun house mirror of a mind, he sees cops getting assaulted with virtually everything under the sun by a mob of screaming lunatics who legitimately expected to turn around and see Trump standing next to them when in reality he watched it on TV. He saw perhaps the worst domestic violence witnessed on live national TV and saw that as an expression of love. Love for him. Not the country.