What a Time to be a Psychology Student

     It's not very often psychologists and psychology students get a real-time look into the deconstruction of an allegedly human mind. Yet all one has to do is to look at Trump's Truth Social account, provided they have the stomach for it, to see his daily mental disintegration.

     It's filled with hatred, fury, projection, fact-free bombast and weapons-grade sadism. It's plainly overcompensation for what he knows deep down at heart is a decades-long fraud, that of being a successful businessman and president. He stares into the abyss constantly but he doesn't like it when it balefully stares back at him.

     And this is obviously the worst time in his life. He's already been arrested four times this year on four different indictments consisting of 91 criminal charges in four different jurisdictions plus a civil case in which he stands on the brink of losing all the crown jewels of his real estate empire. E. Jean Carroll is suing him for defamation, again, and he faces a growing list of smaller civil suits.

     Like his screaming zombie apostles Mike Lindell and Rudy Giuliani, Trump is about to lose it all. And that's what he fears more than incarceration or the catastrophic loss of wealth. It's exposure. He's furious and baffled as to why he's being revealed as the sociopathic charlatan he's been his entire life. And he's randomly lashing out at people like Rep. Frederica Wilson over a years-old incident, at Sen. Bill Cassidy, his former Cabinet members, anybody he thinks of in his daily brain seizures.

     A man ought to be entitled to his own myth-making. I am the Trump! I deserve my delusions and the chance to share them.

     The damnable thing is, it's worked for him and, up to a point, still does. There are millions of nameless zombies out there who actually think the more often he's arrested, indicted and charged with crimes, whatever their severity, that just makes him greater in their jaundiced eyes.

     But it wasn't until Trump's descent down that escalator that the Goldwater Rule was jettisoned. Mental health experts, starting with his own niece, Dr. Mary Trump, virtually put him on the sofa and began psychoanalyzing him and coming up with surprisingly consistent results.

     More than one neurologist had ventured a plausible guess that he has frontotemporal dementia based largely on his bizarre tilt.

     Yes, this is the asshole who wants to be the Speaker and president.

      Years and decades down the road, long after this shit show gets flushed down the pipes of history, long after Trump's dead and buried, psychologists will be doing commissioned, peer-reviewed studies seeking to explain how this happened. And it won't be Donald Trump who will be put on the couch. It'll be us.