Trump and Rorschach

In this country we seem to have a tendency which is almost an obsession to label people and concepts. The tendency is when meeting someone and talking to that person to conclude he or she is a liberal, or a conservative, or a Republican, or a Democrat, or a Catholic, or an atheist, etc.. Then, having concluded that we can ignore or agree with the substance of whatever that person says solely because he or she is a liberal, or conservative or religious or something. Labels are substituted for analysis

With Trump this truly is an obsession. What are the proper labels? For a while there was a discussion about whether he was a narcissist. The author of the description of narcissism in DSMIV said Trump did not fit the clinical definition of a narcissist and to call him a narcissist was unfair–to narcissists. He explained that narcissists by and large did not exhibit the same behavior as Trump, who  he characterized as an ignorant, self-centered and deceitful jerk. Recently the discussion has been whether he is a racist. Those endless and repetitive useless panels on the News networks do seem to be obsessed with this question. The question is irrelevant. Just describe accurately what he says and what he does. It speaks for itself and doesn't need a label.

In fact Donald Trump is really a nothing. He is not a conservative or a populist or anything else. He is a free floating, untethered ignorant, incompetent , lying jerk. He is in many respects like a Rorschach ink blot. What people conclude about him says far more about that person than it does about Trump. If, for example, someone says he is doing a fine job and being treated unfairly you learn much more about that person than Trump. For another example, my reaction to Trump fairly indicates that I am in angry old man who is disappointed to say the least about many of my fellow citizens.

An unconfirmed rumor from an unreliable source States that Trump himself once took a Rorschach test. He said the first inkblot reminded him of himself playing golf. The second appeared to be him closing a deal. The third  appeared to him to be him constructing a great building. At that point there was no purpose in showing him any more inkblots. His self obsessed personality was clear.

The chore now for Congress and the administrative agencies is not how to understand him, or to work with him, but to devise a way to work around him. He needs to be surrounded by people with pacifiers or better yet, he needs to be functionally gelded and isolated until his term is over. Of course, some of the people around him need to go. He should be allowed to have nobody in the upper reaches of his administration named Steve or who is related to him.