Possibly the last president who may have some remnants of decency, President Obama tore into Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during a rally for Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth, who is currently running to take a seat in the United States Senate. During a segment of his speech, President Obama announced his disdain for Trump’s hateful and bigoted rhetoric against women, minorities, people of other faiths, and immigrants. He also mentioned how demeaning it was that Trump also goes after the disabled and American veterans.
President Obama touched on Trump’s amazing ability to bring himself up by tearing others down. President Obama mentioned the careless incivility coming from Trump and his campaign, noting that he wasn’t as smart or resilient as Duckworth – and resilient she is, Duckworth lost her legs in a helicopter crash while on tour in Iraq. She survived a crash, where the helicopter that she was flying in was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade.
Armchair Psychoanalysis of Trump Is Trivializing But
Many publications have taken the role of psychoanalyzing Trump without actually sitting down with him – which was met by a reminder of ethics by the American Psychiatric Association. Even though this election cycle may be unique, encouraging scores of armchair psychologists to share their opinions on the grandiose and possibly sociopathic ways of Trump, it doesn’t take a psychology degree to observe that Trump is an expert at double speaking and positioning himself into a place of perceived power.
President Obama speaks facts. Trump regularly degrades women, has verbally demonstrated his penchant for the female anatomy, has singled out American immigrants on day one of his campaign, and has even called out people of other faiths who attended his rallies – these are all facts.
Do you think with the recently leaked audio and the possibility of more evidence of Trump using bigoted language will negatively affect Trump’s campaign? What do you think will actually give Trump supporters pause?
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