Wednesday 18th June 2025
Re: Wednesday 18th June 2025
This was on my car radio , France Culture prog ,
" What is the population of Iran ?"
Firs time I've appreciated the Moscow Mouthpiece Tucker Carlson ,
( But then Putin doesn't want to see regime change ? )
" What is the population of Iran ?"
Firs time I've appreciated the Moscow Mouthpiece Tucker Carlson ,
( But then Putin doesn't want to see regime change ? )
Re: Wednesday 18th June 2025
"" Donald Trump is a display addict, a personality trait that Nicollo Machiavelli described as one of three behaviours that expose weak men. Display addicts must hold the centre of attention to feel validated. They need to be noticed; their greatest fear is to be ignored or forgotten. Any attention is better than none.
Trump ran away from the G7 meeting in Canada because he was being ignored; he wasn’t the centre of attention. He couldn’t control the narrative with his camera crew and cheer leaders, it was Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney’s party and Carney was not going to take one step sideways. At the initial press conference Trump began one of his nonstop tirades about domestic issues in the USA when Carney (with a charming smile) cut him short. Something no one in the USA dares to do. The centre of world politics has moved north from Washington DC, and the man in the middle is Canadian.
The media constantly report Trump’s irrational comments and changes of direction in the belief that they carry any weight. Trump doesn’t care, because they gain attention, lots of it! Of course, hidden in the mountains of misinformation are nuggets of truth. ‘I’m going to take Greenland, Panama, Canada’ - ‘Raise tariffs’ and ‘People should get out of Tehran!’
How many other US presidents have ever been the main topic of conversation across the world daily for what he might or might not do? What other president ever sent personal inflammatory messages on social media every night? Most people sleep. He can’t because the little voice in his head is full of resentment and petulance. He knows if he stops talking for a second, he will be forgotten. He is a display addict; he has a psychological need for constant attention. Add to that his malignant narcissism; his constant desire to be the centre of attention and you have an extremely weak and dangerous individual.
When Trump sat down with the leaders of the G7 he was immediately uncomfortable. Mark Carney held the floor and chaired the meeting. Around the table with Carney were five other high achievers, all multi-lingual academics with superb qualifications, information at their fingertips and a deep knowledge of the agenda. Most of them were friends, and if not, they were respectful adversaries who had come together to plan a stable economic future for their nations. The seventh person at the table was none of the above.
He was being sidelined, ignored, and corrected. He had no control; he tried to behave badly and was shut down. No one was listening, people would interrupt him, and he had no bully team to shout them down. Facts, verifiable empirical information, data, history, statistics, these all left him in a dense fog of confusion.
Added to those frustrations he knew there was worse to come. President Zelensky was due to arrive the next day. Zelensky would hold centre field, the hero of the free world, the leader who had denied Trump twice. The first time when he refused to imply misconduct by Hunter Biden in return for military aid, and the second when he refused to be bullied into signing away Ukrainian mineral rights. Zelensky is the hero of Ukraine, he is the David who faced down Goliath and won, and he was coming to town! That kind of popularity is primeval; it is only in the remit of a strong, virtuous person with a sound moral compass. You can’t buy that, nor can you imitate it.
Trump had to escape before Zelensky arrived or he would have to engage in the ritual greetings, shake hands, pretend he liked him, and then stand to one side as the press focused all their attention on Zelensky. That would be too painful. He ran for home.
https://robinhorsfall.substack.com/p/display-addiction
Trump ran away from the G7 meeting in Canada because he was being ignored; he wasn’t the centre of attention. He couldn’t control the narrative with his camera crew and cheer leaders, it was Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney’s party and Carney was not going to take one step sideways. At the initial press conference Trump began one of his nonstop tirades about domestic issues in the USA when Carney (with a charming smile) cut him short. Something no one in the USA dares to do. The centre of world politics has moved north from Washington DC, and the man in the middle is Canadian.
The media constantly report Trump’s irrational comments and changes of direction in the belief that they carry any weight. Trump doesn’t care, because they gain attention, lots of it! Of course, hidden in the mountains of misinformation are nuggets of truth. ‘I’m going to take Greenland, Panama, Canada’ - ‘Raise tariffs’ and ‘People should get out of Tehran!’
How many other US presidents have ever been the main topic of conversation across the world daily for what he might or might not do? What other president ever sent personal inflammatory messages on social media every night? Most people sleep. He can’t because the little voice in his head is full of resentment and petulance. He knows if he stops talking for a second, he will be forgotten. He is a display addict; he has a psychological need for constant attention. Add to that his malignant narcissism; his constant desire to be the centre of attention and you have an extremely weak and dangerous individual.
When Trump sat down with the leaders of the G7 he was immediately uncomfortable. Mark Carney held the floor and chaired the meeting. Around the table with Carney were five other high achievers, all multi-lingual academics with superb qualifications, information at their fingertips and a deep knowledge of the agenda. Most of them were friends, and if not, they were respectful adversaries who had come together to plan a stable economic future for their nations. The seventh person at the table was none of the above.
He was being sidelined, ignored, and corrected. He had no control; he tried to behave badly and was shut down. No one was listening, people would interrupt him, and he had no bully team to shout them down. Facts, verifiable empirical information, data, history, statistics, these all left him in a dense fog of confusion.
Added to those frustrations he knew there was worse to come. President Zelensky was due to arrive the next day. Zelensky would hold centre field, the hero of the free world, the leader who had denied Trump twice. The first time when he refused to imply misconduct by Hunter Biden in return for military aid, and the second when he refused to be bullied into signing away Ukrainian mineral rights. Zelensky is the hero of Ukraine, he is the David who faced down Goliath and won, and he was coming to town! That kind of popularity is primeval; it is only in the remit of a strong, virtuous person with a sound moral compass. You can’t buy that, nor can you imitate it.
Trump had to escape before Zelensky arrived or he would have to engage in the ritual greetings, shake hands, pretend he liked him, and then stand to one side as the press focused all their attention on Zelensky. That would be too painful. He ran for home.
https://robinhorsfall.substack.com/p/display-addiction
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Re: Wednesday 18th June 2025
I'm watch coverage of the Cruz/Carlson interview and for once, Tucker Carlson's blank, stare-into-space, vacant look works fully at the utter bilge that Ted Cruz is babbling.