Trump Could Star in Arrested Development

Four days left, Friends,

There's a saying about teenagers: "When their mouths are moving, they're lying." Funny how this seems to apply to someone who's running for President.

Donald Trump is not a 70-year-old man. He's a 13-year-old boy. That's where his emotional development was arrested.

How can I say this?

Because I'm not unconscious. All you have to do is look.

He told the New York Times he's always loved to fight--including physically--and even at 70, he still talks like a tough kid.

Here's a man who may have an extensive vocabulary but prefers to speak at a seventh grade level--using words like "biggly" and phrases like, "I'd like to beat the shit out of him," or I'd "bomb the hell out of them."

He's a classic schoolyard bully, nasty-name caller and body shamer.

So, this is what wealthy people did with their troubled teens back
in the 1950's & early 60's. But discipline with no counseling made
The Donald a dangerous boy (in an old man's body).

Whenever he's challenged, he simply uses the childish defense of turning the criticism back at the critic. Remember, his response to Hillary Clinton accusing him of bromancing Vladimir Putin in the final debate: "No puppet, you're the puppet"?

The art of projection is Trump's M.O. I saw one of his new negative TV ads this morning that's an excellent example of this. It concludes with, "Hillary Clinton, concerned only about money, power, and herself.

Now, you can say a lot of things about Hillary Clinton, but those three traits would be pretty low on the list. As a matter of fact, change the 'her' in herself to 'him', and it sounds just like you-know-who.

At least Hillary has spent her entire career trying to help other people, especially children, which Trump never has. And the Clinton fortune is thanks to Bill's manipulations, not hers. Hillary was too busy as a U.S. Senator  getting good reviews, and then as a moderately competent Secretary of State.

Trump was otherwise occupied mock-firing people on TV.

This man has never really grown up. At age 59, he was engaged in "locker room talk" that your average 13-year-old boy might think was cool. But seriously, what grown man talks about "grabbing a pussy"?

It's something that never occurred to me. Why would you grab a woman's genitals? Only little boys talk nonsense like that.

Trump was a bad kid. His brother, Fred, Jr.--who died young from alcoholism--was the favored son and original heir to the Trump fortune. Prodigal son Donald was sent off to military school to get some discipline.

I taught at a lockdown boarding school for troubled teenagers like Donald Trump, and discipline was not the only thing they needed. Most required serious counseling for personality disorders.

I'd double down that The Donald never got any. And that would mean he still suffers the pathology of a disturbed teenager.

That's just what we need to fix our country.