Dr. Gabor Maté
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But he certainly was successful politically, if by success you mean the attainment of power.
His brother, on the other hand, Mary Trump's father, Trump's niece's father, drank himself to death.
And they were both responses to the same.
You can never say it's exactly the same for two kids.
But there was a toxic home environment.
One ends up dead as an alcoholic.
The other ends up at the pinnacle of power.
And when I look at them both, I see dysfunction there, significant dysfunction there.
Well, Donald Trump learned that the way to survive is to be aggressive and harsh and competitive and to get the other before they get to you, which is a faithful reproduction of his early childhood beliefs.
experiences so for him these were not choices so much as survival techniques and when they talk about his lying well I don't know when he's lying or when he's not but my sense is that often he actually believes what he's saying and actually he's a biographer or the person who co-wrote his
quasi-autobiographical, the art of the deal.
This writer says that he's never met anybody who's so capable of believing something that's not true to be true if he wants it to be true.
Now that's the mark of a traumatized child.
You know, a denial of reality.
It is an inauguration.
There was a certain number of people that came to the
He couldn't stand it that there weren't as many people there as came to Barack Obama's inauguration.
There were a much smaller number of people there.
He created this reality where many more people came to his inauguration.
Now, what age behavior is that?