An Easter Sunday essay recognizing the intervention of Satan in our times
The personality defects of Donald J. Trump have been the subject of amateur psychology in mass media since his first presidential electoral campaign in 2016. The trait that has been most discussed was and is narcissism.
Google’s AI Search has the following to say about this issue:
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Numerous mental health professionals and critics have publicly suggested that Donald Trump exhibits traits consistent with
narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), and paranoid personality disorder, often grouping them under the term “malignant narcissism“. These claims, primarily argued by psychologists and psychiatrists, cite patterns of grandiosity, lack of empathy, need for admiration, and impulsivity.
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This portrait of Trump is the product of specialists operating in our secular culture.
However, this is Easter Sunday and I think it entirely appropriate to approach the issue from a Christian binary analytical framework of Good and Evil, God and Satan. This is all the more relevant because Trump professes to take religion seriously. Key members of his administration, like Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth, are zealous Believers and speak publicly of their religion.
In this context and considering the Easter Sunday dateline of this message to the Community, I say that Trump and the senior members of his Administration have stepped right out of Dostoevsky’s novel The Possessed. They are Evil Incarnate, they are possessed by Satan in their support of Israeli genocide in Gaza and now in the vicious, inhuman violence they are directing against the Iranian people. Listening to Trump’s daily diatribes, his bloody threats against Tehran, it strains belief that these words are coming from our top elected official.
And so I conclude : shame on the United States if this man is not impeached and removed from office, sent to face the International Court of Justice for war crimes.
Amen
I agree with you completely.
Based on his first term, Trump could claim to be a man of peace. He was the only president that started no new wars since at least Reagan. Even Glenn Greenwald pointed that out several times. But he's lost his humanity in the 4 years he was out of office. Is it revenge for having the 2020 election stolen by the democrats due to their Covid scam? Could it be that he was driven crazy when the democrats tried to put him in jail for life on trumped-up charges? Could it just be growing senility due to old age? In any case, there is something terribly wrong with a system in which it is near impossible to remove a failing leader who is committing obvious war crimes and driving the world into WWIII. The 25th Amendment, which should have already been invoked, has no teeth and doesn't work. And Impeachment won't work either until after the Repubs lose their majority in November's elections, assuming we even have them.