Republicans’ disastrous midterm losses were “catastrophic” for Donald Trump’s psyche, and the president is “not” taking it well, according to a clinical psychologist who knows him better than most: his niece.
Mary Trump, an outspoken critic of her uncle, wrote in her Substack newsletter “The Good in Us” this week that the president has “finally experienced a loss from which he will not recover.”
“The midterm election was a catastrophic loss, not just for Republicans, but for Donald’s psyche,” she wrote. “Now, you might say he seems to be taking it pretty well. He is not.”
She argued that this is the defeat the Republican Party needed to suffer in 2020. Back then, she wrote, the GOP’s relatively strong showing shielded her uncle “from the worst of” the “narcissistic injury” he suffered when he lost to Joe Biden.
According to Mary Trump, the president’s brief openness to working with Democrats after Tuesday’s results was mostly about “insulating him from the myriad investigations the Democratic majority will launch.” She said that mood “did not last long.” A day later, she noted, he sat in the Oval Office with a red “VETO” cap on his desk.
She called his choice of Stephen Miller to replace Susie Wiles as chief of staff “much more alarming.” In her view, it shows the president “plans to be aggressive and to double down on his cruelty.” She called Miller “a vile, inhumane creep” and “a Nazi.” She also argued that Miller believes “it is in his own self interest to keep Donald amped up, angry, disgruntled, and aggrieved.”
She wrote that her uncle has “gone a bit quiet” since Election Day, focusing on pet projects “as a way of self soothing” and “isolating as a way to withdraw from having to confront the enormity of the narcissistic wound he received on Tuesday.”
“It has been a lifelong project of his to avoid the reckoning he is facing right now,” she wrote. “He has expended enormous amounts of psychic energy protecting himself from this kind of loss, this massive, unthinkable rejection.”
She doesn’t expect him to accept any of the blame. She said he has been “lashing out and blaming everybody, from Fox News to the Republican candidates, many of whom he hand picked, to the voters.”
“When he emerges from that isolation, he will find that he is much more alone than he has ever been since he was a toddler,” she wrote. “This will make him angrier. This will make him feel more aggrieved, and it will set off a self reinforcing cycle of rage.”
She warned that the cycle “will cause him to act out in ways that I am worried will endanger all of us.” Unlike in 2020, she argued, there are no longer “enough relatively responsible Republicans who would have managed to contain him.”
“Donald’s decline will be increasingly rapid,” she wrote. “He is coming, at long last, to the end stage of his malignant narcissism. Because he has lost so definitively … yet he remains so incredibly powerful with a vast array of weapons at his disposal, we are in for a very, very scary ride.”
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