Trump is a Fearful Man with a Talent for Finding and Exploiting Fear in Others. He is—
Afraid of Women
He hates the Me, Too movement and fears the thought of women’s testimony being taken seriously.
"It is a very scary time for young men in America, where you can be guilty of something you may not be guilty of," Trump said. "This is a very, very -- this is a very difficult time. What's happening here has much more to do than even the appointment of a Supreme Court Justice." www.cnn.com/...
He fears female leaders with power.
Angela Merkel is his worst nightmare come true.
She is every woman in the world who has ever laughed at Donnie, or attempted to conceal a laugh that everyone else could see.
She is the current leader of the Western World.
Pelosi is his second worst nightmare
NBC News' Kasie Hunt reported she spoke to Nancy Pelosi about what it will be like to work with President Trump, "especially as a
woman."
..."He doesn't have a nickname for her," Hunt told MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell. "It's been reported that he is afraid of her in some ways, that he certainly respects her political prowess. You have seen her, you know, denigrate his manhood in private conversations with her members, only to have that leaked to the press." www.realclearpolitics.com/...
Afraid of Muslims, unless they are from Saudi Arabia
9/4/2010 — Trump Suggests the U.S. is at War with Muslims
Five years before announcing his candidacy, Trump discusses the Park51 Islamic Community Center in Manhattan on The Late Show.
Host David Letterman asks, “Does this, in fact, suggest that we are officially at war with Muslims?” to which Trump responds, “Well somebody knocked down the World Trade Center… somebody’s blowing us up. Somebody’s blowing up buildings, and somebody’s doing lots of bad stuff. medium.com/...
Yet Omar’s quote nearly echos part of Trump,s from 2010.
Speaking at an event last month for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Omar said, "CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties."
Does Trump go after the country that was home to most of the 911 attackers? Hell, no. That would be bad for the Trump/Kushner rackets.
Omar was born in Somalia. The 9/11 attackers were
predominantly from Saudi Arabia. The Trump administration refused to condemn Saudi leadership after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, whose killing is believed to be tied to the Saudi crown prince, at a Saudi consulate in Turkey last year.
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Afraid of Mueller
[Trump] fears the independent counsel, whose investigation of Russia's interference in the 2016 election threatens to expose the inner workings of the campaign and of Trump's opaque business empire. www.cnn.com/...
Afraid of Tax & Business Investigations
"And the president says if you investigate me I'm not going to make progress. That's already doing what he did with the shutdown. Holding the American people hostage," Schumer said. "He's got something to hide. Because if he had nothing to hide, he'd just shrug his shoulders and let these investigations go forward. He's afraid of them." www.politico.com/...
Afraid of Being Proven a Fraud
The President's insecurities all seem to revolve around his fear of being unmasked as a fraud. The tax returns, for example, would allow everyone to compare his claims to great wealth -- in 2015 he said he was worth $10 billion -- with black-and-white reality. More to the point, we could all see how he has benefited from various tax maneuvers and discover just how much corporate welfare the Trump Organization has lapped up over the years.
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More Afraid of RWNJs than we are
The government isn’t shut down because of President Trump’s unbelievable cluelessness as a dealmaker. It’s shut down because of his many fears.
Trump is afraid of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Matt Drudge, Laura Ingraham and the rest of the far-right echo chamber. (He sees Sean Hannity as more of a house pet.) He’s afraid of his shrunken but loyal base, which could abandon him if he doesn’t give them a wall... And he’s afraid of losing his coercive hold over the Republican senators who one day could sit in judgment of his fate. www.washingtonpost.com/…
And Trumps uses fear very effectively on others to find his base, gin them up, make them his tribe, and turn out their votes
This article is from 2 years ago, but still plays today.
Why My East Texas Neighbors are Voting for Trump
It’s not because they’re stupid rednecks.
Voting for Trump is about being part of a large reality show. Really.
...Thing is, the support of Trump in Texas — and I speak
specifically of my region, East Texas — goes beyond the smart and the not so smart, the educated and the uneducated. It is more a result of what I like to call the happily stupid; the ones who hold stupid views by choice, not due to lack of intelligence, but due to a kind of tribalism. Facts that interfere with their version of the world are there to be ignored. It’s like putting a hat on a pig and insisting the porker is your Uncle Frank, contrary to all other evidence.
Trump has provided a dark, dank hole into which these folks can dump whatever it is they’re mad about. Even contradictory views, since Trump frequently changes viewpoint in midsentence, can happily nest there, swelling and breeding like poison fungus….
Fear sells, and it stimulates. Trump and his cronies constantly tell us, without actual facts, how bad crime is and how evil all foreigners are — especially if they dress funny — and they repeat over and over the false information that the economy is on the verge of collapse and you better build that bunker and stock up, because if you don’t, all you’ll have for protection from the certain rise of crazed liberals is harsh language.
This is a world so many conservative Republicans feel they can control. A frightened world. A world where the happily stupid, bless their little hearts, can thrive within their own fear-based mythology. A place where those with and without teeth, with and without educations, will happily pull the lever for the Great Pumpkin come Election Day. www.texasobserver.org/…
Best ways to fight fear—
- Face your fears. Trump is worse than imagined. We will still defeat him.
- Know yourself. Do what you can do. Join forces with other as needed.
- Exercise. Physical activity, like walks, can work wonders.
- Relax. See that movie, read that book, talk with friends.
- Eat well & drink sensibly. Skip the junk food and binges.
- Draw strength from your community of faith or support group of like-minded folks (like the Village)
- Act on you beliefs. Taking action in my precinct and training others across the state helps me and helps others. www.mentalhealth.org.uk/…
We Fight Fear. We Fight Lies. We Must Win. We Will Win.