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BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
Wed May 23, 2018, 05:59 PM May 2018

Is tRump's adult behavior the result of poor parenting,

his environment or is it psychological?
He is essentially the same he was as a boy and he will tell you that himself.

"He had a reputation for saying anything that came into his head,” said Donald Kass, 70, a retired agronomist who was a schoolmate. When Trump misidentified Rocca, the pro wrestler, Kass recalled, “We would laugh at him and tell him he was wrong, and he’d say he was right. The next time, he would make the same mistake, and it would be the same thing all over again.”

Donald was known to be a bully, I was a little kid, and my parents didn’t want me beaten up,” said Burnham, 65, a business consultant in Texas.
Once when she left Dennis in a playpen in a back yard adjoining the Trumps’ property, Martha Burnham returned to find Donald throwing rocks at her son. “She saw Donald standing at the fence,” Dennis Burnham said, “using the playpen for target ­practice.”

Near the end of seventh grade, Fred discovered Donald’s knives and was infuriated to learn about his trips into the city. He decided his son’s behavior warranted a radical change. In the months before eighth grade, Fred Trump enrolled Donald at the New York Military Academy, a boarding school 70 miles from Jamaica Estates.
D’Antonio, the biographer who wrote “Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success,” said Fred Trump’s decision was “a very severe response to a kid who hadn’t gotten arrested and wasn’t involved in drinking and drugging. He was essentially a smart aleck.”
“This was a profound rejection of Donald,” he said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/young-donald-trump-military-school/2016/06/22/f0b3b164-317c-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html?utm_term=.2ebeae6df40b

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Is tRump's adult behavior the result of poor parenting, (Original Post) BigmanPigman May 2018 OP
No analysis is needed... Moostache May 2018 #1
Some people are just bad, and we don't always know why. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 #2
He is a sociopath Cary May 2018 #3
It probably had something to do with it. bearsfootball516 May 2018 #4
But as far as we know, his siblings didn't turn out like Donald. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 #8
He probably made them sign non disclosure greements. BigmanPigman May 2018 #10
What is this "Trump's adult behavior" of which you speak? nt Atticus May 2018 #5
I did realize that was a not an appropriate word BigmanPigman May 2018 #6
Oh boo hoo. Marie Marie May 2018 #7
Millions of people have grown up MontanaMama May 2018 #9
Yeah..."bad seed syndrome". BigmanPigman May 2018 #11
I doubt that his father was a very nice person LeftishBrit Dec 2018 #12
I think it is a combination too. BigmanPigman Dec 2018 #13

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
1. No analysis is needed...
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:02 PM
May 2018

Assholes are gonna asshole. Plain and simple.

There is no "cause" of Trump, he is simply an asshole, period.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,267 posts)
2. Some people are just bad, and we don't always know why.
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:07 PM
May 2018

Sounds like Trump was nasty even as a small child, kind of a bad seed.

bearsfootball516

(6,369 posts)
4. It probably had something to do with it.
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:24 PM
May 2018

I've read before that Donald's father was a very unloving person, and he always pushed his kids to competition, and pushed the belief on them that if you weren't the very best, you were a loser.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,267 posts)
8. But as far as we know, his siblings didn't turn out like Donald.
Wed May 23, 2018, 07:27 PM
May 2018

His older brother Fred was a pilot (but eventually drank himself to death); a sister, Maryanne, is a retired federal judge; another sister, Elizabeth, worked in banking; and brother Robert worked for the family business for awhile. We never hear anything from or about them. I wonder why?

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
10. He probably made them sign non disclosure greements.
Wed May 23, 2018, 11:44 PM
May 2018

Is that what they are called...the thing Stormy had to sign.

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
6. I did realize that was a not an appropriate word
Wed May 23, 2018, 07:03 PM
May 2018

to describe him when I wrote it since he is a man-baby after all. Who said, "Show me the boy and I'll show you the man"?

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)
7. Oh boo hoo.
Wed May 23, 2018, 07:08 PM
May 2018

Many children of that generation grew up with distant and strict fathers and yet managed to become decent and mature people of character and integrity. He is just a spoiled and entitled piece of shit. He is responsible for his life and how he chooses to behave.

MontanaMama

(23,238 posts)
9. Millions of people have grown up
Wed May 23, 2018, 11:37 PM
May 2018

with shitty parents and don’t turn into malignant narcissists. IMO, he was born an asshole.

LeftishBrit

(41,190 posts)
12. I doubt that his father was a very nice person
Thu Dec 27, 2018, 02:42 PM
Dec 2018

He was a slum landlord, and the subject of a song by Woody Guthrie, attacking his racism.

However, I don't think that Trump's behaviour can be entirely blamed on his parents. He had several siblings, who did not turn out the same way.

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
13. I think it is a combination too.
Thu Dec 27, 2018, 05:41 PM
Dec 2018

Partly his own psychological/chemical make-up, possibly genetic (he has multiple "borderline personality disorders&quot as well as socio/environmental factors (like a very rich, criminal/fraudulent, racist businessman father).

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