For his part, Trump seems to have genuinely gotten his feelings hurt. He has surrounded himself with beautiful women his whole life, and many, many intelligent women obviously enjoyed his company. He wasn’t chasing black hookers in the projects like Bill was, to use and abuse then lose. And even if he may have crossed some lines that “trigger” people in our hypersensitive times, there have been ZERO allegations of sexual predation until he took the lead as the Republican candidate. With regard to Bill, he didn’t get the name Slick Willie in Arkansas for nothing. If this is not obvious to you, this is a double ententre referencing his nearly continual sexual misconduct over decades. Everywhere he has gone there have been rumors. Some of his alleged mistresses have wound up dead.
Trump has NONE of this. Trump is on his third wife because the first two had firm boundaries and were emotionally healthy enough to tell him to get the fuck out when he cheated on them. Although she accused him of rape in the heat of and immediate aftermath of their divorce, Ivana says now that they are “the best of friends.”
If she were wired like a normal human being, Hillary would have left Bill long, long ago. Bill was not someone who was just unhappy in his marriage, and reaching out for comfort. No, he claims to have had sex with THOUSANDS of women while married. Even if he were single, that would be profoundly unhealthy. It reminds me a bit of Fellini’s movie “The City of Women”, where in the, forgive the use of the word, climactic scene, the Don Juan displays a statue of his mother, which he worships. Mother issues: yes, sir, for sure.
But their relationship is simply a business partnership, which means she is really, really cold and calculating, as appears blazingly obvious. I think her main concern about Bill is that he hurts her politically; and it is all about her, and always has been.
Trump likes attention, but this is something you can see every day in nearly every person. Everybody wants to pick the Derby winner, to be the track or football star, to be the smartest person in the room, to have the most beautiful woman, or richest and best looking man. The guy with the biggest dick in the locker room knows it and is proud of it.
Trump enjoys his life. He always has. He loves the limelight. It makes him happy.
But it is important to differentiate this from clinical narcissism. A clinical narcissist is someone who completely lacks empathy, who is unable to GET other people on a deep level. Clinical narcissists can be outstanding at reading and manipulating people. They can APPEAR warm and inviting, as Bill clearly often does. It was his biggest asset as a politician. Hillary and particularly Bill are clearly at least narcissists, and if they are guilty of a fraction of what they appear guilty of, likely sociopaths, with narcissism being merely one aspect of that disorder. Sociopathy would explain why Bill is so fascinating to so many women. He clearly draws them in, and always has.
The fact that Trump is bothered by the accusations against him show he has a conscience, and a core personality capable both of empathy and genuine outrage.
And I would say that in our modern world, genuine outrage is rare. It would require non-ambiguous standards applied evenly. And we all know that what is supposed to make us angry in one context we have to overlook in another. When Joy Behar said “I apologize to those tramps who slept with my husband”, what is she doing if not showing grotesque emotional detachment from the emotional worlds of those women? And none of them asked for it. Two were groped or flashed by Bill, and one was raped outright against her will. The final one, Kathy Shelton, was a victim of Hillary herself.
We see so much play acting in the public realm. It is because people have forgotten how to feel, how to be real, how to be sincere, how to react in authentic, emotionally direct and real ways. No, they are PROGRAMMED, and their faux outrage has all the reality of the Truman Show. It is a manufactured world, one built for idiots, by conniving bastards, for the decay of everything good.