Trump Blame Game Ready If He Loses In 2020

Donald Trump doesn’t like losing, whether it’s in business or politics. And whether he wins or not, the only thing seemingly more important to him than actually winning, is the facade of being a winner. At a campaign rally in Indiana in 2018, he said “We love winners. Winners are winners.” This depicts so much of Trump’s unwavering spirit to win, no matter what!

According to a recent tweet of Trump:

“If the totally Corrupt Media was less corrupt, I would be up by 15 points in the polls based on our tremendous success with the economy, maybe Best Ever! If the Corrupt Media was actually fair, I would be up by 25 points. Nevertheless, despite the Fake News, we’re doing great!”

This has been a running theme with him becoming President: anything negative about him, according to him is “fake news” he went as far as telling people at one rally that what they see isn’t really what’s happening. In other words, are you going to believe your own eyes, or what I tell you to believe?

If there is any thread of consistency in Trump’s messaging to the Americans in the last three years, it is this—The media is corrupt, they didn’t want me to win and succeed, and they will try everything possible to ensure that outcome.

As a political psychologist, I can say that Trump has always been laying the ground to pass the blame to anyone beyond himself. Leading up to election day when he was still behind in the polls, he was sowing doubt among his followers with the notion that the “system is rigged against me folks.”

That theme is once again playing out as the new election cycle for 2020 kicks off, again telling Trump supporters — and anyone who will listen –that the “corrupt media” is trying to sabotage his efforts by lying about him.

if he loses in his 2020 re-election bid, no doubt the media will have been to blame, according to him. That he would have won easily without the mischievous plotting by the media.

A quick bit of researching videos about Donald Trump shows that he has already voiced this theme from policy decisions, comments, and actions he has taken. To be clear, there is no question that much of the coverage of Trump’s presidency has been negative. But that is more a result of Trump’s own words, twitchy Twitter finger,  policy positions, and actions, than it is of   a ‘corrupt media.’

Real winners lead, while the loser’s whine about who’s to blame.

–Dr. Bart Rossi Ph.D

Report says Trump is a habitual cheater at golf

Most of us have seen Donald Trump proudly boasting about winning 18 club championships, but is it really true? Several speculations have started surfacing after the release of a new book named Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump by the sportswriter Rick Reilly. According to the writer, Trump’s impulse to cheat is also unquestionably pertinent to golf where he ‘cheats at the highest possible level’.

Reilly claims that he cheats when people are watching and he cheats when they are not. He cheats, whether you like it or not because that’s how he plays golf. This is his style and if you are playing golf with him, he is certainly going to cheat. This shows that for Trump, the ultimate goal is victory, even if he has to opt unethical way to achieve it, but this is how he is Right?

Trump claims he has a 2.8 handicap, the sliding scale used among amateur golfers that would help them to compete with other players. Like his height, Trump’s self-reported handicap of 2.8 seems a little off. According to Jack Nicklaus, who is the winner of many 18 golf titles, one of the greatest golfers in the history of this game, Trump has a handicap of 3.4. There is a huge contradiction in both these numbers, and that number is only low because he cheats!.

Like his business life, he reportedly exaggerates certain details about his golf course achievements too. For example, his resort in Virginia, where a plaque between the 14th and 15th holes commemorates the fallen soldiers of a Civil War battle that actually never happened.

As a political psychologist, I can say cheating is probably an inherent part of his personality, which is sharply reflected in his personal and professional life. It is clearly evident that he doesn’t have a good hold game etiquette, neither does he seem to care about it. In his ambition to build a great rapport with Americans, he shouldn’t resort to such unethical practices. He should, in contrast, refrain from raising controversial issues like the border wall. He should step out of his self-centered horizon and focus on building policies that can benefit all.

–Dr. Bart Rossi Ph.D