How the Psychology of Cyberbullying Explains Trump’s Tweets

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/03/how-the-psychology-of-cyberbullying-explains-trumps-tweets-215333

 

WHEN President Donald Trump tweeted last week about “crazy” Mika Brzezinski “bleeding badly from a face-lift,” it was shocking but hardly surprising. His first online barb against the MSNBC host had come at 8:20 on a Monday morning last August: “@morningmika is off the wall, a neurotic and not very bright mess!” Since then, Trump has referred to “crazy @morningmika” at least three times; claimed she had a mental breakdown on-air; and threatened to expose the “real story” of her relationship with her co-host, Joe Scarborough. And Brzezinski is hardly alone: The president has demonstrated an unrelenting fondness for Twitter attacks against celebrities, fellow politicians and the media—most recently, and infamously, CNN.

What explains Trump’s increasingly bizarre online behavior? Brzezinski and Scarborough have raised the possibility that the president is “unmoored,” “not well” and certainly “not mentally equipped” to watch their show. Others have suggested he has pathologically poor impulse control. But the best insight might come, ironically, from Trump’s wife, Melania, who shortly before the election decried an internet culture that “has gotten too mean and too rough.” She was talking about cyberbullying, an online behavior she described as “absolutely unacceptable”—but which some experts say is an accurate, and helpful, descriptor of the president’s Twitter habits.

 

[jg121783 3,921]

Here we go with the armchair psychology again.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

41 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

Here we go with the armchair psychology again.

Of course you didn't read the article in full...it was a big wall of text.

Edited July 4, 2017 by ccneat

[jg121783 3,921]

I don't waste my time with left wing fake news.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

3 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

I don't waste my time with left wing fake news.

Happy 4th !

[Dashinka 26,012]

Analyzing remotely, that works.

 

Edited July 4, 2017 by Bill & Katya

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

1 hour ago, Bill & Katya said:

Analyzing remotely, that works.

 

I hope you folks get outside today

[IAMX 3,055]

3 hours ago, jg121783 said:

Here we go with the armchair psychology again.

Present them with a mirror for ultimate irony.

Edited July 4, 2017 by IAMX

[Unidentified 2,930]

And the hamster wheel is continuing to spin.... Let's see how long we can keep this thread open before they are forced to close it. 

[Mr&Mrs G. 903]

Who or what determines who the victim is?

 

Some threads go way beyond the title "Current Events and Hot Social topics" and if Trump was a member of this forum a lot of the posts would have been deleted by moderators, so does that make you all cyber bullies? 

[Dashinka 26,012]

1 hour ago, ccneat said:

I hope you folks get outside today

Already ran 6 miles with the wife.  Fireworks later.

24 minutes ago, Mr&Mrs G. said:

Who or what determines who the victim is?

 

Some threads go way beyond the title "Current Events and Hot Social topics" and if Trump was a member of this forum a lot of the posts would have been deleted by moderators, so does that make you all cyber bullies? 

If Trump were here, he would have gone the way of Jacques, or Lost in Blue.