In this video essay, I examine Donald Trump’s politics of hatred through the lens of psychoanalysis, object relations theory, and the symbolic world of Mad Max. Trump’s language of enemies, revenge, walls, strength, gold, and domination is not treated here as mere political theatre, but as the public expression of a deeper psychic wound: a damaged need for love, control, and recognition.
Drawing on Melanie Klein, Mary Trump, George Orwell, Siegfried Kracauer, and George Miller’s dystopian universe, this essay explores how hate becomes a political drug, how authoritarian leaders speak to the frightened child within the crowd, and how a wounded man can turn private rage into a national pathology.
Transcript
IMAGE: title: “HATE, HATE, HATE
IMAGE: Trump holding bible
“And we’ve lost religion in our country.
All Americans need a bible in their home, and I have many.
Its my favourite book. Its a lot of people’s favourite book.
IMAGE: “Love your enemies,
Do good for those who hate you,
Bless those who curse you,
Pray for this who abuse you..”
Luke 6:27-28
IMAGE: Trump
“I hate my opponent
And I don’t want the best for them I’m sorry”
“If you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato,
Knock the crap out of the, would you, seriously”
‘I’d like to punch him in the face, I’ll tell you.”
VOICE-OVER: These days the word hate is no longer whispered. Its shouted !”
IMAGE: “And if you do I’ll defend you in court. Don’t worry about it.”
VO:: Donald Trump has declared, “I hate my enemies.” This is not just a personal confession from a psychologically frail and traumatised individual—its a political strategy. “
IMAGE: Trump: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best.”
IMAGE: Right wing patriots marching in Charlestown torch procession at night, like NAZ’s in 1930s Germany, chanting, “One people, one nation, ban immigration.”
VO: Trump: “They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists…”
Crowd chanting “USA, USA”
VO: Hatred is verbalised, cultivated, amplified, and weaponised, dividing nations and even TRUMP’S own home ground population into “those for us”, and “those against us.”
IMAGE: Newspaper headline, “Bring back the death penalty” with one page statement signed Donald Trump.
VO: Evidence for Trump’s hatred, racism and demonisation of others goes back a long way.
IMAGE: Trump “You better believe that I hate the people that took this girl and raped her brutally. You better believe it. And its more than anger. Its hatred. And I want society to hate them.”
Newspaper images follow.
VO: It was especially evident in his 1989 campaign against the Central Park Five, a group of Black and Latino teenagers who were wrongly convicted of the rape and assault of a white female jogger in Central Park.
IMAGE: News item about Trump discrimination regarding apartments.
VO: Trump’s racism was evident in the 1970s when he and his father discriminated against African Americans regarding rental of apartments in Trump buildings.
IMAGE: Obamas depicted as apes.
More recently, even Trump supporters have been shocked by an image sent by Trump on social media depicting the Obamas as apes.
Trump has a history of talking tough with an implied sense of menace.
IMAGE: TRUMP: “Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters. Okay ? Its like incredible.
Trump; ‘We’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you. We’re going to walk down to the capital. Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength. And you have to be strong.”
VO: Trumps language and behaviour frequently reflects an almost infantile preoccupation with revenge …..
IMAGE: Trump: “I would have wiped the floor with the guys that weren’t loyal. Which I will now do, which is great. You know I love getting even with people.
VO: And a kind of adolescent macho language not previously seen publicly with presidents.
IMAGE: Trump: “Because he doesn’t want to fuck around with the United States.”
“Given the opportunity I will get even with some people.”
IMAGE; psychologist; “He meets criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Anti-social personality disorder, for Psychopathic Disorder, meets criteria for Paranoid Personality Disorder. And that’s not even getting into the Delusional Disorder.”
IMAGES: Trump’s bragging “I know better than anybody…”
VO: Trump’s politics of hatred, power, control and narcissistic self aggrandisement, as well as personal financial enrichment, look very like the infantile attitudes of a schoolyard bully and adolescent braggadocio but, more seriously, of a deeply disturbed individual.
A large number of psychologists attribute his grandiose personality to being compensation for a childhood, devoid of true loving attention and empathy, dominated by his father’s brutal killer attitude and philosophy.
IMAGES: Mary Trump with Book covers, “The Reckoning” and “Too Much and Never Enough”, and at an interview.
“I think the best place to start is when Donald was around two and a half. Which is an extremely crucial period in human emotional and psychological development. “
VO: Trump’s niece Mary, a psychologist, author, and political commentator, has written extensively about her uncle and outlines the infantile trauma and child abuse she suggests is the cause of Trump’s pathologies.
IMAGES: Trump family photos with parents and siblings.
“When he was two and a half my grandmother got very ill. Donald, who was at a very critical point in his development as a child, was essentially abandoned by her. He may not entirely trust women. He finds it difficult, if not impossible, to connect with them on in any deep level because I don’t believe he was ever able to do so with her.”
IMAGE: James Garbarino; “I’ve really been struck by how many of these very violent men have maternal abandonment in their background.”
IMAGE: Author Marc Fisher: “When you ask him about how she showed him her love, he has nothing to say. The complexity of that relationship I think plays out in all of his relationships with women throughout his life. With one wife after another there is an inability to reach any recognisable level of intimacy.
Mary Trump: “He was the youngest of four and at that point my grandmother had just had her fifth child.
IMAGE: “Mad Max”, Jessie embraces and cuddles Max after drying his hair (as if a small child), both sitting on the bed, two large breast-like bean bags behind them, he half-naked following a shower.
VO: Under good circumstances, with sole access to the mother’s breast and her caring attentions, the nursing infant forms an image of the so-called “good breast”. Rejection, refusal or inability to access the breast or the mother’s care and attention, develops an internal impression of the “bad breast.”
IMAGE: ‘Mad Max: Toecutter licks at the icecream held nervously by Jessie. Smiling nervously at him she tolerates it before kneeling him in the balls.
IMAGE: Toecutter at the beach with the naked female store dummy stood up against a pole, before being blasted by a shotgun and a pistol.
Toecutter: “She is not what she seems.”
IMAGE: Split screen of Madonna with child at the breast, and portrait of Melanie Klein. Madonna image overlaid by Katherine hatted painting called “Good breast, Bad Breast ”.
VO: Melanie Klein argued that early in life, the infant splits the mother’s breast into a Good Breast that satisfies and soothes, and a Bad Breast that frustrates and feels persecuting. This splitting, with intense love and hate kept apart, is the basis of the Paranoid-Schizoid position in which the infant experiences anxiety as if threatened by a bad object and defends against it by splitting and projection.
IMAGE: Illustrations of splitting, paranoia attack and defence, and bombings on Venezuela, accompanied by newspaper headlines.
One could interpret Donald Trump’s political persona and rhetoric as reflective of a persistent, infantile paranoid-schizoid position, constantly on the alert and always in control.
IMAGE: TRUMP “I’m a dictator. But sometimes you need a dictator.
Newspaper headlines: “Trump’s Venezuela invasion sets a perilous precedent.”
TRUMP: “So we’re going to run the country.”
IMAGE: Newspaper headlines:
“Trump steps up Greenland annexation demand and attacks European leaders at Davos.”
“Trump says he thinks he will have the honour of “taking Cuba.”
VO: Deprived of a reliable good breast in infancy, he projects the terrifying bad breast onto a vast array of enemies.”
IMAGE: TRUMP; “I do believe I’ll have the honour of taking Cuba. Take it, I think I can do anything I want with it., if you want to know the truth.”
IMAGE: Bus with Trump hidden inside, overheard saying;
“And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do it. You condo anything. Grab ‘em by the pussy. You can do anything.”
IMAGE; TRUMP campaign speech; “I’m with you, the American people.” Crowd cheering and roaring approval.
VO: A spokesman for their pain, Trump gives a voice, a narrative and a target for their chaotic, primitive anxieties of the paranoid-schizoid position experienced by his supporters.
IMAGE: Assorted Trump rallies. TRUMP “I am your voice.”
VO: He makes his followers feel understood at a level deeper than policy, because he is not speaking to their rational mind. He is speaking to their emotions and their feelings. To their most deeply buried, unintegrated and frightened selves.
IMAGE: TRUMP campaign speech: “And I want you all to know that we are fighting the fake news. Its fake. Phoney. Fake.”
“Stopping the invasion. Send Joe Biden’s illegal aliens back home.”
VO: He targets immigrants, the media, and the establishment, while simultaneously crafting an idealised picture of himself for his adoring supporter base, as the only source of safety and love for them and their future.
IMAGE: TRUMP “God bless you and good night. I love you.”
IMAGE: The crowd cheers wildly as the clip repeats with Trump shouting, “I love you, I love you, I love.”
IMAGE: Michael Woolfe being interviewed; “ I think there’s only thing that motivates him. And its personal attention.”
VO: When Trump biographer Michael Woolfe asked Trump why he wanted to become President he answered, “ to be the most famous person in the world.”
IMAGE: WOOLFE; “ He was perfectly comfortable with this, he said : To be the most famous man in the world.”
VO: According to Woolfe, Trump’s primary consideration in life is to be, like a little child, the centre of everyone’s attention, effectively “To be loved.”
IMAGE: WOOLFE; “I’m going to do things that give me more attention.”
IMAGE of Trump declaring, arms open wide to the cheering campaign audience.
VO: “You love me, you love me, you love me.”
With his arms spread in a christ-like pose, as the Saviour himself, Trump once declared….
IMAGE: TRUMP on Whitehouse lawn, arms open wide, “I am the chosen one.”
VO: Trumps repeated claims of closeness to God, and of being the saviour himself, resurfaced in April 2026 .
Another authoritarian character claiming divinity is Immorten Joe in Mad Max Fury Road.
IMAGE: Trump supporters marching towards the Capital.
VO: Trump’s political appeal lies in his ability to articulate the emotions, the shame and rage of his followers
IMAGE: Protestor; “Absolutely people are angry. And you can feel it. You can feel the rage and the madness.”
IMAGE: Earthquake. Building toppling. Man on his knees.
VO: Over the past forty years, a slow earthquake has shaken the foundations of male identity in the western world.
IMAGE: Robots on car production line,transgender wrestler, Charleville NAZI demonstrations “One people, one nation, ban immigration”
VO: Jobs that once guaranteed money, status and identity are disappearing. Traditional gender roles are no longer sacred. Cultural authority and superiority has eroded.
IMAGE: Incel guy, “In this day and age, women have nothing but options.”
Andrew Tate with sword in hand: “Your wife starts talking, your like “Shut up !”
VO: Women in society are becoming increasingly powerful and independent. The influence of these economic factors of social movements and media, and particularly the question of so-called female control over men is alluded to in the television series ‘Adolescence’.
IMAGE: Boy; “Do not tell me to sit down.”
IMAGE: Boy in classroom standing aver, shouting and threatening a seated teacher-type woman. Followed by images of Andrew Tate, Enriques Tario and Donald Trump.
VO: But why are young men so attracted to figures such as Andrew Tate, Enrique Tario and Donald Trump?
IMAGE: TATE “An easy way to view the world and try to understand why certain things happen. Because as humans, we’re always searching for meaning, we’re searching for understanding.”
Trump supporters believe almost religiously that the world is sharply divided between absolute good, and absolute evil, and that the world they know and love is being taken from them.
IMAGE: Trump supporters march on the Capital.
Trump supporter in demonstration; “Stop the steal !” Voice of demonstrator. “Its our country and we want it back!”
VO: They feel they have been starved of recognition, power, and safety, threatened by the “Bad Breast” of modern, globalised, multicultural society.
IMAGE: TRUMP Campaign crowd
VO: Trump’s political appeal lies in his ability to articulate this same paranoid-schizoid anxiety for his followers. He becomes the living, breathing avatar, a symbol and a representative for that same psychic structure in his millions of supporters .
IMAGE: TRUMP campaign, “I am your voice. I am with you. I will fight for you. And I will win for you.
IMAGE: TRUMP Campaign crowd cheering wildly.
TRUMP: “We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again. God bless you. And good night. I love you.”
VO: Siegfried Kracauer argued that German cinema before Hitler reflected a deep psychological predisposition toward authoritarianism. He claimed that films from the Weimar Republic—revealed a collective mindset marked by submission, chaos anxiety, and longing for a strong leader. This “psychological history,” Kracauer contended, helped explain how Hitler could rise, as audiences were unconsciously conditioned for tyranny. Likewise , an argument could be made for the media coverage of the Trump phenomenon and his emergence and rule as President of the United States.
IMAGE: Crowd at Trump rally.
Trump: “God bless you and goodnight. I love you.”
IMAGE: Journalist Susan Glasser; “My view is that if you paid more attention to Trump himself, pay attention to his ramblings and what he is saying, pay attention to his social media posts, what you might call the psychological school of analysis, of Donald Trump, my theory is that that has proved to be more accurate over time.”
IMAGE: Psychologist James Garbarino; “I do a lot of work with men on death row, and murder cases and imprisoned men, and what I’ve come to see them as mostly is untreated traumatised children, inhabiting the bodies of very often scary men. And one thing that makes them so scary is their unconsciousness about that wounded child and the anger of that child, and the fear of that child. And now that they are in a big body, they are doing things on behalf of that child, without even an awareness of it. ”
IMAGE: Tyson; “Tell them who I am.”
Seano: “You’re a scared little boy sometimes.”
VO: With help from therapy Mike Tyson nowadays has a more realistic view of hims. Unlike Donald Trump who seems to lack any degree of self-knowledge.
IMAGE: Tyson; “I see a little boy that’s tricked the world to believe that he’s the killer when he’s really a scared a little boy. I’m a great actor. I want people to love me. I want people to care about me. That’s the way I became ferocious. Nobody loved me or cared about me. So I was programmed that way. Nobody cares about you.
IMAGE: Baby Trump wearing a crown, adult Trump wearing a crown.
VO: At the infant’s earliest stage of development it can feel itself to be the apple of its mother’s eye, the ruler of its own domain, the king of the world.
IMAGE: Trump: “Don’t worry about that baby. I love babies. I LOVE babies. I hear that baby crying. I like it. What a baby!
Images: Intercuts of a two year old in a play environment while mother cuddles a toy baby. The infant becomes jealous and agitated, begins crying and attacks the doll baby in the mother’s arms.
TRUMP: “What a beautiful baby.”
VO: But the introduction of another baby can be significantly destabilising for an existing infant, who may feel itself to have been displaced, thrown aside, removed from the position of central focus.
IMAGE: Mary Trump; “And nine months after that, she became very, very ill. And for the next year she was essentially absent, either emotionally, or physically, because she was in and out of the hospital, had several operations, and she was in a great deal of pain.
TRUMP: “Actually I was only kidding. You can get the baby out of here.”
“That’s alright. Don’t worry.”
“I think she really believed me that I love having a baby crying while I’m speaking.”
“That’s okay”
“People don’t understand.”
IMAGE” Newspaper article highlighting “Trumps character was shape by ‘child abuse’” as well as “abandoned by his mother”, and finally, in referring to his father as a “high-functioning sociopath”.
Mary’s vo continues: “During this crucial developmental period, Donald was essentially without his mother, his primary care-giver. And the only person available to step in was my grandfather Fred, who was a sociopath.”
IMAGE: doco with Voice-over, images of Trump and parents.
“Young Donald had his own crisis, finding his place in a family dominated by his father Fred, a stern and demanding real-estate developer.’
Author Gwenda Blair: : “Donald’s father’s overall message to his children was, compete, win, be a killer, do what you have to to win.”
IMAGE: ‘Mad Max’: Max runs down the highway to the shattered body of his wife and baby, screaming with agony.
VO: Complete separation from the mother can feel catastrophic and may be experienced as the death of the mother, with its attendant feelings of guilt.
IMAGE: ‘Fury Road’, nightmare visions of people crying out to Max, “Where were you Max?”, “You let us die !”
IMAGE: “Mad Max 2’ prologue. A damaged Max wanders cemetery with two crosses to mark graves.
VO: Or indeed, as a shattering or death of the infant’s emerging sense of self.
IMAGE: Baby Trump in a nappy, adult Trump moving spastically, mouth agape, eyes wide with apparent terror.
IMAGE: Mary Trump; “During that time, Donald was in a state of near perpetual fear, and loneliness. He wasn’t nurtured, he wasn’t mirrored, he wasn’t held. And I can only imagine just how awful and dark that time was.”
IMAGE: doco vo: Images of young Trump at military school.
“He was determined to live up to his father’s ideal, be a killer. But he was also tempestuous, impulsive, and at thirteen his father sent him to military school. It would be a five year lesson in how to be a bully.”
IV: “Donald Trump yelled at his classmates, pushed them around, he even used a broomstick as a weapon against classmates who didn’t listen to him when he told them what to do.”
IIMAGE: cadet photos with his parents. “Inside that brutal world, Donald had found his place. With his father and mother by his side, Donald graduated. He’d become a killer, learned the power of bullying to get ahead, a method he’d carry into the future.
IMAGE: Trump; “Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength. You have to be strong.”
IMAGE: Aunty Entity; “Look around mister. All this I built.”
We see the mother figure Aunty Entity in Beyond Thunderdome as she explains her dominion and the source of its power in Underworld where pigs hit is used to produce methane. There we see the little man, Master, and his slave Blaster, who has presently shutdown production with an embargo.
VO: The origin of this preoccupation with strength, power and control can be seen in the infantile drama played out in the third Mad Max film, Beyond Thunderdome. Deep in the bowels of Bartertown, what Trump might refer to as a “shithole country”, we see the diminutive Master, whose size suggests that of a baby, or at least a small child, as he argues with the mother-figure Aunty Entity about who controls the world she created, which is now powered by methane, produced from pig shit.
IMAGE: Master Blaster; “Who run Bartertown?”
Aunty: Master Blaster runs Bartertown.
Master: “Lift embargo.
IMAGE: Max working in Underworld.
In classical psychoanalytic terms, the original infantile shit-fight is an early contest over autonomy, power and control. At the centre of this battle is the child’s control of its own faeces, its toileting . And the baby’s original opponent is the mother, because the mother, and soon the wider social world, pressures the child towards timing, cleanliness and compliance regarding these processes. Freud even suggests that this faeces may be interpreted by the infant as a gift to the mother. He observed that for an infant, faeces represents the first treasured, creative act, its first possession that is truly theirs to give or withhold. This battle with the mother over potty-training becomes the child’s introduction to independence, authority and self-assertion.
IMAGE” Shit thrown at telescope.
VO: Interestingly enough, besides threatening to shutdown his labour force and the production of methane, Masterblaster then throws shit at Aunty, stressing its ambiguous nature as both a gift and a weapon.
The symbolic duality of faeces can be interpreted in this painting by Australian artist Albert Tucker, where the biblical figure of Judas appears to be taking a shit, as well as vomiting the thirty pieces of silver, his reward from the Romans.
It also features in the expression, “Sitting on a goldmine.”
And the psychological conjunction of shit and gold, or money, is captured here in the film “Unforgiven”, where Eastwood, as a hired gun, accompanied by a young would-be gunslinger, are waiting for their intended victim to leave the house on a stinking hot day, to use the outdoor lavatory.
IMAGE: Eastwood and gunslinger,
“Sure is ripe.”
“Yeah. Gonna get a lot riper too.”
“You think he’s still in there ?”
“Yeah. He’s in there .”
“Yeah well he’s holding onto his shit like its money.”
IMAGE: News report with graphic regarding Trumps imposing of Tariff internationally.
VO: Where Donald Trump constantly invokes Tariffs, MasterBlaster uses embargos.
IMAGE: Montage of Trumps gold encrusted properties.
“I picked those drapes in my first term.”ll
VO: Trump’s fixation on gold and dominance isn’t just about wealth—it’s a psychological regression to the earliest stage of human power: the toddler’s control over its own body. Trump’s horror of germs on the one hand, and obsession with cleanliness on the other, is also reflected in his preoccupation with GOLD.
IMAGE: TRUMP “I’m also very much of a germaphobe”
VO: He applies the same primitive logic to geopolitics. Gold becomes the ultimate symbol of purity and control, while the “shithole” countries represent everything that must be expelled and distanced. The world gets split into those who possess the treasure (the powerful, the clean) and those who are mired in the waste (the degraded, the powerless). It is a worldview frozen at the anal stage, where strength means holding onto your gold and never being associated with the shit.
IMAGE: GOLD toilet “The 18 carat working toilet is titled America and was created by an Italian designer named Mauricio Catalan.”
IMAGE: Mary Trump; “So Donald developed some very powerful defence mechanisms to prevent himself from feeling so constantly terrified and alone.
IMAGE: Jet plane shits on “No Kings Demonstration”. Side panel feature Fred Trump and son Donald with Mary Trump’s voice-over;
“My grandfather came to value those things that most of us would consider negative; the bullying, the contemptuousness, the always believing that you are right, the thinking you’re better than everybody else.”
VO: Trump’s primitive psychological state, characterised by splitting the world into absolute GOOD and BAD objects, is epitomised in his hostile dehumanising language towards designated enemies like the domestic fake news, the radical left, and international targets such as the so-called “shit-hole countries”.
IMAGE: TRUMP; “I’ve also announced a permanent pause on third migration including from hell-holes like Afganistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries. I didn’t say shit-hole. You did.”
VO: This paranoid mindset sees threats and evil as coming from outside.
IMAGE: TRUMP “ China and Russia would have been there if we didn’t do this.”
VO: It reacts by aggressively pushing things away……
IMAGE: “We have an armada. A giant armada like nobody has ever seen. But the first wave was so big and so strong…. “
IMAGE: Wall in Mexico
VO: And building walls, both real and symbolic.
IMAGE: Trump chanting “Build that wall, build that wall”
IMAGE: Woman dragged from car in Minneapolis, Renee Good shot in her car. Alex Pretti shot on the ground.
VO: Trump’s infamous immigration crackdown and the rallying cry to “Build that Wall” perfectly represent this kind of psychological defence
This paranoid mindset sees threats and evil as coming from outside. It reacts by aggressively pushing things away and building walls—both real and symbolic.
The wall is meant to keep out what Trump and his supporters fear: immigrants portrayed as invaders, criminals, and pollutants. This protects their vision of a pure, great and powerful America.
IMAGES: Nazis in Germany,1930s
VO: Images of the actions being taken by ICE, Trump’s immigration squad goons, resemble NAZI round-ups of Jews in Hitler’s Germany, and Trumps invective about immigrants sounds like the Fuhrer himself.
IMAGE: FORBES magazine “Trump Compares Foes to Vermin”
Images of Nazi propaganda, Jews as vermin.
VO: In November 2023, Forbes and other media outlets reported on comments made by then former President Donald Trump, in which he described his political opponents as “vermin”. This language drew widespread condemnation and comparisons to Adolf Hitler and Nazi propaganda, which used similar rhetoric to dehumanize political opponents and Jews.
IMAGE: Trump rally. “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin, within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections. The threat from outside from outside forces is far less sinister and dangerous and grave than the threat from within.
“And I want you all to know that we are fighting the fake news, the enemy of the people.”
IMAGE: You know the words that Trump used today, “the enemy from within”, I mean that’s Hitleresque, that’s right out of NAZi Germany.”
IMAGE: Black and white film, title “1984”. Followed by scenes from film, “Hate, hate, hate.”
VO: Nineteen Eighty Four is a British black and white science-fiction film available on Youtube.
Based on the famous 1949 novel by George Orwell, it depicts a totalitarian future of a dystopian society. Regarded as controversial at the time, the novel is still banned in some places today, due to its stark portrayal of authoritarianism, government surveillance and censorship.
The film provides a vivid depiction of a population deeply enthralled by the propaganda of the ruling authorities and their message of hatred and division.
Viewers today may see dreadful parallels with that novel from 1949, and the film version from 1956, with the politics of today.
IMAGE: Trump inserted into “1984”, chanting “Hate, hate, hate.”
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending they’re best. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists….”
VO In denying the legitimacy of elections ……
IMAGES: Montage of newspaper headlines.
IMAGE: Trump “It was a rigged election, by threatening the very foundations and institutions of American society,
VO: By threatening the very institutions of American society, from the law courts to the universities and the media, as well as the role of the military, Donald Trump has proven to be a force of division and destruction.
IMAGE: TRUMP “We’re going to walk down to the Capital”
IMAGES: Jan 6th insurrection at the Capital.
VO: Trump champions a politics of hatred and narcissistic self aggrandisement. It’s the behaviour of a schoolyard bully or mafia boss, who has taken his malevolence to a new level, copying the behaviour of authoritarian figures from the past, and present day dictators from other countries.
Trump thrives on division, casting opponents and fabricated enemies as not merely ideological rivals, but as enemies of the state who must be hated, humiliated and destroyed.
IMAGE: TRUMP “You better believe that I hate the people. And its more than anger, its hatred. And I want society to hate them. ”
IMAGE: Trump as a baby and recap of earlier images to illustrate voice-over.
VO: Donald Trump’s politics of hatred is exposed for what it truly is, the public performance of a personal life-long wound. Deprived of the good breast, of unconditional motherly love, of maternal mirroring, of a safe place in the world, exacerbated by a sociopathic paternal influence, he has constructed an entire worldview based on that early emotional abandonment . He projects the bad breast onto immigrants, journalists, and entire nations, while demanding that his followers become the idealised good object who will provide him with the love that his own mother could not.
IMAGE: TRUMP “I love you.”
VO: Trump is the spokesman for the abandoned infant in the heart and the head of millions of others, giving voice to their fear, their rage and their hunger for a love that politics can never provide.
IMAGE: “Protestor “You can feel the rage, the madness.”
‘Stop the steal. Its our country. We want it back.”
IMAGE: Psychologist; “ We have a constitutional crisis of sorts where a president has real disregarded all of the checks and balances. But we have someone who has a brain disorder so they have no internal controls or judgement. Donald Trumps Id is now in control of the world.
He has no advisors. We have no constitution, we have no checks and balances. Everything just radiates from his Id and there’s not a single thing to stop an impulse in his disturbed brain from becoming a war.”
IMAGE: Commentator: “Different from any other war that we have ever seen. Because it is being driven by the psychosis of one individual. And everybody in Washington knows that. All the guardrails, all of the processes evolved over time to avoid just this kind of catastrophe have been shutdown, broken down, run around. And we are left with a decaying, elderly, ignorant, paranoid, vainglorious, deluded, Commander in Chief.
The world has not been as negatively effected by the psychological disfunction within the mind of one person since Hitler blew his brains out in the bunker underneath the German Reich Chancellery in April of 1945.
IMAGE: “We’re winning so big, nobody has ever seen anything like we are doing in the middle east with Iran. And they are negotiating, by the way. And they want to make deal so badly but they’re afraid to say it. Because they figure they’ll be killed by their own people. They’re also afraid they’ll be killed by us.
VO: At the end of the Oxbow Incident, Henry Fonda reads a letter written by an innocent man prior to being hanged by a bunch of vigilante townspeople.
IMAGE” Film “The Oxbow Incident”; “ My dear wife. Mr Davies will tell you what’s happening here tonight. He’s a good man a nd has done everything he could for me. I suppose there’s some other good men here too, only they don’t seem to realise what they’re doing. They’re the ones I feel sorry for. Because it’ll be over for me in a little while, but they’ll have to go on remembering it for the rest of their lives. Man just naturally can’t take the law into his own hands and hang people without it hurting everybody in the world. Because the he’s not just breaking one law, but all laws.Law is a lot more than words written down in books, or judges or lawyers, or sheriffs you hire to carry it out. Its everything people have ever found out about justice and what’s right and wrong. Its the very conscience of humanity. There can’t be any such thing as civilisation unless people have a conscience. Because if people touch God anywhere, where is it except in their conscience. And what is anybody’s conscience except a little bit of everybody’s conscience of all men that ever lived.
IMAGE: Trump; “And we’ve lost religion in our country. All Americans need a bible in their home. And I have many. Its my favourite book. Its a lot of people’s favourite book.”
IMAGE with fake Trump voice-over; “Tuesday will be Power plant day and Bridge day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it !!! Open the Fuckin Strait you crazy bastards, or you will be living in hell – JUST WATCH ! Praise be to Allah. Present Donald J. Trump.
IMAGE: “Love your enemies,
Do good for those who hate you,
Bless those who curse you,
Pray for this who abuse you..”
Luke 6:27-28
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