Trump Cannot See That the Opposition Is Real

Most MAGAts are like that. When I was 14 I embraced liberalism. I'm now 50 and my mother is still convinced I'm acting. I've had people come up to me, while I was wearing a "F*** Trump" shirt, and laugh, convinced I was making a joke about Dems. TRUE. "Everyone knows he's right. Those people are just trying to make trouble." I hear it over and over again. This Saturday millions of crisis actors are going to protest across the country. 😆

“If you can set aside both the unconstitutionality and the immorality of President Trump’s unprovoked war on Iran and focus on the operation itself, it is hard not to be bewildered by the utter lack of real planning, or even basic strategic thinking, that has gone into it,” Times Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. “It appears that both the president and the White House expected token resistance, followed by the collapse of the Iranian regime, the installation of a pro-American government — or at least one we could tolerate — and a return to the status quo ante: a replay, in essence, of the president’s first intervention of the year, in Venezuela. Now that this replay fantasy has collided with a more complex, indeterminate and difficult reality, Trump is unable to explain his objectives or even give the country a sense of when the war might end.” Jamelle continues: >What’s striking is how familiar this pattern feels. The administration did not expect the public to be repelled by DOGE. It did not expect outrage over the treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It did not expect Democrats to respond to threats of partisan gerrymandering with their own push to wring as many Democratic seats as possible out of so-called blue states. The administration certainly did not expect the mass mobilizations against the deployment of National Guard troops and the use of ICE and Customs and Border Protection as a roving paramilitary force. Minnesota in particular appears to have caught them entirely off guard — a tendency toward docility, it seems, is their base-line assumption about everyone they oppose. Which raises another key question: Why can’t the White House see what others could easily predict? None of this should have been a surprise. Anyone capable of thinking through the actions of other people — of imagining their perspectives and of recognizing that they have agency — should have been able to anticipate these outcomes and plan accordingly. And in the case of the war in Iran, the president ignored counsel that warned of something like the current situation. This gets to the real problem. Trump is famously indifferent to the concerns of those around him. He is a consummate narcissist, and he is, without question, the most solipsistic person ever to occupy the Oval Office. Over his decades on the public stage, we have seen little to no evidence that he believes in the existence of other minds. Read the full piece [here, for free](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/opinion/trump-iran-opposition-solipsism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V1A.to-f.gXoZDf6nzhRi&smid=re-nytopinion), even without a Times subscription.

That's how dictators behave. They don't care about what is real, they care about what they can *make real.* This all starts with the completely fabricated version of politics, called identity politics, that is designed to completely misinform people about how our government operates, for the purpose of tricking them into making a bad decision. The political definition of the word conservative, is "a person that supports dictatorship, oligarchies, and other forms of right wing authoritarianism" and *it always meant that...* Conservatism is a needed function in government and the purpose it serves is "as needed." The concept that conservatives are suppose to be the majority or represent the majority, is insane. They represent the protectionist elements of our government, including the military, police, and other functions that "conserve people's freedom." We need to return to reality, where "it takes a village to build a strong society" instead of viewing society exclusively from the view point of a dictatorship, where people are either against dictatorship, or against something that free people do, so they choose dictatorship out of error. It's an error, because that's a decision a person is making and dictators do not allow that. The republican party exists for war and other functions of government that we don't like talking about because it's nice guy stuff. But, the world is not a nice place, so they're needed, but the entire system is set up for a military leader that is a true patriot. Not an exploitative dictator. If the US was legitimately being attacked by a foreign power, then we need the government to work that way, so the country has the ability to defend our nation. People like Donald Trump are completely breaking the entire system, so that it serves their own purposes, not the interests of America.

well they prob don’t include that info in their “explodey stuff” videos and “kiss donald’s ass” cabinet meetings.

Trump never plans for resistance because he gets none from the people around him and never has.

The man genuinely believes he’s the only real person on the planet and everyone else is just an extra in his movie. If you arent following his script, you’re "fake." Its a total inability to recognize that other people actually have their own lives and thoughts.

If you want to save America, Trump must be removed ASAP.

Trump has only had one true success in life, "The Apprentice." He runs this country like it's a reality TV show because that recipe worked, and MAGA loves it. For him, it's all about controlling the media cycle and the narrative. All of his business and Presidential failures are the consequences of a narcissistic disorder where he believes it must be someone else's fault that the con didn't work. What frightens me the most is how so many Americans are incapable of seeing him for what he is and that so many in Congress/SCOTUS are complicit because they care more about power than they do about the country. We are lost!

>It should be said that at no point has Congress either authorized this war or provided funding for ground operations. Maybe trump can sell his Iranian prize to pay for ground operations, or his Qatari plane, or his Venezuelan gold. Maybe the ballroom can be downsized to free up some cash, or he could suspend his tax cuts so there's more money for war.. Anything but beg Congress for money.. Anything..

When you are narcissist the level of Trump, opposition to whatever you believe or want is an insult and something that can just be dismissed as "fake news" because it doesn't fit his worldview.

And can’t see his rotting acorn

The beauty of having several personality disorders that he'll never acknowledge or get diagnosed because it would ruin his image.

A long way to say at every policy decision Trump has failed to read the room and Trump seems unaware that every time he institutes a policy that appalls the public he reacts by offering a series of changing excuses and justifications but the problem is the public sees the pattern of what he is doing at every decision. Zero planning and foresight.