{"id":1867,"date":"2018-11-05T23:20:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T21:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.AVNER-FALK.NET\/?page_id=1867"},"modified":"2024-11-27T12:50:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:50:42","slug":"trump-and-the-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.AVNERFALK.NET\/?page_id=1867","title":{"rendered":"Trump and the Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early Loss and Unconscious Splitting<\/strong><\/span>
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On Friday, November 2, 2018, in a Situation Room<\/em> discussion by a panel of experts, moderated by Wolf Blitzer on CNN, one of the panelists said in disbelief, \u201cThis is crazy! Trump could be exploiting the great state of the American economy to his own advantage. Instead, he is painting a caravan of poor immigrants from Central America as an invading army, sending thousands of troops to the border, and talking of nothing but those immigrants!\u201d None of the panelists could explain why Trump preferred the self-destructive rhetoric of hatred, fear and division over the obvious use of his positive achievements.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s own explanation was that \u201cWe have the greatest economy in the history of our country, but sometimes it\u2019s not as exciting to talk about the economy.\u201d It was much more exciting for him to talk about the immigrants. On Monday, November 5, U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, pleaded with President Trump to focus on the economy, not on immigration, in the final hours before the mid-term elections, so as not to lose the House to the Democrats. Trump ignored him.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a deeper, darker, unconscious reason why Trump is talking about the \u201cdangerous\u201d poor immigrants from Central America and not about the great state of the U.S. economy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, was herself a poor immigrant. Despite his public statements that she was the best and smartest person he had ever known, Donald Trump carries a deep grudge, even hatred and rage, against his mother, ever since his early childhood. She was a cold, ungiving, narcissistic mother who could not truly love her little \u201cDonny,\u201d except as an extension or mirror image of herself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary Anne named her daughter Maryanne, after herself. The mother stood by passively when his father Fred kicked her \u201cDonny\u201d out of his home to the military academy when he was thirteen.\u00a0 During Trump\u2019s prolonged and ugly divorce from his first wife, Ivana, in the late 1980s, Mary Anne Trump asked Ivana Trump, \u201cWhat kind of son have I created?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump is known for his frequent references to his father Fred and the huge role he played in his life, but is often reluctant to talk about his mother. Despite describing her publicly as \u201ca fantastic homemaker\u201d with a \u201cgreat sense of pageantry,\u201d it is his father\u2019s picture that sits in the Oval Office, not his mother\u2019s. <\/span><\/p>\n

Mary Anne Trump was always more distant from her family than her husband. A childhood friend of Trump recalled how the father, Fred Trump, was around and watched his son play,\u201d but his mom ignored him. A friend of Trump\u2019s older brother Fred Jr. who tragically died of alcohol addiction, said that they \u201crarely\u201c saw his mother.<\/span><\/p>\n

Donald John Trump (born 1946) had four siblings: Maryanne Trump Barry (1937-2023), Freddy Trump (1938-1981), Elizabeth Trump Grau (born 1942) and Robert Trump (1948-2020). Freddy died of alcoholism and liver disease. <\/span>When \u201cDonny\u201d Trump was two and a half years old, in 1948, his mother Mary abandoned him emotionally. She had <\/span>almost died from complications following the birth of his youngest brother, the late Robert Trump. Severe hemorrhaging necessitated an emergency hysterectomy, which led to a serious abdominal infection, which led to more surgeries. \u201cFour operations in two weeks,\u201d Donald\u2019s sister, the late Maryanne Trump Barry, told Trump\u2019s biographer, Gwenda Blair. It was uncertain whether Mary Trump would survive. \u201cMy father came home and told me she wasn\u2019t expected to live,\u201d Maryanne said, \u201cbut I should go to school and he\u2019d call me if anything changed. That\u2019s right\u2014go to school as usual!\u201d (see https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/11\/03\/mary-macleod-trump-donald-trump-mother-biography-mom-immigrant-scotland-215779<\/a>). This story was confirmed by Trump\u2019s niece and Freddy\u2019s daughter, Mary Lea Trump, in her book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Produced the World\u2019s Most Dangerous Man <\/em>(see https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Too-Much-and-Never-Enough\/Mary-L-Trump\/9781982141479<\/a>
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At that point \u201cDonny\u201d was a toddler. That age was too young for him to comprehend the event but not too young to unconsciously internalize the dread experience his near-loss of his mother. \u201cDonny\u201d clung to his mother for dear life, but she did not want to care for a demanding toddler when she herself had just gone through a traumatic near-death experience. The cold mother rejected her little son, but he could not live without her. <\/span><\/p>\n

It was a pathological love-hate symbiosis. Donald Trump never succeeded in going through the separation-individuation phase of his early development. Dr. Mark Smaller, the past president of the American Psychoanalytic Association, said, \u201cA 2\u00bd-year-old is going through a process of becoming more autonomous, a little bit more independent from the mother. If there is a disruption or a rupture in the connection, it would have had an impact on the sense of self, the sense of security, the sense of confidence.\u201d (ibid.)
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Trump\u2019s narcissistic-borderline personality disorder, marked by black-and-white thinking, by his endless need to be loved and admired, and by extreme instability and unpredictability, his well-known \u201cmisogyny,\u201d which is actually a volatile mix of sexual attraction, love, hate, and alternating idealization an denigration of women, his idealization of America as a great good mother, his denigration of \u201cshithole countries,\u201d his hatred of poor immigrants, can all be traced back to his pathological relationship with his mother. His unconscious rage at her is as great a his public praise of her. And that rage is unconsciously displaced to all poor immigrants.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the deeper reason for Trump\u2019s self-destructive \u201ccraziness\u201d in choosing to focus his nation\u2019s attention on a caravan of poor brown Latin American immigrants rather than on the great state of the American economy. This was why his party lost its majority in the House of Representatives to the Democrats on November 6, 2018, and why Trump himself was later impeached by the House. Tragically, like Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco, he is a victim of his borderline personality disorder, and his own worst enemy. As Ruth Ben-Ghiat has shown, Trump follows the Fascist playbook of his authoritarian predecessors, and is trying to turn the U.S. into a Fascist autocracy (see https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2024\/10\/29\/2024_election_fascism_authoritarianism<\/a>). He may end up as tragically as they did.
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