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Charlotte Firth's avatar

It’s a lovely picture Heather and nice to see you relaxed and smiling in flip flops in the sunshine.

Trump has a degenerate disease and in any other world he would be being cared for and looked after. Instead the bully that he is, he is manipulating everyone around him and being allowed to plummet USA into chaos.

Our very new untried Prime Minister Andy Burnham is set to meet Trump this week, I am watching this space. Straight speaking Northener who takes no prisoners should be interesting !

Also Mandani - Mr Trump this is the guy who is making headway in New York and not busy lining his pockets with gold and making a mess of his country’s finance or causing wars and guess what Mr Trump he is a Muslim. Not that this makes a difference to who he is, it’s just a good and wonderful man making a difference to peoples lives in New York !!

Janet Currie's avatar

Charlotte, fellow Brit here. I just hope that when Burnham meets Trump he will be just as straight talking with him. Here's hoping.

Heather's avatar

I think Mamdani is known to be a Democratic Socialist, isn’t he? Horror of horrors! I wonder if Trump will try to bully him? Will it be behind closed doors? I’d love to be a fly on the wall.

TripleNana7's avatar

I wish you could see me, shaking my head in either disbelief or negative-sensory overload.

Marcia Goodman-Blair's avatar

This is extremely disturbing.

Heather's avatar

OMG! I have second - hand acute embarrassment for the millions of Americans who are witnessing this madman do this stuff! Such a pity that the Republicans in Congress aren’t embarrassed and keep going along with this craziness!

Ginger's avatar

I am glad you continue to have hope. For me, that hope is hard to come by.

Paul's avatar

Thank you, Heather, for sharing with us the emotional closeness of you, your husband, Pete, your daughters and dogs - it is as normal and natural as a family ought to be - and it highlights through contrast how cold and dark the pictures of family life are within the Trump family.

My professional work as an individual and family therapist has allowed me the unique privilege and honor to see the most personal of human emotions and experiences.

When you describe how DJT changed his planned weekend at Camp David abruptly and retreated to the golf links of his private club, how he eschews the advice and support of allies and advisers in favor of surrounding himself with folks like Natalie Harp and Steven Miller - it should give every American cause for concern.

Donald Trump reveals his character by the dishonesty of his words and the cruelty of his actions. When you have shared the emotional intimacy that is within your family, it makes me wonder, by contrast, how Melania must truly feel - as a woman who is married to this man.

Their mutual absence from each other speaks volumes of how a marriage should not be. The eyes are truly the windows to the soul - to our most inner thoughts and feelings.

We can see - and feel - the authenticity of another when they spontaneously share true emotions. Coupled with the intonations of their voice and their behaviors we know who a person is and the truth of who they are.

One does not need to be a professional therapist to know these things - they are well within the scope of normal, human relationships.

Trump has consistently shown he is not one to be trusted, and it truly is terrifying that he is entrusted with the safety and security of America and the World.

And when he rants and raves like a madman about obliterating an entire country and wiping out its citizens, we are frozen with fear - yet how must the Iranian people feel?

So, on the most human of levels, how does Donald Trump actually feel? We can only infer from his actions - and he is showing everyone that he is growing more and more desperate as he is losing control of so many areas of his life: His policies, his political career, his marriage, events in the Middle East, and he is losing control over who to blame for the troubles he is causing.

The majority of Republicans have squandered their opportunities to rein him in, his family is impotent, as are his military and political advisers - no one is capable of advising a person who places himself into being as a God.

And he is showing the World through his imagery - as you’ve so aptly described, Heather - and we are faced with a modern day version of Nero - who instead of playing the fiddle, he golfs by himself - while the World Order is collapsing…

Lisa Alexander's avatar

You look casual, comfortable and very pretty. The Donald stuff? Just trying to not feel sick. Man, he’s getting worse all the time. Thanks (I think😳) for keeping us informed.