The following is part 1 of a 3 part series:

"Understanding Donald Trump, Part I"

I do not know how to even begin to understand the behavior of Donald Trump. He is deathly afraid of losing the election and being labeled a loser. He does not like the demands on him in being the president of the U.S. He is too lazy and the demands are far beyond his capabilities. Were it not for his fear of being labeled a loser, he would drop out of the race for the presidency again. So he is in a terrible psychological bind.

So, he has to remain in the political race. In continuing the campaign, we would expect such a ruthlessly amoral person to do absolutely everything he could – legal or not – to absolutely ensure a victory. Yet, his choices of actions in th role of president are consistently stripping away one bloc of potential supporter, one by one. His choices in relation to the COVID 19 pandemic are making it abundantly clear that he so desperately wants a booming economy to ensure a victory for himself. Those actions make it equally clear that he does not care about the American people. If it takes 500,000 American deaths to ensure his victory, so be it. At the same time, he behavior is to anti-science and anti-reason that he is turning off hundreds of thousands of thinking and educated people.

To continue in the matter of knowledge and reason, Trump’s behavior, in general, shows a total disdain for rational thinking, knowledge, education, and veracity. He is, bit by bit, turning off thinking, educated, and rational people who are not part of the culture of absolute greed. They know that, in order to make good decisions for themselves and their families, they absolutely need truthful, factional and rationally formulated information so that they can make good decisions. By now, they know that they will never get that from Donald Trump.