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Trump calls New York Times reporter ‘ugly’ in latest insult to female journalist (www.theguardian.com)

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Donald Trump lashed out on Wednesday against a New York Times reporter, calling her “ugly inside and out” in his latest personal insult against female members of the media after last week calling another “piggy”.

In a Truth Social post, Trump criticized the newspaper for an article suggesting he was running low on energy in his 80th year, insisting he had “never worked so hard in my life”.

When you're an orange, demented, chronically ill fat fuck, I bet even wiping your ass might feel like the hardest work you've done in your life.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Every insult applies to him so completely that it really just seems like a textbook self defense mechanism, make fun of others for the things you're insecure about so they can't do the same to you.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

He's probably been surrounded by gold digging women and hanger-ons and other dumbass rich assholes for all of his life, so I'm quite sure he has no real idea of where he really ranks without his (alleged) wealth.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I mean there's defintely a high amount of generic spoiled rich kid self-important indoctrination in the foundation bricks of his identity. But he's also a classic clinical narcissist. He can never acknowledge the flaws, for sure. But he copes with them still. He compulsively deflects any criticism, accusation, or insults onto others. He pathologically boasts about anything and everything with absurd distortions and lies. And he surrounds himself with opportunists who will kiss ass for a bit of his power and influence as well as genuine sycophants, not just to have a legion of yesmen, but also to be flanked on all sides by people propping his ego against the very justified and real hatred of him from the entire world.

If he weren't so insecure, he wouldn't be throwing insults at people. They're a direct compulsive reaction to someone making him have to see a flaw in himself. And his favorite insults just so happen to be things that he's demonstrated himself. Ugliness, fatness, being unintelligent, nastiness, etc. He is incapable of seeing and of accepting those flaws, so it's not like he consciously thinks he's fat, ugly, or whatever, because he can't. But those are the things that hurt him most subconsciously, so he uses them on others.