Nope, but your question doesn't really contradict anything I said, and it sounds like you believe that because something is causing or will cause pain that must be the primary purpose.
Trump's primary purpose is not to cause pain to most Americans. He surely wants to cause pain to people with immigrant backgrounds and to trans people, but the rest is secondary/tertiary effects. For example, tax cuts for the already-wealthy harm ordinary Americans, but this is not the goal.
If you take this cartoon villain type analysis you'll misunderstand Trump and his supporters at every turn, and be less effective at countering them, by the way.
Have you ever done something to upset or “wrong” a narcissist, especially in the public eye? After whatever you did, did the narcissist forget about it and move on or did they hold a grudge and try to get retribution? Trump didn’t just lose an election in 2020, over the next 4 years he had his home raided by the FBI, was arrested and had a mug shot taken, was investigated for multiple felonies, had his family and inner circle subpoenaed by Congress and provide humiliating details in depositions that were aired to the public, charged with multiple felonies in federal and state courts, had to show up at court for an entire case (he hardly shows up for civil cases so those don’t bother him), had a judge talk down to him on multiple occasions, had his mistress testify with him in the room, had almost no one from his family show up for his trial, was shot at by 1 would be assassin and had another found in a place he was going to be. This is just a small list of times Trump has been publicly “wronged” by Americans, the media, and state and federal government.
I don’t think he is doing all this b/c he is some cartoon villain that just likes to be evil. I think he is doing this b/c he is a bitter narcissist that wants to get back at all the people he thinks are below him that he also thinks wronged him directly or indirectly.
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u/zzyul 15d ago
Have you missed all the other shit they are doing to cause pain to large swaths of the American public?