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The President-Elect is a Pathological Liar
How can
Donald Trump
be contained?
M el g urtov
There’s just no
getting around it:
The president-elect
of the United States
is a pathological
liar. He is also a
terribly insecure individual who
is desperate for attention and
spiteful of critics. Setbacks are
humiliating to him; he will an-
swer them with vicious counter-
attacks because he cannot stand
losing. And when he does lose,
he will proclaim victory.
Thus, there is no room around
him for naysayers (for they are
disloyal), no room for experts
by
(since policy isn’t his thing), and
certainly no room for the truth
(for, as someone said a long
time ago, facts are the enemy
of truth). This one-dimension-
al man thrives on threats, the
spotlight, and winning at all
costs: the profile of a dem-
agogue.
The central question be-
fore us is, How can such an
egotistical, power-hungry
person who has created a
wall around him that defies ac-
cess be upended? For in Donald
Trump we have two very impos-
ing obstacles to democratic rule:
his superiority complex, and his
so far successful strategy of iso-
lation from questioners.
Trump’s character is on dis-
play in a PBS video, “President
Trump” we should all see: pbs.
org/wgbh/frontline/film/presi-
Truly Inspirational
Portland Community College’s decision to
declare itself a sanctuary campus reflects a
shift across Oregon and the country to protect
targeted and vulnerable immigrants.
Only two days after the election, I was in
D.C. lobbying for sentencing and immigration
reform with fellow Oregon constituents where
Letter
dent-trump/. Not that we don’t
already know most of the aspects
of his character that are on the
video. But by piecing together
the views of people who have
spent time with him, in some cas-
es going back to his childhood,
the video gives us a picture of an
exceptionally ambitious person
whose primary purpose in life is
winning. From that perspective,
we can understand why he does
what he does:
Why he admires people like
himself (and like his father, for
that matter)—autocrats;
Why he can’t stand to lose,
and won’t take “no” for an an-
swer;
Why he believes he can order
individuals and giant corpora-
tions alike to do his bidding;
Why he thinks tweeting is
equivalent to governing;
to the
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it became increasingly evident that the future
for immigrants is unclear.
However, the initiatives taken by PCC and
other Oregon institutions to shelter young
immigrants is truly inspirational. It is why
legislation like the Bridge Act, a bipartisan
Why he doesn’t believe his
promises are meant to be kept
(such as holding press confer-
ences, divesting assets, showing
his tax returns);
Why he habitually lies and re-
jects well-established facts that
run counter to his instincts;
Why he is so self-congratula-
tory—he “knows things that oth-
er people don’t know”;
Why he doesn’t think he needs
intelligence briefings;
Why he is enamored of other
super-wealthy people and gener-
als;
Why he characterizes those
who oppose him as “enemies.”
We have never had a national
leader with such a flawed, and
dangerous, character. To be sure,
we are all flawed in one way or
c ontinued on p age 15
bill introduced to protect young, undocu-
mented DREAMers, is important now more
than ever.
I urge Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and
Jeff Merkley to co-sponsor the Bridge Act in
response to the admirable work of constitu-
ents to protect their communities.
Sitara Nath
University of Portland student