No, YOU'RE the puppet!

There was a moment in the 2016 Presidential debates where Hillary referred to Trump as a puppet of Vladimir Putin. Trump's response, "No, YOU'RE the puppet!" is indicative of a pattern in the ongoing litany of accusations we've heard from him. It's called "psychological projection," a theory in in which people defend themselves against their own qualities by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others. Children express it as "I'm the rubber, you're the glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks on to you!"

Watch and listen. Anytime Trump hurls an accusation, you can be sure it is something he's guilty of. He accused Hillary of starting the birther claims that he promulgated. He labels the most respected news organizations as "fake news," while he gets his information from such discredited sources as Breitbart, Alex Jones and Fox & Friends. He accused Bill Clinton of rape to deflect from his own pussy-grabbing history. And on and on.

So now we come to Trump's accusations aimed at former President Obama. The former President who, after years of dealing with Trump's racism-fueled birtherism, sat for this photo op as part of the transition.

 

Now Trump accused him of wiretapping him at Trump Tower. It makes me think that Trump is covering up some espionage of his own. Oh yeah, like when he encouraged Russia to spy on the Clinton campaign. Projecting much, DJT?