'Driving Him Crazy': Trump Rages As Security Keeps 'A Few Dozen' Supporters From Courthouse
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/elizabeth-preza/110163/driving-him-crazy-trump-rages-as-security-keeps-a-few-dozen-supporters-from-courthouse‘Driving Him Crazy’: Trump Rages As Security Keeps ‘A Few Dozen’ Supporters From Courthouse
by Elizabeth Preza | April 23, 2024 - 7:05am
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According to Collins, Trump is growing increasingly frustrated as he views “this all through the lens of the campaign trail.”
“I think big picture, when you look at what Trump has been saying, his mindset going into this, he’s complaining about the gag order incessantly,” Collins told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. "I’m told privately the idea that he can't directly attack the judges family, the prosecutors in this case — he can go after [Manhattan District Attorney] Alvin Bragg— but not other members of the team … it has been a big thing of his.”
“The other thing: there's a lot of security outside the courthouse,” Collins noted. “Understandably, we saw what happened last week. It is a former president who is going on trial.”
Collins appeared to be referencing the death of Max Azzarello, who succumbed to his injuries on Saturday after setting himself on fire across the street from the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Friday.
Collins continued, “Trump has been complaining that his supporters — when there's only a few dozen, it's not a huge group because we've been live outside the courthouse for several weeks now — that they can't come closer to the courthouse.”
“Because he is viewing this all through the lens of the campaign trail and what that means going into it and the fact that they are kept cordoned off a bit of a distance so people can get in and out of the courthouse has been driving him crazy,” Collins concluded.
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To crazy, that is. Not even all the way across town 
Right now, TSF is suffering from a narcissist's worst nightmare: a lack of the narcissistic supply he craves.
Narcissists like him have a greatly exaggerated need for endless validation, attention, and praise. TSF's MAGA followers are probably his main source of those things these days. His so-called campaign rallies provide him the opportunity to bask in the attention of his adoring fans. It's how he refills his narcissistic tank, so to speak, and that tank is running very low right now.
Having to sit in that courtroom day after day, being treated like the criminal defendant that he is, must be almost unbearable for him. Those few followers outside the courthouse are everything to him; of course he wants them as close to him as possible.
I'm not trying to make anyone feel sorry for him, believe me. I'm just describing what I think is going on. For me, knowing how narcissism works helps me makes sense of what is happening. Feel free to take all of this with grain of salt if you like. 
