He then laid out the Trumpized version of the pop-psychology analysis: “Now, if you’re pathological, there’s no cure for that. Don’t be fools, O.K.?” He moved away from the lectern, pulled back his jacket, and twisted his own belt up and down to demonstrate, like a latter-day Johnnie Cochran, what would really happen if someone was stabbed in the stomach-if blade and buckle don’t bump, you must vote Trump, so to speak. “And the people of Iowa believe him?” Trump went on. To which Trump, in Iowa, said, “Give me a break!” Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone.” Carson also writes that even though he knew, from reading articles in Psychology Today, that a personality trait like that was generally immutable, he prayed to God to change him, and God did. “He defined it as disease,” Trump said, and, indeed, in “Gifted Hands,” Carson writes, “I had what I can only label a pathological temper-a disease-and this sickness controlled me, making me totally irrational. Specifically, Carson has said that, between the ages of thirteen and fifteen, when he was growing up in Detroit, he was prone to violence he tried to attack his mother with a hammer, hit a friend in the face with a padlock, and stabbed another friend in the stomach with a knife-which, in what Carson has presented as a moment of grace, hit the friend’s belt buckle and snapped. He said it about himself before he knew he was gonna run for office.”Ĭarson, Trump explained, had “said terrible things about himself,” a habit entirely alien to Trump. “Read the definition in the dictionary of pathological disease!” Trump continued. And we’re going to put someone in office who considers himself to have pathological disease?” He was talking, in case one paused to sort through the various candidates, about Ben Carson. “What have we come to? When we have to believe this kind of stuff. “So, I say, what the hell have we come to?” Donald Trump said in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on Thursday night. During a campaign stop in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on Thursday, Donald Trump launched into a freewheeling invective against Ben Carson, the media, and criminal justice.
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