The prophet.

The amount of lies and buillshit in those 4 headlines alone, never mind the articles.

Clearly there's a lower age for puberty blockers, puberty doesn't start at 5! (but if it did and you're cis, you can't have blockers and that's fine).

Castration? Please fuck off.

Also I kind of fucked this up because SELF-soothing really means the kid/person actually figures it out without help.

Trump is very obviously incapable of that

Not to be too pop psych but toddlers do this stuff (co-regulation, transition objects) because they have not developed the executive function needed to self-monitor and self-regulate their internal emotional state.

It is really disturbing seeing a powerful grown man display those same challenges

I think more than anything the gold plate works in a similar way. He is not emotionally regulated enough to handle the stress of living in a space that doesn't look like home, so he is using gold plating as his transition object.

He needs his blankie, basically

I guess technically it is strategy, in the same sense that a kid sucking their thumb and clutching a stuffie is a strategy.

He is dysregulated, he is using the crowd to co-regulate and it is extremely disconcerting from a "he's an adult and in charge of nukes" sort of perspective