“A lot of the people have said that, some people said it was the single best speech ever made in<br />that chamber,” he told The Associated Press, referring to his joint session speech.<br />But Trump seems to need perpetual outside approval to stabilize his sense of self, so he<br />is perpetually desperate for approval, telling heroic fabulist tales about himself.<br />Trump’s answers in these interviews are not very long — 200 words at the high end —<br />but he will typically flit through four or five topics before ending up with how unfair the press is to him.<br />But Trump’s statements don’t necessarily come from anywhere, lead anywhere or<br />have a permanent reality beyond his wish to be liked at any given instant<br />He did it because he is sloppy, because he lacks all impulse control,<br />and above all because he is a 7-year-old boy desperate for the approval of those he admires.<br />“In a short period of time I understood everything there was to know about health care,” he told Time.<br />In Trump’s telling, every meeting was scheduled for 15 minutes but his guests stayed two hours because they liked him so much.
