Psychologist Fears Trump Will Unleash ‘Fury’ After Humiliating Midterm Losses

Psychologist and former Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. John Gartner predicted that President Donald Trump will unleash his “fury” and “destruction” following the historic midterm losses.

Speaking to The Daily Beast after the ‘blue tsunami’ swept Democrats into control of the House and the Senate last week, Gartner said he expects Trump’s “third act” to be more dangerous than ever. “Hell hath no fury like a malignant narcissist scorned,” Gartner said. “I think we’re now in the third act of the tragedy, and I think we’re in more danger now than we’ve ever been.”

After such a thorough defeat at the voting booth, Gartner said he thinks Trump will enact revenge in ways we’ve never seen before. “He’s going to act out in the ways that are destructive—to show his power and dominance, and to gain the sadistic sense of pleasure that he gets from destruction,” the frequent Trump critic stated.

Gartner compared the situation to an abusive relationship, explaining, “I feel like we’re at the stage where a woman who’s been abused goes, ‘Thank God. I kicked him out of the house, I have a restraining order, I’m finally safe.’ And that’s often the time when the really destructive abusers say, ‘Okay, now I’m gonna kill the b****.’ I think that he is that guy, and we are the b****. And he doesn’t care if he kills us all.”

As for how to counter Trump’s potential destruction, Gartner said it’s impossible to contain him. “I don’t think there is a strategy that will work,” he told the outlet. “I think that he is going to do what he is going to do, and he’s going to reap maximum chaos, maximum destruction, maximum confusion.”

He also said Trump will make it his mission over the next two years at “stymying virtually every effort that [Democrats] make… Any bill that they pass that could help America is a bill he wants to thwart. That’s how his psychology works.”

Gartner added, “[Trump] doesn’t care if shutting down the government hurts the country. Look, he didn’t care that his actions hurt his party, right? He could care less. “At no point did he ever think maybe I should change my behavior because it’s gonna hurt my party. He doesn’t care about his party or his country or anyone else.”