Donald Trump – moulded by his childhood

With the world (and chunks of the USA) looking on aghast at the depths to which Donald Trump has dragged the Presidential election, I’ve been pondering on where he gets his contempt for women, other races, tendency to wild conspiracy theories and total inability to lose with dignity, opting instead for a scorched earth, pull-the-whole-shebang-down wrecking policy.

His father Fred Trump was a real estate developer, investigated for profiteering from public contracts and for civil rights violations. There is some evidence that he was a Klu Klux Klan member in his 20s and he refused to rent his apartments to black people even in the face of a US Justice Department demand. So shameless brass-necking is a family trait. Described as ‘showboating self-promoter’, FredT ruled the family with a firm fist and evidently Donald still yearns for his approval. [See: goo.gl/gbLDZZ]. So failure means losing the patriarch’s respect will be one part of the puzzle.

Fred Trump, 11 Oct 1905, was undoubtedly a cold, tough nut with a Libra Sun trine Pluto trine Saturn; and a volatile, risk-taking Mars Uranus in money-oriented Capricorn in a can-be fanatical and publicity-seeking opposition to Neptune. FredT’s Pluto is conjunct Donald’s Sun and FredT’s Sun is conjunct Donald’s 2^nd house Jupiter – so Fred would be very controlling and give Donald his interest in making money.

In many ways, his mother, Mary Trump, 10 May 1912 4am Tong, Scotland, was just as strong an influence, with her obstinately determined Saturn Sun in Taurus conjunct Donald’s MC – she would be critical, a disciplinarian in a different way and probably set him exacting and overly-high standards. Her Saturn squared an Aquarius Moon so she would hardly be an emotional marshmallow. Both Her Saturn and Moon hard aspect Donald’s over-bearing Mars in Leo on the Ascendant as indeed does Fred’s Saturn in Aquarius. So both parents would leave him with a hair-trigger temper and a tendency to lash back when his ego was being threatened.

FredT’s relationship chart with Mary has an explosive composite Mars opposition Saturn square Uranus opposition Neptune Venus – suggesting unkind if not cruel treatment. So Donald would grow up in a home where there was open warfare or at least very destructive undercurrents.

The other pointer in Donald’s chart is a 10^th house Sun (and Uranus) which suggests someone who was programmed to fulfil his (unpredictable) mother’s ambitions but who will have struggled through life to understand who he is for himself. Or maybe not, since he doesn’t seem to have much insight.

Clearly he’s picked up his father’s racist attitudes and digested the male-female conflict in his childhood home. Men who put down women and treat them as sex objects are most often terrified of their mother and any relationship which they can’t buy or control. Their contempt is one way of mustering up a false sense of superiority.

His inability to lose without blaming the whole world is certainly a sign of a fragile ego, which fears implosion – and the destructive criticism of parents on whose approval he has created his own shaky sense of self. The conspiracy paranoia certainly hooks into the zeitgeist of the moment but is also an indication of very early childhood damage – the fear of being totally powerless in the face of mysterious, authoritarian others who are pulling the strings.