The Adult Temper Tantrum

We've all seen one. Hell, we're seeing one long drawn out one now.

Sara Conrad

2/23/20265 min read

a person's eye with a red background
a person's eye with a red background

2/22/2026

Ah, the adult temper tantrum. We've all seen them. We're all watching a decades long adult temper tantrum. Yeah, I guess, technically, this should be considered a grudge, but it's a grudge that has erupted into a giant adult temper tantrum. You know that's what we're looking at right? A giant temper tantrum.

Narcissists and their fucking temper tantrums. I remember when I saw my first straight up narcissistic temper tantrum. It was one of many red flags that I ignored. I am actually quite embarrassed to tell this story, because I hadn't even really started dating the fucking loser yet. I saw this behavior and I fucking dismissed it. There really was no excuse for me back then. I can't claim battered woman syndrome, this was just plain bad choices.

So, anyhow, my ex was backing down the street after we got home from the bar. We had a couple of beers at the bar and had been partying prior. As he backed up, he backed into the car of the the next door neighbor of his mother. He had known this woman most of his life; she was his godmother. When he realized what he did, he freaked out. I, of course, being the queen of tact that I am, laughed. That went over like a fart in church. It was late and he couldn't go wake up his godmother, but he hated to just ignore it. I told him to leave a note, but that wouldn't do. He wanted to tell her in person. We would tell her first thing in the morning. I assured him it would be fine and we went back to his house.

That's when things got weird. We walked into the house and he stomped into the bedroom. I could hear moaning coming from the bedroom so I went to check it out. He was laying on the bed face down, shoes still, moaning in what sounded like extreme agony. I crept over to the bed and caressed his shoulder, "Are you okay?" I let my hand dance along his shoulder and down his back.

"ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??? OF COURSE I'M NOT OKAY!!! MY LIFE IS OVER!! AND ARE YOU COMING ON TO ME RIGHT NOW?? ARE YOU A FUCKING LUNATIC?? DO YOU REALLY THINK I WANT TO HAVE SEX RIGHT NOW??"

And with that this grown man started scream crying nonsense, kicking his feet, punching his hands into the bed like he was beating the man who stole his dog. I stared helplessly, in shock, as this 45 year grown man threw a full fledged temper tantrum. I bit my lip and tried my hardest not to laugh. I can only imagine what would have happened that night had he heard me laugh at him as he threw a tantrum that would rival a spoiled petulant three year old toddler. Let me tell you this man bought his red flags at Costco, he had plenty to spare.

When I look at our current criminal-in-chief's agenda since being in office I see a pattern that is hard to ignore. Everyone or everything he goes after is usually due to a grudge he has held on to for god knows how long for some alleged slight someone or some country has made against him. He especially hates when people make fun of him, and god forbid other people laugh at him because of it. 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner, President Obama made a pretty famous speech where he roasted the hell out of Trump. Chiding him for his credentials being as that they were just being on "The Apprentice". Trump sat in silence while the audience laughed at every joke Obama made about him. Trump was humiliated and he never forgot.

Biden humiliated him when he beat him. Walz humiliated him when he made fun of him during the election and when he failed to show any fear of him as Governor of Minnesota. Remember in the beginning of this term and all the bullshit with the Panama Canal? Ah, back when life was so easy? When Trump was just going after the Panama Canal. That was all a grudge, a temper tantrum. He tried to build a hotel in Panama. He did some shady shit and Panama called him on it, forcing him to walk away. He never fogot what Panama did to him. America always let him get away with his shady shit, not having to pay contractors for their services, claiming bankruptcy after building and still keeping your business and all that fun stuff, but not Panama. And he meant to make them pay, but he didn't. Because you know, TACO.

I haven't found the grudge reason for Greenland. I think that is pure greed. But if we look at all the people he has his DOJ investigating, it's a witch hunt for all of his detractors. And the 2020 election? Talk about beating a dead horse. I can't believe how much focused that man is on that election. Sometimes, he is so focused and dead set on how sure he is that he won, that I wonder if he didn't cheat in that election as well. Why else would he be so fucking hell bent for sure that he won?

While the orange asshat may not be having a kicking and screaming hissy fit of a temper tantrum that my ex would have, what we are seeing is definitely a temper tantrum. He has been nurturing a grudge for the last four years while he has been drinking the Kool-Aid.

Of course, somehow the world's worst businessman was able to partner up with the Heritage Foundation and made his first good business deal. It was a win-win situation. The Heritage Foundation found man and a face that they could get back in the White House, a man that was so hell bent on revenge and too stupid that he would never question orders. The tangerine palpatine had the backing to get back into the white house.

Now, we have a washed up reality TV star with far less brain power than his first term that is too dumb not to say things like I just do what they tell me and I pardon who they tell me to. The Heritage Foundation has it's puppet that asks no questions. It just has to share him with Putin and Trump gets to continue his spoiled rich kid narcissistic hissy fit temper tantrum that only real trust fund kids can throw.

Again, I can not stress this enough. One thing Trump hates more than anything is when people make fun of him and when it makes others laugh. We are also learning that he hates it that we are not afraid of him. He has these delusions of grandeur where those of us that don't worship him fear him. If we are continuing to make fun of him, stand up to him, and laugh at him, we are unafraid of him. We are destroying his dream, his delusion, his "reality". This is where we keep hitting him and the regime.