In the first debate between Trump and Hillary, Trump lost opportunities to press Hillary about his take on the emails. He got caught up defending himself about his tax returns. this happened a number of times. he constantly lost opportunities to meet her attacks with his own attacks. He ended up off message because he couldn't resist defending his past accomplishments. And he has hurt himself with this latest hot mic scandal due to his incurable itch to brag and impress. In this case he wanted to impress Billy Bush.
His main weakness is bragging and self-promotion, that, in turn, causes him to lose ground because he is compelled to defend his past accomplishments. Trump can stay on the offensive for a bit but when he’s unscripted his natural reflex is to self-promote and defend his past record in a way that just comes across tone deaf. An example of this occurred at the DNC convention when the Khans called out Trump for not having sacrificed anything. Trump went into his usual defensive posture where he rifles through all the sacrifices he had made to build his business. He had much better options to choose from in his response to the Khans that would have retained the offensive against Hillary and kept himself on message but he got caught up in a whirlwind defensive posture. the need to defend past accomplishments is so strong that Trump couldn't resist and within a few days his popularity sank. In contrast, look at Saddam Hussein…when did you ever hear Saddam Hussein bragging in interviews what a huge success he was as dictator….during Saddam's trial Saddam never got hung up trying to defend his record as dictator in spite of all the accusations made against him by the court. He always maintained the offensive, rather than letting the court's attacks put him on the defense about his record, hussein always met the court's charge at him with a charge of his own against the court.
So yeah, my typing for Trump has changed from 8w7 sp/so to 3w2 so/sp. I see/grasp him at a gut level in a different way than I did previously to the point that I can no longer stick with 8w7 sp/so as his core type. Don't forget that so/sp is the more combative and angry stacking. Hitler was also so/sp. That's why some of you may see similarities between Trump and Hitler. It's due to their both being so/sp. But again, Trump's core e-type is 3w2, so the so/sp 3w2 is a lot more loud and proud about their accomplishments than a so/sp 1w9 like Hitler is. some other examples of 3w2 so/sp: gordon ramsay, tabatha coffey, tyson fury, chael sonnen, rhonda rousey, floyd mayweather, muhammad ali, ricardo mayorga, "apollo creed"
And here is the photo gallery for 3w2 so/sp:
1000+ images about 3w2 so/sp on Pinterest | Kurt Angle and Ronda Rousey
and here are examples of the type I initially thought Trump was, 8w7 sp/so:
1000+ images about 8w7 sp/so on Pinterest | Freddie Foreman, Joe Arpaio and Mafia