Harry wanted to interview Putin, Trump and bergmark zucker

Are you going to tell us what you think about it lemsip?

I'm putting it up for discussion which is what this site is for! some people don't seem to know that.

I think the subject of childhood trauma and deeply damaged men in power is really interesting, Johnson and Trump for example, I think it would need experienced journalists to produce something of value on the subject.

We will never know how the interviews would have played out.

If Putin agreed the security would have been a nightmare so I imagine it would have been done remotely. (Putin’s ego is so over inflated he might have agreed to it)

Thank goodness they pulled the plug on that idea. The poor man is deluded if he thinks he could control an interview with any of them and why on earth would anyone want to give air time to Putin or Trump? Totally bonkers!

I wouldn’t go anywhere near anything he was involved with. Thick as two short planks and deluded with it.

Complete idiot with a vastly over-inflated idea of his abilities.

Do you think for one minute any of them would have agreed?

He was just trying to explore his own perceived traumatic upbringing for which he clearly needs professional, private help.

I can only repeat here an edited para from a post I put on another thread

Their capacity for self-delusion and belief that they can change the world with platitudes, passes belief and it is beginning to place them among those who believe the world is run by reptiles. Presumably they will be the only members of the royal family who are not lizards.

To reword Callistemon's last sentence slightly.
He is just trying to exploit his own perceived traumatic upbringing for which he clearly needs professional, private help.

It is like watching a train crash happen from afar. One cannot but draw parallels between these two, Harry in particular, and people like Britney Spears, Drew Barrymore and other celebrities who have catastrophicly imploded, if those are not too senstive words to use at present.

Maybe interviewing people who are not famous would be better. I had a traumatic childhood, as did many other people.
Why does it always have to be celebrities?

lemsip

I'm putting it up for discussion which is what this site is for! some people don't seem to know that.

If you think somethings worthy of a discussion you obviously have an opinion though, as you’re not Gransnet HQ, here to tell the rest of us what you think should be discussed - go on, tell us!

I think Harry needs a much better therapist than he has had before.

henetha

Maybe interviewing people who are not famous would be better. I had a traumatic childhood, as did many other people.
Why does it always have to be celebrities?

Why does it always have to be celebrities?

Very much to the point - well said.

Harry does not live in the real world as we understand it. If he did, he would not have even suggested interviewing such as Putin, Trump, etc. Way above his pay-load.

Unless he moves out of the rarefied environment of celebrities and the whole culture of celebrity psycho-babble, 'finding their true selves' etc, etc, and recognises that he's a mere mortal with no special gift or powers, he will continue to delude himself and irritate everyone else.

Just came here to say that the NY Post has to be the slimiest, most disreputable rag a person can “read”. Even accidentally reading an “article” from it makes me feel like I lost brain cells.

How can you accidentally read something? 🤔

Harry is completely out of his depth and floundering; he has lost touch with 'his' reality, which is probably the outdoor life, polo, horses, dogs, soldiering and his extended family. No-one he would listen to prepared to tell him he is making a fool of himself, just a circle of sycophants there for the money.

I would feel some sympathy if it were not for his calculated and sustained spite towards his family, and lately, country.

eazybee i totally agree

After reading the transcript of Harry's recent court appearance, he would clearly be out of his depth just interviewing my cat ! He had not done any prep before appearing in court (or if he had, he'd forgotten it!) and he seems completely deluded about his skills and talents.

If this is true, the fact that Harry thinks that he is in any way qualified to undertake this type of investigation simply underlines the profound depth of his ongoing self-delusion. He appears to be on self-induced meltdown, and I do find myself wondering how long it will be before Meghan leaves him to stew on his own.

BigBertha1

I think Harry needs a much better therapist than he has had before.

I agree .... but Harry seems to be someone who refuses to listen to advice so I think he will just go blundering on.

It won’t be long before Meghan realises that being married to a laughing stock is harming her own prospects.

I don't think he needs more therapy, less if anything. And I don't agree that his childhood was 'traumatic' - devalues the word

Nor do I think he really wanted to talk to Putin etc at all, just another way of talking about himself.

I expect most of these narcissistic/ despotic men in positions of power had damaging childhood. They need to feel omnipotent and in control at all times because feeling the feelings of past trauma would never happen as they are in total denial that anything is wrong with them.

There is a lot written about narcissism. It's a personality disorder/ illness which usually has it's roots in very destructive/neglectful parenting, with very little chance of being healed.

Harry, unfortunately seems to have got rather stuck in his healing journey. This desire of his is dysfunctional IMHO.

There is no way to change these despotic personalities or get them to open up...so his attempts to try to have conversations with them is naive. It would be better for him to move on, get through his past and embrace more worthwhile pursuits. People can and do! But I guess those 'ordinary' people don't get paid to discuss their trauma in public.

Narcissistic people will never admit to any 'failings' so his 'conversation' would not, in any case, produce any results.

foxie48

Thank goodness they pulled the plug on that idea. The poor man is deluded if he thinks he could control an interview with any of them and why on earth would anyone want to give air time to Putin or Trump? Totally bonkers!

Yes, this.