Why Trump, Kanye and other controversial folks become/stay this way

Charles Cormier
2 min readNov 17, 2022

Sometimes, you may wonder why controversial characters like Trump or Kanye are this way.

One interesting way to see it is the “you are the 5 person you hang the most with” theory.

1st, megalomans hang with themselves mostly. This is problematic, you will understand, as they live in a society. Some of them want to govern bodies of humans, while they’d never hang with the people.

2nd, just check the folks they hang around with. Extremists become extremists as they are surrounded by other extremists. The toxicity of these groups runs high, as in first place, they are started by mentally-ill folks that re-united with 2–3 similar minds, and then starting brainwashing the vulnerable. Coming back to more flagrant examples of these minds, ie Trump. They hang out with family. They thought their family these mindsets. Reinforcing the initial illness, constantly. Then, they might just hang with the rich and powerful. They won’t talk much to other valuable classes of folks, ie intellectuals, scientists, thinkers, charity folks, etc.

You may start to understand why someone is that way, now. The tricky weapon nowadays is social media, where you can spread your views to 1B+ folks, instantly. You throw your philosophies out there, and might cause ripple in the world…

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Charles Cormier

Entrepreneur, Co-Founder, Coach, Speaker, Futurist, Endurance Athlete, Husband, Friend, Monk