compulsion

Like many other gravers, I’ve come to understand personally the compulsion behind it—and all a simple discovery can do to a person still among the living.

Trump is not a “lying low” kind of guy, though, and his response to the hurricane situation in the South—Helene hit last month, and Milton is headed toward Florida presently—is the latest instance of his compulsion to center himself in the national news, to his own detriment.

“All my life, I’ve mouthed off about how I should stop acting, and I don’t know why it was different this time, but the impulse to quit took root in me, and that became a compulsion. It was something I had to do.”

Some of his aides have recounted this compulsion in books they’ve written after leaving office.

“Addiction is like an ironclad compulsion,” said Dr. Michael McDaniel, the medical director of Heartland House in San Diego.