Is that why he has her picture in the Oval Office?It really is quite simple. You handle Felonious like a teenager. He stop growing emotionally when his mother rejected him and sent him to military school. She thought he was a horrible human being. She stated so several times. Being rejected by your mother causes a lot of scars, like being emotionally unavailable. It’s why he’s swayed by flattery. He wants you to love him, because he was rejected by his mother, the problem, he won’t love you back, he’ll just use you.