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President Trump exhibits classic signs of mental illness, including 'malignant narcissism'
NY Daily News ^ | Jan. 29, 2017 | Gersh Kuntzman

Posted on 01/30/2017 8:32:23 AM PST by Rennes Templar

The time has come to say it: there is something psychologically wrong with the President.

The fuzzy outlines of President Trump's likely mental illness came into sharper focus this week: in two interviews with major networks, he revealed paranoia and delusion; he quadruple-downed on his fabrication that millions of people voted illegally, which demonstrated he is disconnected from reality itself; his petulant trade war with Mexico reveals that he values self-image even over national interest; his fixation with inaugural crowd size reveals a childish need for attention.

Partisans have been warning about Trump's craziness for months, but rhetoric from political opponents is easily dismissed; it's the water of the very swamp the President says he wants to drain.

But frightened by the President's hubris, narcissism, defensiveness, belief in untrue things, conspiratorial reflexiveness and attacks on opponents, mental health professionals are finally speaking out. The goal is not merely to define the Madness of King Donald, but to warn the public where it will inevitably lead.

Ex-Trump executive: I knew he was ill for last 35 years "Narcissism impairs his ability to see reality," said Dr. Julie Futrell, a clinical psychologist, who, of course, added a standard disclaimer because she has never actually treated Trump. "So you can't use logic to persuade someone like that. Three million women marching? Doesn't move him. Advisers point out that a policy choice didn't work? He won't care. The maintenance of self-identity is the organizing principle of life for those who fall toward the pathological end of the narcissistic spectrum."

A little background: Shrinks don't typically analyze public figures. The reticence dates back to 1964, during Barry Goldwater's run for President. Then, like now, many shrinks believed that the candidate was psychologically damaged — but unlike now, many diagnosed him for a Fact magazine special...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: first100days; jewishmediaspin; lamentations; psychobabble; tds; trump45
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To: from occupied ga

The malice and hatred from the left just never stops does it?

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Nope. It does not. Yet the irony here is that as the whores in media gripe and complain about Fake News - they themselves just wallow in it as they further degrade themselves with this BS.

I have greater respect for the State Run media like Pravda was than I do for the lapdogs we have now.


81 posted on 01/30/2017 8:50:14 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (It's Donald Trump's America and we're just living in it.)
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To: Rennes Templar

It’s just projection on this jerk’s part.


82 posted on 01/30/2017 8:50:20 AM PST by Bigg Red (The best f-word we can apply to Obama on this glorious inauguration day is "former".)
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To: Rennes Templar

The Chronic Lying Leftist NYD and Gersh Kuntzman now, despite their pathological condition of chronic lies, think they are experts in psychology but they don’t know their #ss from a hole in the ground.

Totalitarians - the Lying Left - who themselves are pathological, love to say that those who don’t agree with them are mentally ill. Communist Russia is filled with political prisoners they call “mentally ill”

The Lying Left is the enemy within.


83 posted on 01/30/2017 8:50:33 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: Rennes Templar

“Gersh” ?


84 posted on 01/30/2017 8:50:36 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: from occupied ga

Nope, it won’t and never will.
The leftist news will report nothing but anti-trump throughout the entirety of his presidential tenure.
They will cover every tiny little insignificant protest or miscarriage of justice as if it were all Trumps fault.
Our press does nothing but divide us.


85 posted on 01/30/2017 8:51:42 AM PST by No_More_Harkin
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To: Buckeye McFrog
The jackasses in the media only have one play - lie lie lie lie slander slander slander libel libel libel.

What they don't get is that every time they attack Trump they attack those of us who voted for him. Rather then getting us to drop our support for Trump, they just reinforce how irrelevant, completely dishonest and partisan they are.

86 posted on 01/30/2017 8:52:57 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Rennes Templar

> he quadruple-downed on his fabrication that millions of people voted illegally

The blowback will be epic.


87 posted on 01/30/2017 8:53:08 AM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: I want the USA back

The daily news is an illiterate leftist rag.

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I was surprised this pukeage was not from the New York Times.


88 posted on 01/30/2017 8:53:08 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (It's Donald Trump's America and we're just living in it.)
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To: Rennes Templar

Hey “gersh”.

Shut up, or I’ll make you fire an AR-15.

That will traumatize you for life.


89 posted on 01/30/2017 8:53:42 AM PST by Lazamataz (I hereby coin a new Internet acronym: NTOWY -- Not Tired Of Winning Yet.)
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To: Rennes Templar
Not sure why we want to post articles by liberals promoting liberal lunacy. This article should be deleted from FR.
90 posted on 01/30/2017 8:54:01 AM PST by Arcy (When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, people groan.)
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To: Right Brother
I guess Obama’s narcissism was ‘benign’.


91 posted on 01/30/2017 8:54:23 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

‘Gersh Kuntzman”

I think it might be time to boycott the Snooze’s advertisers. This article was totally uncalled for and deserves the derision we are going to give it.


92 posted on 01/30/2017 8:55:09 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Alinsky, you magnificent bastard, Trump read your book!")
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93 posted on 01/30/2017 8:55:10 AM PST by lacrew
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To: Rennes Templar
Zero refers to himself (I, me) 100+ times in a speech, and he's the savior of the world. Trump refers to himself (I) three times in his inaugural address and he's narcissistic.

The so-called media is nothing but the mouthpiece of the left.

94 posted on 01/30/2017 8:55:37 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Steely Tom

They are so afraid about the voter fraud issues!

When the data comes out, it will show there was never a fair election for Obama.


95 posted on 01/30/2017 8:56:01 AM PST by browniexyz
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To: Rennes Templar

96 posted on 01/30/2017 8:56:10 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: All

The Left that spend 8 years fellating Obama are suddenly worried about Narcissism?


97 posted on 01/30/2017 8:56:56 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: Responsibility2nd
Pravda has more pravda in it than the entire MSM hegemony.
98 posted on 01/30/2017 8:58:45 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga

Projection, courtesy of the Mainstream Media.


99 posted on 01/30/2017 9:00:06 AM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
“Gersh” ?

Kuntzman.

You know how athletes refer to one another by using the first initial of their first name and the first syllable of their last name?

Very fitting and appropriate for this guy.

 

100 posted on 01/30/2017 9:00:50 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (It's Donald Trump's America and we're just living in it.)
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