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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How Soviet Union of him.
“Obama had abandonment issues. He was rejected by both birth parents.”
...which planted the seeds for his narcissistic personality disorder.
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And Obama’s issues only got worse with his muslim upbringing, his tranny nanny, his perverted Uncle Frank who molested him and many other childhood traumas.
No wonder Obama was our worst president ever.
Oh and re the “narcissist” claim .........said analyses of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama at any time over 8 years?
Good lord, what bias....what weak attempts to defeat Trump by libeling him
If ANYONE is nuts in this country, one need only look to today’s Demonrat party
That’s almost there.
Now we have to say, in thrall to what entity.
And that this entity stands in opposition to what other ENTITY.
When I see this I think of Leonard Hofstettler’s mother in TBBT.
YEP. Not to be a ninny...read my profile. :)
They figure they can fill the media with enough of this stuff, and voila, Trump has been dismissed as a mad man.
Not. So. Fast.
Wacko writer Gersh cries President Trump is nuts. Isn’t it interesting Global propagandist are upset when President Trump and his many supporters put the interests of America first? According to their “wisdom” you have to be crazy to do that.
Well said, DL...:)
Well said.
Next they will be saying he is a crazy racist. Not just a racist.
Or even putting it much more gently... so what’s new to you? What caused this topic to dawn on you, let alone whether it’s right or wrong?
It is what they know best.
“I strongly suspect that about three-quarters of the politicians in Washington are malignant narcissists.”
...and the other quarter are high functioning sociopaths :)
Amen.
There are only two reasons Kuntzman is still alive. It’s against the law to kill cockroaches in human form such as him, and he isn’t worth the cost of the Raid that it would take to spray him.
He’s a race egalitarian. That’s the unforgivable sin or sumfin
I do not understand your response.
Why does the left believe that there were approximately zero illegal immigrants voting? If they were known to vote republican greater than 90% would the left still be totally dismissive?
The thing I would ask those accusing Trump.
It’s more the biblical way of addressing it. You gave us the self-proud way. But nobody can be correct 100% of the time. Trump is not crazy. But it’s easy for people used to crazy to see the non-crazy as crazy.
This is the guy who wet his pants over firing an AR-15.
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