Haven't been able to even watch more than snippets of the current Presidential Debates. I've known too many Narcissists and Sociopaths in my day and TRUMP is hitting every single button.
Another reason - YWL did the same stuff to and said the same stuff about me - and probably still does:
Here's some snippets of things said to me and others by YWL and things said by Trump recently;
- I never said that
- She's crazy
- That never happened
- She's fat/ugly/I wouldn't touch her/bang her (paraphrased)
- I didn't do that
- She's a liar
- Wrong
- She's a criminal (YWL meant me; Trump meant Clinton)
And the projection? Ohhhhhh the projection.
Anyone who listens to either of these guys needs to have their heads examined, in my opinion.
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Donald Trump: Profile Of A Sociopath
by Daniel Berger
With the
Republican National Convention now completed, the question of whether
Donald Trump would “pivot” to the general election and tone down his
offensive and erratic behavior has been answered: absolutely not. In
the aftermath of his angry, delusional acceptance speech and his
subsequent actions (including his recent invitation to Vladimir Putin to
commit cyber-espionage and his outrageous attacks on Khizr and Ghazala
Khan), the question of Trump’s sanity from a clinical, psychological
perspective must be raised.
Amazingly,
given his erratic behavior for more than a year, the issue of Trump’s
mental stability has received relatively little attention. The most
comprehensive recent discussion of this subject was in the June issue of
The Atlantic. There, a professional psychologist, Dan P. McAdams,
provided a psychological profile of Trump for the purpose of assessing
the potential impact of Trump’s personality on his possible presidency.
McAdams’ portrayal of Trump was hardly flattering, but concluded that,
although Trump’s personality is “extreme,” Trump was just as likely to
be a good president as a bad one.
Unfortunately, McAdams’ analysis completely missed the point. The
question is not whether Trump’s personality is “extreme.” Rather, it is
whether he is disturbed in a psychological sense and, if so, whether his
possible personality disorders could lead to disastrous consequences if
he were to assume the vast powers of the U.S. Presidency.
“Amazingly, given his erratic behavior for more
than a year, the issue of Trump’s mental stability has received
relatively little attention.”
Given Trump’s
obsessive focus on himself, his complete inability to tolerate
criticism, his vindictiveness toward his opponents, his bullying and
public insults, and his inappropriate and offensive public rhetoric, the
disorder that comes most readily to mind is a narcissistic personality
disorder. A narcissistic personality disorder is defined as a
personality “characterized by exaggerated feelings of self-importance,
an excessive need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others.” It
is classified as a cluster B personality disorder by the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 of the American Psychiatric
Association (“DSM”) which currently represents the most definitive
compilation of mental disorders followed by the mental health profession
in this country.
A narcissistic
personality disorder can be accompanied by a large number of deleterious
traits and behaviors including arrogance, callousness and envy, and is
associated with a preoccupation with power, prestige and vanity. Other
negative characteristics include “grandiosity” and “a distain and lack
of empathy for others.” Worryingly, this condition is also
characterized by exploitive behavior to achieve personal gain,
exaggeration of skills and accomplishments and intolerance of the views
of others. Pathological narcissism is also associated with derogation
and insults of others and an inability to tolerate disagreements or
criticisms.
Alternatively,
Trump could also be suffering from an antisocial personality disorder.
An antisocial personality disorder involves a pattern of disregard for,
and violation of, the rights of others and includes such negative
characteristics as deceitfulness as indicated by repeated lying or
conning and manipulation of others, aggressiveness, and consistent
irresponsibility. A person suffering from an antisocial personality
disorder is often referred to as a sociopath. According to the DSM-5,
narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders overlap with each
other including in terms of lack of remorse and disregard for the
wishes, rights, and feelings of others and can even co-exist, as in
narcissistic megalomania.
Based on his bombastic and erratic behavior over the last year, and
what is known about Trump’s past (which McAdams and others have referred
to), Trump exhibits characteristics of both types of personality
disorders:
- He is a serial and compulsive (pathological) liar.
PolitiFact named Trump the winner of its annual “Lie of the Year” Award
in 2015 - - a competition which PolitiFact said “was not even close,”
unquestionably in reference to the fact that it rated 72% of Trump’s
public remarks about factual circumstances as false. Any further doubt
about Trump’s capacity for truthfulness should be erased by even a
cursory review of the website, Trumplies.com
- - a vast compendium of misstatements, inaccuracies and outright
falsehoods - - or his speech accepting the Republican nomination for
president, or his defamation of Ted Cruz’s father in his first
post-convention news conference or his recent statement to the New York
Times about NATO which was reported the next day and which he
categorically denied. The Times then released a verbatim transcript of
its interview with Trump which clearly showed that his denial of earlier
in the day was patently false.
- Trump’s dishonesty in his business dealings is shocking and
unprecedented for a presidential candidate. Recently, the New York
Times published an investigation about Donald Trump’s business dealings
and discovered, inter alia, that Trump was a defendant in literally
thousands of law suits primarily brought by service providers and
vendors whom he failed to pay for services rendered to him or his
business organizations. It is abundantly clear that failing/refusing to
pay vendors is part of Trump’s business model. What type of reputable
businessman - - with a shred of integrity - - would conduct business in
such a manner? For this, and other reasons, several major financial
institutions including JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs flatly refuse to
do business with Trump. Indeed, Trump’s reputation in business is as a
scam artist; as Mitt Romney, the last candidate for president of the
Republican Party, put it, Trump is a “con man” and “snake-oil salesman.”
Readers should look no further than the allegations involved in the
Trump “University” scandal to find serious support for Romney’s
conclusions.
- There is overwhelming evidence that Trump cannot tolerate any
form of criticism no matter how slight and that he is vindictive in the
extreme. The confrontations that Trump had with reporters and news
organizations during the primary process, particularly his weeks-long
attack on Megyn Kelly are illustrative of this point, as is his
shameful, despicable conformation with Khizr Khan and his wife. There
is also evidence that has not been publicly disseminated that Trump has
misused officers of the New York City Policy Department to retaliate
against his perceived enemies in New York City and to harass and
threaten the personal safety of his opponents.
- Trump never apologizes for any missteps or intemperate attacks
and has demonstrated a remarkable lack of empathy for persons whom he
has attacked, injured, or harmed. Numerous incidents, both recent and
historical, establish Trump’s utter lack of either accountability or
empathy.
- Trump has a fixation with the idea of “winners” and “losers” - -
a frequent mantra of his campaign for the Presidency. Trump’s universe
consists of “winners” and “losers” and Trump particularly focuses on
losers - - which includes any opponent or person who disagrees with him.
Losers are people who “deserve to lose,” a clear indication of his
indifference to, and rationalization for, injuring or humiliating
others.
- Trump’s angry, menacing Convention acceptance speech can only be
regarded as delusional and demented and gave the appearance of the
ravings of a lunatic. The arrogance and delusional nature of the
mantra, “I alone,” repeated in his acceptance speech is a clear
indication of the presence of both disorders.
- Trump’s reaction to protesters during the primaries and to
critics at the Democratic National Convention by threatening their
physical safety (“I want to hit them”; “They should be carried out on a
stretcher”) is highly indicative of antisocial behavior.
- Although initially regarded benignly by the media as being
“unconventional” (“This year is different”), Trump’s failure to conform
to established norms for behavior in public and in running a national
political campaign for president is also highly sociopathic.
Although a
number of commentators on Trump’s mental state (including McAdams) have
documented many characteristics of Trump’s possible personality
disorders, they scrupulously refrain from exploring the strong
possibility that Trump may be mentally disturbed in a clinical,
psychological sense and the nature of such disturbances. They refer
only obliquely to a possible narcissistic personality disorder by
characterizing Trump’s behavior as “grandiose” in nature - - but without
any further explanation. They also eschew any reference to Trump as a
psychopath or a sociopath.
However, more
important than the labels, these commentators fail to consider the
potential adverse consequences, if a person like Trump were to acquire
the powers of the modern U.S. presidency. Of prime consideration, the
president is both Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and heads up
the national security agencies responsible for both the internal and
external security of the United States. These powers include control of
the FBI, the NSA, the CIA, DHS, and other federal agencies, whose
operations are largely carried out in secret. Most of the president’s
national security powers are historically broad either in the form of
inherent powers or as broadly delegated by Congress and, as a practical
matter, are typically unreviewable by Congress or the courts,
particularly in an emergency.
Predictions - -
both good and bad - - as to the possible consequences of a Trump
presidency are, of course, a matter of speculation at this point.
McAdams, for example, implicitly concludes that, notwithstanding his
personality flaws, Trump was just as likely to do good things as bad,
citing the presidency of Andrew Jackson as a “populist” precedent.
However, even
assuming that Jackson is a helpful historical analogy, McAdams never
seriously considered the potential downside of a Trump presidency in
light of his personality flaws. Given the strong possibility of one or
more disorders in Trump’s personality, Trump represents an extraordinary
danger and risk to the nation in the form of abuses of power.
This danger and
this risk are not purely conjectural: Trump has already threatened to
abuse these powers should he obtain them. The single most disqualifying
action Trump has engaged in to date relates to Jeff Bezos and the
Washington Post. In response to criticism by the Post and the
possibility that a large number of its journalists have been tasked to
investigate Trump’s past (as is true of any presidential candidate),
Trump has indicated that should he become president, he will launch an
IRS investigation of Bezos—the owner of the Post and CEO of Amazon—and
an antitrust investigation of Amazon.
Use of federal
agencies for political purposes by a president is a flat-out abuse of
power and an impeachable offense punishable by removal from office.
Indeed, Article III of the Impeachment Resolution that the House of
Representatives passed against Richard Nixon in 1974 involved just such
uses of the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA. In other
words, before even assuming office, Trump has threatened to engage in an
abuse of power, rising to the level of an impeachable offense!
Under the
circumstances it would be prudent to take Trump at his word and, at
least, consider the possibility that he would engage in significant
abuses of power, if he were elected. Given Trump’s evident ignorance of
the complex constellation of policy issues facing the nation from both a
domestic and international perspective, his apparent lack of
understanding of the constitutional division and separation of powers
between our three branches of government and, given his personality
flaws and/or disorders, it would not only be foolish, but foolhardy, to
turn over the powers of the U.S. presidency to Trump.
In this light,
and faced with this reality, all persons of good will who care about
the future of the country should do everything within reason to prevent
Trump from obtaining these powers.
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