Trump is a massive sociopathic narcissist

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I don't want to get into policy debates but Trump is a massive narcissist and a sociopath or psychopath just saying.

Trump's ghostwriter/biographer: "If he were writing The Art of the Deal today, Schwartz said, it would be a very different book with a very different title. Asked what he would call it, he answered, 'The Sociopath'."

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/ ... -tells-all

"George Simon, a clinical psychologist who conducts seminars on manipulative behavior, says Trump is 'so classic that I’m archiving video clips of him to use in workshops because there’s no better example' of narcissism. 'Otherwise I would have had to hire actors and write vignettes. He’s like a dream come true.'"

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... mp/480771/

The Donald himself: "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/vid ... otes-video

You guys vote how you like but Trump is a pathological liar who is putting on an act for your emotions and you'd be smart not to fall for it. His facial expressions show no normal human empathy cues and the reason is most def not autism. I kinda admire him because he's great at manipulating people and he actually has had so much wealth all his life that he doesn't really need to mask his lack of conscience/empathy. But if you're gonna stare someone saying he's an intraspecies predator right in your face and make this guy your leader well don't be surprised when he fricking eats you. Oh and the guy has massive ego/self-esteem deficits and will freak out in oversensitivity to the slightest criticism. He's not just evil he's massively insecure impulsive evil.

Bonus points: he literally doesn't see any reason not to throw nuclear weapons around. Read that again-- he doesn't get any moral emotion alarms going off at mass murder PLUS he's not cognitively correcting for why on the consequences that would be bad. He's not just pro-torture but doesn't make a cognitive pause or use distancing language when talking about it cause it doesn't bother him. He puts down crippled veterans who spent years in POW camps because well people who get tortured for their country don't win wars. All of this makes perfect intuitive sense to me if I also didn't have the brains or common sense of a brick suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome.

I am frankly gobsmacked that Trump supporters don't see this I mean he's not even freaking hiding it.

I have little patience for the art of armchair diagnosis.

I'll take the more modest route and insinuate that the Gentleman Currently Campaigning for Presidential Office in The United States of America on Behalf of the Republican Party is of Questionable Moral Fiber.

I read half of the essays in this book yesterday, which situate Trump in an age of narcissism. They are contextualised, as the title suggests, and express concern that support for him and others like him represent something far more dangerous than his impact on only USA politics and ethos, with reasoned observations from a range of complex thinkers:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3133 ... ent-danger

Even without reading at the link presented, I agree with B19 on this, that what is concerning are his supporters who seem to admire him for that. Trump is a master at this, and now his supporters get to watch and learn, something I have been seeing a lot of lately. You really have to handle Trump and his supporters like how one must deal with an abuser, very carefully and with self-awareness.

I am now following your link.

I don't think Trump's an angel, but I'm reluctant to give an armchair diagnosis like that.

Plus I think antisocial behavior and politicians probably go together anyway simply because politics, especially in modern America is "warfare continued without arms" (Hillary might qualify as well).

Plus no one is completely immune from antisocial conduct (since a lot of it originates in our more "primal evolutionary urges), and if a person knows they are more likely to get away with it (as I'm sure many people in power like Trump do) they're more likely to engage in it, hence the saying that "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".

I wouldn't say I'm "sympathetic", but I suppose I feel that if many average Joes, who are decent citizens in day-to-day life switched places with Trump or any politician, they'd become just as corrupt. And corrupt politicians and rulers historically seem to be the rule rather than the exception.

So it's hard for me to single out Trump supporters unless I was under the delusion that Hillary was a perfect saint.

one can just as easily say that Hillary and Bill are sociopath narcissists

as far as I know Trump hasn't raped and murdered anyone so I think the Clinton's have him beat

i think it's pretty sad how much Trump haters have taken to attacking his supporters now, talk about bullies!

In other news, water is wet.

Plus I'd rather have an obvious sociopath than a covert one. A wolf out in the open is less dangerous than one in sheep's clothing.

Everyone's a narcissist nowadays.... The terms "psychopath"/"sociopath" also are too often used as meaningless insults used against anyone unliked as a justification to treat fellow human beings, who like you are also made in the image of God, like trash.

here's an article from Patrick J. Kennedy on the subject awhile ago castigating this use of rhetoric


https://www.washingtonpost.com/postever ... ump-crazy/

It is used too much, yeah, waaay too much.

Sociopath or not, Trump's ghost writer had had first hand knowledge of Trump, and I have no doubt that he's sincere about Trump's narcissistic personality.