I understand narcissistic personality disorder like the back of my hand. Trump is as familiar as an old movie, so let me share some intel.1/
The Hoarse Whisperer? @HoarseWisperer Jul 9
People with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) seem erratic but they're actually ultra-predictable. They are simple machines. 2/
There are only two driving impulses: 1) Avoid shame;and 2) Collect adoration and esteem. That's it. There is no other priority or concern 3/
Trump will do anything humanly possible to try to avoid being publicly shamed/diminished in others' eyes.It's an impulse he can't control 4/
Take Russia/Putin. If Trump were to acknowledge Russia interfered, he'd be admitting he was less worthy of the presidency. 5/
Donald Trump would literally sell out his entire family and the country as well to avoid acknowledging that he didn't deserve the office 6/
He is pathologically incapable of doing anything which admits to the world his worst internal fear: he's unworthy of being seen as special7/
Now, he has no choice on how he has to play this. He HAS to actually make Putin look worthy of partnership. He has to make the shameful...8/
...thing, look unshameful somehow. He has to make shameful hacking and potential collusion somehow seem smart or purposeful or dignified. 9/
It cannot be done. It makes no logical sense. It will fall apart and as it does, Trump's behavior and lying will get more outlandish. 10/
But make no mistake, Donald Trump is clinically incapable of doing anything other than what he is doing: trying to avoid the shame of... 11/
...being discovered to be illegitimate and unworthy of public respect. He has an uncontrollable compulsion to avoid that awful truth. 12/
No matter how absurd each new action or lie sounds, he'll throw even his own family under the bus until there is no way out... 13/
...and then he will first explode on everyone and everything around him when he realizes there is no escape... 14/
It will be the crazy tweetstorm to end all tweetstorms... and then he'll either a) implode in a miserable ball of self-loathing and flee 15/
...or concoct some attempt at a face-saving exit. Claiming he's too good for the job or that he's protesting the "deep state"... 16/
[ A health emergency would do it .... some kind of fictional incapacity like his old bone spurs which kept him from doing his Presidential duties ( har har) but which would leave him able to do anything else he wanted ... like play golf. Some kind of heart condition where the doctors would say the stress of being President will kill him.
He could say he's willing to take the risk of death on the job but he has a family - a wife and young son - who need him. That would make his stepping down almost heroic, praise worthy. Get all his Cabinet officers and Fox News personalities to praise him to high heaven being self-sacrificing enough to step down for his wife and young son's sake. ]
It'll be transparent bullshit that none but the most loco Trumpers believe but he will take it to the grave swearing it's true. 17/
The key thing to remember in watching Trump is that there are literally only two things going on in his mind at all times. 18/
1) Fight to the death to avoid being seen as shameful or underserving of public adoration... 19/
2/ Doing whatever it takes to make the people right in front of him think he's powerful, important and special. That's it. 20/
The Hoarse Whisperer? @HoarseWisperer Jul 9
Believe it or not, if he truly believed the public would hold him in just as high or higher esteem, he'd quit tomorrow.
My hunch has been that when backed into a corner from which he cannot escape, he will declare his innocence, but quit, pretending it's a heroic move.
Yes! The heroic victim... The narcissist's favorite storyline.
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Curious His ability to speak coherently & eloquently has eroded over time. How does that fit in with NPD or is something else also going on?
[ Look at an old video of him talking. He used to sound smarter. ]
The Hoarse Whisperer? @HoarseWisperer Sep 6
Something else going on. He appears to have deteriorating mental acuity. Hypotheses vary on why but hard to debate that he has declined.
Thanks. Comparisons before and now seem to show a difference plus he is vague at times...or is he acting?
No, he's declining. The open question is "why?"
Dementia! Or is he coming undone?
The Hoarse Whisperer? @HoarseWisperer Sep 6
Some think dementia. Also possible it's a byproduct of extreme chronic sleep deprivation and over-reliance on stimulants like Adderall.
I thought he might have been on cocaine during the debates. Whatever he is unfit for the Presidency...but we have drunks in our Parliament
The Hoarse Whisperer? @HoarseWisperer Sep 6
That could have been Adderall. Addy is *literally* amphetamine salts. Makes mental focus sharper but abuse has speed-like effects. |
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The Hoarse Whisperer? @HoarseWisperer Aug 31
Narcissists live for more narcissistic supply to bolster their grandiose (albeit fragile) self-image, and live in fear of narcissistic injuries that would puncture it.
[ He didn't lose the general election, his electoral victory was a massive landslide ("We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College.), he had the biggest inaugural crowd in history, he got a call from the BSA saying his speech was the "greatest speech ever made to them", his tax cut will be 'giant, beautiful, massive, the biggest ever in our country tax cut', ...... ] |
