Posted on 04/16/2016 9:29:51 AM PDT by Savage Rider
Guess the Guardian trolls have not yet heard of Dorkbama, the Muslim narcissist.
Trump the narcissist vs. the GOPe, the narcissism factory. You know, like Bush’s outlandish claims of popularity, Paul Ryan demanding no one dissent on him if Speaker etc...
Anyone pay attention to Cruz lately?
Excellent post! Trump is a cult of personality just as Zero is.
Like Jeff Sessions.
There is nothing to debate, just name calling and baseless comparisons to royalty made by an unnamed source. It’s not “La-La-La I can’t hear you” -more like “La-La-La this is stupid”
I do worry about Trump being able to handle Hillary in a debate without alienating many voters. I know Cruz would mop the floor with her.
Yes. Exactly like the atypical liberal. Which....Trump was up until that magical year that he decided to run 'as a Republican'. Only, in my book of logic, Trump was, is and always will still be...
a damned liberal.
Some unnamed person says....
Reminds me of the woman who said “I sat in Trump Tower in a strategy meeting and he wasn’t supposed to win...just be a protest candidate”. She was involved in a Trump PAC until he told her to cease and desist. And I too have sat in the Trump Tower - as millions of us have.
These people come out of the woodwork looking to validate their miserable selves.
The only two people on the same level of Trump’s Narcissistic Personality Disorder are Hillary and Barky.
Uncouth? Is it his tone too?
Middle America has been economically gang banged and left all but dead on the floor. And your clutching your pearls feigning being offended by uncouth?
Btw, I can tell, you’ve had zero zip experience with real narcissist.
Your head is in the sand.
That's necessary but not sufficient. Trump is egotistical. not the same as Narcissist.
There are Freepers here who have had actual Narcissists in their lives. It's a far far darker thing than just arrogance.
Trump's bragging is backed up with actual work and accomplishment as opposed to entitlement, and he calls foul when something is foul. Many of us agree that what he has called foul is foul. You can disagree with that, but to call out Colorado for being foul is not victimhood, to call out Cruz for sleeping with the establishment - you can disagree (I think you'd be wrong) ... but it's a very valid case.
Sorry, Trump is not a Narcissist. Now, if you just want to call him egotistical, brash, and too much of a salesman, feel free ... but you'd be arguing with success. That YOU find him noxious may be more of a commentary on yourself than him. I would argue that it is.
There are sharp parts of Trump's personality. But you're not going to spend much time with him, what you care about is what he accomplishes. Now, you can look at what he's accomplished, and you can look at what Ted's accomplished ... and I won't tell you which to pick ... but I WILL tell there is a vast difference.
Don't be too concerned about how your president accomplishes things, so long as it's not immoral or bad for Americans. Striking you as obnoxious is not immoral. Sleeping with enemy is both immoral, TRULY self-centered, and bad for Americans.
Be sure to ask yourself: Trump wears everything on the outside - what you see is what you get - ugly at times, but authentic.
REAL Narcissists go undetected until they've ruined everything - primarily the serenity of those around them, through repeated small, medium and large betrayals - which incidentally are always justified (like working with the establishment.) The Narcissist is especially skilled at hiding his selfish intensions -> sometimes he himself does even know he has them - he just sees the whole world as 'about him.'
So 'Narcissist' ... the clinical, destructive kind ... the name begins to resemble not Trump, but another candidate, who presents one way (AntiCartel) and yet behind the scenes is sleeping with the Cartel.
Think about it. Remember -> the Narcissist's motives are hidden. I guarantee there are 2 in your life - friends, coworkers, maybe even family, and they are not the 2 you think they are - not the braggarts. They are the ones sucking the life out of you, but you can't figure it out because they seem like such wonderful people who deserve your help.
They get away with it because we normal people just don't think like them ...we can't imagine they are doing what they are doing - and even for them, it's semi-conscious, so there is no shame in their hiding, lying, betraying. What benefits them IS what's good to them, there is no intervening moral or ethical though process or gut check. "I want so I will take. Others won't approve, so I will hide it."
Cruz is not a wysiwig is he? No, not at all - he's a schemer - and he thinks he knows better than you what's best "for the country" ... but notice that he benefits from all of it.
With men - watch their actions, not their words. Standing up and reading Green Eggs and Ham is not, in itself, what I would call an action, because it's just as easily interpreted as 'pre-presidential-run-positioning-and-pr'.
Won't tell you to support Trump - I AM - but do consider those things. I have run Trump through my 'is this man a problem psychologically' filter and I don't see it ... but you have to run them through yours. From your comment -> you haven't been had yet (or at least you didn't ever discover it) by a narcissist or sociopath. Cruz sets off all the alarms. Doesn't mean his is ... but in comparison, Trump sets off none of them ... other than the 'I wish this guy would stop plugging himself' thing.
They are two of a kind.
Been an expert for 8 years.
Soo....you don’t think it’s narcissistic to ‘brag’ about having bedded many of your rich friends’ and associates’ wives then?
I remember this headline about the narsisst in the WH. Well, maybe not.
Its just he keeps saying what people want to hear.
Then when he gets into office we don’t know what he will do. Probably a lot of democrat stuff.
You’d better get used to it.
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