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Narcissist in Chief? How Trump's Ego Reflects US Culture
Live Science ^ | 01/08/15 | Stephanie Pappas

Posted on 01/12/2016 11:00:42 PM PST by kik5150

With less than a month to go before Iowa's Republican primary caucus, Donald Trump remains atop the presidential candidate polls. His popularity appears unblemished despite brash statements, personal insults thrown at his opponents and rampant speculation over his perceived narcissistic tendencies.

Trump surely displays enormous self-regard; in June, for example, he boasted that he'd be "the greatest jobs president that God has ever created." In September, he promised, "We will have so much winning if I get elected that you may get bored with winning." Egoism is a trait Trump seems proud of, in fact. In 2013, he wrote in a Facebook post, "Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser — having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!"

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: Iowa; US: New York
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To: Maverick68

-— Hahaha....multiply Trump’s admittedly yuge ego by 1 million and you still only have a fraction of the Muslim’s... -—

Nah. It’s more of a tie.


41 posted on 01/13/2016 5:18:34 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: kik5150

Never heard of the author nor the source. Are you scraping the bottom? Or is this a site for real science types?


42 posted on 01/13/2016 6:11:06 AM PST by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: kik5150

Already have one, don’t need another.


43 posted on 01/13/2016 7:23:24 AM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: jonrick46

Some could be. There are many sociopaths.


44 posted on 01/13/2016 8:22:16 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: kik5150
It makes sense that the people drawn to politics would be supremely self-confident and able to brush off the criticism sure to come their way. But the 2013 study showed something else: Presidents have been getting more narcissistic over time. And in that sense, Trump may just be the logical conclusion of an ongoing trend.

Or, it may be that the number of talking heads who lie on psychiatrist's couches and reject the Nature and Nature's God on which our system was based has increased, and they are merely imitating their guru's language of finding fault with everyone that only experts can fix, while rejecting the Great Physician who actually knows all our hearts, minds, bodies and souls.

Or, it may be that Marxism has so penetrated the talking head class that anyone who actually does believe in excellence and has lived it is automatically suspect, because, according to them, we are all the same person and that person is the lowest common denominator.

If this author knew Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin or Madison, she would probably find realms of psychological dysfunction upon which to cluck self-righteously. Doesn't make her opinion worthy.

45 posted on 01/13/2016 10:28:02 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("We need someone to lead us back to the standard of excellence we once epitomized." --Donald Trump)
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To: DoughtyOne

Psychopaths—the extreme narcissists are homosexuals, fixated in latency by child abuse, and are unable to love the “Other”—true diversity takes maturity (and virtue.) Trump is deficient in virtue (a lot of us are), but actually quite a normal male. He will take what is offered to him within reason and he obviously truly loves all his children which a true narcissist can’t do. He is brilliant, for he learned to use the evil system without allowing it to control him (to an extent).

The most brutal cultures are always the most sexist—homosexual-—whether is was the Spartan or the Samurai, the Nazis SS, or the Afghanis. They train the boys and abuse them so they have unnatural, brutal, desires and attitudes. (All behaviors/desires are learned, although natural emotions can never be “learned” in an artificial environment (away from the Natural Family for long periods of time (like the “skooling” system.)

The only narcissistic psychopaths I see are in control of our Courts, Washington DC and a large section of Congress and the Press and in control of Holly Wood and textbooks and curricula.. True irrationality and removal from Reality to force Satanism (Orwellian World) on children—where Up is Down, Slavery is Freedom and Males are Females—total removal from Reality/Truth/God/Reason which will collapse civil society which is what the Marxist sodomites wanted (Sugar Keynes of Harvard and Kissinger’s “wet dream”-—all the boys for their boat orgies). Trained little sodomites like the homosexuals in 1800s Germany planned with their takeover of the Weimar Republic and the Boy Scouts and the “Prussian” public indoctrination system for their Marxist /Fichte ideology.


46 posted on 01/13/2016 2:46:54 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: DaveA37

Trump bashing is because he EARNS and DESERVES the same regard of what he dishes out......his mouth is a far cry from his history and for that matter anything he has done or will do......he entertains the masses because that is what he is...an entertainer.....Obama isn’t an issue because he’s not running....but the similarities between what these two have stated in their campaigns is remarkably note worthy...

Trump is on only one track....and that’s to Make Himself Great....I do not believe him when he says otherwise regarding this country he intends to make great again....we have a great country that’s weathering some storms and I’ sick and tired of the man tearing it down because he wants to appear as Mr. Fix it man when he lacks the skills or the understanding to even walk the halls of Washington let alone know that environment and the landmines hidden throughout.

This country does not have the time to teach this man what he’s going to need ...we don’t need people being taken from their jobs to hold his hand and lead him.....and we sure don’t want a bull raging barking orders when he doesn’t have a clue how the system works or who is responsible.

Imo the man is dangerous....awe don’t have the time to pick up the broken glass and dirt he’ll be tracking throughout Washington.


47 posted on 01/13/2016 6:46:12 PM PST by caww
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