Entering the Orbit of a Total Narcissist: Who's Who in Donald Trump's Inner Circle

The Guardian ^ | April 15 2016 | on Swaine, Oliver Laughland and Ben Jacobs

[Savage Rider]

From his career in New York real estate to his extraordinary campaign for the White House, the court of Donald Trump has operated much like that of Louis XIV of France: everything revolves around the imperious, bouffanted Sun King.

“He is a total narcissist, and what you see here is the way he’s always been,” said a source intimately familiar with Trump’s way of working, who declined to be identified criticising a potential president. “This, between you and me, will be the destruction of the United States.”

[wardaddy]

You Cruzlim Jihadis sure don’t cull much in your Trump hatred do u?

[Ancesthntr]

Thanks.

I, for one, am tired of people acting as if their candidate de jure is the best thing since sliced bread. Again, NONE of them are perfect...but some are clearly much better suited to lead the country than others. After a lifetime of observing the mess that career pols have gotten this country into, and the direction that they are taking us in (the same as the Roman Empire took starting in the mid-100s), it is my considered opinion that the best person to lead is someone:

1) Who benefited considerably from what is BEST about our system (i.e. Capitalism), not what’s worst (i.e. cronyism, insider information, one hand washing the other in DC or the statehouse, pay-to-play, etc., etc.).

2) I want someone who can call ‘em as he sees ‘em and, in the process, REALLY pisses off/shocks the PC jackasses, academia and the media.

3) I want someone who stands for NORMAL values, the values that I was taught as a youth, and which I observed the adults around me actually practicing.

4) I want someone who will ACTUALLY fight for the common person, not just give that concept lip service.

5) I want someone who will ACTUALLY represent the best interests of THIS country, not the amorphous, greedy, lying, dictatorial world.

6) Finally, I want someone who will RELISH the idea of finishing his job and returning to the private sector, not looking for some other way to fleece the taxpayer.

Donald Trump is truly a gift, because he meets ALL of these qualifications. I’d settle for 3 or 4 of those qualifications, but why settle when you can get all of them in one package?