Posted on 01/30/2017 8:32:23 AM PST by Rennes Templar
The time has come to say it: there is something psychologically wrong with the President.
The fuzzy outlines of President Trump's likely mental illness came into sharper focus this week: in two interviews with major networks, he revealed paranoia and delusion; he quadruple-downed on his fabrication that millions of people voted illegally, which demonstrated he is disconnected from reality itself; his petulant trade war with Mexico reveals that he values self-image even over national interest; his fixation with inaugural crowd size reveals a childish need for attention.
Partisans have been warning about Trump's craziness for months, but rhetoric from political opponents is easily dismissed; it's the water of the very swamp the President says he wants to drain.
But frightened by the President's hubris, narcissism, defensiveness, belief in untrue things, conspiratorial reflexiveness and attacks on opponents, mental health professionals are finally speaking out. The goal is not merely to define the Madness of King Donald, but to warn the public where it will inevitably lead.
Ex-Trump executive: I knew he was ill for last 35 years "Narcissism impairs his ability to see reality," said Dr. Julie Futrell, a clinical psychologist, who, of course, added a standard disclaimer because she has never actually treated Trump. "So you can't use logic to persuade someone like that. Three million women marching? Doesn't move him. Advisers point out that a policy choice didn't work? He won't care. The maintenance of self-identity is the organizing principle of life for those who fall toward the pathological end of the narcissistic spectrum."
A little background: Shrinks don't typically analyze public figures. The reticence dates back to 1964, during Barry Goldwater's run for President. Then, like now, many shrinks believed that the candidate was psychologically damaged — but unlike now, many diagnosed him for a Fact magazine special...
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Yes. He discovered that "Firing an AR-15 is horrifying, menacing, and very very loud".
Apparently, they are all just returning from an eight-year vacation?
I guess there’s nothing else going on in the world to report, so these so-called journalists feel compelled to portray themselves as Psychoanalysts. Must be they stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Nope and it’s rooted in the uninformed yet still full throated naiveté that libs cling to rather than deal with life from a reality/fact based perspective. They react from feelings and never respond from actuality.
"The fuzzy outlines of President Trump's likely mental illness came into sharper focus this week: in two interviews with major networks, he revealed paranoia and delusion; he quadruple-downed on [1] his fabrication that millions of people voted illegally, which demonstrated he is disconnected from reality itself; [2] his petulant trade war with Mexico reveals that he values self-image even over national interest; [3] his fixation with inaugural crowd size reveals a childish need for attention.
[1] Trump does not make any "fabrication" of illegal voting. Eminent studies have shown that likely 6 million illegals are voting. The author, living in an information bubble is disconnected from reality on that issue.
[2] The issue of our trade deficit with Mexico and American manufacturers constantly closing production in the U.S. and building production facilities in Mexico for import back to the U.S. has nothing to do with "self image" on Trump's part. It is in our national interest to put jobs in the U.S. first, over globalists building up Mexico at the expense of American workers.
[3] It has been the media, not Trump who is "obsessed" with the size of the crowds at the inauguration ceremonies in Washington D.C. It is the media that made a mantra of their own about Trump's tweets on the issue, running it over and over, with THEIR obsession on it. Conveying through THEIR work, not Trump's, that obsession. The author became self-indoctrinated by the media over who was "obsessed".
I’ve never understood arguments like yours.
It’s like you’re afraid to face the harsh realities of how liberals think and live.
FR ain’t no Safe Space. We need to be reminded of this stuff. If you want a nice milquetoast site with pleasant dialogue, I think Lucianne.com is still around.
These are the same idiots that refused to identifye the former resident as a prime example of what a narccesst is.Everything was about him.Also everything was I,I,I.
It was nauseating.
As Steve Bannon said the Times should shutup and Listen for once.They might actually learn something new.
What Trump did was to violate a lefty taboo on the things that can be said. So they are calling him crazy.
Crazy like a honey badger, he is.
Anyhow I thank the good Lord that things didn’t get even worse before Donald Trump.
“Obama had abandonment issues. He was rejected by both birth parents.”
...which planted the seeds for his narcissistic personality disorder.
True. At least Pravda was open and out front with its agenda.
Here in the US, we have to rely on local news or the British Press to truly and honestly report what is going on here.
Clinton’s sociopathic sexual behavior was never noted much less criticized. Psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer was the only person in the media to notice Obama’s egomania. Another double standard. If Trump was a Democrat he would be praised for the strength of his personality and persuasion skills.
In this case I erred.This was reported in the Daily snooze.No wonder I erred.
But in another sense he really isn’t normal in a worldly sense. He’s got this colossal faith in things that the world is just scoffing at.
The estimates of illegals in the vote, especially this past November, are uncomfortably plausible. And it’s because courts have been treating the voter ID issue like such a sacred hot potato.
Instead of looking for a fire, which any actually competent media would do if a president shouted “Smoke”... it calls the president crazy.
Yes. I tried to squish the bug.
Yes! A simple Marxist tactic to label the mature masculine males who are strong, wise and have some great virtues, to be mentally ill. The Marxists have been tearing down the White Christian males for over 40 years now, overtly—in the news and in art and on TV—to corrupt our little boys and create hate for them in all other “groups”. The “multiculturalism” is a Marxist ploy to embed hate in very young child (since we are herd animals) and to collapse Western Civilization (Christianity only). Flipping our ethic system has been their aim and it is completed with the irrational homosexual “marriage” images now flooding the minds of little 3 year olds. The pagan vice of sodomy will be normalized as it is in Tel Aviv today.
The Marxists embedded into the APA took the true mental illnesses off their lists in the 70s, so that they could flip Insane and Sane (for the children). They wanted the insane and evil, to rule the Sane (people with common sense). To collapse civil society they needed totally irrational, evil vile snowflakes like Madonna or Trudeau. They wanted psychopaths who were capable of killing the useless eaters and babies for the elites (you could have no conscience, at all, like the sociopathic Clintons and people marching for the rights to kill babies and a culture that sodomizes boys and practices polygamy—and ancient Babylonian rites)..
To glorify the evil and insane and totally emasculated males ( even males turning into women (totally irrational and removed from Reality and “Justice” (truth/virtue) and mutilating their bodies and drugging their minds) now is the “Norm” for the Western Whilte Male.
As Cicero stated, when you promote evil and irrationality to the culture (for the children) 24/7 and glorify evil and degeneracy (nihilism), you will collapse civil society. We have a complete Vice System, not a Justice (virtue) System operating in the SCOTUS now. It is ALL unconstitutional.
The no-drinking, no-drugs Trump is the antithesis to the type of White Christian male that the psychopathic sodomites are trying to normalize in our school system with their teaching vice as a virtue 24/7.
People of vice are in thrall.....You have as many masters as you have vices (St. Augustine knew that psychological truth in the 4th century, and Socrates knew it 100s of years earlier.
Wake up.
Why do you think the communist, humanists John Dewey destroyed American “education” and made it into a virtue destroying, brainwashing system? (To make slaves-—a NWO where elites control the Minds of the masses). We need to take EDUCATION BACK YESTERDAY. Come on, Trump!!!! WE are destroying children every day public schools are in session.
Gee, where were all the analyses of the Clintons and their decades of lying, harassment, rape, enabling, coverup, more lies, mysterious deaths of close associates, rumors of pedophilia and homosexuality, arrogance, disregard for national security, lying to dead patriots parents, serial adultery, theft of govt property, theft of national secrets, associations with pedophiles, lesbians, perverts, criminals, felons, and other assorted characters
Now just where were all those analyses over, what, 30 plus years? Anyone seen one, heard one?
The author is too ignorant to argue with. If he were just 99% ignorant and 1% knowledgeable, there’d be an opening. But this guy’s ignorance is all-encompassing.
We’d see something now and then in a tabloid.
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