Educating about narcissistic & antisocial personality disorders; the master manipulators, pathological liars and serial cheaters; the psychopaths and sociopaths
I keep reading people trying to make sense of Trump’s behavior with normal human schemas. This will never work. He doesn’t possess what makes one human. Quit trying to apply human emotions, qualities, traits, desires, motivations, reasoning to him. They don’t apply.
All of you trying to summons empathy for him, it does not make you a bad person if you can’t find it.
Remember he feels no empathy for anyone ever and he would gladly stab you in the back and let you bleed out if it advanced his cause.
Anyone who can watch the Chris Wallace interview with Trump, and think that man is competent in any manner to be the President of the United States, should irrevocably be held complicit in the deaths of thousands of Americans.
It’s a good thing after 5 years to still feel horror at the fact the President of the United States is a pathological liar.
We shouldn’t be numb to it.
He’s a narcissist trying to hand hold to create the illusion of a normal, loving relationship in time for the election. He threatened her here I guarantee.
No matter how much you hate Melania, Trump has abused & coerced her in ways you can not imagine bc he’s also a psychopath.
Please watch him, his face. You can literally see him sucking up his life sustaining narcissistic supply. He needs the power, the control, the attention, the adulation, like most people need oxygen. He’s a drug addict, & a tolerance develops. He needs more to get the same effect.
Trump fans eventually break out in "send her back!" chants directed toward Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee who serves in Congress who Trump viciously smeared.
“Canada hasn’t needed heroic or draconian measures beyond an initial lockdown to get the pandemic under control. All it needed was a set of sensible rules — and, crucially, a consensus across political parties that the rules were there to be followed.”
Congratulations to
@MSNBC
for cutting away from the narcissistic psychopath’s deluge of lies and fabrication as he attempts to continue his delegitimization and destruction of our democracy.
Narcissists always talk like they’re the authorities on everything. They’ll pontificate like they’re the expert while saying absolutely nothing of substance. Usually they’re much more adept at it than this melting pot of cognitive impairment pathology, ignorance and stupidity.
Trump’s nuts rant about wind energy: “I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much... Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes & everything.”
Well it’s safe to say that I’ve never fielded this many calls, DMs, FB posts, and texts from Canadian friends and family within a 48 hour period in nearly 30 years.
I may try to educate on Trump’s narcissism and psychopathy but the overwhelming 🇨🇦 diagnosis is:
BAT SHIT CRAZY
@stephen_richer
Trump is a narcissistic psychopath who creates his own reality with lies and fabrication. Isn’t it amazing he does today exactly what was predicted by mental healthcare professionals over 5 years ago?
At some point in a relationship with a narcissistic psychopath you realize either:
experts, war heroes, career law enforcement officers, lifelong public servants, exposing the psychopath are crazy, immoral & dishonest
OR
it’s the psychopath who is crazy, immoral & dishonest.
WH is now attacking law profs who explained impeachment as “looking down” on others. Pam Karlan has dedicated her career to civil rights work to help disadvantaged people, but the bigger point is that divisive attacks are an effort to district from the facts. Don’t take the bait.
Trump will never concede like he’s never been able to accept that HRC won the popular vote in 2016. He will continue to make himself the victim of subversion (rigging, fraud, betrayal). There will be many public and private scapegoats. He’s already devalued Fox News.
Trump is challenging a doctor, Sanjay Gupta MD, on the FACTS about mortality related to influenza and the coronavirus. Narcissists ALWAYS think they know more than the experts, while having absolutely no commensurate degrees, knowledge, achievements or experience.
The President is called out on his repeated attempts to try to downplay the mortality rate of Coronavirus by citing flu deaths... His answer falls short
Trump is so grandiose he thinks he can re-write/re-create reality by imitating himself, presenting it as if it were “fake news���, from an event we saw live with our own eyes. Narcissists think they can erase their behavior and events like it didn’t happen.
“They said that’s an unbelievable thing, rarely does anyone do what you just did.”
Never once have I heard this said from a clinician to a patient.
I have heard this type of self aggrandizement from a narcissist before though.
Trump on Cognitive Tests: I actually took one.. and I proved I was all there because I aced it... I took it at Walter Reed Medical Center in front of doctors and they were very surprised. They said that’s an unbelievable thing, rarely does anyone do what you just did
The Narcissist’s Prayer
(author unknown)
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did…
You deserved it.
As you can see, I did nothing to lead people on, nor was I particularly happy with their chant. Just a very big and patriotic crowd. They love the USA!
Donald Trump has severe and dangerous mental pathology.
That speech last night represented decompensation.
That is a man with narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders decompensating under the weight and stress of exposure and legal accountability.
Trudeau having to endure Trump’s projection smearing Schiff, “I think he is a maniac. I think Adam Schiff is a deranged human being. I think he grew up with a complex for lots of reasons that are obvious.”
Trump is incapable of “getting it together.”
Please listen to those of us who know the psychopathology. Trump is incapable of operating outside the confines of his personality pathology. How much proof is needed that people are objects for manipulation and fully expendable?
CNN’s
@jaketapper
: “Sick and in isolation, Mr. President, you have become a symbol of your own failures. Failures of recklessness, ignorance, arrogance. The same failures you have been inflicting on the rest of us ... Get well and get it together"
#CNNSOTU
At some point in a relationship with a narcissistic psychopath you realize either:
Inspector generals, MDs, experts, war heroes, law enforcement, public servants, exposing the psychopath are crazy, immoral & dishonest
OR
it’s the psychopath who is crazy, immoral & dishonest.
Narcissists needs scapegoats to blame shift because they can not accept responsibility, criticism, blame or accountability (narcissistic injury).
Pandemic: blame Fauci
Debates: blame biased moderators
Biden leading polls: blame press for not covering Trump’s smears of Biden
We’re not dealing with a President.
We’re dealing with a mental pathology so much worse than any mood, anxiety or psychotic illness, it’s not even in the same realm.
Most people with Trump’s spectrum of pathology are in jail long before now, not born into $, power, privilege.
Trump is a narcissist and a psychopath, and I’m sure he’d meet criteria for a whole host of other dx too.
We could not have had a more colossally pathological and incompetent danger in the office of the Presidency.
Some of us said it 4.5 years ago.
Jason Miller, Trump’s senior adviser for 2024:
“Miller had secretly spiked his mistress’ smoothie with an abortion pill after learning she was pregnant. The concoction killed the unborn child and nearly caused the woman to go into a coma, the filing said.”
@kaitlancollins
He’s a psychopath and sadistic. He enjoys seeing pain, suffering, destruction and violence. He gets narcissistic supply from seeing people fight over him, and die for him. Any attention is fulfilling for him.
Impulse control is completely lacking in both narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders. Any feeling must be acted upon immediately. Add in stimulant abuse, ADHD and cognitive impairment and you get this nonsense.
The story is that we have a President who pathologically needs narcissistic supply from crowd size and cheering to function, not whether he is actually cheered or booed at a sporting event.
Normalization of pathology is why we are living in a dangerous la-la land.
Narcissistic psychopaths are serial provokers & chaos creators. It’s impossible to hold them accountable for their wrongdoing when overwhelmed by the sheer volume of their indecency. The purpose of the bombardment is wear down the targets in hopelessness to avoid accountability.
During Trump’s press conference on Saturday,
@PaulaReidCBS
questioned Trump on why he says he passed the Veterans Choice Program, which was signed into law by Barack Obama in 2014. Trump responded by abruptly leaving the news conference.
Trump made it clear in the debate his only priority is narcissistic supply.
He would not denounce white supremacists because they adore him.
He used his in person rallies as a popularity contest to discredit Biden, proving people are Covid expendable for his need fulfillment.
We must not let the pathetic nature of his narcissism minimize the dangerousness of his vindictiveness, retribution, psychopathy and sadism. The faux outrage and chaos creation is attention seeking but always serves as a distraction from his wrongdoing.
Narcissistic psychopaths can’t tolerate anyone who makes them look bad or subjects them to scrutiny, exposing their incompetence, their wrongdoing or their pathological fraudulent persona. Ppl’s lives are irrelevant to the pathological needs of the narcissist, always his danger.
I can think of no single event that better sums up the awfulness of the Donald Trump Presidency than a Navy Captain being relieved of his command for trying to save the lives of his crew.
My Canadian sister on dropping her son off at college in the US,
“The brainwashing is frightening. I listened to right wing radio on my drive and was appalled. Complete lies.”
If you think narcissistic psychopaths are deterred by jail time or consequences, you’re applying your conscience filled schema to their behavior. Psychopaths don’t care about pesky little laws. They don’t consider consequences. Your *moral thinking* does not apply to them.
The narcissistic psychopath has no conscience, no boundaries and is sadistic. He can not only say whatever he wants to hurt people, he can DO ANYTHING to hurt people. There’s no bottom. He needs containment.
Trump laments that Debbie Dingell voted to impeach him despite the fact that he allowed the normal state funeral to proceed for her late husband, former Rep. John Dingell. Trump then suggests John Dingell is in hell -- to audible groans.
Everyone is going to be betrayed by Donald Trump. It is intrinsic to his narcissism, psychopathy and sadism. No one will be exempt. Not even Catholic moral-relativism Mr. Barr.
This firing is very unfortunate.
The cartoon is a vivid and on point representation of Trump’s conscienceless psychopathy.
Trump could kill millions and would feel nothing. No emotional responsibility to anyone but his idealized self.
The degree of pathetic tweeting is directly related to the degree of narcissistic injury. Trump was not just being criticized by Brian Williams. Trump’s greatest fear of being revealed as unworthy, inadequate and defective comes with exposure of his incompetence, losing, failing.
The narcissist’s survival is threatened without narcissistic supply. He can only mend if he can have his rallies. Behold, the only victim of the pandemic because he is the center of the universe!
As mental health care professionals have said for years, relentless, sustained public scrutiny and accountability reveals his incompetence by threatening exposure of the narcissist’s idealized, fraudulent self.
The United States now enabling a voted out, rejected mentally disordered President.
When Mary Trump said Trump has been institutionalized his entire life, she was spot on. He’s never faced reality. He’s never suffered true, just consequences for his exploitation & incompetence.
We have reached stage three of a relationship with a narcissist: discard.
US democracy is getting discarded.
We can see the analogous behavior to a personal relationship discard of a partner by a narcissist.
Survivors can tell you it’s hell.
Late, difficulty with basic tasks, difficulty tracking conversation, balance issues, difficulty w reasoning & memory, lack of attention to personal hygiene, grandiose, histrionic, narcissistic, paranoid, erratic, verbose, fabrications, unreliable historian
When narcissists are criticized, challenged, held accountable, or exposed as frauds, they suffer narcissistic injury. They respond by name calling, smearing and discrediting to deflect from their ignorance, lies, and wrongdoing of their fraudulent, idealized self.
Trump called me "an organ of the Democrats."
Here was the question he didn't like: "You said Russia was kicked out of the G8 because they outsmarted Obama; in fact it was because they annexed Crimea... They're still there, why let them back in?"
The entire purpose of psychologically abusive gaslighting is to make one feel disoriented and disconnected from reality, questioning your sanity and everything you thought you knew to be true.
It’s about gaining power and control.
Do not submit.
Stay grounded in decency.
The narcissistic psychopath will NEVER admit that he is wrong. He will pathologically lie and behave in any unconscionable way to cover up his lies, mistakes and wrongdoing. He will do anything to protect his idealized self. He is dangerous & he has just proven it for all to see.
WATCH: Asked about the
#sharpie
-doctored
@NWS
map from earlier today,
@realDonaldTrump
repeats his lie about Alabama having been in Hurricane
#Dorian
’s path (it wasn’t).
Asked again about the sharpie marks, all he can say is “I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know.”
Trump gets validation and sustenance (narcissistic supply) from aligning with, and aiding and abetting other conscience defective and exploitive abusers whether they be world leaders, law enforcement (Arpaio) or military personnel (who exhibit the same pathology).
@mcuban
The faux “respect the anthem/flag” outrage is to make the offenders the victims so white exploitation can continue. Anyone putting a flag and an anthem ahead of the rights of actual people is trying to demean and demoralize those people. This is a tactic of every abuser/exploiter
President Narcissistic Psychopath during the deadliest pandemic in a century is bragging about his tv ratings and popularity. He needs narcissistic supply for survival like a virus needs a host.
Why are the mass shooters predominantly white, right wing males?
Because they listen to religious and political propaganda that tells them that “others” are responsible for all that ails them. Everything is externalized. They are never the problem. They are never responsible.
“If you leave me, you will be nothing and you will have nothing. You’ll be completely alone. Your life will be crap. You’ll be so miserable without me.” The narcissistic abuser will make sure of it.
If you vote for Biden, your kids will not be in school, there will be no graduations, no weddings, no Thanksgiving, no Christmas, and no Fourth of July!
It needs to made clear to the public that mental health professionals warned 3 years ago that Trump’s exploitive narcissistic psychopathy would result in dangerousness to the country due to an utter disregard for the rule of law and an moral inability to protect the Constitution.
38% of people still think Trump is doing a good job managing the pandemic in the face of the worst statistics among western democracies.
This inconsistency is the result of dangerous brainwashing and ignorance. We will fix nothing until the sources of brainwashing are removed.
@JenniferJJacobs
The people who spent the last 12 months denying, downplaying, ignoring and lying about this virus should be the last to receive the vaccine.
Another prime example of the narcissistic psychopath crazy making “double speak,” completely contradictory statements in back to back sentences. Psychopaths are defective in their ability to maintain the storyline, described by Hare as “mental Scrabble without an overall script.”
TRUMP: "Were going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO."
*16 minutes later*
REPORTER: Is the time to freeze funding to the WHO during a pandemic?
TRUMP: "No, maybe not. I mean, I'm not saying I'm going to do it."
REPORTER: Yes you did
TRUMP: "No, I didn't."
This is when his staunchest sycophants & supporters get their ultimate narcissistic supply by showing their devotion & commitment in sacrificial action for the psychopath. It’s sadistic.
Be prepared. The crazy will get worse. Do not engage. Let their crazy wash over you.
The President of the United States is completely consumed by his narcissistic, psychopathic and sadistic pathology. We are blessed he is a bumbling idiot.
Be prepared. You will be stunned by the outrageous mental gymnastics, distortions, and manipulations the flying monkey enablers will put forth to justify the narcissistic psychopath’s indecency. You will be even more shocked than before by what people will accept and condone.
@AnthonySabatini
When did Republicans become the Party of Sociopathy? Your lack of humanity is disgusting as my husband, family members and friends bust their asses and risk their lives to save lives.
When Trump’s legal challenges to the election prove completely fruitless (as of last night 1-28), his alternative reality creation effectively blocked, his narcissistic injury will intensify and the deliberate destruction will amp up.
It’s really hard to understand the complete lack of empathy of psychopaths unless you’ve experienced it first hand. They try to kill people they just told they loved.
He doesn’t care about dead Americans.
1, 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000. The number makes no difference to him.
Narcissistic psychopaths are disinformation specialists by pathology. Their entire existence is protecting an idealized self that does not exist. Their entire being is a fabrication. They are incapable of operating in truth, reality and morality. They’ll do anything to hide this.
There’s no pathology like a malignant narcissist to create crises and to make a naturally occurring one a million times worse all because they are a body without humanity so they must destroy humanity in everyone else.
The anti-human. The anti-love. The anti-care and compassion.
Trump so wishes he had the celebrity/status/popularity/admiration of the Hollywood and Oscar variety, so to have Kimmel say,
“Isn’t it past your jail time?”
will induce narcissistic injury/narcissistic rage of epic proportions.
More of this. Lots more of this.
Only in the manipulativeness of the narcissistic psychopath’s alternative reality creation can a self inflicted injury be both a hoax and leaked classified information.