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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes Donald Trump have simple character flaws or is he mentally unbalanced ?
Perhaps greed is a character flaw? But perhaps there is more with the Donald?
Vattel
(9,289 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)He's got the signature sniffles and the manic behavior to match.
He should have a blood test.
barbtries
(28,799 posts)he is pathologically incapable of perceiving the world without himself as as the star of the show. what a pity how many people are apparently susceptible to the authoritarianism to such a degree and so racist and blind and zenophobic that they don't observe the extreme narcissism.
disclaimer: i am not a psychiatrist. but i tell you he is pathological.
kentuck
(111,103 posts)Our nation needs a civics lesson.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)But I have read many times that he is exhibiting a textbook case of narcissistic personality disorder. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/symptoms/con-20025568
tman
(983 posts)I've been saying he's mentally ill for 3 years. America and the world is on the precipice.
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)He is fucking nuts.
spanone
(135,844 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)co-author (with Trump = sole author) - he said the man was completely devoid of any intellectual thought/feeling. He doubted that he has every read a book. His sole drive is to do anything and everything to gain attention - whether it's good or bad. He said he had an inordinately short attention span and all he cared about was self-aggrandizement. And he spent 18 months with him.
kentuck
(111,103 posts)I think it may have been in the New Yorker ?
If that didn't open your eyes...?
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)RussBLib
(9,019 posts)It's a giant personality cult.
So what is it going to take to "rescue" some of the Trumpsters from the cult of Donald?
Can they be deprogrammed?
Does the truth matter?
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)He is so entirely self-absorbed that other people are not real to him. They either reflect positively back on him, like a mirror, or they are bugs to be squashed.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I'm going to go with sociopath with NPD.