Narcissism and Trump: The Long Story

With the White House in his pocket, Trump believes he is able to command whatever it is he wants.

By Michael J. Brenner, February 21, 2017 |  https://www.theglobalist.com/narcissism-and-donald-trump-united-states/

Takeaways

• U.S. political culture is becoming progressively more congenial to the conduct associated with narcissism.
• U.S. history, in the eyes of Trump, is divided into two eras – BT and UT, as in Before Trump and Under Trump.
• Policy-making in the Trump White House resembles an octopus struggling to put on a pair of mismatched socks.

Self-effacement, restraint and empathy normally do not mix with high ambition. Ambition – in one form or another, for self or cause– is a requisite for accessing the corridors of power.
The narcissist is different. The true narcissist is a readily identifiable personality type, one of the most clearly etched in clinical psychology. Fairly common in the general population, they have been extremely rare in the political realm.