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Friday, February 24, 2017

Narcissism and Trump: The Long Story

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.

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.

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