“All trump had to do was leave things alone…But he couldn’t help himself.” Which is weird because ALL he IS capable of is help[ing] himSELF. As people suffer, he takes glee. Just as long as people keep saying his name and talking about HIM, his delight thrives. Cruelty, his specialty. His eyes give away a lot. His eyes, dead. Like what a person looks like when the person has not had a decent, healthy poop in decades. A sorry excuse for taking up space on our land planet. A bulky hulk of a terribly backed up colon.
Absolutely. Trump biographer and ghost writer, Michael Wolf, has said repeatedly the most important thing to Trump is attention. He’ll do anything to get attention-shock and outrageous. People must quit feeding him and normalizing his behavior.
Do the shrinks call this narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), where individuals seek attention to reinforce their sense of superiority, and borderline personality disorder (BPD), which can involve impulsive behaviors driven by fear of abandonment? In other words, the current president of the United States suffers from sever mental disorders??
I am not a trained mental health practitioner and so I’m not qualified to comment on whether or not he has a personality disorder. Some mental health practitioners have commented on his mental status. However, without extensive psychoanalysis, any discussion about his mental status is speculation. However, I have advanced education in leadership and organizational behavior. I analyzed over 40 academic, peer reviewed research articles that analyze various aspects of his leadership. His leadership behavior, practices, and decisions indicate patterns that someone would describe as “toxic.” What follows is five patterns that emerged from my analysis.
Trump has a dominant personality, as demonstrated by competitiveness, contentiousness, and aggression. He is “disruptive, but not constructive.” His verbal and nonverbal communication reflects his dominant personality through the use of intimidation, manipulation, exploitation, criticism, humiliation, and suppressing deliberation, aggressively pursuing his agenda versus building consensus. He dominates anything and anyone that is a perceived threat - a conversation, a meeting, an interview, perceived opponents, the media, and the news cycle. His method of negotiation is based on negative-sum or zero-sum economic transactions and involves intimidation and threat. Additionally, he uses derogatory nicknames for both the members of his own party and of the opposing party who cross him or do not adhere to his position. Also, he has been involved in over 4,000 lawsuits in his career, as he has sought to dominate his opponents.
Second, his moral judgment and decision-making reflects self-interest, self-affirmation, and self-promotion. He can be cooperative and demonstrate false sympathy if doing so is in his best interest. He demonstrates narcissistic behaviors and feeds the collective narcissism in American culture.
Third, Trump demonstrates a lack of emotional intelligence, which involves self-awareness and self-regulation of emotions, humility, awareness of others’ emotions, and helping others regulate their emotions and interpersonal relationships. In this regard, he demonstrates arrogance, impulsiveness, impatience, a quick temper, and a lack of empathy. He is skilled in one area of emotional intelligence - awareness of others’ emotions. However, instead of assisting others in regulating their emotions, he exacerbates and exploits them for his personal advantage.
Fourth, Trump is a performer, skilled in creating an attractive image. He is entertaining, as he emphasizes the spectacular and the outrageous. Trump’s rhetoric reinforces his image or brand as a successful businessman, exceptional problem solver, political outsider, self-made billionaire, and celebrity politician, whose lack of restraint creates the appearance of authenticity, credibility, and patriotism. As a reality television star, his show, The Apprentice, served as a vehicle for creating this image. His pervasive and blatant falsehoods support his brand, normalizes deception, and creates doubt about what is true and false. His rhetorical performances undermine the foundations of democratic communication, render truth ambiguous, and create conditions in which “personal beliefs and feelings are more influential in forming public opinion than objective facts.”
Fifth, Trump operates on the basis of the paranoid position. He reacts to challenges with victimization, rage, envy, obsession with revenge, and dwelling on past injuries. His rhetoric consists of victimhood, as he emphasizes the real, imagined, and fabricated threats against “real Americans” and responds with rage and childish attacks against any perceived threat - the elite, the pluralists, the globalists, the intellectuals, immigrants, Muslims, and minorities. He creates division between the in-group and the out-group. He is suspicious of outsiders and insiders. He exploits emotions, creates despair, and identifies scapegoats to blame for the desperate situation he has created for his followers’ perception.
Several years ago, an analysis of the TV character Tony Soprano was conducted, highlighting his antisocial traits such as dominance, aggression, manipulation, and exploitation, which were essential for controlling his criminal empire. Tony’s behaviors aligned with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), marked by entitlement and self-promotion, while his emotional intelligence was limited, showing impulsiveness and emotional exploitation. Tony’s leadership style involved deception and the projection of strength, reflecting Machiavellianism to gain personal advantage. Additionally, Tony's behavior exhibited paranoia, resulting in suspicion, rage, envy, and revenge. This analysis raised a question: Is Trump's behavior a calculated act for his followers, or is it authentic? If it is an act, what influences people to perceive such traits as presidential, and why does this perspective exist?
Hmmm, if a "recession" is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth, given our "fearless" leader's absence of any understanding of economics, the question is really "How low will the 2nd quarter GDP go?".
Budd and Tillis must be pummeled persistently and publicly with all the ways they have enabled unethical, immoral, illegal, unconstitutional, destructive, and deadly policies.
Rolling Stone is reporting that Trump staffers are hoarding essentials, like toilet paper, and stockpiling cash at home in anticipation of empty shelves and problems because of the Trump tariffs. When asked about it, one staffer said, "Because it would be stupid not to!"
Now is the time to ask Tillis and the other GOPers if they're stockpiling toilet paper and to keep an eye out for them or their families at Costco.
This morning, I shared some statistics with a MAGA supporter, and their response was, "God will make things right." It made me wonder if there's some misunderstanding about what "making things right" entails. If it means facing rising costs that erode the value of my dollar or struggling to provide for my family after losing my job, it's hard to see how such circumstances align with the idea of divine intervention.
“All trump had to do was leave things alone…But he couldn’t help himself.” Which is weird because ALL he IS capable of is help[ing] himSELF. As people suffer, he takes glee. Just as long as people keep saying his name and talking about HIM, his delight thrives. Cruelty, his specialty. His eyes give away a lot. His eyes, dead. Like what a person looks like when the person has not had a decent, healthy poop in decades. A sorry excuse for taking up space on our land planet. A bulky hulk of a terribly backed up colon.
Absolutely. Trump biographer and ghost writer, Michael Wolf, has said repeatedly the most important thing to Trump is attention. He’ll do anything to get attention-shock and outrageous. People must quit feeding him and normalizing his behavior.
Do the shrinks call this narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), where individuals seek attention to reinforce their sense of superiority, and borderline personality disorder (BPD), which can involve impulsive behaviors driven by fear of abandonment? In other words, the current president of the United States suffers from sever mental disorders??
I am not a trained mental health practitioner and so I’m not qualified to comment on whether or not he has a personality disorder. Some mental health practitioners have commented on his mental status. However, without extensive psychoanalysis, any discussion about his mental status is speculation. However, I have advanced education in leadership and organizational behavior. I analyzed over 40 academic, peer reviewed research articles that analyze various aspects of his leadership. His leadership behavior, practices, and decisions indicate patterns that someone would describe as “toxic.” What follows is five patterns that emerged from my analysis.
Trump has a dominant personality, as demonstrated by competitiveness, contentiousness, and aggression. He is “disruptive, but not constructive.” His verbal and nonverbal communication reflects his dominant personality through the use of intimidation, manipulation, exploitation, criticism, humiliation, and suppressing deliberation, aggressively pursuing his agenda versus building consensus. He dominates anything and anyone that is a perceived threat - a conversation, a meeting, an interview, perceived opponents, the media, and the news cycle. His method of negotiation is based on negative-sum or zero-sum economic transactions and involves intimidation and threat. Additionally, he uses derogatory nicknames for both the members of his own party and of the opposing party who cross him or do not adhere to his position. Also, he has been involved in over 4,000 lawsuits in his career, as he has sought to dominate his opponents.
Second, his moral judgment and decision-making reflects self-interest, self-affirmation, and self-promotion. He can be cooperative and demonstrate false sympathy if doing so is in his best interest. He demonstrates narcissistic behaviors and feeds the collective narcissism in American culture.
Third, Trump demonstrates a lack of emotional intelligence, which involves self-awareness and self-regulation of emotions, humility, awareness of others’ emotions, and helping others regulate their emotions and interpersonal relationships. In this regard, he demonstrates arrogance, impulsiveness, impatience, a quick temper, and a lack of empathy. He is skilled in one area of emotional intelligence - awareness of others’ emotions. However, instead of assisting others in regulating their emotions, he exacerbates and exploits them for his personal advantage.
Fourth, Trump is a performer, skilled in creating an attractive image. He is entertaining, as he emphasizes the spectacular and the outrageous. Trump’s rhetoric reinforces his image or brand as a successful businessman, exceptional problem solver, political outsider, self-made billionaire, and celebrity politician, whose lack of restraint creates the appearance of authenticity, credibility, and patriotism. As a reality television star, his show, The Apprentice, served as a vehicle for creating this image. His pervasive and blatant falsehoods support his brand, normalizes deception, and creates doubt about what is true and false. His rhetorical performances undermine the foundations of democratic communication, render truth ambiguous, and create conditions in which “personal beliefs and feelings are more influential in forming public opinion than objective facts.”
Fifth, Trump operates on the basis of the paranoid position. He reacts to challenges with victimization, rage, envy, obsession with revenge, and dwelling on past injuries. His rhetoric consists of victimhood, as he emphasizes the real, imagined, and fabricated threats against “real Americans” and responds with rage and childish attacks against any perceived threat - the elite, the pluralists, the globalists, the intellectuals, immigrants, Muslims, and minorities. He creates division between the in-group and the out-group. He is suspicious of outsiders and insiders. He exploits emotions, creates despair, and identifies scapegoats to blame for the desperate situation he has created for his followers’ perception.
Several years ago, an analysis of the TV character Tony Soprano was conducted, highlighting his antisocial traits such as dominance, aggression, manipulation, and exploitation, which were essential for controlling his criminal empire. Tony’s behaviors aligned with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), marked by entitlement and self-promotion, while his emotional intelligence was limited, showing impulsiveness and emotional exploitation. Tony’s leadership style involved deception and the projection of strength, reflecting Machiavellianism to gain personal advantage. Additionally, Tony's behavior exhibited paranoia, resulting in suspicion, rage, envy, and revenge. This analysis raised a question: Is Trump's behavior a calculated act for his followers, or is it authentic? If it is an act, what influences people to perceive such traits as presidential, and why does this perspective exist?
Hmmm, if a "recession" is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth, given our "fearless" leader's absence of any understanding of economics, the question is really "How low will the 2nd quarter GDP go?".
Tighten belts, folks.
Budd and Tillis must be pummeled persistently and publicly with all the ways they have enabled unethical, immoral, illegal, unconstitutional, destructive, and deadly policies.
Rolling Stone is reporting that Trump staffers are hoarding essentials, like toilet paper, and stockpiling cash at home in anticipation of empty shelves and problems because of the Trump tariffs. When asked about it, one staffer said, "Because it would be stupid not to!"
Now is the time to ask Tillis and the other GOPers if they're stockpiling toilet paper and to keep an eye out for them or their families at Costco.
This morning, I shared some statistics with a MAGA supporter, and their response was, "God will make things right." It made me wonder if there's some misunderstanding about what "making things right" entails. If it means facing rising costs that erode the value of my dollar or struggling to provide for my family after losing my job, it's hard to see how such circumstances align with the idea of divine intervention.