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Sat Nov 14, 2020, 03:55 PM Nov 2020

Mental health experts: Trump's been out of sight because he's been out of his mind

What is Donald Trump doing right now? He has not spoken in public for several days, though he and his wife posed for a Veterans Day photo-op at Arlington Cemetary. The White House is still barricaded within a “non-scalable” fence, similar to the one it erected when the president went into bunker mode in June. There are ominous firings within the Pentagon, lots of ALL-CAPS “tweets”, reports that Jared Kushner and other insiders have tried to talk him into conceding, and even one report that he is devouring fast food.

While we cannot read a person’s mind, mental health professionals have an excellent understanding of Donald Trump, thanks to the more abundant and higher-quality information available about him than almost any patient we have ever treated. Direct reports from close associates about their interactions with him, under sworn testimony, from the highest-order criminal investigations are just one example. Personal interviews are of little value at best and misleading at worst with the kind of pathology in Donald Trump.


Hell hath no fury like a pathological narcissist scorned.

Since dozens of mental health experts put together our bestselling public-service book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, at the start of this presidency, all our warnings have been realized, almost as if on schedule. We now feel the need to warn again—against his rage. We have done so before and were on the mark when we warned against what became a massacre of our Kurdish allies and the assassination of a top Iranian general, to the surprise even of Pentagon officials. We knew what the outcome of his disastrous mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic would become, before it happened, as our blow-by-blow account reveals. When we speak of his rage, we do not mean any garden-variety rage but the kind pathological narcissism portends, with any level of destruction.


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/mental-health-experts-trumps-been-out-of-sight-because-hes-been-out-of-his-mind/
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Mental health experts: Trump's been out of sight because he's been out of his mind (Original Post) Newest Reality Nov 2020 OP
trump has a mind? liberal N proud Nov 2020 #1
Great article. This sentence rather leaps off the page: Mike 03 Nov 2020 #2
Mike Pence has been duly warned. n/t Laelth Nov 2020 #3
Was he ever in it? LeftishBrit Nov 2020 #4

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
2. Great article. This sentence rather leaps off the page:
Sat Nov 14, 2020, 04:09 PM
Nov 2020
Shame is worse than death for a pathological narcissist, because it exposes some flaw in him, even if it is a natural human flaw.


Shame Intolerance is superficially dealt with in The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, in nowhere near the depth it is explored in this article.
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