Donald Trump doesn’t easily forgive or forget.
As Trump’s Republican allies in the United States Congress block military aid that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kyiv desperately needs to avoid defeat in its war with invading Russian forces, it’s clear the former U.S. president’s ill will toward Ukraine has deep roots.
It was, after all, a phone call with Zelenskyy that led to Trump’s first impeachment in December 2019, after he was accused of seeking to influence the 2020 election by leaning on the Ukrainian leader to investigate current President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Unfortunately, this knuckle-dragger is not capable of admitting, perhaps even understanding, that he brought all of this on himself. Everything bad that happens to him is someone else’s fault. Everything good that happens was his idea.
Yes, these are the textbook symptoms of a textbook narcissist. Incapable of empathy. Basically an unfillable hole that will pull in and destroy anyone around them.
Actually from the dsm (the book) he is not a narcissist.
https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/06/donald-trump-mental-illness-diagnosis/
Here is an article from the man who wrote this diagnostic criteria for narcissism and why we should not use mental illness as an insult
I don’t know how you concluded that I was using “narcissist” as an insult, because I wasn’t.
From the linked article, written 7 years ago, only a handful of months into his presidency when there was still a swell of mental health professionals maintaining that they should remain impartial:
In the 7 years since this article was written we’ve had plenty of people testify under oath about his severe distress and impairment, if that’s the criteria that was unmet at that point in time.
Using mental illness as a weapon as you did, is using it as a slur. You said it met the text book definition and it doesn’t. As a psychiatrist, people with mental illness suffer enough stigma that people don’t need to spread misinformation on the topic. And there you go trying to diagnose people without any training again even though people with training are not allowed to do that as it’s an ethical violation. Just say he’s a narcissist in laymen’s terms. Stop trying to diagnose people were you are not qualified or weaponize mental illness.
It’s interesting that you keep putting words in my mouth and moving the goalpost back to where it actually started in this thread. I did not say “According to the DSM”, nor did I say anything about NPD or “cluster B”. I said he’s a textbook narcissist, which is true in layman’s terms.
You’re characterizing things as “slurs” and “weaponizing”, which is a textbook disinformation and confusion tactic, so good day to you doctor.
The funny thing is you didn’t even say THAT. You said these are “textbook symptoms of a textbook narcissist.” You didn’t even say he was one, just that he displays symptoms of one.
Thanks for pointing that out, it was a very clever piece of manipulation.
Then what text book are you talking about? Did you mean the dictionary? Yes, dictionary wise he’s a narcissist.
Text book no.
Can’t blame him for thinking there’s no consequences for doing crimes because he’s been getting away with that for 70 years with very little consequence. It’s really an indictment of the justice system that he (and thousands of guys like him) have been getting away with shit for so long.
He is Eric Cartman, but like one that is on uppers AND downers
To be fair to Cartman, he’s been shown to have the capacity to grow into a decent person under the right circumstances. Trump on the other hand will almost certainly always be Trump no matter the timeline
Such as? The only times I can think of was when Cesar Milan “trained” him and he was ultimately only behaving to continue to manipulate his mum in future, and when they convinced him he was dead, where it was like 90% him responding to the lack of attention.
The covid one when they’re adults maybe? Can’t remember if he was lying/had an ulterior motive by the end of the episode
Rabbi Cartman is the biggest example yeah. He does revert to his old ways somewhat, but only when he finds out the other guys are planning to essentially murder his family and everyone else in their timeline. Granted they plan to do that so their alternate universe clones can live in a world less devastated by the pandemic, and he does eventually agree to sacrifice them for a small chance of gaining them again but a large chance of a better world (possibly for his clone to be tormented by echoes of memories, the alternate Stan seems to subconsciously remember that Shelly died in the original timeline).
We didn’t see much of him but the Cartman who ran an actual time travel company in the episode about the fake one seemed a decent dude, but made the mistake of talking to his younger self who hadn’t had the growth yet so he decides to spite himself to make sure he never comes to be
That’s just garden-variety narcissism, and Trump is definitely a narcissist.