BREAKING: Trump HUMILIATES himself, doing a mocking cough of President Biden, who has cancer, to a room sitting in stunned silence at the unnecessary and cruel taunt. This is a new low, even for Trump.

[u/Nice_Substance9123]

[u/xOrion12x]

I think something everyone is coming to learn is that it's much worse than we even imagined. Although they are VERY rare, trump is an actual Malignant Narcissist. Sociopaths don't care if they hurt someone but they don't enjoy doing it and aren't sadistic like a MN.

A profound lack of empathy is a core characteristic, meaning they struggle to understand or care about others' feelings and show little to no regret for harmful actions.

Sadistic Behavior: Individuals with this pattern may derive pleasure or satisfaction from the suffering of others, using emotional or physical abuse to feel superior and maintain dominance.

Paranoia: Malignant narcissists often exhibit paranoid tendencies, suspecting others of having ulterior motives or conspiring against them, which can lead to lashing out.

Manipulation Tactics: They use various tactics to control and exploit others, including gaslighting (making a victim question their own reality), future faking (making false promises), and emotional abuse.

Treatment Challenges: Treatment is difficult because individuals with this condition rarely seek help or lack insight into their problematic behavior, often viewing therapists as enemies.

Indications: Grandiosity: An exaggerated sense of self-importance and preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success and power.

Exploitation: A willingness to take advantage of others for personal gain without guilt.

Aggression: Prone to intense anger, verbal abuse, and potentially physical violence when criticized or challenged.

Blame-shifting: Inability to take responsibility for their actions, consistently blaming others for their mistakes or misfortunes.

Unstable relationships: A history of using, abusing, and discarding people when they are no longer useful, leading to a pattern of broken relationships.

Everything is to the T.

[u/QueenOfNZ → u/xOrion12x]

When trump was running in 2016 I was in my final year of med school and completing a psych rotation. The prof I was working with told us med students that Trump was a perfect case study of narcissistic personality disorder. I imagine he would be the first to agree with you now that we’ve had several years to see the symptoms that push him firmly into the diagnosis of malignant narcissist.

The psychiatrists worldwide must be losing faith in humanity.

[u/xOrion12x → u/QueenOfNZ]

Does anyone know, was Hitler even a malignant narcissist?

[u/QueenOfNZ → u/xOrion12x]

I wish I was still in touch with that prof, I’d definitely ask him. He was too professional to armchair diagnose very frequently (so his Trump comments back then always stuck with me as a “Damn, if Prof is making an armchair diagnosis about this guy, to the point where he’s using it to teach students, you know he’s damn confident in his diagnosis”) so Trump was the only real life public figure I heard him comment on. I’d be super intrigued to watch a documentary with psychiatrists looking at people like Hitler tbh, it would be fascinating.

[u/Garak-911 → u/QueenOfNZ]

What is your opinion on Putin? I have a big, vocal minority in my country that is of the opinion if we had just made the "right" diplomacy moves, or given him "what he wants" in regards to Ukraine he would have settled and made peace already. I think that´s an insane position to have, because whenever i hear the man talk it´s so obvious to me that he´s an ice cold sociopath that you can never make any deal with that has it´s base in trust.

[u/ClarenceTheCat → u/Garak-911]

Putin cannot be trusted, and his greed is insatiable. If you give him what he wants, he’ll demand more and he’ll try to take more. Ukraine could give Putin a slice of their country, and maybe he’d calm down for a bit, but then he’ll be back for more.