When Trump speaks at his rallies some of his psychopathic traits are on best display. He exhibits the glibness and superficial charm of a narcissist and a psychopath. Common descriptors are smooth, engaging, charming, slick, and verbally facile. 1/8
Narcissists and psychopaths are cunning master manipulators who can be very entertaining, using name dropping and storytelling. They love to be the center of attention, the life of the party — it’s the best narcissistic supply for them. 2/8
Narcissists and psychopaths attempt to establish themselves as an authority on every subject. Last night Trump claimed to have “studied diplomacy” and then knowing it was a lie, walked it back with “well not much.” He thought the deceit was humorous. 3/8
Trump uses a mocking & condescending tone to establish his “authority and superiority.” The content of his speech oscillates from grandiose to callous. His “jokes” are usually degrading, at someone else’s expense. A dying man is ridiculed. He belittles to message omnipotence. 4/8
Psychopaths do not possess a normal conscience so they can say anything without the normal social constraints of truth and morality. They know no boundaries. A psychopath never gets tongue-tied. He doesn’t need to be grounded in honesty or integrity. 5/8
Trump’s ability to “say it like it is” or his “candidness” in conjunction with his superficial charm, grandiosity, callousness, manipulativeness, entitlement, shallow affect, impulsivity, recklessness, condescension and need to be seen as superior, 6/8
should have been conveyed as a huge warning flag of psychopathy & exploitive behavior, not some unique political asset worthy of the Presidency. People have been fulfilled by the reality tv entertainment value of an unconscionable psychopath willing and able to say anything. 7/8
Trump’s supporters are on the same conscience-defective, exploitive & sadistic spectrum. The rallies are a self-feeding, self-sustaining symbiosis of sociopathy absent of normal humanity. Shame on the media for ever normalizing the behavior displayed at Trump’s rallies. 8/8
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