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“Eager to show that he had a ready replacement,” Trump tweeted out his selection of Ratcliffe “after seeing news reports that Coats was resigning and Ratcliffe was a possible nominee.” “That came as a surprise to White House aides, who had not vetted the three-term congressman…”
This is reminiscent of the Apprentice, where Trump would often have no idea which contestants had performed well, and would make bizarre firing decisions. As a result, the producers, who basically considered Trump an idiot, had to “reverse-engineer” the raw video ...
... to make his decisions seem rational. One Apprentice editor later told the New Yorker, “I find it strangely validating to hear that they are doing the same thing in the White House.”
*producers and editors
*they’re
Once again:
Trump’s extraordinary impulsiveness is characteristic of a sociopath.
And here, wrapped up in one quote, are two criteria for sociopathy—(2) “deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying”; and (7) “lack of remorse”:
Again, here are the diagnostic criteria. Any 3 of 7 suffice. 
As for “C,” remember that Fred Trump sent his thirteen-year-old son Donald to military school, thus exiling him from the family home, because Donald was so out of control.
I agree. He’s a sociopath with room to spare.
Many mental health experts have explained how sociopathy is among the most severe of mental disturbances. Central to sociopathy is a complete lack of empathy—along with an absence of the ability to feel guilt.
As one psychiatrist explains, sociopaths “manipulat[e],... control[] or even sadistically harm[] others for personal power or gratification. People with sociopathic traits have a flaw in the basic nature of human beings,” and “are lacking an essential part of being
human.”
human.”
