“A malignant narcissist has a false self which is extremely grandiose but extremely fragile and it has to be constantly rebuilt on a moment to moment basis. On some level, it’s recognized as a false self and that’s why Trump will speak in the third person.”-@DMRDynamics
“It has to be replenished moment to moment and the part that complicates it with Trump is the sadism: the way that he knows if he’s ‘better,’ is by having the ability to humiliate. You either have to be so great in his eyes, that he holds you on a high on a pedestal like Putin.”
“...or he has to be able to humiliate you. If he’s not dominating you, he can’t trust you and the trust is always in the service of building him up.”-@DMRDynamics
“It’s self-defeating because if he’s praised, it’s out of fear, it’s not real. The praise that feeds his ego has a three-minute half-life..Trump’s priority is always his emotional stability and anyone else’s concerns come secondary to that with no regards of the consequences.”-DR
“So if someone like Putin feeds his ego, he won’t fact check or think about consequences of what’s being said, as long as they’re couching it in flattery it’s irrelevant.”-@DMRDynamics
“He’s only thinking of wealth and self-esteem, and wealth because that’s his measure of self-esteem,” says @DMRDynamics. “So if Putin said, ‘I’m gonna destroy your country, but you’ll have a nice boat on the White House lawn, he’d say, ‘Oh goodie!'”
“Putin is former KGB and he’d see Trump’s insecurities, his business failures, wanting to be acknowledged as a ‘billionaire’ and richer than others..Putin would manipulate and play to Trump’s personality traits where he could. Trump’s an open book as we all can see.”-@tracygreen
“In Michael Wolff’s book, ‘Fire and Fury,’ a Trump aide was quoted with concerns over cabinet posts being handed out to anyone who bumped into Trump and told him his hair looked great. I’m paraphrasing, but point is, flattery to a malignant narcissist can be weaponized.”-me, 2018
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