Thread by @SteB777

'Donald Trump escalated his attacks on Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling the Ukrainian president “a dictator” and warning that he “better move fast” or he “won’t have a country left”.'

As I've said before, Donald Trump is an actual psychopath.

1/🧵theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…

One of the key psychopathic traits Trump has, which needs to be recognized, is his total disregard for the truth, and pathological lying.

This is so dangerous. Trump is not a rational or sane human being. He only appears to be.

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It's entirely mistaken to see this in terms of politics, or any other rational agenda.

Trump is a dangerous psychopath, with no grasp of reality. He is totally detached from reality, and is a major threat to the world.
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It's beyond absurd for Trump to go around calling other people dictators, given his love for Putin and Kim Jong Un. He loves and worships actual dictators.

This is nothing about democracy, which Trump has no regard for at all.
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It's like when Trump, who told over 30,000 proven falsehoods, in his first term of office, goes around accusing other people of lying. When he is himself, the biggest liar on the face of the Earth.
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'"It has long been a truism that politicians lie," wrote Carole McGranahan for the American Ethnologist in 2017, but "Donald Trump is different". He is the most "accomplished and effective liar" to have ever participated in American politics.'

6/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_…

As I keep desperately trying to explain, Trump is not lying as part of a clever political strategy. He tells so many lies, because he is an actual psychopath, and has no grasp of reality.

He has fooled people, into believing he's rational and knows what he is doing.
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The most influential work on psychopathy, is the Mask of Sanity, by Psychiatrist, Hervey Cleckley, 1941.

Because psychopaths, have a false front, a mask, so people mistakenly think they are sane, not the insane people they really are.
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"Cleckley describes the psychopathic person as outwardly a perfect mimic of a normally functioning person, able to mask or disguise the fundamental lack of internal personality structure, ..."

9/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_…

It is a fundamental mistake to see Trump as just another politician, or even just as a fascist, or wannabe dictator. Trump has no rational agenda, other than fulfilling his insane impulses.
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Even as psychopaths go, Trump is at the extreme end of the spectrum. You would only normally expect to encounter a person as deranged as Trump, in a high security hospital. Trump will not merely drag the US down with him, but the whole world.
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The big danger, is Trump has convinced those around him, and those who voted for him, that he has some sort of grand plan, and knows exactly what he's doing.

He doesn't, Trump has no idea what he is doing. He is genuinely deranged and insane, only pretending to be rational.
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Look at how many recognized psychopathic traits Trump objectively has - all of them. You don't need to be a psychiatrist or psychologist to see them.

Very few actual psychopaths, have anywhere near this many psychopathic traits.

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I know some people will be upset by me using mental health terms.

However, as I make clear in my first thread linked to above, ultimate, Trump might be diagnosed by a professional, as having another main condition. But first and foremost, he is a psychopath.
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Trump's pathology is so obvious, and he is such an extreme danger to the world, that it needs to be called out.

Stop trying to interpret Trump's behaviour in rational or political terms, he is actually insane.
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