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As I’ve often talked about, I’ve seen Trump’s narcissism up close. It’s as familiar as an old movie, so let me put today in some context...

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People with severe narcissistic personality disorder like Trump are driven solely by the shallowest of primitive impulses.

They are incapable of complex reasoning.

They are emotional cavemen.

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There entire world is an endless, futile effort to avoid facing the humiliating shame their own failings deserve.

Their lives are empty, contrived caricatures of what they think others will approve of and admire.

They’re broken child-actors.

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Trump exists solely to mimic what he imagines is worthy of esteem... and since that is so vulgar, crass and unsuccessful, he fails and fails and fails.

He’s an actor addicted to the reviews but who gets panned after every performance.

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A functional person would be capable of insight and reflection. They’d be capable of learning. They’d take social cues. They’d adapt. They’d grow.

Again, back to the caveman bit, Trump is incapable of any of that.

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The only primitive tools Trump has in his Neanderthal toolbox are anger, blame and lying.

Whenever he feels the weight of his own failure, he pulls out a combo of those three clubs and beats on someone.

Sometimes the media. Sometimes someone around him.

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The net result - and it is always this way with severe NPDs - is that there is endless chaos in their inner circle.

It only briefly calms when they’ve turned over the entire cast - because they briefly think the new cast buys the shtick.
Trump is going through the automatic destruction cycle of an ordinary narcissist.

The narc I know well went through it every two years. I could set my watch to it. Entire circle burned to the ground and replaced...
Trump isn’t done yet. He will fire and replace numerous others. He will purge multiple others he sees as disloyal...

...but he will leave a few people who merely hide their disdain and put on a better act.
Those people will carry the tribal knowledge of Trump’s failings to the newest members. They’ll poison the new cast...

...and within weeks, we will be hearing rumblings of the next purge wave coming.
While the replacement of a Tillerson with a Pompeo stokes the fear that an authoritarian is building a regime, in reality, Trump is a deeply, deeply dysfunctional man utterly incapable of keeping from burning down his own house.

Trump is a destroyer of his own circle.
There is no chance that Trump will assemble a new cast that will survive and work together functionally.

Trump is a toddler gorilla utterly compelled to fling his own feces on everyone around him.

Thus it is. Thus it will be.
If you are worrying that Trump is building something that will worsen and endure, breathe a little easier.

This is a cycle. It will repeat and repeat. Today’s appointees will be next month’s casualties.

There will be nothing more than build-and-burn loops.
Last year it was Bannon, Gorka, et al.

Now it will be Pompeo and newbies.

This cast won’t last. No one will ever last.

Narcissists burn down their own houses. No one lasts.
So, as best you can, breathe deep and exhale.

This is the cycle of narcissism.

It’s a rollercoaster. Watch with detachment. After all the hills and drops, a month from now, Trump’s dysfunction will be right where it is today.

No better. No worse.
As they in the support world:

Don’t get blown about by every breeze.

Today has been windy but we shall not topple.

Stay strong, stay centered.

This too shall pass. We shall make it so.

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p.s. forgive typos. Damn phone and no proofreading.

I know the diff btwn “there” and “their”, I swear.
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