After Two Years of
Trump Presidency—A Diagnosis
According to the Mayo Clinic, a person who has
an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention,
troubled relationships, fragile self-esteem, vulnerability to the slightest criticism,
a lack of empathy for others, and a mask of extreme confidence, suffers from a
mental condition known as narcissistic personality disorder [NPD]. Symptoms and
signs of NPD may include:
1. Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Example, exaggerating the number of people at
your inauguration or claiming you could be president of the US and run your
business at the same time. (Recall that statement before the
election in 2016).
2. Have a sense of entitlement and require constant,
excessive admiration. Example, claim that you, could pardon any number of
people including yourself of any crime.
3. Expect to be recognized as superior even without
achievements that warrant it. Example, claim that you are a multi-billionaire,
but refuse to cough-up your tax returns.
4. Be preoccupied with fantasies about success,
power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate.
Example, if president, claim a national emergency when one is not, claim
that you know more than “the generals” in your military, sport an outrageous hair
do, and accumulate trophy wives.
5. Monopolize conversations and belittle or look
down on people they perceive as inferior.
Example, govern by Twitter and label people who oppose you with
degrading names.
6. Expect special favors and unquestioning
compliance with their expectations. Example, walking out of summit meetings and
downgrading NATO members for not paying their dues rather than working
patiently with those struggling to comply.
7. Take advantage of others to get what they want.
Example, holding 800,000 of your own government workers hostage in
uncompromising stand-off with Congress for a wall.
8. Behave in an arrogant or haughty manner, coming
across as conceited, boastful and pretentious. Example, any signing of a
Presidential Order or disparaging sport figures who kneel for the national
anthem.
9. Take advantage of others to get what they want. Example, lying in public every single day you
are in office.
10.
Become impatient or angry when they don’t
receive special treatment. Example. Behavior when meeting in the Oval Office with
congressional leaders, Pelosi and Schumer.
Do you recognize any one that demonstrates those symptoms? You got it, Donald Trump! Our president displays
a mental disorder [NPD], and is getting worse every month. He needs a doctor which is out of the question
because any person with NPD, as part of the disorder, cannot think that
anything is wrong.
Therefore, the only solution is an act of congress, which is politically
unlikely (frequently followers of those with NPD also suffer from it), or
patiently wait to vote him out of office in 2020 with the hope that he will not
get us all killed in the meantime.
What is the lesson here? Pay a
little more attention to mental status of the people you elect to public
office.
