Wednesday, January 16, 2019

After Two Years of Trump Presidency--A Diagnosis


    
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.