Hi everybody,
While most politicians, IMO, would score high on the narcissism scale (years ago, when I began this web site, I wrote about Bill Clinton in this regard), Donald Trump would almost certainly be diagnosed (from what I have read and heard) with a narcissistic personality disorder. In this regard, I loved this quote from his son, taken from an article from the Daily Beast entitled “You Have to Treat 'Em like Shit’: Before Megyn Kelly, Trump Dumped Wine on a Female Reporter” by Asawin Suebsaeng (
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/08/you-have-to-treat-em-like-shit-before-megyn-kelly-trump-dumped-wine-on-a-female-reporter.html)
“’How can you say you love us? You don’t love us! You don’t even love yourself. You just love your money,’ 12-year-old Donald Jr. told his father…”
As I wrote many years ago in my essay, "Voicelessness: Narcissism" (
http://www.voicelessness.com/narcissism.html) on this web site:
“Many people spend a lifetime aggressively trying to protect an injured or vulnerable "self." Traditionally, psychologists have termed such people "narcissists," but this is a misnomer. To the outside world it appears that these people love themselves. Yet, at their core they don't love themselves--in fact their self barely exists, and what part does exist is deemed worthless. All energy is devoted to inflating the self, like a persistent child trying to blow up a balloon with a hole.”
Personally, I’m so glad Donald Jr. already knows this about his father!
Richard
