TRUMP IS TODAY, A CONFIRMED PATHOLOGICAL NARCISSIST

 …The Washington Attorney, George Conway

The DSM-5 Manual shows exactly what is Donald Trump’s mental disorder.

Have you ever heard of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or the DSM?

This is the manual that is this nation’s “authoritative guide to the diagnosis of mental disorders”. 

Now this is no guide that's only for those professional medical psychologists.  It is written in plain English and it is designed for anyone to be able to observe mental behaviors and to determine if a person is perhaps mentally ill..

DSM is now in it its fifth edition, so for the following article, I will refer to the above manual only as DSM-5. 

DSM-5 allows for the average observer to come to the conclusion that a person has a mental disorder.

Now, recently the well known Washington attorney, George Conway, has written a 30 page article that was recently published by a major publication.  You may recognize the Conway name as George is the husband of Kelleyanne Conway, who is the Senior White House advisor to President Trump.

Kelleyanne is a serious Trump supporter.  However, George is not.  And Donald Trump refers to Kelleyanne’s husband George, as the “Husband from Hell”, because George has Trump’s number as being a true pathological narcissist.  In addition, Mr. Conway has used the DSM-5 as his manual for coming to his 30 page mental conclusion. 

(For the purposes of this article, going forward, I will only refer to the disorder “pathological narcissist” as “PN”.)

Now I’m not going to hit you with a 30 page example of what Mr. Conway has done. 

But I will give you an abridged version of Mr. Conway’s conclusions that are totally supported by this fifth edition of the DSM.

I will show you how, as the psychologist Dan P. McAdams wrote in The Atlantic, that Donald Trump is “such a classic pathological narcissist that I have archived video clips of Trump as the doctor uses the clips in his workshops because there is no better example available of the PN disorder”.

DSM-5 describes PN as having nine diagnostic criteria that are indicative of the PN disorder.  However, you only need five of the nine to be present for a PN diagnosis.  But Donald J. Trump has all nine.

The nine PN issues are as follows.

1. A grandiose sense of self-importance.  Major exaggerations of achievements, and they see themselves as being superior.
2. Preoccupied with their fantasies of their supposed unlimited success, they feel they have serious power over others and that they are extremely brilliant.
3. They believe that he or she is “special” and “unique” and they should only associate with high-status persons.
4. They always require constant admiration and praise.
5. They have a total sense of entitlement.
6. They always take advantage of others.
7. They have a total lack of empathy.
8. They are envious of others, and believe that others are envious of them.
9. They are extremely arrogant, and always have a superior personal attitude.

So, let’s go through these as they are applied to President, Donald J. Trump.

Item #1:  Trump tells everyone he “is the genius of all time”, those are his words, not mine. 

Item #2: He is always preoccupied with his fantasies of his unlimited success, personal power and his brilliance.  (This was the case, long before he was president.)

Item #3: He has personally stated that he is “one of the smartest people of all time”, while members of his own administration have called him: a “moron”, “an idiot”, “a dope”, “dumb as shit”, and a “kindergartener kid” or one with a “fifth or sixth grade intellect”.  He says that “No one knows more about the following: Taxes, income, construction, campaign finance, drones, technology, infrastructure, work visas, the Islamic State, environmental-impact statements, Facebook, renewable energy,  polls, courts, steelworkers, golf, banks, trade, nuclear weapons, tax law, lawsuits, currency devaluation, money, ‘the system’, the nation’s debt, and all politicians,” than him.

Item #4:  When Trump’s own father died in 1999, his son gave one of the eulogies.  But instead of speaking about his deceased father, he said, “I was in my Trump Tower apartment reading about how I was having the greatest year in my career in the New York Times when the security desk called and said my brother Robert was coming upstairs”.  This statement provoked an audible gasp from the mourners that were stunned by Trump’s own self-regard.  While others did speak about his diseased father, his son used the time to talk about his own accomplishments.  He made it clear that his father’s main accomplishment was in producing himself, Donald J. Trump.  This is the man who holds rallies when there’s no election in sight, just so he can bask in his supporters’ “cheers”..

Item #5: You must remember in the ACCESS HOLLYWOOD tape, Trump said: “When you’re a star, they [the women] let you do it.  You can do anything you want…..including grabbing women by their pussy.”

Don’t forget, this is the man who also said: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”

Item #6:  Just ask any of the hundreds of contractors and some of his own former employees that Trump, the business man, has stiffed in construction payments or no salary.  You should also speak with any of the two dozen women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct, sexual assault or even rape.

Item #7: The notorious Trump attorney and fixer, Roy Cohn, once said that , “Donald Trump pisses ice water.”  Trump has no ability to recognize or identify with the feelings or needs of others.

Right after the 911 disaster, Trump went on a New York TV station and he was asked if one of his downtown buildings had suffered any damage.  All Trump could talk about was to brag about his building at 40 Wall Street, and how that building was ranked among the city’s many skyscrapers.  What Trump said was: “40 Wall Street was now the tallest building, with the twin-towers being gone.”  Nothing about the many people who died, or would die, and it should be noted, that what he did say was a total lie.  The building at 70 Pine Street was taller than Trump's.

Item #8: Trump is so unable to stand the praise received by another man, such as the respected war hero, John McCain, and Trump has continued to attack McCain even months after McCain’s death.  Because of this, Trump's people even kept the destroyer, the USS John S. McCain, out of Trump’s sight when he visited a US naval base in Japan.  He also still seems envious of Barack Obama.  Trump is trying to get rid of Obama’s legacy by destroying anything that Obama did by using his own executive orders.

Item #9: Trump is so arrogant, he has even said that: “Article two of the US Constitution says I can do what ever I want as president.”  This why Trump has tried to do some stupid things of which he has had to eventually back down.  For instance, the stupid idea of having a meeting with the head of Afghanistan’s Taliban at the Presidential Retreat, Camp David.  Or his stupid unvetted decision to nominate the former White House physician, Admiral Ronny Jackson as the Veteran’s Affairs Secretary.  Trump actually prides himself on following his own instincts versus the knowledge of other experts.  He once told an interviewer that, “I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.”

There are obviously many other examples in George Conway’s 30 pages that support why the truth is that Donald J. Trump is a true: pathological narcissist, and is not qualified to be the President of the United States.

As Mr. Conway has stated, “You don’t need to be a mental-health professional to see that something is very seriously off with Donald J. Trump, particularly after nearly three years of watching his erratic and abnormal behavior in the White House.  Questions about Trump’s psychological stability have mounted throughout his presidency.  But those questions have been coming even more frequently amid a recent escalation in Trump’s bizarre behavior, as the pressures of his up-coming re-election campaign increase, a possible deteriorating economy, and now a full-blown impeachment inquiry have been mounted.  And the questioners have now started to include those who have worked most closely with him.”

Copyright G. Ater 2019