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babylonsister

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Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:39 PM Jan 2017

Temperament Tantrum

http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-01-27/does-donald-trumps-personality-make-him-dangerous?src=usn_tw

Temperament Tantrum
Some say President Donald Trump's personality isn't just flawed, it's dangerous.

By Susan Milligan | Staff Writer
Jan. 27, 2017, at 6:00 a.m.


Modern presidents, whatever their party or approach to governing, face the same fate: win the White House, and get on the couch. Presidential temperaments and personalities are exhaustively examined by professionals and lay people alike, as both experts and the public try to figure out what makes the most powerful man in the world tick. Richard Nixon was widely regarded as paranoid, keeping an enemies list. Bill Clinton, his biographers write, had a "hypomanic" personality that included a high-energy, hard-working and creative work style coupled with an impulsiveness and quick temper.

With President Donald Trump, however, the observations of the presidential personality have taken on a more ominous tone. Lawmakers and experts say they are troubled by Trump's extraordinary focus on his own brand and popularity, including frequent and angry insistences that his crowds are bigger and more enthusiastic than anyone else's and that, despite official vote counts to the contrary, he really won the popular vote for president.

The man Hillary Clinton called temperamentally unfit to be president because of his insults of women, Latinos and disabled people has not calmed his demeanor since becoming the 45th president. In a recent interview with ABC, Trump declared he had "the biggest crowd in the history of inaugural speeches," and then showed his interviewer an aerial photo of his inaugural, insisting that other photos clearly indicating a smaller in-person crowd than President Obama's 2009 inaugural were manipulated to demean his own supporters. He said in the same interview that he got a bigger standing ovation in a recent speech at CIA headquarters than star quarterback Peyton Manning got after winning the Super Bowl. And despite having indisputably won the election, Trump declared he could have won the popular vote if only he'd made more visits to states like California and New York, and reiterated his plan to investigate what he said was massive voter fraud in the election, despite a lack of any evidence that such fraud occurred. When Trump was told that he was mischaracterizing a Pew study the president said showed evidence of voter fraud, Trump attacked the study's author, accusing him of now "groveling" – the same word then-candidate Trump used to disparage a disabled reporter in a separate dispute with Trump over facts.

The behavior of the new president in his first week in office has experts and elected officials wondering: is this just a case of a president with predictable quirks, or is it something that raises concerns about Trump's judgment and adherence to factual reality?

John D. Gartner, a practicing psychotherapist who taught psychiatric residents at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, minces as few words as the president in his professional assessment of Trump.

"Donald Trump is dangerously mentally ill and temperamentally incapable of being president," says Gartner, author of "In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography." Trump, Gartner says, has "malignant narcissism," which is different from narcissistic personality disorder and which is incurable.

Gartner acknowledges that he has not personally examined Trump, but says it's obvious from Trump's behavior that he meets the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, which include anti-social behavior, sadism, aggressiveness, paranoia and grandiosity. Trump's personality disorder (which includes hypomania) is also displayed through a lack of impulse control and empathy, and "a feeling that people ... don't recognize their greatness.

"We've seen enough public behavior by Donald Trump now that we can make this diagnosis indisputably," says Gartner. His comments run afoul of the so-called Goldwater Rule, the informal term for part of the ethics code of the American Psychiatric Association saying it is wrong to provide a professional opinion of a public figure without examining that person and gaining consent to discuss the evaluation. But Gartner says the Trump case warrants breaking that ethical code.

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Temperament Tantrum (Original Post) babylonsister Jan 2017 OP
Kick to read for comprehension later Cracklin Charlie Jan 2017 #1
Malignant Narcissism, will be posting this term on Twitter. sarcasmo Jan 2017 #2
Oh, for Christ's sake! These idiots are still wondering whether or not he is deranged. 6000eliot Jan 2017 #3
Write your congresscritters; they apparently babylonsister Jan 2017 #4

6000eliot

(5,643 posts)
3. Oh, for Christ's sake! These idiots are still wondering whether or not he is deranged.
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 10:36 PM
Jan 2017

Anyone with eyes and ears can tell this in a couple of minutes

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