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In reply to the discussion: Beating Trump 101: Cripple his ego [View all]Grasswire2
(13,568 posts)One of the first things I learned when my husband's business partner (a psychologist) told me that hubby was a pathological narcissist is that a narcissist will do anything to DESTROY those who stop providing flattery that is known as "narcissistic supply." They never do acknowledge the pathology; never do feel remorse or anything but the drive to NOT be accountable for their actions. They are conniving, manipulative and sometimes sadists.
This has played out over my lifetime, many years married many years divorced. Interestingly enough, he recently passed and even the passing has created tumult and division in the family. Some who were abused by him have moved into a kind of Stockholm syndrome now, creating a life story that is simply false and wipes out the abusive chaotic reality we all lived.
And so I don't see any possibility of self-awareness happening to Trump. If circumstances render him penniless and powerless, he will still have grievance as his ace card. The victim.