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In reply to the discussion: Trump Is Humiliated and More Dangerous Than Ever, William Rivers Pitt [View all]bdamomma
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in his last days. Stories are coming out in abundance. Here's another one
Clinical psychologist breaks down the final, desperate days of our psychopath-in-chief: How bad will it get
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Written by
Alan D. Blotcky and/
Salon |December 29, 2020
https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/donald-trump-psychology/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6241
We must face the alarming truth. Our irrational and reckless president will spend his last 23 days in office harboring the hope that a military coup in our country will allow him to remain in power. Or that Congress will overthrow the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6. Donald Trump is totally preoccupied with his existential survival as the walls of reality are closing in on him. He has been repudiated in the election. His psyche cannot comprehend how he could have lost to such an ordinary, mortal man. He is beside himself with embarrassment and humiliation. He is driven by revenge. He wants to settle scores. His thin veneer of greatness and superiority is crumbling away. He is desperate and flailing.
Trump is a psychopath. He has all the defining characteristics in spades: narcissistic, sadistic, antisocial, paranoid. This is malignant psychopathology in the embodiment of our president. He has the kind of personality pathology that should be unacceptable in our top public servant. Trump should have been rooted out in 2016. A psychopath should never have been elected to the highest office in the land. We have been suffering for it ever since: division, tribalism, hostility, racism, xenophobia, terrorism and more.