Donald Trump is now claiming he wanted to testify Monday in his New York civil fraud trial but couldn’t because of a gag order in place.However, the gag order only bars him from disparaging the court staff.
Exactly as I keep saying. His NPD won’t allow him to lose. His brain has to cast about for reasons. The shit he spouts is zero surprise to me. How else would such a brain frame all this?
I’m exhausted talking about it. But I doubt many people have had a true narcissist in their life. People with tendencies? Sure, we have all met those folks. But not a weapons-grade, DSM-5 diagnosed, narcissist like Trump.
LOL, people can’t decide if he’s an idiot or playing games. He’s neither. He’s a narcissist.
(Although I’d argue his dementia is becoming more and more clear by the day. BUT, much of that is fear, frustration and desperation.)
Absolutely true. It really is hard to watch people try to rationalize and justify Trump’s behavior when you’re already familiar with that brand of person. Even in the early days of the 2016 election, it was just flaberghasting to see how people would spin the shit he did and said because it was all so familiar to me, so I just thought they were stupid. There is nothing deeper. There is no “grand plan.” He’s just saying (and, to some extent, believing) whatever shit he thinks will make him appear “superior” or “infallible” in the moment.
Narcissism is a spectrum. At the one end, you have people with low self esteem who look to getting reactions from others to feel better about themselves. At the other end, you have people with full on disassociation, that is, a lack of any sense of “self” at all, except from the reactions they get from others. It’s pretty clear Trump is pretty close to the pathological dissociative side of the spectrum.
The reactions narcissists get from others is called “supply”, and each narcissist looks for a specific flavor of supply that fills the void in their life, whether that’s a mild feeling of inadequacy or full fledged lack of self. Some supply is being loved. Some supply is being seen as a villain. Some supply is just being the center of attention. For Trump? It’s pretty clear that his supply is being seen as “successful”.
Narcissistic supply is an addictive drug to narcissists. It gives an instant high— a high of feeling “normal”— and also has instant lows. The moment supply is cut off, the narcissist’s mental dismay returns. Supply also has a problem of levels. A bigger dose of supply feels great, but it ALSO makes any additional supply that isn’t as strong as that one time feel like nothing.
Narcissists are junkies. They need their hit of supply, and will do literally anything to get it. And to get it as big as they’ve ever had it before.
While president, Trump got the biggest hit of supply the world has ever seen. Losing the presidency has lost him that supply… even the attention the news still gives him today isn’t anything like the supply of having the eyes of the entire world on him all the time.
As a junkie, he will do anything to get supply back. He would literally kill to do so. It might yet come to that.
That was truly eye opening! What a great way to frame it, make it understandable.
Everybody got a take on the man. I think it’s a simple as we’re talking about. It’s just that most haven’t run into anyone like that, not on a close, personal level.
This point really needs to be driven home constantly. Donald Trumps personality disorders are in control of every aspect of his life. He is incapable of self control.
Exactly as I keep saying. His NPD won’t allow him to lose. His brain has to cast about for reasons. The shit he spouts is zero surprise to me. How else would such a brain frame all this?
I’m exhausted talking about it. But I doubt many people have had a true narcissist in their life. People with tendencies? Sure, we have all met those folks. But not a weapons-grade, DSM-5 diagnosed, narcissist like Trump.
LOL, people can’t decide if he’s an idiot or playing games. He’s neither. He’s a narcissist.
(Although I’d argue his dementia is becoming more and more clear by the day. BUT, much of that is fear, frustration and desperation.)
Absolutely true. It really is hard to watch people try to rationalize and justify Trump’s behavior when you’re already familiar with that brand of person. Even in the early days of the 2016 election, it was just flaberghasting to see how people would spin the shit he did and said because it was all so familiar to me, so I just thought they were stupid. There is nothing deeper. There is no “grand plan.” He’s just saying (and, to some extent, believing) whatever shit he thinks will make him appear “superior” or “infallible” in the moment.
No. He’s definitely an idiot too.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/12/1705902/-Former-Wharton-Professor-Donald-Trump-Is-the-Dumbest-Goddam-Student-I-Ever-Had
Yup pretty much par for the course
Narcissism is a spectrum. At the one end, you have people with low self esteem who look to getting reactions from others to feel better about themselves. At the other end, you have people with full on disassociation, that is, a lack of any sense of “self” at all, except from the reactions they get from others. It’s pretty clear Trump is pretty close to the pathological dissociative side of the spectrum.
The reactions narcissists get from others is called “supply”, and each narcissist looks for a specific flavor of supply that fills the void in their life, whether that’s a mild feeling of inadequacy or full fledged lack of self. Some supply is being loved. Some supply is being seen as a villain. Some supply is just being the center of attention. For Trump? It’s pretty clear that his supply is being seen as “successful”.
Narcissistic supply is an addictive drug to narcissists. It gives an instant high— a high of feeling “normal”— and also has instant lows. The moment supply is cut off, the narcissist’s mental dismay returns. Supply also has a problem of levels. A bigger dose of supply feels great, but it ALSO makes any additional supply that isn’t as strong as that one time feel like nothing.
Narcissists are junkies. They need their hit of supply, and will do literally anything to get it. And to get it as big as they’ve ever had it before.
While president, Trump got the biggest hit of supply the world has ever seen. Losing the presidency has lost him that supply… even the attention the news still gives him today isn’t anything like the supply of having the eyes of the entire world on him all the time.
As a junkie, he will do anything to get supply back. He would literally kill to do so. It might yet come to that.
That was truly eye opening! What a great way to frame it, make it understandable.
Everybody got a take on the man. I think it’s a simple as we’re talking about. It’s just that most haven’t run into anyone like that, not on a close, personal level.
This point really needs to be driven home constantly. Donald Trumps personality disorders are in control of every aspect of his life. He is incapable of self control.