Since ‘health’ apparently does not included in mental health, I’ll ask here:
Trump seems to be misremembering his campaign stop in Flint, MI. In a nutshell: Trump started bashing Clinton. The pastor of the church where he was speaking said, ‘Mr. Trump, I invited you here to thank us for what we’ve done for Flint, not to give a political speech.’ Trump said OK, he’d ‘go back onto Flint’. Later, Trump told Fox And Friends ‘The audience was saying, “Let him speak, let him speak.”’
I think the technical name for it is Bullshit Artist. I remember a Forbes article on him awhile back where Trump told the reporter “Let’s do the interview in my awesome office overlooking awesome street. I never let media up there but you’ll love it”; the writer then notes that Trump must have forgotten because he saw Trump do a televised interview from there the week before.
This is absolutely correct. He’s not a “liar” per se… he exaggerates and misremembers stuff, and then tries to weasel his way out with a continued stream of BS. He tries to be smarmy-shmoozy, and then when that does not work, he gets aggressive and angry. This is how he has operated his businesses.
I’ve known someone since we were both four years old. He reminds me a lot of Trump, only he didn’t have a multi-million dollar nest egg to begin to carry out his schemes. Mrs. L.A. says he sounds like he has bipolar personality disorder, but he doesn’t seem to have the depression side of it.
That’s it! At least as far as my friend is concerned. It also sounds very much like Trump.
But what about the alleged inability to remember statements, even when those statements are quoted to him verbatim or shown to him on video? Would that be an aspect of NPD, where he does remember but denies it? Or does he really not remember, and is that a sign of dementia?
The thing is, like many other Bullshit artists, the sheer VOLUME of Trump’s lies and crap and spew have effectively rendered him immune to criticism. There is simply too much utter bullshit flowing at high volumes out of his mouth.
Just today Trump claimed that the Ford Motor Company was eliminating ALL of their jobs in the USA:
Of course, this is utter Bullshit. Completely false. Wrong. But this does not matter to a bullshit artist. He does not care. He’ll tell a different story to a different audience on a different day.
And there is just so much of it that nobody can even keep up with his lies.
Of course, a group of voters LOVE the bullshit artist. They think it’s great. Wonderful. Some have even said that they KNOW it’s bullshit. They KNOW it’s not true. But they like him because he is telling them what they want to hear - comforting lies, with comforting easy, simple solutions.
I don’t think it’s dementia. It’s not that his neurological function is compromised by an organic brain physical illness.
It’s that he does not CARE what he said before. He only can think of what he has said NOW. He genuinely warps his story to fit the circumstance of RIGHT NOW, and what he or anyone has said in the past simply has no bearing whatsoever on what he will say or do RIGHT NOW.
In this way, it is a mental illness, yes, but not something like dementia, where he CANNOT remember things. He just choses what he wants to believe as the truth minute to minute.
The thing is, just because you hang a psychological term on it doesn’t change what everyone already knows. Trump is a loud mouth bullshitting braggart. Do really imagine some doctor can walk in and say “sorry, that’s in the DSM. You can’t be President”?
Plus, there are a couple of groups of people out there who won’t care one little bit anyway:
Those who are too dim and/or misinformed to be able to discern bullshit from reality. This is a fairly large group. They will believe the most outrageous crap that anyone throws at them. These are the folks that fall for scams and lying salesmen. Who buys time share pitches? Who purchases overpriced gold coins? Who buys shitty used cars with spay-painted rust? Suckers.
Those who know that Trump is bullshitting them, but LOVE IT. They think it’s great that a BS artist is screwing up the system like this. They think it’s a game.
I think he’s a psychopath. Not the kind that becomes a serial killer. The kind that becomes a mean SOB, yet has the common sense to stay out of trouble, because trouble isn’t fun; still, I think he lacks the empathy to understand why people care about consistency in his presentation. He’s running for president. He doesn’t think what he said before he started running for president should have any bearing on what he is saying now. This is a rule he is operating by, plucked out of who knows where, but the point is, it’s how he is operating, and it fails him completely that everyone isn’t following this same rule. A psychopath of his variety simply can’t see from any point of view other than his own. It’s no wonder he’s on his third marriage. It’s no wonder he does idiot things like telling Scotland it was wise to vote to leave the EU; it wasn’t so much that he confused England and Scotland, as he had his mind made up as to what the “right” decision was, and just assumed that would be the outcome.
I thought he was on his third marriage because he sees women as sex-toys, arm-candy, and status symbols, and as soon as Current Wife starts losing her looks she gets dumped for a newer model. I thought that was one of the reasons American women loathe him.
