…[slowly drums fingers]…
Or that they are just trailer trash ?
Bull-shit! You know the goose loved it! See cartoon here.
I think you might be confusing narcissism and psychopathy. Narcissists have a good understanding of emotions, and do experience them. It’s just that they consider their emotions to be of extreme value, and yours to be of no consequence.
Two tales from a cop I knew:
A man driving a car hits a pedestrian when she is crossing the street in the crosswalk and the light is green. The man claims it’s her fault for “not watching where she was going.”
A husband is beating his pregnant wife’s stomach. She scratches his hands in an effort to stop him, but ends up having a miscarriage. The husband tries to press charges because his wife attacked him!
Trump is worse than just a narcissist. I have a rule where I can’t support a candidate who defends Putin and has the decorating tastes of Saddam Hussein. He’s a man who seems to have latched on to every detestable personality trait, not unlike the episode of The Simpsons where it’s revealed Mr. Burns has every illness and disease at once.
Yeah, they are the only ones whose opinions and feelings have any worth. The rest of us exist only to serve them as part of the landscaping of their lives. We’re props, not people.
I pissed off (well, set straight) a narcissistic pal of mine a couple weeks ago. I’ll let you know how it pans out. 
Good ole’ Anthony! What cushy Ambassador job or other prize plum you think he’ll wind up in come 2017?
Trump has been affected many times. What you see is exactly what he does when he things get to him. If it didn’t bother him, he would react differently. He wouldn’t make comments about how big his dick was or be obsessed with people calling his hands small. He wouldn’t speak of libel or lawsuits whenever anyone criticizes him.
I don’t know where the idea comes from that he ignores criticism.
In fact, Donald Trump is notoriously thin-skinned when it comes to even the most trivial criticisms. It is essentially impossible for the casual observer to separate Trump (The Person) from Trump (The Blowhard), but I don’t think it is sensible to conclude that he is a narcissist because of the public grandosity that he displays. This is just part and parcel of the image he has cultivated of himself as a successful businessman and professional bombastard, and may not in any way reflect his personality in private.
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I have a difficult time believing Trump has a personality in private that is different than the one he displays in public. He may be nice to his wife and children. He may love his dog or cat. He may tip his doorman generously on the holidays. That doesn’t mean he’s a different person in private. It just means that the people closest to him are not necessarily a threat to him nor do they challenge his authority in ways that would make him react in the insecure and aggressive manner he does to outsiders who dare criticize him.
It’s been said that he’s different in private than his public persona, but only in the sense that he can be relatively good-natured and even charming on a personal level, generally one suspects when he has something to gain. But whether you call it narcissism or psychopathology, those pathological traits are real and not just a public facade. The venom and crudeness with which he lashes out at critics, his obsession with tweeting insults and rebuttals to perceived criticisms, his endless lawsuits against anyone he has even perceived of having offended him, his obsession with controlling and censuring the media and blocking access to those who have written unfavorably of him – those things are all real.
A good example of all these points was an article written about him by a reporter who spoke warmly of Trump’s gracious hospitality at one of his estates, but spoke also of Trump’s constant obsession with what the media were saying about him, and how he was surrounded by yes-men, and the implication that all the graciousness and hospitality was premised on expecting a favorable article to be written. In another instance, a reporter had been granted a series of interviews with Trump after suitable groveling, and at one point one of Trump’s sycophantic yes-men informed him that the reporter had recently been speaking to someone who was known to be critical of Trump. With that, all further interviews were canceled and the reporter was himself blacklisted and henceforth banned from Trump’s exalted presence.
Yeah, it was wrong to say they don’t experience those emotions… but it’s definitely my experience with someone that I think is a Narcissist that emotions were 1) just things to be used as needed and 2) not clearly connected to the things that other people would see.
I’ve always seen it as Trump is only brave enough to talk shit about people behind their backs or at a distance in front of a camera.
When in private and face to face, Trump folds like a cheap fucking lawn chair.
Well, that’s not a narcissist; that’s just a weak bully.
In a hypothetical Head of State Deathmatch I have fifty Euros on Angela Merkel to take Trump down in the first twenty seconds.
“Zeese is how vee threet boolies in Der Deutschland, Herr Drumpf!” crack
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I’d pony up the Pay-Per-View for that.
My impression is he is a very insecure bully, not anything pathological.
It might even cover the cost to rescue Greece. I think we have a new reality t.v. show pitch.
Stranger
Trump is the ultimate weasely narccissist. Never gives a speech without mentioning all his money and how successful he is! He’s so self absorbed he honestly believes “I’m gonna…get the best people, negotiate a better deal, bring back manufacturing!”, is enough to placate people. He believes we ought just take his word for it, that’s why he’s so annoyed when people want to know exactly how he’s going to accomplish these things.
But he’s the King, because he’s mastered this method of never speaking in complete sentences, never fully finishing a thought or statement. Then, when called on what he said, he has the perfect out, “That’s not exactly what I said/ what I meant!” He’s truly the master at being oily and saying actually nothing.
( And the world watches. Stunned to see Americans actually lapping it up! Not all, it’s true. But enough to fill stadiums. :::shiver::: )
did you “shiver” at the Brexit vote as well? or is this another “amuricans r dumb amirite” thing?