Wilson is part of The Lincoln Project too 👍

quickymart:Wilson is part of The Lincoln Project too 👍

Ah, that makes sense. Hey, the book isn't recent - published 2018 - but I don't think there are any fresh details of Trump's lunacy that could be added to cover the last four years. However, if Rick Wilson writes a follow-up, I'll buy it, sight unseen. Here's a taste of the content, although he's only just warming up!

Page 1:

"If you're like me, the Trump presidency has turned you a light sleeper.

    Admit it. Some nights, when the world is quiet but your mind is racing, you check Twitter to see if he's started a nuclear war. Each morning, strung out from the fever dreams of Donald Trump and Steve Bannon performing a nude interpretive dance of Stephen Miller's 'Triumph of the Wall', you wake up wondering if today's the day he's seen wandering naked on the White House lawn, screaming at the clouds.

   Come on. You know you've done it.

   It's because you're struggling, like the vast majority of Americans, with the fact that our terrible, sloppy, shambolic President may just be insane. Not 'Haha, he's so crazy' or 'He's pretending to be crazy, but it's "87-dimensional quantum chess " crazy, but legitimately, clinically insane. I'd have to look up the DSM-V category to be more precise, but the term of psychiatric art I'm looking for is "shithouse-rat crazy".

And so on. As I said he's just warming up at this point 😜   

 

geekIT:  (snip) ... Hey, the book isn't recent - published 2018 - but I don't think there are any fresh details of Trump's lunacy that could be added to cover the last four years. However, if Rick Wilson writes a follow-up, I'll buy it, sight unseen. ...

 

A number of psychiatrists have responded to this book (which has been updated since 2018).

The consensus "professional opinion" is that Trump is not merely a “crazy” man starring in a "Wacko White House Reality Show." 

It's worse than that.

Trump has a severe personality disorder - Narcissism * - which makes him extremely dangerous and unpredictable when in a position of power.

And Trump is waiting for his Second Coming.  💀

* Trump meets all of the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Narcissism

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-truth-social-finances-1234583289/

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

Also: Ron De Santis mimicking Trump? Where would have gotten an idea like that from? 😃 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-desantis-rip-off-complaints-1234583383/

Sideface:

 

A number of psychiatrists have responded to this book (which has been updated since 2018).

The consensus "professional opinion" is that Trump is not merely a “crazy” man starring in a "Wacko White House Reality Show." 

It's worse than that.

Trump has a severe personality disorder - Narcissism * - which makes him extremely dangerous and unpredictable when in a position of power.

 

And Trump is waiting for his Second Coming.  💀

 

* Trump meets all of the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Narcissism

WOW just WOW - he fore fills all the diagnostic criteria. Not 5 of 9 but 9 of 9. It is almost as if the disorder was written just based on him. Of course that is not good science but.

He is the POSTER CHILD of this disorder, which of course he would like.

FineWine:WOW just WOW - he fore fills all the diagnostic criteria. Not 5 of 9 but 9 of 9. It is almost as if the disorder was written just based on him. Of course that is not good science but.

 

He is the POSTER CHILD of this disorder, which of course he would like.

He would be proud to get 9 out of 9 for any test! The best result!

 

FineWine:  ... He is the POSTER CHILD of this disorder ...

 

Indeed he is, but Trump has taken it further:

Psychology Today - Malignant Narcissism: Does the President Have It?    (22 May 2020)

"Malignant Narcissism" is a step beyond Narcissistic Personality Disorder -

Malignant Narcissism is considered a combination of: Narcissistic Personality Disorder, PLUS sociopathy (antisocial personality traits), PLUS paranoia (unrealistic fears), PLUS sadism (a pleasure in harming others).

If we add these three diagnostic criteria, Trump scores 12 out of 12.

quickymart: Ron De Santis mimicking Trump? Where would have gotten an idea like that from? 😃 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-desantis-rip-off-complaints-1234583383/

I think there have been studies that psychopaths tend to rise to the top of their chosen fields of endeavour. Not because they are better, but because they have fewer restraints. The reason Trump gets away with things that would sink any other politician is because he does things no other politician would consider. If you listen to him speak extemporaneously, he rambles incoherently but peppers his talk with verbal emojis that act as triggers to his audience. He insults military families, minorities, the disabled, anyone and anything that crosses his narrow attention path and his fans think he is being daring when he is actually just farting with his mouth. 

https://www.axios.com/2022/08/29/truth-social-problems-trump

A quick look at Truth Social's ongoing issues.

 

kingdragonfly:  ...  Hopefully Rupert Murdoch will put Trump in a deathroll. They deserve each other.

Disclaimer: As an Australian, I despise Murdoch as much as I despise Trump, and for similar reasons.

DR. OZ CLAIMS EATING CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS ESSENTIAL TO TRUMP’S NEW HEALTH REGIME

PITTSBURGH (The Borowitz Report)—Eating classified documents was “an essential part of President Donald Trump’s super-healthy diet,” Dr. Mehmet Oz has claimed.

Oz, the longtime television host and, more recently, Pennsylvania’s G.O.P. nominee for the U.S. Senate, said that “classified documents, including the nuclear codes, provided the roughage necessary to keep President Trump’s digestive system churning at the highest level of efficiency.”

Speaking at a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Oz said that Trump’s diet consisted of “the four food groups: the hamburger group, the ketchup group, the Coca-Cola group, and the classified-documents group.”

“Looking at President Trump, you might wonder what miracle diet made him such a fine physical specimen,” Oz said. “It turns out that national-security documents are not only loaded with secrets—they’re chock-full of fiber.”