[here today]

When you think – not feel – about it, a narcissist is pretty easy to understand. “It’s all about me.” Yeah, we know that. Here’s an article I found from earlier this year.

What Sort of Man Is Donald Trump? - The New Yorker

Yet, despite that, he seems to get along with and love his children. Maybe, like my dad, it’s because he sees them as extensions of himself? And they’ve learned how not to cross him.

Still, I think there may be hope. For instance, I contributed to the Sierra Club right after the election. Hopefully they can find a way to “come to him first” before engaging in court battles that probably won’t help. Or maybe if they do decide to go aggressively to court it can be settled amicably, too. Because if Trump sees the whole country and all the people in it as “his” – well, what’s the harm in that? We don’t have to see things that way. If the country succeeds, he succeeds. Likewise, if he succeeds, we succeed, as Obama has pointed out.

[LucyG]

I agree Trump has narcissist tendencies, but I truly believe he understands that the globalists who've taken over Europe are trying to do the same thing here, and wants to restore our way of life back to where we have individual liberty and freedom.

Besides being a genuis, he has a degree in economics so he understands that taxing the people into poverty destroys an economy. He also understands that by giving tax cuts to individuals and businesses, everyone will have more money to spend which will lead to more and higher paying jobs being created and everyone will win with that. His tax cut plan calls for families making under $40,000 a year to not pay income tax--you still have to pay FICA [medicare and social security], but not federal income tax. That will put a lot of money back in the pockets of lower income people which will in turn raise their standard of living as if they got a pay raise.

The other concern people have about Trump is that he's a war monger. Some of the things he's said are foolish, but I truly believe his focus will be on taking care of America, and getting out of other countries' affairs.

I believe the world will be far, far safer under him so long as George Soros and his ilk aren't able to start a civil war. You do realize Soros is the one funding these riots in major cities by placing ads on Craig's List for protesters who will be bussed around, and paid up to $1,800 a week to protest. You can see the ads on Facebook from a Philadelphia Craig's List posting. This is how he recruited people to protest in Ferguson and other cities when black men were shot by the police.

Repealing Obamacare will be huge! The fines are set to increase to $5,000 for people who can't afford healthcare which is just WRONG!!!! And being that the IRS is in charge of this, if we don't get it repealed, you're going to have to close your bank account and stash your cash under the mattress if you can't afford health care as the IRS will garnish you bank account!!! And believe it or not, this is all a payoff to the big insurance companies that pretended they were opposed to Obamacare so the people would be in favor of it. We need health care reform, but not at the business end of a gun forcing us to do what we're told or we're fined thousands of dollars.

[here today]

I'm not slamming Trump for his narcissism, if he has it. He is who he is, he's got what he's got. Not all bad, some talents, and that's what he'll be bringing to the job.

I saw Obama on TV at a campaign stop and he was questioning why people would choose Trump as their champion. But clearly people have. Maybe/probably they felt they had no other. So, that's something he did that nobody else did.

For a long time I've been upset with articles by the therapist-elites slamming narcissists. It's not like there is an easy fix, despite the articles that seem to say you just have to admit it and you'll be OK. No. So, maybe it might be a good idea to try to accept and understand these people? Because they aren't going to all go away. Being a narcissist is not in itself a crime.

[Atypical_Disaster]

Trump is very narcissistic. Why wouldn't he be? You don't get to be that rich, and get elected president, by being an empathetic ray of light. That's not how business works and it's not how politics work either.

Narcissists can be kind, empathy is not required for that. But the kindness of a narcissist will always have a selfish motive. If I'm being nice to someone, it is with a purpose: whatever it is about that person that benefits ME.

Trump really reminds me of myself in some key areas in the realm of actual personality, politics aside.

He is a sociopath.

[here today]

Originally Posted by Atypical_Disaster

. . .
Narcissists can be kind, empathy is not required for that. But the kindness of a narcissist will always have a selfish motive. If I'm being nice to someone, it is with a purpose: whatever it is about that person that benefits ME. . .

And knowing that about you, I can accept and work with that.

When I'm into codependency, my caring about other people is also selfish, although it doesn't seem that way and is, I believe, in some ways very genuine. It's just that it benefits me to seem and feel like a caring person, which is a very selfish motive, even though for a long time that was mostly unconscious.