Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is marked by irritable mood, argumentative and defiant behavior, aggression, and vindictiveness, and features in the soon to be released book, Media Madness: Donald Trump, The Press, And The War Over The Truth, by the “serially inaccurate” Howard Kurtz, former media critic at CNN who more recently serves as the sub-faux Harry Reasoner at Fox News.
Pre-publication flak now includes gossip-level verification of idiocy like Trump’s ordering Sean Spicer to argue the falsity of the Inaugural’s crowd size, even as reality kept intruding.
The book also does verify some other elements of the Steve Bannon feud with Jarvanka mentioned in the Michael Wolff book, Fire and Fury.
But the more interesting item useful to all those willing to do intercessory clinical diagnosis of Lord Dampnut is this chronic behavior, reported by Kurtz.
Kurtz, who worked at The Washington Post from 1981 to 2010, writes that Trump's aides even privately coined a term for Trump's behaviour - “Defiance Disorder.” The phrase refers to Trump's seeming compulsion to do whatever it is his advisers are most strongly urging against, leaving his team to handle the fallout.
If anything it does explain why Mango Mussolini uses the word SAD so frequently. And it could explain why Fred Trump sent The Donald and his troubled teen years to the New York Military Academy.
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a behavioral disorder defined by chronic aggression, frequent outbursts, and a tendency to ignore requests and purposely irritate others.
(They take)… insolent behavior to a level far beyond tantrums or disobeyed orders. An oppositional, defiant child will often lose his temper, argue with adults, actively defy requests or rules set by adults, deliberately annoy people, and blame others for misbehavior. He will engage in angry, violent, and disruptive conduct directed at the adults in his life — parents, teacher, physicians, and other authority figures. And he may seem to feel most comfortable in the midst of a conflict, which is upsetting and exhausting for everyone involved — even the child himself.
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Apparently Fox and Friends does less for keeping his scalp than Propecia.