I don’t doubt that Trump planned to fire Jess Sessions some time after the elction. Afer all the letter of resignation was not dated.
I watched the entire excruciating press conference today where emboldened reporters no longer showed respect and deference to the president and peppered Trump with questions. He either attacked the reporters for asking questions he wanted to avoid answering or just simply ignored the question in his response.
You could see Trump getting more and more angry as his face contorted and he lashed back by insulting reporters.
Leading up to his press conference today Trump had to figure out a way to rationalize the loss of GOP control of the House of Representatives. In his speech before taking questions from reporters he presented his lame reasons why the Rupublicans really won the day in large part to Trump’s popularity. Without a modicum of shame for saying it he claimed it was because the winnng Repubicans embraced him.
When the time came for questions from reporters who had prepared procovoative questions and treated him not as the emperior who could order them to the guillotine if they dared not bow down to him, but as a mere mortal who happend to be president and hardly deserved the repect that usually is given to the holder of that office.
My hunch is that he was so angry after the press conference that in a fit of narcissitic rage he decided to announce the so-called resignation in a Tweet not long after the press conference ended.
Narcissitic rage is a phenominon which occurs when a extreme narcissist, one so extreme he meets the critieria for being called a malignant narcissist. In other words, when Donald Trump finds his grandiose sense of self, his megalomania, is being questioned or undercut, or worse that he may be in danger of losing his ability to control the narrative it triggers his rage.
I try to observe Trump’s behavior as objectively as possible through the lense of the psychotherapist I was for 40 years. I realize that I have a bias against him. Watching him perform in his press conference today only cements my opinion that he meets the crtieria for a maligant narcissitic personality disorder who is prone to narcissitic rages.
Psychologst Alexander Burgenmeester has a good article abut malignant narcissism, but a simple Google search will find lots more information if you aren’t familiar with this disorder.