There is no diagnosis for psychopath or sociopath. Trump is thought to have a narcissistic personality disorder as seen by many mental health experts. The media won’t touch this. They are getting closer, but they won’t pull the trigger. Trump may know right from wrong but doesn’t care, cause he doesn’t see others as human beings. Antisocial personality disorder is what sociopaths are diagnosed with but Trump is thought to be a narcissist.
Gregory Lester is considered one of the foremost experts on personality disorders in America right now. I took this information from a workbook I got from one of his multi-day workshops. See if you recognize anyone in this definition, which really simplifies the criteria for diagnosis and how it is reflected in their behavior and how others see them and treat them.
PS — Lester believes personality disorders have a strong genetic component as opposed to environmental (abuse or neglect.) Abuse and/or neglect may be present, but don’t cause this disorder in his view.
Narcissistic personality disorder, must have FIVE out of the EIGHT characteristics:
1. Discomfort when not at center of attention. (watch Trump’s behavior at press conferences when anyone else has the floor.)
2. Inappropriately sexually seductive or provocative. (speaks for itself.)
3. Rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions. (he is incredibly changeable in his emotions and his statements: I’m the god vs it’s up to governors.)
4. Consistent use of physical appearance to draw attention to self (what the hell is with his orange face???)
5. Speech excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail. (no specifics, always beautiful or tremendous!)
6. Self-dramatizing, theatrical, exaggerated emotional expression. (speaks for itself with him)
7. Suggestible: easily influenced by others and by circumstances (it’s amazing what he tweets while watching Fox or talking to “friends”)
8. Thinks relationships are more intimate than they actually are. (He always has a “good friend” in every quarter.)
Trump clearly appears to be a narcissist with the major life theme of “I must be loved and admired by everyone or I am useless.” Their biggest fear is being shamed, so he lashes out viciously at anyone who speaks or acts against him.
Their cognitive errors are in emotional reasoning, overgeneralization and global thinking.
People see them as needy, showy, superficial, overly emotional, melodramatic, seductive, shallow, childlike, impulsive, relentlessly demanding of attention, no rapport, vague and dramatic exaggerations, sidetracking, overly body and appearance oriented, sexually aggressive, irritable, talk down to them, dismissive and impatient.
Their biggest dangers are temper tantrums, and self-destructive acts that they just can’t help.
They are frequently the victim, name call those they see as victimizing them, and acting persecuted.
Now add in what many medical experts see as dementia or signs of a stroke (watch his drooping right eye) PLUS possible Adderall abuse and maybe a benzo to calm down (Pelosi said he seemed “sedated” at the SOTU, and the media ignored her) and you have what we see in front of us. A total disaster.