By Hal Brown, MSW, Retired psychotherapist
It’s not just mental health professionals who have educated themselves about malignant narcissism. For example most recently the director of the new movie The King of Statin Island Judd Apatow calls Donald Trump “a malignant narcissist” and James Risen, best-selling author and former New York Times reporter, in Covid-19 Highlights Trump’s Malignant Narcissism — and Proves Americans Will Survive Despite Him.
Here’s a president who has fantasies of shotgun blasts to the face. How sick is that? It’s a rhetorical question of course. It is that sick, malignant narcissist sick.
I believe he really want the Tulsa rally to turn violent, not just because it will suit his political purposes to blame the violence on, as he put it “protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters and lowlifes” but because he relishes fantasizing about it.
Relish, a polite way of say that it gives him a rush, which is a polite way of saying some other things too crude for Daily Kos since there is almost always a sexual aspect to sadism. You don’t have to take my word for this even though I am a qualified mental health professional. Consider: Psychologist John Gartner: Trump is a "sexual sadist" who is "actively engaging in sabotage".
Trump can’t wait to watch replays of his jackbooted thugs attacking his enemies.
Cadet Bone Spurs hid out in his bunker trembling in his Gucci shoes. Possibly they were the very same smooth sole shoes that supposedly caused him to walked like a doddering doofus down the West Point ramp.
Trump’s combative bluster at his rallies: punch them in the face, take them out of a stretcher, etc. just proves what an abject coward he is.