These are two revelations in HUFFPOST articles from soon to be published books about Trump which add credence, as if we need it, to the assessment of Trump being a malignant narcissist.
Excerpt:
Just shoot them,” Trump reportedly repeatedly demanded. He is also quoted as saying he wanted to “crack their skulls.”
After some aides challenged the order, the then-president slightly softened. “Well, shoot them in the leg — or maybe the foot, but be hard on them,” he said, according to the book.
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Excerpt:
Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the time, “prayed” that Trump would “emerge from the experience with a newfound appreciation for the seriousness of the threat,” according to the authors. He hoped Trump would urge all Americans to listen to public health experts “before it was too late.”
“Instead, Trump emerged from the experience triumphant and ever more defiant. He urged people not to be afraid of the virus or let it dominate their lives, disregarding that he had had access to health care and treatments unavailable to other Americans,” the book states.
Redfield’s hopes were dashed the instant he watched Trump disgustedly rip off his mask as he stood at the top of the White House stairs after returning from Walter Reed, according to book.
And when Trump pulled off his mask, he was still “probably contagious,” the book notes. He then “strode into the White House, passing staffers on his way and failing to protect them from the virus particles emitted from his nose and mouth.”
This diary is a follow-up to yesterday’s dairy with a revised illustration:
Trump then reportedly cracked a smile, said he was “just kidding” because Kudlow would “never get COVID” and would “defeat it with his optimism.”
“John Bolton,” Trump reportedly continued. “Hopefully COVID takes out John.”
Trump was being serious with his comment, according to Abutaleb and Paletta’s sources for the book
According to an article in The Guardian Bolton when asked by Axios reacted with wry wit when he heard abut this:
When asked by Axios about the quote, Bolton said: “Fooled me – I thought he was relying on his lawyers.”
If Trump was "merely" a preening grandiose narcissist, someone who would make the emperor from the New Clothes fairy tale look humble, he'd just be a noxious joke. He’d probably make you sick but he wouldn’t literally kill you.
Instead he's what numerous mental health professionals have described as a malignant narcissist. Below is the first page of many of a web search for Trump malignant narcissist.
There are two definitions of malignant. Malignant narcissism doesn't mean the narcissism of a person has metastasized like a virulent spreading cancer. The word malignant is meant to mean malevolent and evil. In fact, the eminent social psychologist Erich Fromm, who coined the term in 1964, describes it as a "severe mental sickness" representing "the quintessence of evil". He characterized the condition as "the most severe pathology and the root of the most vicious destructiveness and inhumanity" Wikipedia
It means that extreme narcissism is combined with sociopathy and includes total lack of empathy. These people sadistically enjoying watching people suffer or causing them emotional or physical pain (think caged kids at the border), and death (see “Trump is intent on killing more Americans to feed his malignant narcissism”). They are paranoid, and totally lack the ability to be self-aware.
One of the aspects of Trump’s personality is that he makes no attempt to mask his evil. He’s like Boris Badenov. He revels in it. As the books come out based on insider reports I think we will see more and more accounts like this one about John Bolton…(today’s addendum)…. and we just did see two more revelations in the two HUFFPOST articles today. It’s as if anyone needed Regan to levitate off her bed and have her head turn 360 degrees to prove she was possessed by a demon after her taunting the priest in an evil man’s voice and her projectile vomiting.
The Poll
The previous poll asked whether you thought if the reveals from the new books could hurt Trump politically. Most of you thought it couldn’t. The new poll asks another question related to just what could actually hurt Trump’s popularity among members of his cult. I selected the three major things that I thought could happen. There may be others that I haven’t thought of.
