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A rare self-aware insight from Donald Trump. He knows he's a narcissist and thinks it's a good thing.
By Hal Brown
Feb. 1 - 10, 2018
Feb. 11, 2018
A rare self-aware insight from Donald Trump. He knows he's a narcissist and thinks it's a good thing.
By Hal Brown
"In fun-house mirrors of Trump White House, disarray can look like victory" in today’s Washington Post has too many quotes to choose from to decide which is the best to excerpt. He writes that Trump operates from two major positions: always double or triple down when attacked and make sure you are always the center of attention. Senior editor Marc Fisher found a quote from a Trump book which I hadn't seen before. It is unusual in that it shows a self-aware, emotionally intelligent, side of Trump. Scroll down left. ↓↓↓↓↓
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Here’s the quote in context:
Another chief executive might look at the political landscape and feel the walls closing in — a New York Times report that U.S. spies paid a Russian last year for material including unverified compromising material on Trump, or the resignation Friday of the No. 3 official in the Justice Department, the woman who would be in charge of the special counsel’s investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election if the president gets rid of Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.Not Trump. He simply does what he’s always done — whatever it takes to claim center stage.As he said in his book “Trump: Think Like a Billionaire,” visionary business leaders succeed “because they are narcissists who devote their talent with unrelenting focus to achieving their dreams, even if it’s sometimes at the expense of those around them.” ↓S↓C↓R↓O↓L↓L↓
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In early January, Joy-Ann Reid invited Pastor Mark Burns to be a guest on her MSNBC show to discuss disparaging comments that President Trump had made about Haitian and African immigrants. The pastor, a defender of Mr. Trump, refused to acknowledge a vulgarity the president had applied to those countries, as confirmed by two senators. Mr. Burns interrupted Ms. Reid when she spoke and talked over her when she tried to argue. Not one to brook insults from a guest, Ms. Reid called for a “time out” and told Pastor Burns he was wasting her time.
“You’re wasting my time,” he replied.
“Oh, well, then, if I’m wasting your time,” she said, “then goodbye.”
The interview abruptly ended.
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Duty to Warn therapists like me have long warned that Trump is a malignant narcissist, that he's a man with no empathy, a bully, and that he's and too impulsive to trust with the nuclear button. We also assumed that he has no self-awareness. Perhaps he has some, not that that this is reassuring considering that Hitler probably showed a lot of self-awareness in Mein Kampf.Tamara Taylor, a business behavior specialist, calls this emotional intelligence, and writes:
Adolf Hitler had a very high level of emotional intelligence.
Emotional intelligence definition: "the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically" (although, I think they mean empathically).It does not include ethics, morals, compassion, sympathy, or any form of altruistic behavior as a standard definition.He had a very low level of compassion and sympathy coupled with an incredibly misguided, twisted and corrupt sense of judgement, ethics, entitlement, self-importance, etc.... Emotional intelligence is, in fact, used by many highly successful sociopaths and narcissists.As most things, in the hands of the corrupt, it will be used for self-gain. From Quora
In the hands of the corrupt, it will be used for self-gain, indeed!
Here’s more:
Trump has acknowledged that his willingness to prioritize his success and well-being over that of other people close to him is a feature of his leadership style.In his 2005 book, "Think Like a Billionaire," Trump compared himself to wealthy business executives such as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Turner Broadcasting founder Ted Turner, whom he characterized as "successful in part because they are narcissists who devote their talent with unrelenting focus to achieving their dreams, ev
en if it's sometimes at the expense of those around them."To make the comparison, Trump drew on the work of psychoanalyst Michael Maccoby, who wrote the book "The Productive Narcissist."In an interview Thursday, Maccoby said that Trump's focus on one-way loyalty is common in politics, but it is
also common among the narcissistic personalities that Trump identified in "Think Like a Billionaire." From Analysis: Sessions learns loyalty can be a one-way street with Trump — Chicago Tribune
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Even more:
All three of those presidents (Clinton, Obama, Trump), to one degree or another, openly carried burdens from their parents’ lives. Trump admitted to no such troubles. He had never been very forthcoming about the texture of his home life. His father, he would admit, was sometimes distant — “His life was business . . . a very content person” — but ultimately a loving, strong figure. Trump had reduced his story of his mother, even more of a mystery to outsiders, to less than a sentence: “very warm . . . great sense of pageantry . . . very beautiful.” Donald Trump had walled off the pain in his past, hid it behind a never-ending show about himself.The rest of the desk was devoted to Donald, the stacks of magazines featuring his image, the morning’s news clippings about himself. Yet in an office dedicated almost entirely to celebrating Trump’s success and performance, nothing spoke to the man’s private passions or predilections, nothing to indicate a hobby, an artistic interest, a literary bent, a statement about his credo, his crises, or his dreams.In one of his books, “Trump: Think Like a Billionaire,” he had asserted that visionary business leaders succeed “because they are narcissists who devote their talent with unrelenting focus to achieving their dreams, even if it’s sometimes at the expense of those around them.” He approvingly quoted a writer who said, “Successful alpha personalities display a single-minded determination to impose their vision on the world.” fromWashington Post, The Trump we saw: Populist, frustrating, naive, wise, forever on the make By Marc Fisher and Michael Kranish August 12, 2016
And even more: (emphasis added)
Perhaps the clearest and most revealing statement of how Trump thinks of himself is in Think Like a Billionaire, the book Trump wrote to cash in on his renewed fame after the opening seasons of The Apprentice. In the introduction, Trump explains, “I’ve studied fellow billionaires from afar, and I’ve also read what others have written about us.”Trump explains that one “student of successful entrepreneurs,” Michael Maccoby, “believes that billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, and Ted Turner are successful in part because they are narcissists who devote their talent with unrelenting focus to achieving their dreams, even if it’s sometimes at the expense of those around them” (emphasis added). Trump notes that “Maccoby’s book The Productive Narcissist makes a convincing argument that narcissism can be useful quality if you’re trying to start a business.”Let’s set aside the historical fact that after six bankruptcies and more than 4,000 lawsuits in the past three decades, Trump is much more of a “destructive narcissist.” The point is, Trump has rationalized his narcissism, and he’s fine with achieving his vision and dreams at the expense of those around him.Indeed, Trump idealizes the most extreme form of single-minded determination to impose one’s vision. He quotes the author of The Natural History of the Rich: “Almost all successful alpha personalities display a single-minded determination to impose their vision on the world, an irrational belief in unreasonable goals, bordering at times on lunacy.” Think Progress,Only by focusing on the one thing Trump really cares about—Trump.
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