The profoundest mystery

To me, and everybody who I consider to be in contact with reality, the nature of Donald J. Trump is completely obvious. He is morally depraved and functionally deranged. There are specific labels in the DSM-5 (the manual of psychiatric diagnoses) for his pathologies, of which I am usually skeptical but of which he is absolutely paradigmatic. These are malignant narcissism and sadistic psychopathy. In other words, the only person in the universe is himself. He has an insatiable, bottomless need for adoration and obeisance. The interests and feelings of others mean absolutely nothing to him except insofar as he revels in causing them harm and pain. Every event in the world is evaluated solely based on how it affects him. He is totally lacking in conscience or empathy. These personality disorders are so severe that they have psychotic features. He does not distinguish truth from falsehood, rather he continuously and relentlessly lies and says whatever conforms to his childish fantasies and desires. Also, he is fairly stupid and astonishingly ignorant, and profoundly bigoted.He is a career criminal. When he was a young man, his father gifted him millions of dollars, which he squandered. How it is possible to go bankrupt running a gambling casino I do not know, but he succeeded at that, at least. Whereupon his father bailed him out by an illegal maneuver to evade gift taxes. He has committed numerous frauds for which he has been successfully sued, but for unfathomable reasons...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs