Does Donald Trump Suffer from Mental Illness?

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In the interview, which was timed to place a capstone on his first 100 days, Mr. Trump resurfaced allegations made in a bombshell Twitter post from early March that Mr. Obama had tapped his phones in Trump Tower, saying that while the former president had been “very nice to me,” the two have had “difficulties.”

“You saw what happened with surveillance,” Mr. Trump said, declining to elaborate. Asked by John Dickerson, the host of CBS’s “Face the Nation,” “What does that mean, sir?” Mr. Trump said: “You can figure that out yourself.”

When Mr. Dickerson asked whether Mr. Trump stood by his characterization of Mr. Obama as “sick and bad,” the president appeared to become agitated and said, “You can take it any way you want.”

“I have my opinions,” Mr. Trump continued, as Mr. Dickerson tried in vain to ask him for an explanation. “You can have your opinions.”

The president then ended the interview, saying, “O.K., it’s enough.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/us/politics/trump-cbs-interview.html?_r=0

in his latest on-air shitshow, the donald walked away from an interview, redfaced and pouty, because a reporter had the temerity to ask him for proof of his renewed claims that he was wiretapped by obama. once again, when challenged, trump nonchalantly conflated his previous criminal accusation against a former president as just an 'opinion' and was angry when the reporter continued pressing the matter.

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Originally posted by Bashar Teg
Does Donald Trump Suffer from Mental Illness?

Probably.

Narcissistic personality disorder

Definition:
Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of ultraconfidence lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

Originally posted by Robtard
Narcissistic personality disorder

Definition:
Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of ultraconfidence lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

I agree, but I would have chosen a mental disorder 99% of politicians do not suffer from to some degree.

So you're using the "but most of them do it" style of deflection to save Trump here. /noted

that didn't take long

Originally posted by Robtard
So you're using the "but most of them do it" style of deflection to save Trump here. /noted

Not trying to save him at all, merely saying this is not something that separates Trump from other politicians.

This only saves Trump if the sole thing you can name is narcissism.

i never saw a president act like such a child. i've seen g.w. bush and bill clinton get a bit childish in their anger, but not to such a degree where they took their ball and went home, redfaced and pouting.

i agree with robtard that it's n.p.d.

pretty sure that what we witnessed there was our president reacting to his narcissistic injury, in probably the most graceful fashion that he was capable of.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
i never saw a president act like such a child. i've seen g.w. bush and bill clinton get a bit childish in their anger, but not to such a degree where they took their ball and went home, redfaced and pouting.

i agree with robtard that it's n.p.d.

pretty sure that what we witnessed there was our president reacting to his narcissistic injury, in probably the most graceful fashion that he was capable of.

Well sure, all politicians have this mental illness, but it's very correct to say not all of them have it to the same degree as Trump.

i don't agree with your attempt to normalize his behavior.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/us/politics/trump-cbs-interview.html?_r=0

in his latest on-air shitshow, the donald walked away from an interview, redfaced and pouty, because a reporter had the temerity to ask him for proof of his renewed claims that he was wiretapped by obama. once again, when challenged, trump nonchalantly conflated his previous criminal accusation against a former president as just an 'opinion' and was angry when the reporter continued pressing the matter.

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Hey Bashy... AINT THAT A YOUTUBE THREAD You posted to Show the Proof of the Material of what YOUR THREAD is trying to Show?!

So to use your WORDS that should INVALIDATE the ENTIRE POINT of what this THREAD is supposed to be about...RIGHT!?

it's a clip of his interview, clownshoes. are you going to suggest hollywood video doctoring magic?

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
it's a clip of his interview, clownshoes. are you going to suggest hollywood video doctoring magic?

Do I have to put of a Quote of what you yourself have said about USING YOUTUBE CLIPS as Evidence?

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
i don't agree with your attempt to normalize his behavior.

If I thought it was fully normal I would say having the mental illness at the level he has it is not rare for politicians. It is rare, what isn't rare is for these people to have this disorder in itself.

Even when someone does normalize a thing it doesn't always make it good. All politicians lie. This doesn't make it okay for a politician to lie, even if their opponent lies more often, none of them should be lying.

Politics especially has all kinds of attempts to normalize shady behavior, I'm sure plenty of times you've seen abhorrent behavior written off with a "that's politics" by people on both sides.

His speaking style and physical movements leads me to think that he has aspergers

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
i don't agree with your attempt to normalize his behavior.

That's a problem we're facing, imo. Normalizing behavior that would damage any other President.

Though that's a problem with Trump supporters and not Trump, they refuse to hold him to a high standard that other contemporary presidents have been held to. In fact, the bar has been lowered for him.

And it is not Normalizing...its RATIONALIZING.

Big diff....The Left have pretty much MASTERED it at this point.

See Obama and his Church Going Days aka Jeremiah Wright Days.

in surter's defense, it could be speculated that any president who can order bombings and airstrikes that kill hundreds/thousands of innocent civilians is a psychopath. however they could also simply be self-deluded. (as with so many 'patriotic' americans who tell themselves that it was all worth it to kill those 4 terrorists) it's difficult/impossible to support as it is to refute such claims, though easy to speculate. anyway, i think that's the road surter was taking.

trump's behavior, however, is impossible to pass off as anything other than narcissistic rage. he was emotionally incapable of confronting a completely valid question "why do you continue accussing someone of a crime with zero evidence". his choices were either to end the interview abruptly or screech autistically and hit someone/something/himself.

So when Obama ordered Drone Strikes that can be used as an example of his having a MENTAL DISORDER!? Gotchya.

i said it could be easily speculated but never proven or disproven because of other possible causes for such actions (self delusion perhaps). put down your crack pipe and learn to read.