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THE PATHOLOGIES OF DONALD J. TRUMP AND THE DANGERS THEY POSE


KIMBERLY IANAROi
 
September 22, 2020

A person doesn’t need a whole lot of training, like the training, the Don’s niece, clinical psychologist Mary Trump, PhD. (2020) has for example, to figure that the President of the United States is a very disturbed individual, an insecure narcissist with a very large mean streak.

I am not a psychiatrist or psychologist. I am a nurse with critical care, addiction and mental health specialties. I've been screaming this for years. The man is a malignant, narcissistic sociopath with features of borderline personality disorder. As such, holding the power of the presidency of the USA, he is the most dangerous, devious, sly, clever, (I did not say smart, I said sly and clever, very different qualities) underhanded creature on the planet. Think the likes of Ted Bundy, Jeffery Dalhmer, Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, etc, etc, etc, on steroids. And this is a man, who can't stand any perceived slight or criticism or disagreement from his insane view of himself, the country or the world.

A man who can be bought with a kind word of flattery, a "lovely letter" from the despot of the moment, who embraces QAnon cause "they like me very much". A man who follows Putin's orders because he and his family were stupid enough to think that the Russian money that they've been taking for a decade came with no strings attached. A man who thought that Putin's obvious assistance to help him win the Presidency was just because "he says nice things about me", "he likes me". He is a man who “forgets” every damaging, illegal activity he has ever done with, or while in, Russia and other countries and of course on his home turf of NYC.He is a man who thinks no one collected dirt on him; basically, he is a man inexperienced on how that world works. He is a man who does not understand that he is a small fish in a vast ocean of intrigue, scheming and back room dealings.He is a man who thinks everything is about him, that the sun revolves around him. He is a man who thinks of himself as a king, not a president. "I am the chosen one", "I am the King of the Jews" he shouts. In fact, it has become clear that he is, by every standard, a volatile, impulsive, easily manipulated, vindictive, vengeful, petty, crude, classless, careless, willfully ignorant, stupid man.

He acts like a three-year old child who is suffering from severe ADHD. He takes responsibility for only the things that have been achieved, almost always by others, Barrack Obama for example, and none for the stupid mistakes and unforced errors he has so often made, the fiasco with North Korea for example.

But most dangerous of all of course, is that Donald J. Trump, with all his pathologies is not simply a malign delusional septuagenarian, is a malign delusional septuagenarian who has nukes.

But the people that have paid, and will pay the greatest price for his reckless, heedless selfish behaviour are not himself or his family, or his GOP abetters, or the boot lickers, like Pompeo and the departed but not lamented Kelly Anne Conway, in his inner circle.

It is and will be the people of the USA, particularly the most vulnerable, and of the world in general – there are those nukes. Yep, all and all, I would say we are in the deepest shit this country has EVER had the misfortune to be stewing in.

Let that sink in a while.

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Resources

Trump, M.L. (2020). Too much and never enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. Simon & Schuster.

iKimberly Ianaro is 63 years old widow, retired nurse and a lifelong liberal and political junkie since Watergate. She describes herself as, “not far, far left, but getting there because of the violent, gun toting, racist, bat shit crazy, far right wing-nuts in the USA”. She has one son, two granddaughters and four sisters - ages 68-79 far to the right of me and my late parents, politically and culturally, Rush Limbaugh fans. They drank the Kool-Aid long before it was orange.” Ms. Ianaro now lives near Penn State University

 

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