John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
I think we all are familiar with the traits and characteristics Mary Trump describes in her book.
They’ve been on display every day of her uncle’s time in office.
He always puts himself at the center of events, even when he has no contribution to make. He does this even with true experts, aggressively pitting uninformed views against expert ones.
It is the purest narcissism we’ve ever seen.
That he has little or no empathy for others we see in his constantly firing people, calling people vicious names, speaking badly of those who used to work for him, and willingness to hurt millions with his sanctions and threats even at a time of global medical emergency.
He knows very little about any subject, save manipulating people. He is a natural-born flim-flam man or con-artist.
He uses selected people like tools or props to suggest normality - his wife, his daughter, his son-in-law.
I do think what we see adds up to a psychopath, perhaps a low-grade one, not one who keeps mementos of dead victims, but a psychopath.
