Psychologists have been concerned for years about Donald Trump’s fitness to govern. However, within the profession, it is considered unethical to give diagnoses without having met and assessed an individual, which is why Trump has been allowed - even encouraged - to create mayhem throughout his disastrous four-year presidency.
Malignant Narcissism is a combination of three mental illnesses - Anti-social Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder - plus the enjoyment of inflicting pain. More akin to delusional schizophrenia, Malignant Narcissism represents - according to the doctor, Erich Fromm, who coined the term - “the most severe pathology and the root of the most vicious destructiveness”. Having escaped from Nazi Germany during the war, Fromm used the term to describe Adolf Hitler.
Though there’s nothing ‘official’ about diagnosing a man’s mental disorders from a distance, it’s chilling to see how many boxes Trump ticks (and it could be argued that he ticks them all)…
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