Donald Trump - a psychopath?
Here's are a couple of articles that will frighten anyone with suspicions about 'The Donald' and his psychopathic/sociopathic tendencies (though bear in mind Hillary has Nero like tendencies according to Oxford University):
"US presidential candidate Donald Trump possesses stronger psychopathic tendencies than Adolf Hitler, academics from the University of Oxford have suggested."
From this article in the UK Evening Standard Newspaper 23 Aug 2016
"Researchers assessed this year's candidates for the White House to determine how highly they ranked on the psychopath scale.
They were scored on a number of personality traits typical in psychopaths - including fearlessness, cold-heartedness and egocentricity.
While the study found Donald Trump's score puts him in the company of some of history's greatest despots, including Hitler and Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, his opponent Hillary Clinton found herself alongside Napoleon Bonaparte and Emperor Nero.
The study contended that although psychopathy - typically associated with remorseless killers - exists along a spectrum, some people can possess certain qualities without developing murderous intent."
Read the full article here
"US presidential candidate Donald Trump possesses stronger psychopathic tendencies than Adolf Hitler, academics from the University of Oxford have suggested."
From this article in the UK Evening Standard Newspaper 23 Aug 2016
"Researchers assessed this year's candidates for the White House to determine how highly they ranked on the psychopath scale.
They were scored on a number of personality traits typical in psychopaths - including fearlessness, cold-heartedness and egocentricity.
While the study found Donald Trump's score puts him in the company of some of history's greatest despots, including Hitler and Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, his opponent Hillary Clinton found herself alongside Napoleon Bonaparte and Emperor Nero.
The study contended that although psychopathy - typically associated with remorseless killers - exists along a spectrum, some people can possess certain qualities without developing murderous intent."
Read the full article here
As a Brit I have no real knowledge of Trump's history and qualifications to be the US President, but while watching his progress in the run up to the election I was amazed by his popularity. In a bid to understand this phenomenon, I was planning to buy his supposed autobiography, 'The Art of the Deal'.
Then I discovered he did not actually write the book...
Then I read this article about his ghost writer...
Is he really fit to lead the most powerful country on the planet? To have the nuclear codes - which will include the ability to launch Britain's so-called independent nuclear deterrent?
My own suspicions about his character, and the possibility he is a psychopath, came into sharp focus after reading the commentary from Tony Schwartz, the man who got to know him very well while ghost writing Trump's book.
From this article in The New Yorker - excerpts are in red italics:
If he were writing “The Art of the Deal” today, Schwartz said, it would be a very different book with a very different title.
Asked what he would call it, he answered, “The Sociopath.”
“Lying is second nature to him... More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.”
Then I discovered he did not actually write the book...
Then I read this article about his ghost writer...
Is he really fit to lead the most powerful country on the planet? To have the nuclear codes - which will include the ability to launch Britain's so-called independent nuclear deterrent?
My own suspicions about his character, and the possibility he is a psychopath, came into sharp focus after reading the commentary from Tony Schwartz, the man who got to know him very well while ghost writing Trump's book.
From this article in The New Yorker - excerpts are in red italics:
If he were writing “The Art of the Deal” today, Schwartz said, it would be a very different book with a very different title.
Asked what he would call it, he answered, “The Sociopath.”
“Lying is second nature to him... More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.”
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Schwartz had written about Trump before. In 1985, he’d published a piece in New York called “A Different Kind of Donald Trump Story,” which portrayed him not as a brilliant mogul but as a ham-fisted thug who had unsuccessfully tried to evict rent-controlled and rent-stabilized tenants from a building that he had bought on Central Park South.
Trump’s efforts—which included a plan to house homeless people in the building in order to harass the tenants—became what Schwartz described as a “fugue of failure, a farce of fumbling and bumbling.” |
Love him or hate him - whatever your view of The Donald, I think this is an important opinion from a guy who really go to know him:
I put lipstick on a pig...
Okay, so Trump did not write his 'autobiography' - no biggie, right? But according to Schwartz, The Donald has a very short attention span for anything other than self-promotion, and gets his information for TV soundbites...
President Trump?
I find this very worrying:
“I seriously doubt that Trump has ever read a book straight through in his adult life.” During the eighteen months that he observed Trump, Schwartz said, he never saw a book on Trump’s desk, or elsewhere in his office, or in his apartment.
And this even more so:
Trump’s first wife, Ivana, famously claimed that Trump kept a copy of Adolf Hitler’s collected speeches, “My New Order,” in a cabinet beside his bed.
You can find more about Trump's character by reading the full article on The New Yorker website:
I put lipstick on a pig...
Okay, so Trump did not write his 'autobiography' - no biggie, right? But according to Schwartz, The Donald has a very short attention span for anything other than self-promotion, and gets his information for TV soundbites...
President Trump?
I find this very worrying:
“I seriously doubt that Trump has ever read a book straight through in his adult life.” During the eighteen months that he observed Trump, Schwartz said, he never saw a book on Trump’s desk, or elsewhere in his office, or in his apartment.
And this even more so:
Trump’s first wife, Ivana, famously claimed that Trump kept a copy of Adolf Hitler’s collected speeches, “My New Order,” in a cabinet beside his bed.
You can find more about Trump's character by reading the full article on The New Yorker website:
A self-obsessed megalomaniac?
A psychopath?
The current US President..?
Gawd help us all!!!