• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Like all mental health conditions there are grades to its severity

    Trump isn’t a run of the mill narcissist, he has acute narcissistic personality disorder.

    Any political goal he has isn’t his own. They are only there because he is seeking validation from someone else and is enacting their will to achieve that validation.

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      7 days ago

      i think you are overanalyzing his likely condition. his goals aligns with his chosen allies, i don’t think this is very notable.

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          6 days ago

          i did and i think it makes sense that hes a narcissist, its just that political leaders like him arent doing things by themselves, and they have strategic interests.

          theres usually a group of people going back and forth before making these decisions. and i think the video guy is pathologizing his relationship with putin too much in lieau of other factors that might matter more.

          also a lot of what his regime in general says is possibly meant to make us angry and confused on purpose. trump’s public persona should be taken with a grain of salt, and is not that relevant in face of the actual decisions made.