From the Merriam-Webster dictionary:
narcissism
noun
nar·cis·sism ˈnär-sə-ˌsiz-əm
: excessive love and admiration for oneself and especially one’s own appearance
The following is from an unknown source on the internet:
“Narcissism can lead to harmful behaviors such as bullying, gaslighting, disrespecting boundaries, and putting others at risk to meet their own needs. People with narcissistic personality disorder may also react with anger or aggression when criticized or rejected.”
Is trump a bully?
The following tidbits are from ‘The Root”:
On Nov. 14, the president was answering questions while on board Air Force One when the recently released emails from convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein– a touchy subject considering Trump was named multiple times– was brought up. When a journalist from Bloomberg News tried to ask him a follow-up question on the subject, Trump turned to her and said, “Quiet. Quiet, piggy.“
After being asked about Qatar’s $400 million gift to Trump, he told the journalist, “You need to get out of here. What does this have to do with Qatari Jet? They are giving the United States Air Force a jet, and it’s a great thing.” He then attacked the network. “NBC is trying to get off the subject of what you just saw. You are a terrible reporter. Number one, you don’t have what it takes to be a reporter. You are not smart enough,” he added.
The list of insults goes on and on. Bullying at its most vile and malignant level.
Is trump guilty of ‘gaslighting’?
According to WebMd:
May 26, 2026: gaslighting is an abusive strategy that makes someone question their reality and trust. Learn how to recognize the signs of gaslighting, such as lying, withholding, denying, and diverting, and how to cope with it.
Excerpts from ‘The Salon’ on Nov. 9, 2024, by Paul Rosenberg
Nine days before Election Day, Donald Trump delivered his closing argument at a Madison Square Garden rally that drew comparisons to a 1939 pro-Nazi rally in the same arena and characterized by similar anti-democratic themes: demonization of immigrants and political enemies, invocation of strongman leadership, threats of violent retribution, denunciations of the press.
In the article Mr. Rosenberg also describes the five themes of gaslighting used by trump:
Climate change:
There are thousands of pages of documents making clear that the fossil fuel industry has known about the dangers of climate change for decades, and lied about them. But Trump of course claims the exact opposite: the scientists, or perhaps the Chinese, are pulling off “a hoax.” It’s classic gaslighting.
The Great Replacement:
In his tenure at Fox News, Tucker Carlson was a prime disseminator of Great Replacement narratives, particularly those connecting it the next key element of 2024 gaslighting: the voter fraud myth. As with birtherism, Carlson and those he relied on did the intricate conspiracy-tracing spadework, which Trump mostly ignored in favor of his sweeping claims about hordes of criminals and mental patients being shipped to the U.S. and his delusional narratives about “the late, great Hannibal Lecter” or Haitian immigrants eating pets
Trump mostly ignored the intricate conspiracy-tracing in favor of sweeping claims about hordes of criminals and mental patients being shipped to the U.S., and delusional narratives about “the late, great Hannibal Lecter.”
Of course reality is radically different: Immigrants have much lower crime rates than native-born Americans, and are a net boon to the economy. It’s pure paranoid fantasy that blocks out the complex reality of a world in which the climate crisis will inevitably increase migration pressures. But it’s a simple story for a conman to tell, and the media’s willingness to normalize it radically shifted political discourse in Trump’s favor.
The voter fraud myth
This has been around at least since the 1960s, when former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist was involved in “Operation Eagle Eye,” a Republican voter suppression operation in Arizona. Decades of election data shows that individual voter fraud is extremely rare and organized voter fraud, beyond a single Republican example in North Carolina, is simply nonexistent. But through endless repetition, Carlson and others have made it a right-wing article of faith that Democrats are encouraging undocumented immigration and registering the undocumented to vote in significant numbers. This serves as the background rationale for a wide range of voter-suppression efforts and extra-legal intimidation tactics. For Trump, this mythical fraud serves to vindicate his self-image as a defender of American democracy, who’s sometimes forced to ask election officials to find him several thousand votes. Again, he doesn’t concern himself with the elaborate details of this or that discredited election-fraud conspiracy theory. He’s just trying to sell the big con and gaslight the public into viewing him as the great defender of democracy.
Roe v. Wade and abortion
Trump’s gaslighting on this issue has been particularly brazen. He was elected in 2016 thanks to support from anti-abortion evangelicals, based on his pledge to appoint anti-choice Supreme Court justices from a pre-approved list. That support proved particularly vital in surviving the “Access Hollywood” tape. The anti-abortion movement has built itself on decades of organized deception, but Trump’s added twist is to take credit and reject blame at the same time. He tells anti-choice supporters, “I got rid of Roe,” while telling everyone else, “It’s back in the states, where it belongs.”
His claim that “everyone” wanted this all along is, by itself, spectacular gaslighting, as is his claim that women have nothing to worry about. “I will be your protector,” he says, one of the creepiest gaslighting lines that women in abusive relationships often hear. “You will not be thinking about abortion” may have even more sinister undertones. This example of gaslighting was particularly effective, in that state initiatives to protect abortion rights passed almost everywhere, with large numbers of Trump voters voting for them.
In his article, Mr. Rosenberg has ‘hit the nail on the head’.
As far as disrespecting boundaries, look no further than the invasion of Venzuela to kidnap an individual who trump considered an emeny. He has threatened to do the same in Cuba. And his threat t”When you say Cuba is next, is Cuba – whatever you do with the military there, it seems like something – will that look more like Iran or Venezuela?” Doocy asked the president in the Oval Office.
From Fox News:
President Donald Trump said he believes he has the “honor” of “taking Cuba” as he described the Caribbean island as a “very weakened nation.”
Trump made the remark to Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy on Monday, the same day Cuba plunged into a blackout after its entire electrical grid suddenly suffered a total collapse.
“When you say Cuba is next, is Cuba – whatever you do with the military there, it seems like something – will that look more like Iran or Venezuela?” Doocy asked the president in the Oval Office.
“I can’t tell you that. I can tell you that they’re talking to us. It’s a failed nation. They have no money, they have no oil, they have no nothing,” Trump responded, before later saying, “I do believe I’ll be the honor of, having the honor of taking Cuba… That’s a big honor.”
Regarding Greenland:
From CNBC:
President Donald Trump said his administration will take action on Greenland “whether they like it or not.”
“I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way,” Trump said at the White House.
The Trump administration has recently said it is weighing a range of options on Greenland, including utilizing the U.S. military or cutting a deal to purchase it from Denmark.
Trumps use of I.C.E. to carry out his agenda of suppression and harassment against those he considers ‘enemies’ are further evidence of his willingness to use any and all means to force his will on America.
If these examples of the insanity of the current administration do not send chills down your spine, check your pulse!
Lets create an ocean of blue caps. Show M.A.G.A. that there are still SANE people in America.
Enough Insanity: vote blue