One thing Trump said that shows he’s a psychopathic malignant narcisist only fit to rule over a remote island where he’s the only resident, by Hal Brown. MSW

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I read this in this RawStory article this morning: Glowering, threats and Al Capone: what faces the Trump jury.

“I got indicted more than Alphonse Capone,” he proudly told a rally in October, referring to the murderous boss of a Prohibition-era crime gang.

“Al Capone, he was seriously tough, right?”

“If you looked at him the wrong way… he blew your brains out. He was only indicted one time, I was indicted four times.”

Who even thinks like this? If your child said something like this, or drew something like this after you brought a new baby home…

you’d be well advised to get them into therapy immediately, not that it would do any good since psychopathy is incurable.

TO THE BEST of our knowledge, there is no cure for psychopathy. No pill can instill empathy, no vaccine can prevent murder in cold blood, and no amount of talk therapy can change an uncaring mind. For all intents and purposes, psychopaths are lost to the normal social world.

Trump, and Al Capone for that matter, would be considered high functioning psychopaths. Trump functions in what could be called the “normal social world” and although his was the world of gangsters to did Capone. Capone was directly responsible for many murders whether or not he actually killed anybody himself. Trump just enjoys identifying with gangsters and rutherless dicators. He has no empathy for those who suffered because of his policies from when he was president.

I doubt Trump could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, let alone follow through on his saying about a protester at a rally “I’d like to punch him in the face. Video and Article”

Trump enjoys his violent fantasies and, as Jan. 6th proved, having the power to influence others to do his dirty deeds for him. It wouldn’t surprise me if he was gratified to learn a man who may or may not have been upset that he was on trial set himself on fire and subsequently died. Even though the man was a mentally ill conspiracy therorist Trump probably convince himself he was a outraged fan.

The psychology of it:

Psychopathy is actually a spectrum disorder. Read “9 Signs of a High-Functioning Psychopath: Is There One in Your Life?”

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2 responses to “One thing Trump said that shows he’s a psychopathic malignant narcisist only fit to rule over a remote island where he’s the only resident, by Hal Brown. MSW”

  1. bugzbennyk Avatar
    bugzbennyk

    There is a cure for psychopathy.

    It is not one that can be found in any treatment text, or in any research article.

    It is not a cure that can be discussed without drawing glowers, glaring looks, concerns and undue attention.

    Just shy of that ultimate cure, there is isolation, insulation, medication and placement. Isolation is putting the psychopath in a sequestered locale, as you suggested, shipwreck him on a desert island. Insulation is keeping his output, his missives, his peculiar exhortations from reaching normal or suggestible people. Medication?

    I’ve suggested that he would be so much easier to deal with if he were a substance disordered person. The fact that either he does not use alcohol or sedative hypnotics, and perhaps, does use stimulants, suggests that the class of meds he avoids would be a great starting point. Not for him, mind you, but for the rest of us. If we are stuck being his de facto caregivers, then we need a means by which we can approach and offer care. His present and permanent status as an aggressor, whether he would or would not actually follow through on his mouthiness, makes him too dangerous and difficult to manage in any form of caregiving setting or with any established treatment modality.

    Placement. Where should we put him? His family has abdicated their role as caregivers, and it is fully understandable why that would be the case. They’ve come to understand he’s a trainwreck. Can we put him in jail? Maybe. It requires a successful criminal prosecution to accomplish that. It requires a failure of the defense to convince a jury that “reasonable doubt, however slight” exists.

    Can we put him in a community setting? I don’t think so. He’ll take over the place like McMurphy in “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.”

    Your suggestion of a deserted island makes perfect sense. It might be what we need to do, ultimately. Take this wild thing, and release it back into the wilderness.

    Whatever we do, we need to be thinking of our own survival first, and not his, at all.

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    1. Hal Brown Avatar
      Hal Brown

      Then there’s always the Clockwork Orange cure.

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