Is Donald Trump a textbook narcissist?
The Washington Post:
On Monday, “Breaking Bad” actor Bryan Cranston called Donald Trump a “supreme narcissist.”
On Tuesday, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank referred to Trump’s convention appearances as “the triumph of narcissism.”
And by Wednesday, Tony Schwartz, ghostwriter of Trump’s bestselling book, “The Art of the Deal,” had made sure he’d told everyone from Jane Mayer at the New Yorker to TV’s Bill Maher that Trump’s narcissistic self-absorption had made him a “sociopath.”
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Ultimately, he said, regarding highly successful people, narcissism works — until it doesn’t. Usually those who suffer most are not the narcissists, Freed says, but those around them, the people who have to cope with the “mood swings, walking on egg shells, the demand to be sycophantic.”
“Right now Trump is not having a hard time” he said. “The hard time will come if he loses.”
A study published in the journal Psychological Science measured how 42 presidents rank on a “grandiose narcissism” scale. Can you identify the top five?
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