Narcissist in Chief? How Trump’s Ego Reflects US Culture
Live Science:
With less than a month to go before Iowa’s Republican primary caucus, Donald Trump remains atop the presidential candidate polls. His popularity appears unblemished despite brash statements, personal insults thrown at his opponents and rampant speculation over his perceived narcissistic tendencies.
Trump surely displays enormous self-regard; in June, for example, he boasted that he’d be “the greatest jobs president that God has ever created.” In September, he promised, “We will have so much winning if I get elected that you may get bored with winning.” Egoism is a trait Trump seems proud of, in fact. In 2013, he wrote in a Facebook post, “Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser — having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!”
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More recently, researchers rated the narcissism levels of every president up to and including George W. Bush, basing the ratings on the opinions of expert historians and biographers. That research, published in December 2013 in the journal Psychological Science, revealed that presidents are more narcissistic than the general population. Specifically, the researchers reported, presidents are high in what is called “grandiose narcissism,” the common version of narcissism marked by supreme self-confidence and imperviousness to criticism.
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