Reports from Israeli sources suggest Donald Trump is considering a multibillion-dollar payment to Iran to end the Strait of Hormuz blockade, exposing divisions within the US administration and tensions with Israel.
This is an eyebrow-raising possibility. Have a read. We live in bizarre times.
The president, I was told, “no longer trusts Israel. He now believes he was misled” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
More evidence for a theory I have about Trump.
I think that at least some significant number of Trump’s lies aren’t technically “lies,” in that they’re not conscious attempts to knowingly substitute a falsehood for the truth.
Rather, I think that he’s so egotistical and so narcissistic and so sociopathic that he’s effectively delusional - that his primary measure for the truth or falsity of a statement is simply whether or not he believes it.
In his private universe of Trump, whatever he believes to be true is and can only be true, and whatever he believes to be false is and can only be false.
For example, that (combined with the fact that he has the emotional maturity of a toddler) is why he takes it so personally when someone influential and/or close to him takes a position contrary to his. In his private universe, the fact that it’s contrary to his position means that it’s false, which means that they’re lying, which means that they’ve betrayed him.
It’s also why he initially believed Netanyahu - a corrupt and self-serving piece of shit that anybody with a working brain would recognize as a liar in mere seconds.
Netanyahu certainly got through to Trump in the easiest way possible, and the way that’s available to anyone dealing with a delusional narcissist - he simply told him what he wanted to hear.
[Netanyahu] simply told him what he wanted to hear.
AND, made sure the Israel lobby and wealthy connections paid up big to Trump’s last election campaign. Money is the other language that Trump understands.
Spot on. Trump’s behaviour needs to be viewed through the lens of narcissistic personality disorder combined with ADHD. All of his actions are in pursuit of narcissistic supply. We have a crisis of sane washing in mainstream media. He has no strategies. He acts based on his psychological needs. He doesn’t have beliefs, he has dispositional states. He is easily manipulated by those who can see that. This is why sucking up to him fails. Anyone who has lived with a narcissist can understand this.
Netanyahu… simply told him what he wanted to hear.
“Hey Donny. I’ve been trying to push this since a Bush or a Clinton were your only options for president. Unfortunately, nobody had the BIG, STRONG, MANLY HANDS to handle such a difficult scenario. But we finally have YOU! You big strong manly business GENIE-US, you.”
More evidence for a theory I have about Trump.
I think that at least some significant number of Trump’s lies aren’t technically “lies,” in that they’re not conscious attempts to knowingly substitute a falsehood for the truth.
Rather, I think that he’s so egotistical and so narcissistic and so sociopathic that he’s effectively delusional - that his primary measure for the truth or falsity of a statement is simply whether or not he believes it.
In his private universe of Trump, whatever he believes to be true is and can only be true, and whatever he believes to be false is and can only be false.
For example, that (combined with the fact that he has the emotional maturity of a toddler) is why he takes it so personally when someone influential and/or close to him takes a position contrary to his. In his private universe, the fact that it’s contrary to his position means that it’s false, which means that they’re lying, which means that they’ve betrayed him.
It’s also why he initially believed Netanyahu - a corrupt and self-serving piece of shit that anybody with a working brain would recognize as a liar in mere seconds.
Netanyahu certainly got through to Trump in the easiest way possible, and the way that’s available to anyone dealing with a delusional narcissist - he simply told him what he wanted to hear.
AND, made sure the Israel lobby and wealthy connections paid up big to Trump’s last election campaign. Money is the other language that Trump understands.
Spot on. Trump’s behaviour needs to be viewed through the lens of narcissistic personality disorder combined with ADHD. All of his actions are in pursuit of narcissistic supply. We have a crisis of sane washing in mainstream media. He has no strategies. He acts based on his psychological needs. He doesn’t have beliefs, he has dispositional states. He is easily manipulated by those who can see that. This is why sucking up to him fails. Anyone who has lived with a narcissist can understand this.
This is even more evidenced by that interview where he said he had a psychological need to be president again. Like it was medicine for him.
“Hey Donny. I’ve been trying to push this since a Bush or a Clinton were your only options for president. Unfortunately, nobody had the BIG, STRONG, MANLY HANDS to handle such a difficult scenario. But we finally have YOU! You big strong manly business GENIE-US, you.”