Psychiatrist: With Trump, “You See Sadism In Everything He Does.”
And President Trump's malignant qualities are only likely to worsen with his rise to a position of such power.
That President Donald Trump is a narcissist comes as no shock to anyone who has witnessed his rise to fame over the past few decades, and particularly as he ascended to the White House in 2016.
But many individuals who meet the requirements of a narcissistic personality diagnosis would not be so dangerous as the current U.S. president, even with access to the power his office bestows.
Why? Because Trump is not your everyday, garden variety narcissist — his apparent sadistic traits reveal a malignant narcissism.
Speaking with Salon, Dr. John Gartner, a former professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School, said it this way:
“When I first started talking about Trump as a malignant narcissist, people could see the narcissism, the paranoia and the antisocial element. But the fourth component of malignant narcissism is sadism.
"You see it in everything he does, from the separating of the children at the border to how Trump tortures anyone who doesn't give him what he wants. There's a way in which he takes a kind of manic glee in causing harm and pain and humiliation to other people.”
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