these classifications are ambiguous, man. i could argue that he’s neither. one could even argue that he’s over-socialized and very much desires the company of others… if only to be admired by them. and i’d not call him a narcissist. not a genuine narcissist. a genuine narcissist is more disposed to have exceptional pride, something that is mistaken as vanity by others who don’t recognize the exceptional thing about the narcissist that he is so prideful about. but here’s the thing, and where trump’s pseudo-narcissism comes in. because most who possess such excessive pride aren’t really exceptional by nature, the idea of narcissism becomes associated with vanity… and the genuine narcissists become mistaken as one of them. in trump’s case, what we see is unadulterated vanity and very little pride. why? because trump cannot lie to himself. he knows he’s a worthless pontz despite the public persona he maintains in the social sphere. that is to say he’s done nothing, and is nothing, he can really be prideful about, and so his self-admiration is a facade. secretly, he’s embarrassed and ashamed of himself. so no. not a genuine narcissist, because he feels nothing about himself he can be truly proud of and take pride in.
well he can but these relationships are centered around the false pretense of authenticity while in fact his socializing is only a kind of formal role-playing. generally the bourgeois lack the features of experience and struggle that otherwise bond people together and enrich their respect for each other. the bourgeois don’t get together to share experiences, but to suck each other off and tell stories of their most recent exploits. for trump, everything is an act… but this is important; it’s not that he can be real and is choosing to act, but that he essentially is an act on account of those missing qualities that give people depth and character. he plays the father role, he plays the husband role, but these relationships are most likely extremely shallow and without substance. the people trump surrounds himself with are basically ‘props’ for him, and because of his wealth and power, these despicable people gladly grovel at his feet.
nah that’s giving him too much credit. he’s too simple to be a sociopath. or maybe i just feel insulted because i’m a sociopath and i can’t stomach the fact that i’d be compared to such a weasel. yeah that’s probably it. look, just use another personality disorder to describe him with, if you don’t mind. i’ve worked all my life to perfect my pathology and i sure as shit don’t want some useless putz to be mistaken as one of my kind, ya know?