Currently reading a few articles about Donald Trump and mentality …more precisely, his.
Is Donald Trump OK? Erratic behaviour raises mental health questions
This one has a link to an article written by McAdams, a personality assessment, its the same page I've linked below. It is long, but a really good read.
The Mind of Donald Trump
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Through it, it brings up personalities of some of the previous POTUS (like Nixon and Jackson, actually tells how Dems got the donkey as a symbol, opponents of Jackson feared his temper and called him an ass) and sounds a bit balanced in how it covers Trump, not pandering to either left or right.
It actually tells the only one good tale about Trump relating to non-family. A dying boy who was a fan of The Apprentice wanted Trump to say "You're Fired!" to him but Trump didn't have the heart to do it (well at least back then) and instead gave the family several thousand dollars so the kids could enjoy life while he could.
Then it goes to talk about his behavior to some others, like sending a woman a photo of her face circled and scribbled "Face of a dog!" or about Cher (which surprises me because I heard she's supporting trump).
The article states he's high on the extroversion but low on agreeableness, no surprise there.
"According to Barbara Res, who in the early 1980s served as vice president in charge of construction of Trump Tower in Manhattan, the emotional core around which Donald Trump’s personality constellates is anger: “As far as the anger is concerned, that’s real for sure. He’s not faking it,” she told The Daily Beast in February. “The fact that he gets mad, that’s his personality.”
I really do not want a POTUS that is consistently angry. esp with this in mind=
Still, dispositional personality traits may provide clues to a president’s decision-making style. Research suggests that extroverts tend to take high-stakes risks and that people with low levels of openness rarely question their deepest convictions.
On trump and his anti-Mexican and anti-muslim views=
As the social psychologist Jesse Graham has noted, Trump appeals to an ancient fear of contagion, which analogizes out-groups to parasites, poisons, and other impurities. In this regard, it is perhaps no psychological accident that Trump displays a phobia of germs, and seems repulsed by bodily fluids, especially women’s. He famously remarked that Megyn Kelly of Fox News had “blood coming out of her wherever,” and he repeatedly characterized Hillary Clinton’s bathroom break during a Democratic debate as “disgusting.” Disgust is a primal response to impurity. On a daily basis, Trump seems to experience more disgust, or at least to say he does, than most people do.
His disgust at a woman breastfeeding fits in that as well.
Unsurprisingly, he's seen as a classic narcissist.
Asked to sum up Trump’s personality for an article in Vanity Fair, Howard Gardner, a psychologist at Harvard, responded, “Remarkably narcissistic.” George Simon, a clinical psychologist who conducts seminars on manipulative behavior, says Trump is “so classic that I’m archiving video clips of him to use in workshops because there’s no better example” of narcissism. “Otherwise I would have had to hire actors and write vignettes.
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