Trump displays delusions in his New York Times interview

[riversedge]

Delusions of grander! Cognitive decline. yes!






Trump displays delusions in his New York Times interview


https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/29/trump-sounded-delusional-in-his-new-york-times-interview.html

What made the president's year-end New York Times interview notable was repetition of a particular brand of untruth.
Even as his administration struggles with historic unpopularity, Trump ascribes to himself qualities that surpass all predecessors – even reigning Republican icon Ronald Reagan.
Taken together, his comments signaled an inability to grasp conditions in the country, the limitations of his own capacities and the nature of the office he holds.

John Harwood | @johnjharwood
Published 2 Hours Ago Updated 1 Hour Ago CNBC.com



Kevin Lamarque | Reuters
President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump says so many things that are untrue as to complicate attempts at explaining them. Did he know better? Was he uninformed? Should he be taken literally?

What made the president's year-end New York Times interview notable was repetition of a particular brand of untruth. Even as his administration struggles with historic unpopularity and extraordinary dysfunction, Trump ascribes to himself qualities that surpass all predecessors – even reigning Republican icon Ronald Reagan.

Call them "delusions of omnipotence."

2 Hours Ago | 06:49

Over and over during the 30-minute session, Trump cast his performance in terms so grandiose and extreme as to be self-evidently false. Taken together, his comments signaled an inability to grasp conditions in the country, the limitations of his own capacities and the nature of the office he holds.

Here are some examples:

– He attributed his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton to skill in overcoming the pro-Democratic tilt of the Electoral College. There is no such tilt. The electoral college system provides a path to victory for the party losing the popular vote. Republicans lost six of the last seven popular votes in presidential contests, but they won the Electoral College in two of those six instances................................................................




– "I'm going to win another four years," Trump declared, "because newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I'm not there. Because without me, their ratings are going down the tubes."

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[dalton99a]

1. Demented sick fuck

[KT2000]

2. Kevin Lamarque

makes an excellent point. When the lies are continual, where do we start and how do we catch up. Anderson Consulting (of Enron fame) advised clients to flood the market if they have a potentially dangerous product or one that was untested, because it is much harder if not impossible to call something back. Then you have the control. This is a tactic of the RW and tRump. He doesn't even have to make sense or sound like a mentally stable human.

This is how so many awful things have happened in this country: dangerous chemicals, tax bills, dangerous financial instruments, FRACKING, etc.

[pangaia]

3. The Pro-Democratic tilt of the Electoral College!!!

fuck that, I'm going back to roller derby...

[BigmanPigman]

4. This is my ongoing question...

does he REALLY believe the BS he spews because he is so extremely narcissitic and insane or he is such a great con artist that he is still trying to sell this to his base/cult?

I have heard both opinions from various news pundits throughout the year.

Is he crazy or crazy like a fox?

[riversedge]

5. I think Trump is cognitively impaired --and probably crazy like a fox but it

losing his edge because some sort of dementia is setting in.