Once again I heard tRump wants people to like him.

[BigmanPigman]

This was mentioned after NYC's Mamdani went to the White House. Several times I've heard it mentioned that he wants people to like him, since 2016.

I can't figure this out. Are there any DU psychologists out there?

If someone needs to be liked then why does he do so many things knowing people will hate him for his actions?

It doesn't makes sense to me.

[House of Roberts]

1. There was this song that goes:

'You can't please everyone, So you got to please yourself'. So he just does what pleases himself.

He thinks it was written just for him.

[C_U_L8R]

2. "And in the end...

…the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

But as with all things Trump, we’re talking bankruptcy and ruin.

[BOSSHOG]

3. He's never had a friend in his life. He uses people then discards them

He knows not of love. He’s easily manipulated as many political whores know. Just gush and pretend he’s important if you want something. Pathetic way to go through life.

No one likes him. He gives no one a reason to like him.

[Timewas]

4. Yes he does

As long as those people are at least multimillionaires ............ The rest of us can suck eggs

[haele]

5. His pathology is to be the bride at every wedding

And the Corpse at every funeral. Or the Corpse at every wedding, if he can't be the bride.
My youngest granddaughter stayed with her very immature parents for the two years of her life after the inlaw grandparents "gifted" an apartment for them to live rent free in (after Son in Law complained to them I was forcing him to go to CC for any sort of job training while they were living rent free with us and the oldest granddaughter -who ended up with us because they felt she was "jealous" ).
Eventually, both girls ended up with us. But they had so alternatively spoiled and ignored the younger long enough that she still (now 9) has serious behavioral problems if she can't command your attention whenever she wants it. Or if you don't treat her like the Princess Toy she was treated as by her parents.
Doesn't help she's on a neurodivergant spectrum, like her mom is.
*Rump is acting out for undivided attention and compliance, just like my granddaughter.
Unfortunately, he's always had enough money behind him to buy that attention and submission that he can't conceive of a "No" answer as anything other than a direct attack against him.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Narcissists can never understand why people don't like them.

Narcissists think they are the most brilliant, special, charming, beautiful people on the planet.
They don't understand why people cannot see how special they are.

They are good at love bombing people in the beginning and people fall for it for a short period of time
until their mental illness becomes apparent.

[mr715]

7. Pathology

The pain he inflicts on others to enrich himself is one part of his sickness. The other part is that no amount of adoration or worship he receives will ever be enough because he is a black hole of decency. Where you and I keep our empathy, there is only a void in Trump. He is aware that he is broken. He can only play at humanity, he does not participate in it.

He is an emotional and moral vampire. He must subsist on reducing others in order to normalize his grotesque inadequacies. He can never be exposed to sunlight, lest everyone see how small and broken he always has been.

[Ritabert]

8. That ship has sailed

[Ocelot II]

9. It's not so much that he wants people to like him; it's that he wants to associate or identify with people

who get a lot of positive attention. He realizes that Mamdani is newsworthy and popular, so he wants that attention and popularity to rub off on him and own some of it.

[AZJonnie]

10. Two things about this

1) It's much easier to con the shit out of people who 'like you', and
2) It's not "special" if people like you because you're nice and do things for them. OTOH if people like you despite your being a colossal dick, that must mean you're really special. Which is what pathological narcissists are DESPERATE to feel.