Mary Trump Says Uncle Suffered ‘Narcissistic Injury’ In Debate And Won’t Recover

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mary-trump-donald-trump-debate-kamala-harris_n_66e2bf5ee4b02a333c0afade

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  1. TheTeenageOldman on

    Who would expect him to “recover”? He’s just going to go deeper down the rabbit hole with extreme wingnuts like Laura Looney.

  2. >Cooper read a paragraph from Mary Trump’s new book, “Who Could Ever Love You,” in which she detailed her uncle, as a child, being a **“thin-skinned bully who beat up on younger kids but ran home in a fit of rage as soon as somebody stood up to him.”**

    >“That is one of the most damning and dangerous things about Donald Trump and that is one of things **that makes him most unfit, he’s never evolved from that. That’s still who he is,”** Mary Trump told Cooper.

    — the Huffington Post

    For those more interested in the potential effects of narcissistic collapse, here is the [link.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8783517/) It refers back to an article from the National Institute of Health.

    For a more digestible everyday kind of usage, here is a [link](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-narcissism/202202/what-is-a-narcissistic-collapse) a piece from Psychology Today. Either way, we shouldn’t get our hopes up *too* much.

    We can still get our hopes up a bit though!

  3. I love that Trump knows he blew it, and will be thinking about that when he loses on Election Day. I hope it makes him effing miserable.

  4. He may not recover in the narcissistic sense, but he will politically.

    Our 24-hour news cycle, goldfish memory is so bad these days that the next 53 days will be an eternity. Hell, Harris only became the nominee 2 months ago.

    Soaking in Trump’s disaster performance will be great this week, but Dems gotta keep the pedal to the metal and get ready for all the BS Republicans and Trump are going to lob at the wall the next few weeks.

  5. The trouble is, the Basket of Déplorables won’t care. They’re already voting for a man who is mentally ill and they’ll still vote for him.

  6. Oh no! That is terrible. Trump should go retire, just sit back and enjoy his jail time and relax a while, you know?

  7. Imagine it this way: Kamala fired the railgun to breach the ice worm’s shield. Now it’s up to us to take it down.

  8. It was smart of Kamala to bring up a second debate so quickly. It’s going to make him look even more like a coward as he doubles up on his grievances and self pity.

    Trump was always an idiot. She stripped away all the bluster and made him look sad and pathetic.

  9. GronklyTheSnerd on

    I thought Harris was too easy on him. If it were me, I’d have worked in a mention of what the normal penalties for deliberately mishandling top secret documents have been. How many people this country has executed over _one_ document. Do that early, put some fear in. 😈

  10. Zealousideal-Sink273 on

    There will be an announcement in coming days saying that he has to drop out of the race because of his “Brain Spurs”.

  11. Trump and JD have spent their precious little time full on attacking women and threatening the economy with insane tariffs.

    I can’t see how any woman, or any man that cares about women, or anyone who sees just how dangerous Trumps tariffs will be can vote for these buffoons.

  12. I’m still baffled by the idea that Trump knows he must win this election to avoid conviction for multiple sets of crimes, and really all he had to do was maintain his composure and talk about inflation.

    But once Harris said people were bored at his rallies, he lost his mind and started raving about migrants eating cats and dogs. Not once was he able to keep calm after she insulted him, even when the stakes are literally that he will spend the rest of his life under house arrest.

  13. SpeakAgainAncient1 on

    I’m getting the impression that a lot of his supporters saw him as weak for the first time Tuesday night. Why they didn’t see it way sooner I have no idea, but it’s like the spell has been broken.

    Anecdotal I know, but Monday I happened by a house near the soccer field in my area with Trump 2024 signs and flags out. When I was there yesterday post debate, they were all taken down. I took it as a good sign.

    They like Trump as a bully, but when a bully gets his ass kicked, his back up brigade usually pisses off pretty quick.

  14. Leg_Named_Smith on

    So how are we going to be able to tell he has the injury if what Chat-GPT says the injuries results are = normal Trump:

    People with NPD may react to narcissistic injury in a number of ways, including:
    Rage outbursts
    Passive-aggression
    Denial
    Projection
    Gaslighting
    Manipulation
    Holding grudges
    Seeking revenge
    Trying to cause problems for their attacker

  15. Someone should put Mooch in the “let them know it was me” meme.

    He revealed on [TRIP-US](https://youtu.be/e97tDBXRPek?si=WROr0F5x-zk2f2_N) last night that the Harris team contacted him back in August and asked him for strategies on making Trump lose his mind at the debate.

    Then after the debate he was in the spin room for Team Harris, throwing shade on his former Trump team colleagues, and he even brought the thing home with him to show off.

    The redemption of Scaramucci is not something I had on my bingo card at the beginning of this year.

  16. banned-from-rbooks on

    From the article you posted.

    > The grandiose/oblivious subtype was characterized by exaggerated self-importance, lack of remorse, interpersonal manipulativeness, seething anger, pursuit of interpersonal power, and pursuit of privilege. Persons in the vulnerable/hypervigilant subtype were characterized by an exquisite sensitivity to what others are saying, a tuning in to every comment that might be critical, a shyness to the point where NPD could be confused with Avoidant PD, a proneness to shame and hurt feelings and a masochistic conviction that they have suffered more than anyone… In clinical practice, it is important to recognize that the subtypes are not etched in granite. A grandiose narcissist can collapse into a vulnerable narcissist when shamed or criticized.

    > … Omnipotent control is central for the NPD patient. Hence, one can expect to be treated like a sounding board.

    > … Shame is sometimes defined as a sense of falling short of what one should be. Shame is often at the core of narcissistic individuals, who struggle with an acute sense of having failed in many aspects of their lives. They feel certain that others are thinking badly about them. When “caught” by someone watching them, a sense of painful humiliation may emerge. Seeing and being seen are central to narcissistic patients. They may feel that their secret sense of being “phony” or “fake” is now exposed.

    Yeah that sounds about right.

  17. Ismhelpstheistgodown on

    He just hasn’t faced up to the fact that it was Lara’s fault. She’s turned on him, is undermining him, because she loves Elon more.

  18. It was hard to decipher some of his babble but I think he said something about stopping the debate and she should go home. Did I hear that correctly.?

  19. The last time he suffered a narcissistic injury he was inspired to run for President. And won. Never write him off. We have to keep fighting.

    /r/VoteDEM