Donald Trump regularly exhibits behaviors typical of a malignant narcissist—a psychopath.

Whether he is actually a psychopath, I cannot say for certain. While Psychopathy is very characteristic and extreme, experienced psychopaths, in particular, are very good at masking their true nature and deceiving others.

Isolated psychopathic traits and behaviors occur in almost everyone. In normopaths, the spectrum ranges from no or almost no traits to numerous, clearly pronounced ones. However, there is a significant difference between a normopath with pronounced psychopathic characteristics and a true psychopath.

Donald Trump is known for never apologizing and never admitting anything.

He finds it extremely easy to lie. No signs of insecurity or even a guilty conscience are apparent. Therefore, he would probably even pass a lie detector test.

Donald Trump continues to lie even when his lies are obvious to everyone. The latter is called pathological lying in psychology.

Shame and guilt seem to be completely foreign to him.

These are all the typical behavioral patterns and ...

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