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Trump snubs Zelensky’s offer to help US with drone tech and lashes out at him again
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2026
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Unbelievable…Trump’s would rather save his ego than let Ukraine help save American lives.
My brother in-law actually has a diagnosed personality disorder and the way Trump behaves, especially while under duress, is identical to how my brother in-law would react.
If Trump indeed suffers from a personality disorder, which I am convinced is the case, then he is literally incapable of backing down.
This is an absolute nightmare scenario for the US. Trump won’t stop until he is forced to stop. We will see Trump make even more crucial mistakes and see him try and escalate this as far as he possible can.
Is it still considered a disorder when it is someone's whole personality? If you removed the perpetual rage, the extreme narcissism and the bullying I think you would only find an orange stain on the floor where Trump was.
Correct. Trump has no personality, he is just personified disorder.
Personality disorders are controversial in psychology. But yes they are considered legitimate.
Patterns of specific maladaptive traits and behaviors that are consistent across the lifespan.
Personality disorder types are specific clusters of symptoms/traits/behaviors.
I'm personally on the fence if personalities can be categorized very much. People are very unique in their traits and levels of traits.
Except for people with high narcissism and dark triad traits (anti-social traits like manipulation , lack of empathy, vindictiveness, impulsivity).
These are just ruthless egotistical people who all behave the same. Just incredibly selfish and cruel.
Estimated to be ~5% of them in the general population with some professions having very high instances. Like lawyers and CEOs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
He recently stated that he wants to bomb Khark Island "Just for fun."
While this is a bald-faced lie to cover up for the fact that their earlier strikes weren't as successful as claimed, just think about what kind of lie he was willing to tell; to him, the idea of putting Americans in harm's way "just for fun" seems completely reasonable.
He literally does not care about the lives of the people who swore an oath to serve, to the point where he cannot even conceive of the notion that anyone else would.
There is a phenomenon called "self handicapping". And everyone does it a little at least a few times but it's typically a behavior that's considered poor.
Here is an example of how it works.
Let's say you have a big exam tomorrow. And you fucked around , didn't study. You knew about it weeks ago. You know you are going to fail it. But. Instead of spending that last evening cramming as much as possible to make up for procrastinating to maybe have a small chance of passing it, you decide to go to a bar and get shit faced.
The next day you don't even show up to class.
You blame failing the class on the alcohol. Instead of your inability to prioritize your education or your own intelligence.
It was the alcohol. Not your own ability to pass. You probably would have aced it actually. If you hadn't been hungover.
So this is a way to save face and preserve a sense of self superiority.
People who are narcissistic do this almost constantly. They never fail. No , not them. It's always some external cause that their plans didn't work.
They intentionally set up multiple barriers so that they can always fall back on those.
Trump does the same,
For instance. Tarriffs. He can claim he has a plan to fix the economy with tarriffs but Congress won't let him. So we won't ever know how great of a plan it was. It totally would have worked. It just needed a little more time.
But. often the obstacle isn't doing its job.
Example. Trump starts war. It's going badly. He won't pull out until Congress forces him. Then he can say "we were winning. My plan was great they just wouldn't let me see it through.
He wants Congress to stop it. He has wanted Congress and the supreme Court to stop most of the b.s. So he can claim they were good plans but someone else fucked it up.
He did this all through his first term too. It's how people like him function.
"Putin told me Zelensky's a bad hombre."
Someone like Trump would rather launch all the nukes in the world and force everyone else to do the same than even give a politician's back down (I.E. what Ronald Reagan did after the barracks bombing in Lebanon in 1982).
In Trump's case, he might just be a spoiled brat, honestly. Or it could be a disorder.
Trump's ego is the thing he values most of all.
Don't give him excuses, he's a sociopath.