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Is Donald Trump a sociopath?

Yes 303 60.84%
 
No 195 39.16%
 
Total:498

Trump shows signs of Narcissism which can affect his grasp of reality

Signs of Narcissism according to Psychologists

1. Only thinks about or talks about himself
2. Craves attention and admiration from others
3. Believes he’s special and above everyone else
4. Exaggerates his abilities and achievements
5. Experiences fast, severe mood swings
6. Sets unrealistic goals that can’t be accomplished
7. Strives to win at all costs
8. Doesn’t consider other people’s feelings
9. Fantasizes about success, power and money



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the-pi-guy said:
hiccupthehuman said:

No. Nevermind the fact he said the Russia comment was a joke (https://www.rt.com/usa/353758-trump-sarcastic-russia-emails/), though the media has been quick to jump on it and make allegations of treason to distract from the real crime (Hillary's email scandal). He's not a sociopath, he's a strong leader, unlike other leaders who always tiptoe around the problem or refuses to acknowledge one.

Also, it is in fact Hillary Clinton that is showing signs of mental illness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqbDBRWb63s

Trump is not a strong leader.  He's very sensitive.  Being a strong leader does not entail mouthing off to people.  It doesn't entail anything that Trump has done.  It doesn't entail being able "to tell it like it is."  A strong leader does not tell everyone his hands are just the right size, and that there's no problem with his penis.  A strong leader is someone who knows they can be insulted without having to jump back on them.  

Mr. Trump is a creator of problems, not a solver.  

It's not like he cared much about the remarks, he just commented on the jokes from the opposition about those things in passing. He wasn't in any way actually seriously fazed by any of it. He rebutted in a joking manner and moved on. I don't see how that would discredit his leadership skills, as a man who has singlehandedly created a billion dollar empire by dealing directly with different leaders of large corporations and organizations.



hiccupthehuman said:
the-pi-guy said:

Trump is not a strong leader.  He's very sensitive.  Being a strong leader does not entail mouthing off to people.  It doesn't entail anything that Trump has done.  It doesn't entail being able "to tell it like it is."  A strong leader does not tell everyone his hands are just the right size, and that there's no problem with his penis.  A strong leader is someone who knows they can be insulted without having to jump back on them.  

Mr. Trump is a creator of problems, not a solver.  

It's not like he cared much about the remarks, he just commented on the jokes from the opposition about those things in passing. He wasn't in any way actually seriously fazed by any of it. He rebutted in a joking manner and moved on. I don't see how that would discredit his leadership skills, as a man who has singlehandedly created a billion dollar empire by dealing directly with different leaders of large corporations and organizations.

Donald Trump is not a billionaire. if he would release his tax returns you could prove me wrong. If you account for inflation his daddy gave him more than a billion dollars.



Trump's net worth is only $500 million or $1 billion but he claims to be worth $5 billion or $10 million. He claims to be 10 times wealthier than his real net worth.



fatslob-:O said:

It's a lost cause to even try responding but I'll bite your bait ... 

"I was talking about him saying we should consider a registry for muslims in the US." "And that is a straight up violation of the 14th amendment which does not apply to Chinese people in China, but does apply to Muslim people in the US."  

I proved otherwise and the US Supreme Court seems to disagree with you that you can't profile groups based on these factors but lo and behold this comes from you, "And no, that doesn't make Drumpf right because even if you can it may not be a good idea." so all of a sudden what I proved as a possibility means that I also have to disprove your opinion too ? Well what am I supposed to expect when desperate times calls for desperate measures ... *shrugs*

"Arguing that we deport US born citizens in defiance of the 14th amendment is objectively bad presidenting" to which he said absolutely none of that even when questioning about anchor babies and even if you meant that "he will strip of birthright citizenship" from anchor babies he also didn't claim that either in the interview with Bill O Reilly but here's where your jump in logic gets you into big trouble with your claim of "Donald Drumpf will deport anchor babies" when his last statement, "I'd much rather find out whether or not 'anchor babies' are actually citizens, because a lot of people don't think they are." in that piece makes it clear with that he has uncertainty of his own assertion ... 

To put this into discrete logic, A implies B or that A does not imply B and that B implies C does not ALWAYS MEAN that A implies C therefore you can't ever be sure that your claim of Donald Drumpf is true since his compound statement DOES NOT ALWAYS RETURN TRUE in your case ... (i.e. it's NOT A TAUTOLOGY!) 

So your statement that "Yes, he specifically said he would deport people born in the US" is both false in the literal sense AND in the logical sense but what's more is that he NEVER affirmed that "he will strip anchor babies of their citizenship". Both very dumb and stupid statements that you made up and I clearly pointed out to be lies ...  

*Still waiting for you to admit that you've lied* 

I proved otherwise and the US Supreme Court seems to disagree with you that you can't profile groups based on these factors but lo and behold this comes from you, "And no, that doesn't make Drumpf right because even if you can it may not be a good idea." so all of a sudden what I proved as a possibility means that I also have to disprove your opinion too ? Well what am I supposed to expect when desperate times calls for desperate measures ... *shrugs*

No you didn't prove that.  I said about 5 different times that I was referring to a Muslim registry in the US, and you brought up the Chinese immigration act.  The Chinese immigration act refers to a nationality (not a religion).  More importantly, it refers to people who are actually in China.  People in China are not under the protection of the 14th ammendment.  You obviously can't violate the constitutional rights of Chinese citizens, because they don't have any constitutional rights.   It is legal to set quotas on immigration.  I do not know if it would be legal to set quotas by religion.

The US Supreme court ruling you're referring to happened in 1889.  You're referring to a time when Jim Crow laws were in effect, women couldn't vote and so on.  Saying "the US Supreme court seems to disagree with you" is rather disingenuous.  Since the Chinese exclusion act was repealed in 1943 there was an official apology from the house of representatives. http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/19/in-rare-apology-house-regrets-exclusionary-laws-targeting-chinese/  Whether such an act would be considered legal by the supreme court today is pretty iffy.  

Creating a registry of US Muslims, which is what I was talking about, is a different matter altogether.  Foreign nationals are not protected by the first, fourth, or fourteenth amendmant.  Muslims living in the US are protected by all three.  So, you didn't prove anything, because the case you brought up has nothing to do with creating a registry for Muslim citizens.

"Arguing that we deport US born citizens in defiance of the 14th amendment is objectively bad presidenting" to which he said absolutely none of that even when questioning about anchor babies and even if you meant that "he will strip of birthright citizenship" from anchor babies he also didn't claim that either in the interview with Bill O Reilly but here's where your jump in logic gets you into big trouble with your claim of "Donald Drumpf will deport anchor babies" when his last statement, "I'd much rather find out whether or not 'anchor babies' are actually citizens, because a lot of people don't think they are." in that piece makes it clear with that he has uncertainty of his own assertion ...

Dude, seriously, that whole thing you just wrote was one sentence.  It is incredibly hard to understand.  I'm not sure I get what you're saying.  Use sentences of reasonable length.  

Let's put the quote you plucked back into context.  Because that piece only "makes it clear" when you ignore the rest of the interview.

Drumpf:  "Bill I think you're wrong about the 14th amendment, frankly the whole thing with anchor babies and the concept of anchor babies. I don't think you're right about that."

Bill:  If you were born here, you're an American.  Period.

Drumpf:  But there are many lawyers saying that's not the way it is in terms of this.  What happens is they're in Mexico, they're going to have a baby, they move over here for a couple of days, they have the baby, no but Bill they're saying it's not going to hold up in court.  Now it's gotta be tested but they're saying it's not going to hold up in court."

...

Bill: You are not going to be able to deport people who have American citizenship now, and the federal courts will never allow mass deportations without due process for each and everyone.  

Drumpf:  Bill I don't think they have American Citizenship.  And if you speak to some very, very good lawyers-and I know some would disagree, but many of them agree with me- you're going to find they do not have American citizenship."

That's four times that Drumpf said he does not think they have birthright citizenship.  Now, lets get to the part that you pulled.

Bill: Now there is a way to do it, and that is to try to get the constitution amended.  Do you know how to do that?

Drumpf:  It's a long process, and I think it would take too long.  I'd much rather find out whether or not anchor babies are actually citizens, because a lot of people are.

Bill: Why don't you test it out?  Why don't you have your guys file a federal suit now?

Drumpf:  We're going to test it out Bill.  That's going to happen Bill. 

You are again, intentionally or not, ignoring context.  You can't take out one line where he says "I'd rather find out" and ignore the four times when he clearly says he does not believe birthright citizens are actually citizens.  Nor can you remove the question he was responding to as you did.  Or, I guess if you want to be technical again, you can, but it's incredibly misleading.

When you add in Bill's question, that completely changes the meaning of Drumpf's response.  When Drumpf said "I'd rather find out", he was not expressing doubt about whether or not anchor babies had citizenship.  He made his position clear 4 different times.  "I'd rather find out..." was a direct response to O' Reilly's suggestion of a constitutional amendment.  Meaning he'd rather challenge whether or not they actually have citizenship in the first place, as opposed to making a new amendment.  And, he even SPECIFICALLY says that he's going to "test it out", or in other words, challenge it.

I'm not sure if you were intentionally pulling that quote out of context, or if it was an honest mistake, but there is no doubt that Drumpf does not think anchor babies have American citizenship.  He even goes as far to say as he'd challenge their citizenship status.  And there is no doubt from this interview that he is suggesting that he'd deport them.

If you need more evidence, this is from another interview with O' Reilly.  

"Do you remember when you said about the 'anchor babies,' that there's nothing you could do about it? And I said, 'Yes there is.' And I was right about it," 

http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-o-reilly-donald-trump-illegal-immigration-eisenhower-2015-11

Unfortunately, O' Reilly doesn't let him explain what he could do about it, but common sense dictates that he means you can challenge their legal status.

And from Drumpf's website

End birthright citizenship. This remains the biggest magnet for illegal immigration. By a 2:1 margin, voters say it’s the wrong policy, including Harry Reid who said “no sane country” would give automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.

We already know that Drumpf is not suggesting that he creating a new amendment which would ban future birthright citizenship, but challenging the constitutionality of birthright citizenship itself which would retroactively strip citizens of their legal status.

When you choose to focus solely on one line, you can make it appear he has doubt.  The full context of the interview shows that this isn't true.

To put this into discrete logic, A implies B or that A does not imply B and that B implies C does not ALWAYS MEAN that A implies C therefore you can't ever be sure that your claim of Donald Drumpf is true since his compound statement DOES NOT ALWAYS RETURN TRUE in your case ... (i.e. it's NOT A TAUTOLOGY!) 

If you're going to try and use logic, you need to label A, B, and C.  Without doing so, it gets really confusing, especially when writing it horizontally like that. And again, sentences man.  I'll try my best though...

This is a misapplication of logic.  

A= Drumpf wants to deport all illegal immigrants.

B= Drumpf believes "anchor babies" are not citizens.

C=  Drumpf wants to deport anchor babies.

The error you're making is that you say A and B are dependent on one another, but that's not the case.  The fact that Drumpf wants to deport all illegal immigrants and the fact that Drumpf believes anchor babies are not citizens are both independent of one another.  Even if A is false, B is still true.  C is the only item that is dependent on another, in this case both A and B.  If A is true and B is true, then C is true.  We agree that A is true, and I'm pretty sure I've conclusively shown B is true.  Therefore, C is true.

To put it another way, we'll label illegal immigrants, A and anchor babies B.

Drumpf wants to deport all "A"s.

Drumpf believes all "B"s are "A"s.  

Therefore Drumpf wants to deport all "B"s.  

So your statement that "Yes, he specifically said he would deport people born in the US" is both false in the literal sense AND in the logical sense but what's more is that he NEVER affirmed that "he will strip anchor babies of their citizenship". Both very dumb and stupid statements that you made up and I clearly pointed out to be lies ...  

Awwwwww, I was just about to give you some credit for putting some thought into it, but then you have to ruin it. I've been pretty tolerant in not reporting you so far despite several opportunities, so no need to call me or my statements stupid.  Especially when you're wrong.  You did not prove that anything I said was dumb.  You pulled a quote out of context, and used faulty logic.

In a literal sense, "yes he specifically said he would deport people born in the US" is indeed false.  You caught me in a technicality, so good for you on that one I guess.  Clearly would have been a better word than specifically.  Still, the claim that he wants to deport people born in the US stands.

*Still waiting for you to admit that you've lied* 

Well, I can't do that because then that would be a lie. 



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Still see that your not admitting to your lies ...

Donald Trump NEVER said anything about creating a REGISTRY specifically for Muslims, he talked about PROFILING but I'm not surprised to see you still invent more bullshit ... 

That's YOUR misrepresentation of logic ...

Edit: Oh well, I quit. This is mission accomplished for me anyway for me whether you'll admit to your own lies or not ... 

And if you don't like the technicallity aspects of my arguments well then ... 



fatslob-:O said:

Still see that your not admitting to your lies ...

Donald Drumpf NEVER said anything about creating a REGISTRY specifically for Muslims, he talked about PROFILING but I'm not surprised to see you still invent more bullshit ... 

That's YOUR misrepresentation of logic ...

Edit: Oh well, I quit. This is mission accomplished for me anyway for me whether you'll admit to your own lies or not ... 

And if you don't like the technicallity aspects of my arguments well then ... 

If you don't think he suggested that, why'd you spend so much time arguing that it was legal XD  Maybe that should have been your argument from the beginning?  Seems like you are, dare I say, moving the goal posts?  

What I said was

"The Chinese exclusion act didn't ban immigration by religious belief.  Chinese is not a religious belief.  And I wasn't talking about Drumpf's suggestion of banning Muslim immigration, which is something I have conflicted feelings about.  I was talking about him saying we should consider a registry for muslims in the US.  That's something much different and much more horrifying.  That's straight up nazi tactics.  And I don't mean like "oh I hate him so I'll call him a Nazi" I mean it's literally one of the things nazis did.  And that is a straight up violation of the 14th amendment which does not apply to Chinese people in China, but does apply to Muslim people in the US. "  (I should have said first amendment, not 14th).

And did Drumpf say we should consider a registry for muslims in the US?  Yes, he absolutely did.  

"Let's hear it directly from you," said host Kimberly Guilfoyle. "Would President Donald Drumpf support a full Muslim database?"

"Basically the suggestion was made and (it’s) certainly something we should start thinking about," Drumpf said, repeating that the reporter presented the idea. "But what I want is a watch list. I want surveillance programs. Obviously, there are a lot of problems. … But, certainly, I would want to have a database for the refugees, for the Syrian refugees that are coming in because nobody knows where they're coming from."

and

"Do you think we might need to register Muslims in some type of database, or note their religion on their ID?"

Drumpf responded, "We’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely. We’re going to have to look at the mosques. We’re going to have to look very, very carefully."

and

"Should there be a database or system that tracks Muslims in this country?"

Trump:  "There should be a lot of systems,.  Beyond databases. I mean, we should have a lot of systems."

and

You did stir up a controversy with those comments over the database. Let's try to clear that up. Are you unequivocally now ruling out a database on all Muslims?"

Trump: "No, not at all,"

That's several times he was asked about a registry for muslims.  He said we should start thinking about it.  Meaning we should consider it.  He said he wouldn't rule it out.  If you don't rule it out, you're considering it.  Try doing a little research before calling bullshit.

 And I also see you have nothing to say about his clear statement that anchor babies  are not ctizens.  He did say it four times after all, so I'd think you'd admit you were wrong on that one.

But yeah, you caught me using the wrong word once.  A winner is you.  



JRPGfan said:
John2290 said:
No. I can't believe people are actually voting YES. Fuck, the mans an idiot and all but sociopathy and the like is the worst thing anyone could possibly be. More chance Hillary is one since they are very good at hiding it and appearing "normal". Donald trump ....idiot. But sociopath? I doubt it. Not even the vast majority of those CEO's who make decisions that effect millions of lives in a negative way or kill people on the daily with their decisions are sociopaths.

You know alot of CEOs and Doctors, highly successfull bussiness men and the like are sociopaths.

They are extremly goal oriented and work hard towards their goals.

Your probably confuseing sociopath with psychopath.

Theres alot of sociopaths that funktion well in society.

They just dont give 2shit about anyone but themselves, but they work hard and usually do well (dont mind bending a few rules here and there to get ahead).

Weither or not such a person is best suited to be president is another question all together.

He might not be a pure sociopath, but as the thread shows he has alot of tendencies/traits in common with one.

Yeah, I agree with sociopaths being goal-driven. I'd also add that they're smart enough to work in the system and craft an appearance favorable to their target audience. If it's a board of investors, the CEO sociopath can be downright ruthless in managing his/her people. If it's public relations, the particular sociopath crafts an image favorable to certain sectors of the public.

 

It is different from pyscopaths, which have no empathy and might be downright cruel just for the hell of it.



The BuShA owns all!

 

Vertigo-X said:
JRPGfan said:

You know alot of CEOs and Doctors, highly successfull bussiness men and the like are sociopaths.

They are extremly goal oriented and work hard towards their goals.

Your probably confuseing sociopath with psychopath.

Theres alot of sociopaths that funktion well in society.

They just dont give 2shit about anyone but themselves, but they work hard and usually do well (dont mind bending a few rules here and there to get ahead).

Weither or not such a person is best suited to be president is another question all together.

He might not be a pure sociopath, but as the thread shows he has alot of tendencies/traits in common with one.

Yeah, I agree with sociopaths being goal-driven. I'd also add that they're smart enough to work in the system and craft an appearance favorable to their target audience. If it's a board of investors, the CEO sociopath can be downright ruthless in managing his/her people. If it's public relations, the particular sociopath crafts an image favorable to certain sectors of the public.

 

It is different from pyscopaths, which have no empathy and might be downright cruel just for the hell of it.

The thing is neither sociopath or psychopath are actually medical diagnoses.  They're both terms used to describ antisocial personality disorder.  Generally, we use the term psychopath to distinguish someone who feels absolutely no remorse, but it's not an actual definition.  They're very similar, just a matter of severity.



JustcallmeRiff said:
Rpruett said:

"Outright lies"  when we're discussing one of the most dishonest candidates in the history of the United States.   You obviously are smart enough to understand the difference between white lies and other formats of lies.  Trump says "My building is the TALLEST building ever!!!" , Hillary says "I didn't receive any money from Saudi Arabia!!!".  Both are false,  Hillary and her lies cost American lives, business and have an effect on general American issues, Trump doesn't hurt anybody and serves merely to rally his support and generate attention. 

Has there ever been a candidate to be bordering on multiple FBI investigations in one single campaign cycle? I would highly doubt it.  Whatever you think of Trump, realizing that Hillary has infinite more corruption and scandal surrounding her is paramount to understanding the reality.

Change Trump quote to" Obama is the founder ISIS" and since when has Trump held position to be considered responsible for Americans serving abroad. Trump has given millions of dollars to politicians to influence laws for business. From the birther movement to his candidacy Trump has had a affected on American issues.       If you think Hillary is the most corrupt politician you haven't been in politics very long.

Obama was a primary catalyst for ISIS.  (Bush too).   Why wouldn't Trump give politicians money to improve his business?  That's by the nature of business, what a good businessman does.  What a 'good' politician does is not allow a businessman to do that.  

How many Presidential candidates have been investigated (twice) by the FBI? With their Husband being impeached?  Clintons are scandal after scandal.