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MTZehvor on 30 December 2016
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Lefil said:
MTZehvor said:

...quite literally every civilized country has leaders which do that, albeit in more subtle terms. President Obama credited his own administration for the rising stock market during the latest state of the union, President Bush credited his administration for the booming economy before the housing crisis, etc. It's not as blunt as "Thanks, me," but the sentiment is the same.

Regardless, the possibilities for US president have been terrifying for a long time now.

The difference is that Trump thanked himself in the third person. It is an objective fact that people who speak about themselves in the third person are characterized as narcissistic, self-obsessed and detached from reality. And what do you say abou fact that Trump pretended to be the fictional publicist named John Miller or John Barron and called up various reporters for years in order to brag about himself in the third person? Stop pretending he is not Insane.

I think it would be worth looking up the definition of the word "objective," because it doesn't mean what you seem to think it means. Mikhail Gorbachev referred to himself in the third person, yet I think you'd be hard pressed to find many people who would consider him as narcissitic and self obsessed. I will agree with you that Trump is all three of the labels you've given him, but the mere act of referring to himself in the third person is not what qualifies him as such. Pretending to be reporters and hyping himself up would be more along those lines.

I'm also not sure where you got from my post that I don't think he's insane (assuming you don't mean insane literally). I think Trump, and Hillary, were both terrible choices for president. I simply disagree that thanking himself in the third person means anything significant, outside of the fact that he's more openly arrogant than his recent presidential predecessors.