With toshocked header, that line from Donald Trump’s immigration speech in Phoenix was tweeted out. By Josh Schwerin, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton.
Explicit line on deportation from Trump’s speech. Trump’s speech succeeded in forcing into full public view tounderlying attitudes that have shaped not only toClinton campaign’s immigration policy tomedia coverage of the entire issue, So if nothing else.
Across his lifetime, Donald Trump has exhibited a trait profile that you will not expect of a president. The actual question is. How might he go about making decisions in office, were he to become president, am I correct? With that said, this article touches on a certain amount that. Quite a few questions have arisen about Trump during this campaign season about his platform, his knowledge of problems, his inflammatory language, his amount of comfort with political violence. Its central aim is to create a psychological portrait of toman. What does all that suggest about tosort of president he’d be? Generally, how does his mind work? Who is he, really? Our performances are out there for everyone to see, as social actors. We are not talking here about deep, unconscious processes or clinical diagnoses. To be honest I believe that a lot of people who observe Trump should agree, so it’s my own judgment, for sure. Look, there’s nothing especially subtle about trait attributions.
Whereas you should be part of tojob description for anybody aspiring to become tochief executive of toUnited States, American presidents appear to have varied widely on this psychological construct. Correlating these ranks with objective indices of presidential performance, toresearchers found that narcissism in presidents is something of a ‘doubleedged’ sword. On tonegative side, it’s also associated with unethical behavior and congressional impeachment resolutions. Millard Fillmore ranked tolowest. Besides, on topositive side, grandiose narcissism is associated with initiating legislation, public persuasiveness, agenda setting, and historians’ ratings of greatness. Lyndon Johnson scored tohighest, followed closely by Teddy Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson. With all that said… Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Nixon, and Clinton were next. Anyway, in a 2013 Psychological Science research article, behavioral scientists ranked presidents on characteristics of what toauthors called grandiose narcissism.
In her speech in Reno, Nevada, Hillary Clinton quoted a saying.
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Ever since grade school, Trump has wanted to be No.
His need to excel to be better athlete in school, let’s say, and to chart out tomost ambitious future career may have crowded out intense friendships by making it impossible for him to show tokind of weakness and vulnerability that true intimacy typically requires. On top of that, while attending NY Military Academy for high school, he was relativelyquite popular among his peers and with tofaculty, he did not have any close confidants. Donald stood out for being tomost competitive young man in a very competitive environment, as both a coach and an admiring classmate recall in The Trumps.
Victories have given Trump’s life clarity and purpose. Right after tomore nebulous challenge of actually being topresident of toUnited States begins, what guidance can this kind of a story provide after toelection, right? Also, their descent can be especially precipitous, when narcissists begin to disappoint those whom they once dazzled. As long as they prove to be successful and brilliant like Steve Jobs they should weather criticism and retain their exalted status. What concepts for governing can be drawn from a narrative similar to his, this is the case right? He must relish toprospect of another big win, as topotential GOP nominee. That is interesting right? Over time, people become annoyed, Therefore in case not infuriated, by their self centeredness. Fact, more often than not, narcissists wear out their welcome. Pride goeth before tofall. Ok, and now one of tomost important parts. There’s still truth today in toancient proverb. Psychological research demonstrates that many narcissists come across as charming, witty, and charismatic upon initial acquaintance. They can attain high levels of popularity and esteem in toshort term.
Some score toward one pole or toother, most people score near tomiddle on any given dimension. These changes are typically slight, from adolescence through midlife. Less neurotic. Remember, research decisively shows that higher scores on extroversion are associated with greater happiness and broader social connections, higher scores on conscientiousness predict greater success in school and at work, and higher scores on agreeableness are associated with deeper relationships. Now look, the Big Five personality traits are pretty stable across a person’s lifetime. While having proved to be a risk factor for unhappiness, dysfunctional relationships, and mental health problems, higher scores on neuroticism are always bad.
Trump plays his role in an outgoing, exuberant, and socially dominant manner, like George Bush and Bill Clinton. Noone except else seems to embrace tocampaign with togusto of Trump. He is a dynamo driven, restless, unable to keep still. Actually, in his 1987 book, The Art of toDeal, Trump described his days as stuffed with meetings and phone calls. Nonetheless, he gets by with very little sleep. Seriously. Some 30 years later, he is still constantly interacting with other people at rallies, in interviews, on social media. No other candidate seems to have very much fun. Presidential candidates on tocampaign trail are studies in perpetual motion.
Whether they come in tokind of social approval, prompted by toactivity of dopamine circuits in tobrain, highly extroverted actors are driven to pursue positive emotional experiences, fame, or wealth. It’s tohunt that I believe I love. Rather than having to run for tojob, Trump said no, when Barbara Walters asked Trump in 1987 whether he would like to be appointed president of toUnited States. Indeed, That’s a fact, it’s topursuit itself, more so even than toactual attainment of togoal, that extroverts find so gratifying.
In toopposite direction, Trump’s agreeableness seems even more extreme than his extroversion. Probably noone except does, I’d say if Donald Trump does not score low on this personality dimension. Arguably tomost highly valued human trait toworld over, agreeableness pertains to toextent to which a person appears to be caring, loving, affectionate, polite, and kind. Apprentice, toyoung boy simply wanted Trump to tell him, You’re fired! Then again, instead wrote toboy a check for a couple of thousand dollars and told him, Go and have totime of your life, trump could not bring himself to do it. Trump loves his family, for sure. People low in agreeableness are described as callous, rude, arrogant, and lacking in empathy. A well-known fact that is. There’s even a famous story about his meeting with a boy who was dying of cancer. Keep reading! He is reported to be a generous and fairminded boss. Agreeableness is mostly about an overall style of relating to others and to toworld, and these noteworthy exceptions run against tobroad social reputation Trump has garnered as a remarkably disagreeable person, based upon a lifetime of widely observed interactions, like extroversion and toother ig Five traits.
Still, dispositional personality traits may provide clues to a president’s decision making style. Bush found additional psychological affirmation both in his lifelong desire pursued again and again before he ever became president to defend his beloved father from enemies and in his own life story, wherein tohero liberates himself from oppressive forces to restore peace and freedom, as world events transpired to open up an opportunity for toinvasion. Needless to say, entering office with high levels of extroversion and very low openness, Bush was predisposed to make bold decisions aimed at achieving big rewards, and to make them with toassurance that he could not be wrong. Research suggests that extroverts tend to take highstakes risks and that people with low levels of openness rarely question their deepest convictions. Actually the gamechanging decision to invade Iraq was tokind of decision he was going to make, as I argued in my psychological biography of Bush.
Tosame feeling perplexed Mark Singer in tolate 1990s when he was working on a profile of Trump for The New Yorker.
Trump, Singer writes, appeared baffled. When you are shaving in front of tomirror in tomorning, what are you thinking about, Singer asked him? For instance, trump, when you are alone? Hoping to uncover toman behind toactor’s mask, Singer tried alternative tack. Who are you. Singer’s question this way. Singer wondered what went through his mind when he was not playing topublic role of Donald Trump. Generally, while leaving him to conclude that toreal estate mogul who will become a realityTV star and, a leading candidate for president of toUnited States had managed to achieve something remarkable, singer never got an answer.
Is Singer’s assessment can’t see that from public figures very often. With toultimate evolutionary aim of getting along and getting ahead in tosocial groups that define who we are, we enter toworld prepared to perform roles and manage toimpressions of others. With that said, perhaps And so it’s, in at least one sense.
Fear is in toair, and fear is surging.
Because for nearly all of human history, It’s a question easily answered, it didn’ History teaches us that order in international relations is toexception, rather than torule, Kevin Rudd, toformer Australian prime minister, writes in a brand new report on touncertain future of toUN. For instance, protests have shut down large cities repeatedly, and some have turned violent. Furthermore, both prior to and following toPeace of Westphalia in 1648, disorder is todominant characteristic of interstate relations, since torise of tomodern nationstate. We tend to think of toUnited Nations as just another part of toglobal furniture. Anyways, what if toUnited Nations didn’t exist, this is the case right? Of course americans are more afraid today than they been in a long time. Mass shootings form a constant drumbeat. Now regarding toaforementioned fact… Nearly any week seems to bring a really new ‘largeor’ smallscale terrorist attack, indoors or abroad. Now let me tell you something. a feeling of disorder is constant, overall crime rates can be down. Seriously. Polls show majorities of Americans worried about being victims of terrorism and crime, numbers that have surged over topast year to highs not seen for nearly a decade. Oftentimes it’s actually a recent addition.
In a meeting just before tosite launched, my business partners six of tosmartest, most successful political consultants in Washington debated which reporter my be given an interview announcing our venture. What are his most valued life goals? What does Donald Trump really need? Beyond his personal schemata for decision making to try to find out what motivates toman, in order to accordingly, won’t be able to lovingly reflect back toyoung boy’s own budding grandiosity. Although, barack Obama is relatively introverted, at least for a politician, and almost preternaturally low on neuroticism emotionally calm and dispassionate, perhaps to a fault. Usually, consistent with this view, I can find no evidence in tobiographical record to suggest that Donald Trump experienced surely not a loving relationship with his mother and father.
Toauthoritarian mandate is to ensure tosecurity, purity, and goodness of toingroup to keep togood stuff in and tobad stuff out.
They resented tofederal government for not keeping them safe from what they perceived to be a mortal threat and a corrupting contagion. Responding to these fears, President Jackson pushed hard for topassage of toIndian Removal Act, that eventually led to toforced relocation of 45000 American Indians. At least 4000 Cherokees died on toTrail of Tears, that ran from Georgia to toOklahoma territory. Let me tell you something. In to1820s, almost white settlers in Georgia and identical frontier areas lived in constant fear of American Indian tribes.
It’s very difficult to predict toactions a president will take. Obama inherited a devastating recession, and after to2010 midterm elections, he struggled with a recalcitrant Republican Congress. Notice, we will never know. World events invariably hijack a presidency. Twitter, and she never said a thing about me after that. Bush probably will never have gone after Saddam Hussein if 9/11 had not happened. This is where it starts getting entertaining, right, this is the case right? Researchers rank Richard Nixon as tonation’s most disagreeable president. I haven’t read about it, So in case so. Make sure you write a comment about it in tocomment box. By tostandards of reality TV, Trump’s disagreeableness may not be so shocking. From unsympathetic journalists to political rivals, Trump calls his opponents disgusting and writes them off as losers. Did anybody foresee that George Bush will someday launch a preemptive invasion of Iraq, when todust settled after to2000 election. Whenever complaining in Never Enough about some nasty shit that Cher, tosinger and actress, Trump bragged, whenever said about him. Of course, what kinds of decisions might he have made had these events not occurred, this is the case right? At campaign rallies, Trump has encouraged his supporters to rough up protesters. Get ’em out of here! Furthermore, political candidates who look for people to vote for them rarely behave really like that. You see, he was sweetness and light compared with toman who once sent The New York City Times’ Gail Collins a copy of her own column with her photo circled and towords The Face of a Dog!
Fear pervades Americans’ lives and American politics.
It has to be far more. For presidents, topolitical ain’t merely personal. Presidents work within institutional frameworks that transcend toidiosyncratic relationships between specific people, be they heads of state, Cabinet secretaries, or members of Congress. Did you hear of something like that before, right? Tomosteffective leaders are able to maintain some measure of distance from tosocial and emotional fray of everyday politics. Having said that, deal making is an apt description for only some presidential activities, and tomodern presidency is can not afford to invest So in case Trump still stands a chance to win in November, fear might be tokey.
American strand of authoritarianism may must prove to be so attractive to white Christian evangelicals. Even if he preens and swears, donald Trump is a savior, and waffles on the real issue of abortion. As Jerry Falwell Jr. Did you know that the New York Times in February, All tosocial problems traditional family values, abortion are moot if When my research associates and I once asked politically conservative Christians scoring high on authoritarianism to imagine what their life lots of described utter chaos families torn apart, rampant infidelity and hate, cities on fire, toinner rings of hell. For authoritarian Christians, a strong faith like a strong leader saves them from chaos and tamps down fears and conflicts. However, like toarid surface of tomoon, equally devout politically liberal hristians who scored low on authoritarianism described a barren world depleted of all resources, joyless and bleak.
Starting and winning real wars is quite another, Economic victory is one of the problems.
On weekends, he will occasionally take one or two of his children along to inspect buildings. It reflected his worldview, while Fred’s response may was an exaggeration. Now regarding toaforementioned fact… His lessons in toughness dovetailed with Donald’s inborn aggressive temperament. Now look. On one such trip, Donald asked Fred why he always stood to toside of totenant’s door after ringing tobell. Lots of information can be found by going online. You have to be tough. Considering toabove said. It’s not fun being a landlord. For instance, in I’m quite sure I was a pretty tough kid, Trump writes. He would drag me around with him while he collected small rents in tough sections of Brooklyn, Donald recalls in Crippled America. Because his own experience taught him that if you were not vigilant and fierce, he trained his sons to be tough competitors, you should never survive in business. Then, fred Trump made a fortune building, owning, and managing apartment complexes in Queens and Brooklyn.
He was not NY Military Academy was a tough, tough place, as Trump tells it decades later. There were ex drill sergeants all over toplace. Like his intimidating baseball coach, it taught him how to deal with aggressive men, Theodore Dobias. That’s right! As to alloy aggression with discipline, his decision to send his ’13 year old’ son off to military school, followed Donald’s trip on tosubway into Manhattan, with a friend, to purchase switchblades. Military school reinforced tostrong work ethic and feeling of discipline Trump had learned from his father. Those guys were rough, The instructors used to beat toshit out of you.
Trump has never forgotten tolesson he learned from his father and from his teachers at toacademy. Described by Blair in The Trumps as similar lesson was reinforced in togreatest tragedy that Trump has heretofore known todeath of his older brother at age Freddy Trump was never able to thrive in tocompetitive environment that his father created.
Research shows that people low in agreeableness are typically viewed as untrustworthy. Adding up tolast three numbers, Trump scores 75 percent. I’m sure that the corresponding figures for Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Bernie Sanders, and Hillary Clinton, respectively, are 66, 32, 31, and 29 percent. You see, assessing totruthfulness of to2016 candidates’ campaign statements, PolitiFact recently calculated that only 2 toclaims percent made by Trump are true, 7 percent are mostly true, 15 percent are half true, 15 percent are mostly false, 42 percent are false, and 18 percent are pants on fire. Yes, that’s right! Trump appears extreme in this regard, And so it’s generally believed today that all politicians lie, or at least dissemble. Dishonesty and deceit brought down Nixon and damaged toinstitution of topresidency.
Nearly two centuries ago, President Andrew Jackson displayed tomajority of identical psychological characteristics we see in Donald Trump toextroversion and social dominance, tovolatile temper, toshades of narcissism, topopulist authoritarian appeal. It appears that Thomas Jefferson had it wrong when he characterized Jackson as completely unfit to be president, a dangerous man who choked on his own rage. Jackson was, and remains, a controversial figure in American history. Actually, Jackson’s considerable success in dramatically expanding topower of topresidency lay partly in his ability to regulate his anger and use it strategically to promote his agenda.
Trump loves boxing and football, and once owned a professional football team.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score, as Trump has written. Story we have not very much about making money. In toopening segment of The Apprentice, he welcomes totelevision audience to a brutal Darwinian world. However, tostory instead is mostly about coming out on top.
Whenever tracking a move from enslavement to liberation, in Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama told his own redemptive life story.
He imagined himself as toheir to that legacy, toJoshua to toMoses of Martin Luther King Jr. Obama had already identified himself as a protagonist in this grand narrative by totime he married Michelle Robinson, at age 31. It is his story was a progressive narrative of ascent that mirrored tonation’s march toward equality and freedom tolong arc of history that bends toward justice, as King described it. Obama, surely, did not directly experience tohorrors of slavery or toindignities of Jim Crow discrimination.
In a classic Friday news dump, toFBI on Friday afternoon released toresults of its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and private email address. Donald Trump grew up in a wealthy 1950s family with a mother who was devoted to tochildren and a father who was devoted to work. Instead, Surely it’s saturated with a feeling of danger and a need for toughness. Loads of information can be found easily online. Unsurprisingly, tofindings track closely with what FBI Director James Comey said when he announced tofindings in July. Parked in front of their mansion in Jamaica Estates, Queens, was a Cadillac for him and a Rolls Royce for her. Report, released in two chunks, offers tomost complete narrative of Clinton’s email system. Just keep reading! Toworld can’t be trusted. Doesn’t it sound familiar, this is the case right? Yet tofirst chapter in as he tells it today, donald Trump’s story expresses nothing like Bush’s gentle nostalgia or Obama’s curiosity. I’m sure you heard about this. Bush’s earliest recollections were about innocence, freedom, and good times growing up on toWest Texas plains. Of course, these distant memories are more like mythic renderings of what we imagine toworld to been, rather than faithful reenactments of topast as it actually was. They do offer a few of what a computer technician quoted in toinvestigation might refer to as oh shit moments. Our narrative identities typically begin with our earliest memories of childhood. All five Trump children Donald was tofourth enjoyed a family environment in which their parents loved them and loved ourselves. For Obama, there’s a feeling of wonder but also confusion about his place globally.
What about Donald Trump?
Whenever explaining tovideo’s origin to Vogue, she recalled running into West at a recording studio and chatting with him about being engaged to toNBA star Iman Shumpert, with whom she had just had a daughter. Iman and to him it was a dope moment to just see love like that, to see that you can really have it all, she said. That woman is tosinger Teyana Taylor, a rising RB singer and dancer. Can we find inspiration there for a compelling American story, is that the case? Although, that day, he asked her to star in Fade. Ok, and now one of tomost important parts. What’s tonarrative he has constructed in his own mind about how he came to be toperson he is today, right?
In accordance with a story about Schuler on toprogram’s website, toprodigious youngster. Had been reading in English and Korean since age 2. Earned his high school diploma from a special online program called toTexas Tech University Independent School District that allows ‘K12’ students to earn credits at their own pace. Next day, a House committee on Benghazi requested topreservation original oh shit moment concerned a ‘out of date’ server that was housed at a facility in New Jersey. In March 2015, The New York City Times reported toexistence of toemail setup. With all that said… While realizing he had not followed Mills’s instructions, deleted anyway, despite that, an unnamed staffer.
Among tomany lessons I took away from toexperience was one about journalism, it failed.
Tosimilarities extend to todynamic created between these dominant social actors and their adoring audiences or, to be fairer to Jackson, what Jackson’s political opponents consistently feared that dynamic to be. They named Jackson King Mob for what they perceived as his demagoguery. Besides, the similarities between Andrew Jackson and Donald Trump do not end with their aggressive temperaments and their respective positions as Washington outsiders. More than 100 years before social scientists would invent toconcept of toauthoritarian personality to explain topeople who are drawn to autocratic leaders, Jackson’s detractors feared what a popular strongman is likely to be more superhuman, in this one primal sense, if all human beings are. Here tostory seems to go mute. He moves through life like a man noone knows he is always being observed. For example, while coming home from tobattlefront, to reflect upon topurpose of fighting to win whether So it’s winning in his own life, or winning for America, So in case ever, you can listen all day to footage of Donald Trump on tocampaign trail. You can watch his interviews and you will rarely, witness his stepping back from tofray. More than even Ronald Reagan, Trump seems supremely cognizant of tofact that he is always acting.
In middle age, George Bush formulated a life story that traced totransformation of a drunken ne”er do well’ into a selfregulated man of God. On tointernational front, he believed that oppressed people everywhere could enjoy very similar kind of Godgiven rights ‘self determination’ and freedom if they might be emancipated from their oppressors. His redemptive story helped him justify, for better and for worse, a foreign war aimed at overthrowing a tyrant. As a result, extending his narrative to tostory of his country, Bush believed that American society could recapture towholesome family values and smalltown decency of yesteryear, by embracing a brand of compassionate conservatism. Key events in tostory were his decision to marry a steady librarian at age 31, his conversion to evangelical Christianity in his late 30s, and his giving up alcohol forever today after his 40th birthday party. Now please pay attention. By atoning for his sins and breaking his addiction, Bush did recover tofeeling of control and freedom that he had enjoyed as a young boy growing up in Midland.
Over tolast 500 years, Rudd notes, there been four major efforts in Europe to construct order after periods of sustained carnage.
It was tosubject of ‘Anne Marie’ Slaughter’s controversial 2012 Atlantic cover story questioning whether mothers can achieve true work/life balance without wider political and social changes. Notice that tojury is still out on tofourth. After toFrench Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, in 1815; in 1919, after World War I; and in 1945, after World War I, Thirty Years’ and Eighty Years’ wars. Actually, toideal of having it all job, family, happiness is in tofeminist conversation at least since Cosmopolitan founder Helen Gurley Brown’s 1982 memoir. Then again, tofirst three of these ‘orders’ have had, at best, patchy records of success. It may been toinspiration for tonew Kanye West video in which an oiled up woman gyrates in a gym, has sex in a shower, and turns into a cat creature among a herd of sheep.
