Donald Trump, Narcissism and the King Lear Analogy
Donald Trump is described as having developed a narcissistic defense mechanism due to years of legal and media attacks. This psychological state is compared to William Shakespeare's King Lear, where a leader becomes unable to distinguish between true friends and flatterers. The discussion suggests that the constant "wizardry" and gaslighting from the system have pushed Trump into a "delusion bubble" where he only listens to yes-men and warmongers.
donald trump· king lear· shakespeare· narcissism· gaslighting· delusion bubble· rhetoric
00:00 What I see happening with Trump is, it's almost like when the system was coming at him and it was for nonsense reasons. And I'm with you. for those specific things because I felt like they were gaslighting him. They were doing wizardry against him, they were trying to reframe his words into something he didn't say and now that he's actually doing a bunch of monstrous stuff it's almost like they don't have any more ammunition cuz they already did all that stuff and so yeah i thought that was insane as a comedian I mean is kinda like a comedian in a way and you can talk that way as the president just doesn't work
00:40 I think you just nailed it. We were defending the truth, because almost all the time he was telling the truth and trying to do something good they were lying about him Oh! He hates all the Mexicans oh he says the KKK are fine people speaking of wizards...He didn't say any of that so we would defend him because they were lying but it was almost like not while he was involved but a setup the way they did it to get us to Pavlovianly defend him because it was wrong So he could then do double cross Yeah, and I think narcissism really builds as a defense mechanism because he was getting rocked. And just being in any lawsuit you learn how stressful that is and it's like when you're getting attacked that much sometimes people do create this delusion bubble where they don't let anyone around them that they think is a threat and so everybody starts being a yes man and then they plunge into insanity and then you have all these
01:28 You know, these warmongers just whispering everything he wants to hear in his ears. And he's probably had a lot of trauma from that stuff I mean... No, I totally agree and I know the inside baseball and you crystallized perfectly Trump didn't implode in He didn't fail as an implosion, he exploded! Now he literally does not give a damn He thinks he is going to do it, he doesn't care He told Tucker Carlson, well how did this go? Well he goes It always does Just like he thinks he's invincible that's dangerous, but he's learning now. He's learning now. Yeah Yeah because you start that's how that's what creates delusion bubbles and narcissistic personality disorder It's not just out of nowhere it's because You just get so hammered you're like okay I have to believe in myself No matter what? Like the truth comes from me anyone who criticizes me is a threat
02:19 And then you start, that's what King Lear by Shakespeare is about. It's about not you start not realizing who your real threats are and who your friends are because you can't have anyone around you that you think could do these things to you and that's why he was kind of brainwashed over the last eight years where people came at him so relentlessly that now we're seeing this like partial dementia come from it. That's wizardry, it's gaslight... It's diagno- uh, Gaslight Diagnose Ignore I talk about this in the book They need you to believe the spell because in the past I've believed the spells before where I'm like Am I full of hate? Like I can be so open minded sometimes that a wizard will say something to me and I'll think about it like And then if I start changing that way or if I'm like
