Paul Campos suggests he might be. We've known him as a malignant narcissist, but what if he's a literal psychopath?
Campos quotes a psychiatrist friend of his:
When referring to a real-deal psychopath “Never, ever, say ‘Oh, he wouldn’t go THAT far.'”
And the corollary: “There is no bottom.”
What the “malignant narcissist” descriptor misses about Trump: as a really, really, psychopathic person (far more so than all but a few of the psychopathic criminals I see in risk assessments professionally), Trump is highly callous and enjoys creating chaos for its stimulation value. He isn’t doing this just to make others grovel before him while “holding all the cards” in a shakedown. That too, of course, but he also simply enjoys destruction, no less than a child knocking over a Lego tower.
Campos adds:
Trump is getting off on the chaos he’s causing right now, because he’s a sick twisted individual. If you want to predict the USA’s tariff policy over the next few months you’re better off having a degree in abnormal psychology than any kind of background in finance or economics. Again, that doesn’t mean he isn’t also extremely stupid and extremely evil: the presence of A doesn’t exclude the simultaneous presence of B and C. Indeed, the stupidity and evil and abnormal psychology all feed off of and reinforce each other.
If we are to fight, we must comprehend what we are fighting. I've leaned on the "stupid" argument a lot, but this explanation isn't as farfetched as it seems.
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