Carney the Dime Store Pychiatrist

 

Canadian PMMark Carney has decided, it seems, that the way to handle Donald Trump is topraise him lavishly in public.

This is presumablybased on the sophomoric assumption that Trump is a narcissist. Narcissists arenotoriously susceptible to flattery.

Trump isnot. Both Vivek Ramaswamy and Tim Scott tried this in the VP stakes. Not only didthey not get picked— but a few brief weeks for Ramaswamy, neither even made itinto the administration.

Trump isjust as immune from flattery as he is from insult. Showing, if it were notalready obvious, that he is not a narcissist.

The lastthing a narcissist would do is surround himself with subordinates who might stealthe limelight. Instead, Trump picked a strong cabinet including charismatic peoplewith their own followings: RFK Jr., Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, Marco Rudio,Christie Noem, Tom Homan, Kash Patel. He is happy to give VP Vance prominenceand camera time, for example in the public negotiations with Zelensky.

Narcissistsare never creative thinkers; they fear the spontaneity that creativityrequires. It means a loss of control. Trump is creative in government, full ofnew policy ideas, and able to speak for hours entertainingly without notes.

Narcissistsalso lack stamina. As soon as something seems hard, and they get a whiff offailure, they will quit. Trump is just the reverse of that, seemingly not evenslowed down by political attacks, personal insults, legal attacks, deplatforming,attempted assassination, and electoral defeat.

Trump isthe anti-narcissist. He seems to have absolutely no ego.

And Carneyis showing himself to be painfully stupid.

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