Trump on the Couch Quotes

“Examples of Trump’s narcissism are legion and instructive. A widely photographed instance occurred in February 2018, when Trump, boarding Air Force One on a rainy day, held a large umbrella to cover his head in the storm without inviting his wife or young son to join him. While depriving Melania and Barron of cover from the rain, Trump was exhibiting textbook signs of two kinds of narcissism: primary narcissism, associated with survival, which was the impulse behind his disregarding his family’s comfort to ensure his own protection, and secondary narcissism, the impulse we connect to the familiar impulse to give oneself pleasure beyond mere survival”
― Justin A. Frank, Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President

“Donald Trump, then twenty-seven, took the lead in defending the family. Under the tutelage of Roy Cohn, the attorney who had formerly worked for Senator Joseph McCarthy in the Communist witch hunts of the 1950s, Donald pushed back hard, countersuing the government and accusing the prosecutor, who was Jewish, of conducting a “Gestapo-like interrogation.”
― Justin A. Frank, Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President