America First? Trump's NPD on the Diplomatic Stage

This week America's 45th  President's niece's book came out. It was so good I finished it in two days. From the very beginning (prologue) I was happy that Mary Trump is a licensed therapist, because she described her uncle as having met all nine tenets required to be diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (sidebar you only need to meet 5).

I'm not writing this because Trump is a narcissist...I mean we all knew that. However, I want to look at how his personality disorder has affected America's foreign policy.As you can imagine...not very well. Mary Trump described President Trump as dismissive, abusive, a bully, a predator, a thief....and the list goes on. Trump's niece Mary L. Trump, says in her book that she was afraid that the same way Trump related to family members is how he would lead the country. She was right.

photo courtesy RollingStone Magazine.

Former US Ambassadors have described Trump's foreign policy as an "up is down and down is up." Some of us call that gas lighting (a manipulation technique). Others call it peeing on someone's leg and telling them it's raining...which is colloquial for gas lighting. However, in addition to gas lighting, Trump has also been described as finding any way to use any national tragedy as a tool to air his personal grievances with other world leaders. Some say Trump cannot comprehend grief, but can only understand grievances... or that he's easily distracted by petty grudges.

ooohh...that last description hurt....even for me.  But it's true. How is a President supposed to mediate international disputes when he's dealing with these demons. Word  is 45 is in no way a mediator. Rather, he's turning up the heat on already hostile international tensions. He's hostile towards allies to the USA like Japan and South Korea. If 45 can't mediate between US allies, then, how could he have mediated the conflict over Kashmir between India and Pakistan. The answer is that he can't. No shade. Trump bullies his allies a lot of times over the phone (like his phone call with the Australian President where he abrutly ended the call). It makes for a tense international climate.  

Remember, this past January Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian general, was killed by a US air strike. The International community was shook. Everyone was thinking, how will Iran retaliate? And Did Trump have a strategy in place just in case Iran took action? 

ANSWER: Negative. There was no strategy. According to American diplomats the only plan was to stroke Trump's ego...at every step. Which meant Trump was no match for Iran who was all strategy on their end....Let that sink in...Scary isn't it?

A narcissist with no plan to stop the American people from being prime target for international retaliation and no negotiation skills. Mary Trump, in her book Too Much and Never Enough, tells us dysfunction is what she saw happening all along with her uncle as POTUS.

He could never have a plan for the people, because he's a narcissist which means it's never about the country..it's always about him.

Now this may be confusing to some of you, who are very literal..especially since Trump has led with the motto "America First." Let's look closer shall we... America First Diplomacy is wholly narcissistic.

Diplomacy means learning from eachother and being a team player.

If you're a team player, you don't put yourself first.You work it out together...

If you're a leader, you don't put your country first. You negotiate with other leaders so everyone wins. 

And if you're familiar with NPD you're aware that narcissists always tell on themselves...

America First???

Americans will let the world know on 11/3/2020