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

What do OJ Simpson and Sakineh Ashtiani have in common?

Remember OJ's book "If I did it?" You know, the one where he said that he DIDN'T do it, but IF he did then this is how he'd do it? Yeah that one. Well in Iran it got even better. See, Ashtiani didn't have to write a book, ohh no she made a video which aired on TV 10 December, 2010.

Ashtiani was dating two men in 2006, right after her husband died and then people said "Wait a minute! her husband just died, That's not right! " And she was convicted for having an "illicit relationship." A crime for which she received 99 lashes (ouch). Then they arrested her for having an affair, because they said she admitted to having an affair. She retracted this admission saying that it was said under duress (I bet it was). So the punishment for an affair is stoning. She was to be stoned, but Human Rights groups stood up and were like "WTF!!! What are you doing? This is barbaric! How can this be done in the new millenium!!" Then the Iranian government was like hmmmmm and came public with a statment that Ashtiani "committed murder."
Some are saying that the issue of murder just came up so that the government can have a reason to stone Ashtiani. Ashtiani has admitted that she aided and abeted a hitman in her husband's murder. The government says that she will be put to death by hanging instead of stoning. I guess that will make her feel better...whatever.
Anyway so this is how we came to the idea of the "If I did it" video. Ashtiani was to reenact how she used a needle to make her husband unconscious before the hitman (Taheri) came to the house and electrocuted him. She starred as herself in the video. Above is the still image of her filling the needle in the video. The government has yet to sentence Ashtiani for murder.

When in Rome...

So after the unrest in June, there have been a round of arrests and reports of police brutality. The latest that has been brought to the public's attention is of the former Foreign Affairs minister who was a supporter of Mousavi, the opposition leader whose loss in the latest Iranian Presidential election sparked an uproar of protests against Ahmedinijad. Mr. Aminzadeh is facing 6 years in 'the clinker' for his support of Mousavi. This has been reported on almost every major news feed around the world. The question is...are you surprised?