#narcissism

Greg Dworkin quotes Acyn of MeidasTouch, who says, "Trump on Iran: We really had regime change. This is a change in the regime because the leaders are all different. I think we can say this is regime change." Dworkin responds: "A 6 year old could do deeper analysis." #Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #megalomania #narcissism #DunningKruger /4

"Both Putin and Trump clearly acted out of a kind of megalomania. Their behaviour is evil and unlawful, but rational motives are not the decisive factors. Rather, Putin and Trump are primarily concerned with their own greatness. Or what they consider that to be." ~ Robert Habeck #Trump #Putin #Iran #war #stupidity #megalomania #narcissism #DunningKruger /5

The White House stands about 70 feet tall. The Lincoln Memorial, roughly 100 feet. The triumphal #arch Trump wants to build would eclipse both if he gets his wish. #Trump has grown attached to the idea of a 250-foot-tall structure overlooking the Potomac River, acc/to 2 people who spoke anonymously to describe his comments, a scale that has alarmed some architectural experts who initially supported the idea of an arch but expected a far smaller one. #narcissism #vanity #sociopath

The planned “Independence Arch”🙄 is intended to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary. Built to Trump’s specifications, it would transform a small plot of land between the Lincoln Memorial & Arlington National Cemetery into a dominant new monument, reshaping the relationship between the two memorials & obstructing pedestrians’ views. #narcissism #vanity #sociopath #Trump

#Trump has considered smaller versions of the #arch, including 165-foot-high and 123-foot-high designs he shared at a dinner last year. But he has favored the largest option, arguing that its sheer size would impress visitors to Washington, & that “250 for 250”🙄 makes the most sense, the people said. #narcissism #vanity #sociopath

#Trump told Politico in December that he hoped to begin construction of the arch within two months. Memorial Circle, the plot of land that the president has eyed, is controlled by the National Park Service. “The one that people know mostly is the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. And we’re gonna top it by, I think, a lot,” Trump said at a White House Christmas reception in December. #arch #narcissism #vanity #sociopath

💕 Hundreds of supporters of the John F. #KennedyCenter for the #PerformingArts gathered Friday as the sun set over the Potomac, surrounded as much of the building as they could, linked arms & chanted, “Hands off! Hands off!” For the first time in what felt to them like ages, their beloved #arts center was brimming with life. #Trump #law #vanity #greed #envy #narcissism #UShistory #JFK #architecture #conservation

The #KennedyCenter board voted to close the center Tuesday after a tense meeting in which #Trump called in to berate a Democratic congresswoman who serves on the panel, acc/to 3 sources familiar with the matter. “It was f**king crazy,” said one source familiar with the exchange between Trump & Rep #JoyceBeatty, whose #lawsuit has prevented Trump’s name from being added to the building. #law #vanity #greed #envy #narcissism #UShistory #architecture #conservation

The cost of each of the 14 additional vessels is expected to jump to slightly more than $18 billion from $10.2 billion, for a total cost of $275 billion for 15 ships. The estimates were calculated by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which said that the first of the battleships might take eight years or longer to build. #TaxpayersMoney #narcissism #Trump

Hundreds of billions of #TaxpayersMoney all being spent to feed one man’s ego A new class of #warships that #Trump says will anchor a “golden fleet” for the #US #Navy is expected to cost at least 50% more than estimated earlier, acc/to a govt report released Wednesday. The first planned “Trump-class” battleship, the USS Defiant, is likely to cost $23.4 billion, $8 billion more than the Navy initially indicated. #narcissism

RE: https://mastodon.social/@BrianHarrod/116982665997777798 This is hopeful: people are waking up: "Views of capitalism have gone from 30 points positive in 2019 (57% favorable to 27% unfavorable among registered voters) to just four points positive today (50%-46%). "The poll also shows 65% of voters agree that “the system is rigged to favor the wealthy.” That’s up from 56% in Trump’s first term." #capitalism #narcissism

#GiftArticle #Greed & #Narcissism A New York Times investigation found that #Trump’s push to speed delivery of the #Qatar gifted aircraft led to ballooning costs & trade-offs in safety features. #Trump was entranced. It was a few weeks into his second term, & he was on the tarmac of the Palm Beach airport, getting a tour of a luxury Boeing 747-8 that had been flown from Doha for his perusal.

" What makes this caption so funny — whether the Guardian intended it to be or not — is what unfolded moments before the photo was shot." https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-guardian-writes-1-caption-of-trump-at-world-cup-thats-so-diabolical-its-going-viral_n_6a5e3aede4b03e444876f14f?origin=home-whats-happening-unit #TrumpAndEpstein #Ego #Narcissism #WorldCup

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116949001921331922 One-in-five CEOs is a sociopath, usually very high in #narcissism. They get paid enormous salaries and they're not competent. This is ridiculous (about #AI use at companies): "The failure rate is so high that even basic inquiry leaves us in an untenable position. Any coherent question about how it’s going, what the goal is, who is using it, constitutes an inadvertent attack on the chain of command responsible for the work because there are no good answers to anything."

Examples include a commemorative passport with Trump’s image inside its pages & the addition of his signature on newly printed $100 bills. There are also proposals to feature his image on 24-karat gold coins and commemorative $250 bills. A Treasury Department spokesperson said the coin “is in production and minted in Philadelphia, and it will be available in the fall.” #Trump #narcissism #greed #vanity

Under a #law passed in 2020, the #Treasury Department can mint $1 coins during 2026 to mark the 250th anniversary “with designs emblematic of the U.S. semiquincentennial.” However, according to US code, “[o]nly the portrait of a DECEASED individual may appear on United States currency & securities” — a law that sprang from a Colonial-era tradition against putting current presidents on #US coins [distinguishing] themselves from the British monarchy. #Trump #narcissism #greed #vanity

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/116853121276234251 Utterly shameless sociopath. These guys don't even pretend to give anything back to society or to limit their very conspicuous consumption. The robber barons gave far more back. #narcissism #collapse

"That pattern held for chief executives of Fortune 500 companies. Since we couldn’t directly measure the size of their egos, we measured factors that many previous studies have identified as reliable proxies for narcissism: the sizes of their pay packages, their signatures and their photos in their company reports. (No, the chief executives probably aren’t directly overseeing the page layout, but their underlings have to figure out what will and won’t please the boss.) Commanding outsize compensation and projecting an outsize image sends a message right out of Ron Burgundy’s playbook: I’m kind of a big deal. We found that the higher chief executives scored on this index, the more likely they were to seek power and status by becoming chairmen of their own companies and joining the boards of other companies. These were the chief executives who made the most negative statements about remote and hybrid work during the first two years of the pandemic. The connection between narcissistic personality traits and wanting people in the office full time is not coincidental — it’s causal." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opinion/office-work-wfh-bosses.html #WfH #Remote #RemoteWork #Narcissism #Psychology

We have allowed political sociopaths to create a world designed for other sociopaths, not decent humans. #Capitalism sorts the sociopaths to the top. "Sure, the worst people imaginable run these companies [Facebook, Google, Apple, etc], but the reason they’re able to yield to their most venal impulses and succeed is because the world has been re-arranged to make sociopathy and greed into fitness factors.” #narcissism #enshittification #pathocracy

"A narcissist obsessed with a reflecting pool is the peak of life imitating mythology."

• Guy Curtis

[No idea who created the Trump as Narcissus artwork, sorry.]

#DonaldTrump #Trump #ReflectingPool #GOP #Politics #DC #WashingtonDC #Narcissist #Narcissism #Mythology #Art