Trump - Narcissistic Personality Disorder

We may talk a lot about people and their pathologies, and some of that talk is a bit tongue in cheek and we play loosely with the definitions of certain disorders. But, when you have someone who repeatedly acts out in infantile ways, without regard to obvious self and other damaging consequences, behaves in a manner that creates the circumstances that they later complain about, then claim victimization by externalizing blame, and then insist on putting into place all kinds of self-protective measures (that also serve to undermine their position) -- you just can no longer deny the obvious. This is the best lay persons description of behavior that strongly suggests narcissistic personality disorder: "The escalation of the probe is packed with irony. Trump’s insistence that he was not personally under investigation led him to fire the man leading the probe, which ensured a special prosecutor, which ensured Trump came personally under investigation. Trump has given Mueller another building block for the investigation by raging about the very circumstances he brought about." (http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-declares-war-on-rosenstein-he-has-no-qualms-about-throwing-him-under-a-bus) Also in the same article: "In other words, Trump’s latest account of why he fired Comey (again) portrays Rosenstein as the driving force behind events, as if Trump never admitted on national television that he fired Comey over the Russia investigation. Mueller will inevitably investigate the exact circumstances leading to the Comey firing, which he is likely to interview both Trump and Rosenstein—now in conflict with each other—about. Even Trump’s senior aides blame the president for bringing the obstruction inquiry upon himself and the White House. “The president did this to himself,” one senior administration official told The Daily Beast on Wednesday."