The President’s Communications Director is beyond human decency.

Scaramucci’s foul and profanity laced on the record interview with the New Yorker is entirely disgusting.  Scaramucci is the Communications Director for the President of the United States.  The President is responsible for appointing Scaramucci as the voice for the President of the United States.  Foul – disgusting – profanity laced communication from the President of the United States.

The President of the United States is a Disgrace.

The shame is America’s for selecting this grotesque as our leader.  The shame is ours to endure.

The President of the United States is a Disgrace.  The Communications Director for the President is beyond human decency.

This President and his Communications Director are the role models for our children.  Disgrace.  Shame.  Shame upon all of America for selecting this grotesque as our President.

The President gave a speech at the Boy Scouts annual Jamboree.  The Boy Scouts had to apologize for our President. 

The Boy Scouts of America had to apologize for our President.  The President of the United States is a disgrace.  He is our shame.

The President of the United States gave a speech to police officers, and the President of the United States advocated in favor of increased police brutality.  The President of the United States is a disgrace.  The shame is ours to bear.

This grotesque man brings shame – complete and utter shame – upon all Americans.  He is our President.  He is a disgrace.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Psychologist, PSY 18857

I’m a clinical psychologist.  If I can see the psychological issues surrounding Trump, don’t you think psychologists working for the Russians and the KGB can?

Don’t you think the Russians and the KGB have done a thorough analysis of Donald Trump’s psyche?  Of course they have.  And the psychology of Donald Trump is so simplistic and self-evident.

The Russians have absolutely been working Trump for a decade or more, just on the chance that he might run for President.  Trump is 100% an unwitting asset of the KGB.

“In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation,” Morell wrote.

Former CIA chief: Putin recruited Trump as an ‘unwitting agent’ of Russia

And the thing is, Trump likely knows it – albeit unconsciously.   Trump doesn’t likely consciously know he’s an unwitting asset of the KGB, but unconsciously he probably realizes it, and that’s what scares him about the Russia investigation.  He’s scared it’s going to uncover the financial shenanigans that the KGB used to recruit him, and that this will then expose that he’s been recruited as a KGB asset. 

Being exposed as an unwitting KGB asset will eviscerate the grandiose achievement of his climb to the presidency.  He’ll become a hollow tool rather than the magnificent Donald Trump of his self-perception.  So, he must stop the Russia investigation.

It’s not about the money shenanigans that are going to be uncovered surrounding Trump-world and the Russians.  The money shenanigans are the means by which the KGB recruited him.  He’s afraid about the exposure that he is an unwitting asset of the KGB.

I’m a clinical psychologist, so I am prohibited from commenting about the psychological characteristics of the President unless I have conducted a direct examination of the President.

But based solely on the President’s behavior, I wonder – just a thought – I’m just wondering – if Trump has major-major daddy-issues?  I’m struck that in his childhood Donald reportedly “acted out” to a degree that led to his being placed in a military school.  Hmm, sounds like there might have been – might have been – significant parent-child love deficits within the family that created Donald’s “acting out” behavior – or maybe not.  Who knows why a child “acts out” to such a degree that the child is sent away to military school.

Hmmm, I wonder what sort of psychological impact being sent to military school had on young Donald?  I wonder if he felt rejected?  Poor little guy.  Or maybe he enjoyed being sent away to military school?  Who knows how a child will respond to being sent away to military school because he is acting out.  It’s just a mystery.  If only I could interview Donald and ask him.  I’m sure that whatever he told me would be the actual truth of how a young Donald felt about being sent away to military school for acting out at home, because people are always self-insightful, self-aware, and honest in their reporting.

If only I could interview Donald, then I’d be able to comment on his psychological characteristics.  Instead, I’m simply left to wonder.

But you know, if he did feel rejected by his family when he was sent away to military school – and there’s no telling if that’s true because I haven’t actually interviewed Donald directly and had him tell me that this was true – but if he did feel rejected, I wonder if this might create feelings of his being fundamentally unlovable and inadequate as a person?  How might a person who feels unlovable and inadequate respond?  No telling, I guess.  Who knows.

But still, I’m left to wonder if a rejected child might one day grow up to present a superficial external veneer of grandiose self-confidence as an all-wonderful and magnificent person to compensate for deep-seated feelings of self-inadequacy?  Who knows.  Maybe yes, maybe not.

But still, I’m left to wonder if the young Donald desperately wanted his parent’s approval, maybe from his father, so that he might strive to please daddy – become a successful real-estate magnate like daddy so daddy would approve of him (not reject him)?  Can’t tell.  Maybe yes.  Maybe no.  There’s no way to tell unless I’ve directly asked Donald if this is true and had him tell me yes or no, because people are always self-insightful in their reporting.

But still, I’m left to wonder if Donald viewed daddy as strong and powerful, and Donald wants the approval of the strong and powerful daddy, then is there anyone like that now in Donald’s world – somebody who’s strong and powerful?  Hmm, you know, that’s curious… Vladimir Putin seems strong and powerful, and Donald appears absolutely smitten by Vladimir.  Putin is so strong… and it appears that Putin approves of Donald. 

I imagine that getting the approval of such a strong and powerful man as Vladimir Putin might feel really good to someone who desperately wants the approval of a strong-daddy figure.  But who knows if that’s Donald – can’t say yes or no on that because I haven’t directly interviewed Donald.

But you can be certain of this, the KGB and Russians have absolutely been working up a psychological profile of Donald Trump.  They absolutely know his psychological makeup and vulnerabilities.   And don’t think for a second that the Russian KGB has not been working for a decade or more to recruit Trump as an unwitting KGB asset. 

If the KGB believes that Trump has daddy-issues, Putin becomes Trump’s approving daddy.

Don’t think for a moment that Russia and the KGB don’t know this. 

The Russians have been working Trump’s psyche and psychological vulnerabilities for a decade or more.  The Trump-world financial shenanigans with the Russians that are going to be uncovered by Mueller are the means used by the Russian KGB to recruit Trump as an unwitting asset. 

That’s what terrifies Trump about the Russia probe.  That’s why he’s paranoid as hell about the Russia probe.  The Russia probe is going to expose that Donald Trump has been recruited as an unwitting asset of the KGB.

That’s also why Trump may be more willing to take the heat from firing Mueller than to allow the investigation to continue and to reveal that Trump is an unwitting asset of the KGB.

The President of the United States is a KGB operative.

Think about it, what does Russia want?  A fractured NATO.  Done.  A weakened U.S. withdrawing from world leadership.  Done.  An inert U.S. State Department.  Done.  A chaotic U.S. government that cannot function.  Done.

All of this allows Russia to progress into its desired leadership in actualizing its agendas without U.S. interference.  Done.

You don’t think the KGB has done their workup on Donald Trump’s psyche and psychological vulnerabilities? 

You don’t think the KGB has been working Donald Trump for a decade or more to recruit him as an unwitting asset?

You don’t think that Donald Trump’s psychology is so simplistic that the KGB doesn’t know exactly how to recruit him as an unwitting KGB asset? 

You don’t think that the current national security counter intelligence folks in the US don’t fully recognize this?  They just don’t yet know the specifics of how the KGB recruited Donald Trump.  But that information is on the way.

I hope that Mueller’s investigation into Russian “meddling” in the U.S. election will reveal the efforts of the KGB over the past decade (or more) to recruit Donald Trump into becoming an unwitting KGB asset for the Russians, using Trump’s psychological vulnerabilities.

The President of the United States is a KGB operative.  That’s scary.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, PSY 18857

I am prevented by professional practice standards from commenting on the psychological characteristics of the President:

“Psychologists provide opinions of the psychological characteristics of individuals only after they have conducted an examination of the individuals adequate to support their statements or conclusions. ” (Standard 9.01a; APA ethics code_

I believe this Standard represents an over-broad nullification of my rights of free-speech in political discourse because I possess certain domains of knowledge.

For example, I would be prohibited by this Standard from saying that President Trump is impulsive, since impulsive is a “psychological characteristic.”  I would similarly be unable to say that President Trump has poor judgement, since poor judgement is a “psychological characteristic.”

Since I am prohibited from exercising my free speech rights in political discourse, I am merely going to present information regarding the narcissistic personality and allow the general public to determine whether or not it is applicable.

Aaron Beck is one of the leading figures in mental health.  Here’s what Beck says about the narcissistic personality’s core beliefs:

“The failure to be superior or regarded as special activates underlying beliefs of inferiority, unimportance, or powerlessness and compensatory strategies of self-protection and self-defense.” (Beck et al., 2004, p. 241)

“He or she [the narcissist] remains firmly rooted in the importance of a flawless or powerful image… Without a flawless image, core beliefs of inferiority become activated.” (Beck et al., 2004, p. 246)

“The core belief of narcissistic personality disorder is one of inferiority or unimportance.  This belief is only activated under certain circumstances and thus may be observed mainly in response to conditions of self-esteem threat.  Otherwise, the manifest belief is a compensatory attitude of superiority.” (Beck et al., 2004, p. 249)

“The patient with NPD often has a low tolerance for frustration and expects not only to have wishes easily gratified but also to remain in a steady state of positive reinforcement. Conditional assumptions may include the notions, “If I want something, it is extremely important that I get it,” and “I should feel happy and comfortable at all times,” and “If I’m not happy, no one can be happy,” and “I need to feel special to feel happy.” (Beck et al., 2004, p. 252)

Theodore Millon is one of the leading experts on personality disorder pathology:

“Narcissists are neither disposed to stick to objective facts nor to restrict their actions within the boundaries of social custom or cooperative living… Free to wander in their private world of fiction, narcissists may lose touch with reality, lose their sense of proportion, and begin to think along peculiar and deviant lines.” (Millon, 2011, p. 415; emphasis added)

“Were narcissists able to respect others, allow themselves to value others’ opinions, or see the world through others’ eyes, their tendency toward illusion and unreality might be checked  or curtailed.  Unfortunately, narcissists have learned to devalue others, not to trust their judgments, and to think of them as naïve and simpleminded.  Thus, rather than question the correctness of their own beliefs they assume that the views of others are  at fault.  Hence, the more disagreement they have with others, the more convinced they are of their own superiority and the more isolated and alienated they are likely to become.  These ideational difficulties are magnified further by their inability to participate skillfully in the give-and-take of shared social life… They are increasingly unable to assess situations objectively, thereby failing further to grasp why they have been rebuffed and misunderstood.  Distressed by these repeatedly and perplexing social failures, they’re likely, at first, to become depressed and morose.  However, true to their fashion, they will begin to elaborate new and fantastic rationales to account for their fate.  But the more they conjecture and ruminate, the more they lose touch, distort, and perceive things that are not there.  They may begin to be suspicious of others, to question their intentions, and to criticize them for ostensive deceptions…” (Millon, 2011, p. 415; emphasis added)

“Deficient in social controls and self-discipline, the tendency of CEN [confident-ego-narcissist] narcissists to fantasize and distort may speed up.  The air of grandiosity may become more flagrant.  They may find hidden and deprecatory meanings in the incidental behavior of others, becoming convinced of others malicious motives, claims upon them, and attempts to undo them.  As their behaviors and thoughts transgress the line of reality, their alienation will mount, and they may seek to protect their phantom image of superiority more vigorously and vigilantly than ever.  Trapped by the consequences of their own actions, they may become bewildered and frightened as the downward spiral progresses through its inexorable course. No longer in touch with reality, they begin to accuse others and hold them responsible for their own shame and failures.  They may build a “logic” based on the irrelevant and entirely circumstantial evidence and ultimately construct a delusion system to protect themselves from unbearable reality. (Millon, 2011, 415; emphasis added)

“Under conditions of unrelieved adversity and failure, narcissists may decompensate into paranoid disorders.  Owing to their excessive use of fantasy mechanisms, they are disposed to misinterpret events and to construct delusional beliefs.  Unwilling to accept constraints on their independence and unable to accept the viewpoints of others, narcissists may isolate themselves from the corrective effects of shared thinking.  Alone, they may ruminate and weave their beliefs into a network of fanciful and totally invalid suspicions.  Among narcissists, delusions often take form after a serious challenge or setback has upset their image of superiority and omnipotence.  They tend to exhibit compensatory grandiosity and jealousy delusions in which they reconstruct reality to match the image they are unable or unwilling to give up.  Delusional systems may also develop as a result of having felt betrayed and humiliated.  Here we may see the rapid unfolding of persecutory delusions and an arrogant grandiosity characterized by verbal attacks and bombast.  Rarely physically abusive, anger among narcissists usually takes the form of oral vituperation and argumentativeness.  This may be seen in a flow of irrational and caustic comments in which others are upbraided and denounced as stupid and beneath contempt.  These onslaughts usually have little objective justification, are often colored by delusions, and may be directed in a wild, hit-or-miss fashion in which the narcissist lashes out at those who have failed to acknowledge the exalted status in which he or she demands to be seen.” (Millon, 2011, p. 407-408; emphasis added)

This is not going to end well.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist

Beck, A.T., Freeman, A., Davis, D.D., & Associates (2004). Cognitive therapy of personality disorders. (2nd edition). New York: Guilford.

Millon. T. (2011). Disorders of personality: introducing a DSM/ICD spectrum from normal to abnormal. Hoboken: Wiley.