The obsequiousness of Zelenskyy’s flattery toward Trump in the pay-to-play transcript is a reminder that Trump’s malignant narcissism has always been a national security threat. https://millennialpolitics.co/the-currency-of-flattery-or-how-trump-gets-played/

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“A malignant narcissist has a false self which is extremely grandiose but extremely fragile and it has to be constantly rebuilt on a moment to moment basis. On some level, it’s recognized as a false self and that’s why Trump will speak in the third person.”- @DMRDynamics

“It has to be replenished moment to moment and the part that complicates it with Trump is the sadism: the way that he knows if he’s ‘better,’ is by having the ability to humiliate. You either have to be so great in his eyes, that he holds you on a high on a pedestal like Putin.”