Trump makes it very clear in his own words that he believes that anything he does is "perfect" by a law of nature, because he is without fault or blemish, and whatever he does is the best it could ever be done by anyone. What normal person would keep insisting "I made a perfect phone call"? or claim never to have done anything that required forgiveness?
Even when he halfway admits that something is wrong by some standard -- as on the tape where he's almost saying that what he's waving around is "highly confidential" etc. -- he probably believes it's not wrong when he does it, because he's doing it for his own reasons, which cannot possibly be wrong.
When he loudly protests his innocence, most of MAGA-world probably thinks he must be innocent of wrongdoing because how else could he be so emphatic and say it with such conviction? He routinely lies with a brazen assurance that most people can't muster, so his fans think he must be the most honest man in America.
But it's really because he doesn't have a normal conscience. He might recognize some things as morally wrong in the abstract, or in other people -- it's wrong to be a liar or to be "nasty." But for him, the higher law is "Nothing I do can ever be wrong."
I can't say if he really, truly believes that, but he gives every indication that he does.
He has no conscience and never has had one, thanks in large measure to Fred I assume. His genetics were tainted to begin with and his environment was geared to create exactly what he is. Unfortunately, television propelled him to celebrity and got him millions of votes based on the fictional "reality" show... and his carnival barker abilities.
What you just described is a textbook psychopath/sociopath. They believe they are inherently perfect, it’s everyone’s fault but their own, zero empathy for anyone but themselves.
EXACTLY. And the corollary is that anyone who does anything bad to TFG is morally bad. Evil. His morality is that me good, anyone who doesn’t love me is bad.
Trump keeps telling us that whatever is done against him is the worst thing ever done against anyone -- "the greatest Witch Hunt of all time" -- "like we've never seen before in our Country!"
It is so abnormal. But MAGAs manage to turn all of Trump's pathologies into the marks of surpassing greatness.
Trump makes it very clear in his own words that he believes that anything he does is "perfect" by a law of nature, because he is without fault or blemish, and whatever he does is the best it could ever be done by anyone. What normal person would keep insisting "I made a perfect phone call"? or claim never to have done anything that required forgiveness?
Even when he halfway admits that something is wrong by some standard -- as on the tape where he's almost saying that what he's waving around is "highly confidential" etc. -- he probably believes it's not wrong when he does it, because he's doing it for his own reasons, which cannot possibly be wrong.
When he loudly protests his innocence, most of MAGA-world probably thinks he must be innocent of wrongdoing because how else could he be so emphatic and say it with such conviction? He routinely lies with a brazen assurance that most people can't muster, so his fans think he must be the most honest man in America.
But it's really because he doesn't have a normal conscience. He might recognize some things as morally wrong in the abstract, or in other people -- it's wrong to be a liar or to be "nasty." But for him, the higher law is "Nothing I do can ever be wrong."
I can't say if he really, truly believes that, but he gives every indication that he does.
He has no conscience and never has had one, thanks in large measure to Fred I assume. His genetics were tainted to begin with and his environment was geared to create exactly what he is. Unfortunately, television propelled him to celebrity and got him millions of votes based on the fictional "reality" show... and his carnival barker abilities.
What you just described is a textbook psychopath/sociopath. They believe they are inherently perfect, it’s everyone’s fault but their own, zero empathy for anyone but themselves.
EXACTLY. And the corollary is that anyone who does anything bad to TFG is morally bad. Evil. His morality is that me good, anyone who doesn’t love me is bad.
Trump keeps telling us that whatever is done against him is the worst thing ever done against anyone -- "the greatest Witch Hunt of all time" -- "like we've never seen before in our Country!"
It is so abnormal. But MAGAs manage to turn all of Trump's pathologies into the marks of surpassing greatness.