it is this memo that's enabling trump's clinical narcissism, the whole world is against him, the bankers, meaning jews, the islamists, the deep state, meaning the cia, and everybody is in the marxist. nobody has ever accused any of these groups of people of working together before, but only in the administration of donald trump has this happened. last thimg i'll say, if you have that kind of turmoil at the national security agency, then how on earth is our national security in good shape when we're on the enl of a conflict with north korea? >> the national security council. really good point given what's going on in the world. the roundtable is staying with

i don't see that as narcissism anymore than i see this as narcissism.aking of you're leaving to go to the white house outside the reservation. for those of us who are fans know the trouble you had gotten into. some schools won't let your book be read. you have been in hot water here and there. but i wonder how much of this relationship with your mom or lack thereof, the stories you tell in this book, how much of that influenced your decision to get off the reservation and whether or not revisited that childhood has made you rethink the decision that you can't change at this point. >> my mom always said i was born with a suitcase in my hand, that i was always leaving. my sisters during the course of writing this book said that to me in various ways that they always knew i was leaving. so i think i was born to leave. and i lived in the city now for 25 years and i realized that a lot of my sadness as a kid certainly had a lot to do with povertiy and alcohol addiction and mental illnesses. i think a lot of it had to do with the fact that i was born to live

a whole other there's books and libraries about the debate about those we're talking about the narcissism here and that narcissistic spiral is getting worse as the empire collapse but here we have the central banks buying their own debt the narcissism comes in when their financial media the role of the firetrucks role yep that this is the of well of course the british empire ended with the tally sticks all burning down in their parliament here is the debt pile burning down in the background of the us empire so you know as i was saying the financial media the state media essentially looks at themselves in the mirror and says wow our interest rates are the lowest in history we look amazing like we're such a safe haven we are obviously a safe haven but nobody ever reports on why interest rates are like this why bond yields keep on going down and down and down why there's been the all time three hundred year high bond like they they act like it's the markets the markets are deciding that we are like the safest haven of all when in fact you are the market. the central banks oh i mean people sa

well actually we're continuing trying to it at the whim of narcissism america looking at itself you know it's descended into the afterlife as it's dying and it's confronting itself and a movie is quite ass because when i look at hillary clinton i often think of whatever happened to baby jane or norma desmond but it is a woman who's gone crazy with her power alas the lady macbeth you know she's going crazy and apparently the democrats don't want her around here's the headline democrats fret as clinton book rollout knows the losing presidential candidate wants to talk about what went wrong her party wishes she wouldn't this is from bloomberg got him to new please don't mind may i'm just saying a lot of the did over there this is from bloomberg dot com many washington democrats though unwilling to criticize her in public wish she would move on as senator al franken has put it they fear that her complaints helped trump make his case of the controversy surrounding him flow from the democrats' bitterness about there are twenty sixteen laws and i have the best i want to start with this i want t

of politicians are psycho. >> kimberly: so our tv people. >> dana: absolutely. >> juan: this is narcissism and grandiosity. he states just people who don't like him? guess what, 55% in a morning consult polls as trump is not stable. >> jesse: a stable conventional politician -- they've gotten us trillions and trillions of dollars into debt. that's why donald trump was elected. overreaching, david axelrod had this to say. >> if people get a sense that there's some extraordinary measure that's going to be taken, to affect what they would do -- remember, a third of the country supports this president. that's a very dangerous road to go down. if you were to go down that road, you're opening a pandora's box that will never end. >> jesse: do think he has a point? >> dana: absolutely. that's a true public service. as someone who's been on the inside and nose. obama took a lot of flak from lots of people about his citizenship. the fact that he was aloof. an only child and therefore, he must have these harv harboringf being lonely. let me take corker for example. what juan was saying. i actually th

twos a grotesque display of narcissism. >> it was a campaign rally. it ea rally. this is the overreaction. >> it's a rally by the president of the united states. >> what you just described, last night, is the classic reason why i think he fights back so hard. you go personal as you can. >> so does he. >> and he fights back, but then you say he can't do it but the other side can attack him say he's unfigt and might have dement dementia. >> don't we hold our president to a higher today? >> of course we do but yoci don think there's wrong with him saying what he -- every president i know has done exactly that when they're talk to the speechle sporting him. >> you've heard jimmy carter, george w. bush have a campaign rally like that one? >> no. the donald trump rallies are completely different. >> that's right. so every president doesn't. >> i'm saying his style is completely different. of the when you talk to your base, you rally them up. that's what a rally is. get them excited. >> you choose your words. well on that neote. anna, ben thank you very much for the deba

that is part of the narcissism, to the point where it's pathological. so we have now put someone in a position in the office of the presidency that requires someone to be bigger -- the office is bigger than an individual. and donald trump is morally bankrupt and incapable of the empathy required to be in a position that is bigger than himself. we saw that. people are crying on air. we had anchors today that were in tears watching the memorial. we had a friend of mine, who was a black republican, was on another network, in tears over donald trump's inability to connect with the american people and be honest about how disgusting the display because on saturday and his reaction was just so self-centered. people are really wounded. and the president has no ability to empathize or take up the leadership role that the office of the presidency requires. >> scott, just in terms of the president's agenda, which obviously a lot of republicans want the see things move forward, does this hurt his agenda moving forward? does this hurt support on capitol hill? becaus

so it's all very well to talk about the bullying and narcissism and brashness and lying and braggadocio the other qualities we see in the president. my first thought was, it's very simple. he is the most extremely, most narcissistic person, i'm not a psychiatrist, obviously, that i can imagine in public life. and i know that in my lifetime, there has never been a single individual on this planet who's been more talked about at every bar, every table and every restaurant, every talk show, every radio talk show, you know, everybody's talking about him, all the time. and i kind of imagine that he's like some sort of dr. seuss figure, who's like a balloon, and every time his name is mentioned, he gets a bit bigger and a bit bigger. he feeds off this energy, like a star trek, you know, alien who feeds off the mention of his name. and so the answer, of course, is to stop talking about him. >> does he just keep getting bigger? or at some point does he implode? >> that's what everybody is thinking. i know a few of the people on the show i work with who said he was never going to win, who now sa

well actually we're continuing trying to at the whim of narcissism to looking at itself you know it's descended into the afterlife as it's dying and it's confronting itself and a movie is quite ass because when i look at hillary clinton i often think of whatever happened to baby jane or norma desmond but it is a woman who's gone crazy with her power luster lady macbeth you know she's going crazy and apparently the democrats don't want her around here's the headline democrats fret as clinton book rollout knows the losing presidential candidate wants to talk about what went wrong her party wishes she wouldn't this is from bloomberg got him to new please don't mind may i'm just saying a lot of the did over there this is from bloomberg dot com many washington democrats though unwilling to criticize her in public wish she would move on as senator al franken has put it they fear that her complaints helped trump make his case that the controversies surrounding him flow from the democrats' bitterness about there are twenty sixteen lost and i have the best i want to start with this i want to g

that today it's all about other stuff right well actually we're continuing to it at the whim of narcissismamerica looking at itself you know it's descended into the afterlife as it's dying and it's confronting itself and a movie is quite ass because when i look at hillary clinton i often think of whatever happened to baby jane or norma desmond but it is a woman who's gone crazy with her power alas the lady macbeth you know she's going crazy and apparently the democrats don't want her around here's the headline democrats fret as clinton book rollout knows the losing presidential candidate wants to talk about what went wrong her party wishes she.

central bankers so that's where we started off the previous episode these two kind of go together the narcissism started with the central banks only fifteen chilean dollars of their own belly button and it's ok well we got to go for this bit but will be back after the break djoko a. we're continuing to do you know melissa i know some of the plane and one million people died died. killed people even. now no one still include tooling a few that is random and that's. needless but it was supposed to some of us it was a. little. before. last time we chased. each one of them carrying twenty kilos of drugs. first offense. they just stepped. it's the mean pay the money. they have. this is for me. i don't see a porno they don't. make or. break. for . now well. welcome back to the kaiser report i'm asked geysers i'm gonna turn to wolf blitzer in san francisco he's over it wolf street dot com wolf welcome back thank you for having me max i will fracture a recent headline of low birth reads the new world order is leaving the u.s. behind american allies have decided trump is simply not someone they can do bu

bankers well that's where we started off the previous episode these two kind of go together the narcissism started with the central banks only fifteen chilean dollars of their own belly but it's ok well we got to go for this bit but what we back after the break don't go away. but you go should we could you let your daughter use easy to notice i noticed but bring in one million people that. he killed people. even date you. know no one's going to in the. and that's. really believe it. please. please. give us a post some of those i. just posted. last time we chased. each one a little carrying twenty kilos of drugs this is a first offense. blues that they just employ for. instance the main thing. they have insisted this is for me. even if. i don't know maybe you don't know me. i was. around one. welcome back to the kaiser report imax geysers i'm out of cern to wolf rector in san francisco he's over it wolf street dot com wolf while comeback thank you for having me max are i wulfric to a recent headline a blow burger reads the new world order is living the u.s. behind american allies have decid

personal philosophy is about trying where possible to overcome my own personal tyranny my own personal narcissism our friend saying this is a new russell some of my friends are saying this isn't a russell that russell has changed as a result becoming a father that i'm into. rested in different things it's not put aside my grandiosity and my grand ambitions is that i'm content to see what develops i'm content to say where things go i'm interested to see what will happen now like that it's not a foregone conclusion what's going on in the world now i don't think it necessarily has to be a dreadful deterioration but it evidently will have to be change all right we're going to play a little game of of you only knew i'd like to do it who was your childhood celebrity crush i was always a big fan of elvis presley and girl girl quiet that were common areas to facets are i wonder woman i like to wonder woman a lot of you do like to kiss the screen sheepy that even once they should get a static shock from the screen because technology was not as announced linda carr i think she was going oh oh kate in owner

bankers well that's where we started off the previous episode these two kind of go together the narcissism started with the central banks only fifteen chilean dollars of their own belly button let us say well we gotta go for this bit but what we back after the break don't go away. but you go should we could you let your daughter use easy to notice i notice but bring in one million people died. you killed people. even dated you. now no one stepped in to in the. that he's running and that's a. welcome to our already not really right. one employee. welcome back to the kaiser report imus kaiser's i'm not absurd to wolf rector in san francisco he's over it wolf street dot com wolf welcome back thank you for having me max i will fracture a recent headline of bluebirds reads the new world order is leaving the u.s. behind american allies and decided trump is simply not someone they can do business with. i saw the sideline of sir you saw the sideline are we witnessing the end of the american empire does it matter to the global economy i mean that's obviously an extension of this idea but on a more

they say narcissism, grandiose and impulsive and at times reckless. >> that's a description of a personality. give me a deed. >> would you say it's grandiose to say my inauguration crowd was bigger than any other crowd despite pictures that demonstrate -- that's what he obsesses about is i'm going to prove myself right no matter what the facts may show. >> no, that's part of a brash personality that do that. it's funny. it triggers you and makes me laugh. >> i don't think it's funny to people like jim clapper who said it's shocking. you have to question the fitness for office. he's not the national comedian. >> there's a need to be right about everything to prove himself right. >> so do i. am i insane? >> wen politicians call other politicians narcissist i think there's irony. >> no, no, no. i think a lot of politicians are psycho. >> so are tv people. >> absolutely. >> seriously. >> this is grandiosity. you say it's just people who don't like him, well guess what, 50% in a poll said trump is not stable. >> stable, conventional politicians have gotten us trillions into debt and open borders

of the implications of what he says and many people have commented, accurately commented on the narcissismseems to be such a prominent characteristic of trumps personality and when you watch the video of him making the "fire and fury" comment, it is difficult to avoid thinking that the motivation of the moment is to make himself feel good. demonstrate that he is a tough guy. that he is standing up to what he perceives as a threat. of to derive a sense personal satisfaction from that threat, utterly oblivious as to the larger locations in howow tt audience,to a better that has to be very troubling. and again, emphasizing for the fact that he still does these things. despite the fact that he is now does notd by figurures bode well for how well this crisis will play out. but it doesn't bode well for how other crises, which he will inevitably encounter, how others will play out. amy: we want to thank you very much, andrdrew bacevich. andrew bacevich is a retired colonel professor. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. back in a minute. ♪ ♪ [music break] now, thiso

we've been teaching this narcissism and victimization for decades.d to see self-absorbed, narcissistic students that are being vengeful and demonstrating vice rather than virtue in the public square. >> so when you wrote "not a day care" people picked up on that. and i love the cover. you have the safety pin as if they needed a diaper. when you wrote the op-ed, more people came to you seeking you out. wanted advice. i wonder, was the problem worse than you knew? >> i'm an academic. i'm in the industry. i'd claim that my industry caused this monster. we caused the problems by the lousy teachers we've had and now we're getting the lousy reaches. no, i'm not surprised to see the problem. what i do think we need to recognize is the degree of the problem. what we have is idealogical fascism in the ivory tower rather than academic freedom. we get the word fascism. if you don't comply. if you don't think like i think and believe like i believe, if you're not going to say what i want you to say, you're expelled and we do not want you. we do this all under th

it is this memo that's enabling trump's clinical narcissism, the whole world is against him, the bankersmeaning jews, the islamists, the deep state, meaning the cia, and everybody is in the marxist. nobody has ever accused any of these groups of people of working together before, but only in the administration of donald trump has this happened. last thimg i'll say, if you have that kind of turmoil at the national security agency, then how on earth is our national security in good shape when we're on the enl of a conflict with north korea? >> the national security council. really good point given what's going on in the world. the roundtable is staying with us. we'll be right back. these days families want to be connected 24/7. that's why at comcast, we're always working to make our services more reliable. with technology that can update itself. and advanced fiber network infrastructure. new, more reliable equipment for your home. and a new culture built around customer service. it all adds up to our most reliable network ever. one that keeps you connected to what matters most. >>> we're b

if you look across the board, there's so much anger and pulsivety and mistrust and narcissism. those are questions that senator corker has now putz forcingly into play. i think that's ready important along with the competence question. >> to hear the senator talk about that, you don't hear them talking about it every day. >> certainly not publicly from a republican. remember corker is up for re-election in 2018 and we heard the president talk about it. so i do think this is a significant and notable break. maybe it's something about the way the republicans are going the try to run in 2018 as mavericks in a certain way, but i don't think we know what this means for legislation and how they'll vote. corker for instance had been critical. but went along with what the president wanted to ee and what mitch mcconnell wanted to see. when they get back, you're going to have budgeting and tax reform as well. if what the senators said or means anything in terms of how he actually behaved in the way mitch mcconnell tweeted out. >> you know how he talked about when they were caught, there'

this memo is enabling trump's clinical narcissism.ng the cia, and everybody, nobody has ever accused any of these groups of people of working together before. but only in the administration of donald trump does this happen. if that you had kind of turmoil at the he national security council agency, then how on earth is our national security in good shape when we're on the precipice of a conafflict with north korea is. >> yeah. the national security council, given what's going on in the world. the round table is staying with us. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ you're searching for something. whoooo. like the perfect deal... ...on the perfect hotel. so wouldn't it be perfect if... ....there was a single site... ...where you could find the... ...right hotel for you at the best price? there is. because tripadvisor now compares... ...prices from over 200 booking... ...sites ...to save you up to 30%... ...on the hotel you want. trust this bird's words. tripadvisor. the latest reviews. the lowest prices. >>> we're back with the "hardball" rou

his narcissism and bullying put him in a position where he wants to do something to really make him stand out. one of the things i think we should think about is how if we were to attack north korea, we could become the pariah state of the world. this could be an enormous boom to beijing and moscow and their inflew enin the wor influence in the world and threat us to. i hope our senior military officers are reading up carefully on refusal of a lawful order. something that the late senator from hawaii was a decorated world war ii veteran, lectured oliver north about, that you don't follow unlawful orders. and if donald trump decides he wants to use nuclear weapons in north korea one hopes that officers will refuse that order as unlawful. >> we're going to have to take a break here. robert litwak, david cay johnston. thank you. >>> the president apparently sent messages, according to his own lawyer, the president sent indirect messages to special prosecutor robert mueller. and thousands of pages of documents now are being relayead to investigators from the trump campaign from donald trump j

narcissism and an abnormal attraction to violence and that was the assessment of kim il-sung and -- >r: it's kim il-sung who the young tyrant is believed to most want to emulate from the clothes he wears to his hairstyle. >> kim jong-un wants to project the image of his grandfather. viewed by the people of north - korea as a great revolutionary. he gave them independence. he fought against the colonials and japan and against the united stat states. >> reporter: is he under threat and could that cause him to flex his muscles in a show of strength? >> kim jong-un's leadership appears to be very solid. he has insulated himself and protected himself from any threats to his leadership. whether those be physical or political threats. >> reporter: analysts say it's possible north korea's elites may get nervous and move against kim if he keeps takes his country from one crisis to another. he keeps his generals under such close surveillance it would be tough for them to gather forces against him. brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> joined now by martin, a military expert at kings college in londo

. >> paranoia, narcissism, an abnormal attraction to violence.sung and kim jong il, they were logical in their own context, they understood what they had to do to stay in power, but they had these psychological disorders. >> the young kim appears different. >> he's not as cooperative or communicative as his father or grandfather. so this guy is unpredictable, he's brash, he's -- in essence, irrational. and quite a big ego. >> kim's grandfather, kim il sung, quickly deployed a personality cult around his leadership. after he was installed with soviet backing following world war ii. monuments to him are everywhere in north korea. his birthday is celebrated with giant festivals. kim jong-un emulates his look, even his hairstyle, analysts say in an attempt to derive legitimacy. >> kim jong-un wants to project the image of his grandfather, kim il sung was viewed and is viewed by the people of north korea as a great revolutionary. he gave them independence. he fought against the colonials, he fought against japan, he fought against the united states in

of this very deliberate, manipulative, cultivating of white resentment and donald trump's famous narcissism. >> and you know, michael steele, john harwood had a great piece out today where he talked about the private disgust of republican lawmakers and calling it really remarkable, the personal disgust. and yet publicly you've had a lot of, you know, strong denunciations of the neo-nazis but still this reluctance to make that disgust with donald trump public. i mean, do they get any credit for being privately disgusted? >> hell no. come on. no. not at all. because this is the moment. this is the seminal moment for the republican party. you're going to be defined by the stench that comes from this. the country's watching. the country wants a response. and you cannot have this both ways. you cannot on the one instance say oh, my god, this is terrible privately and then publicly hem and haw and figure out a way to sort of smooth over hurt feelings in the white house. that's not what this is about. this is about how you hold a country together. this is your lincoln moment as a republican, mr. p

he responds, you look across the board, this was so much anger and impulsivity and distrust and narcissism that those are questions, ultimately, about the stability that senator corker's now put forcefully into play. i think that is really important along with the competence question. >> yeah, i mean, to hear the senator talk about it, use that word "stability," you don't hear people question the stability of the president of the united states every day. >> right. certainly not publicly, certainly not from a republican, a and, remember, corker is up for re-election in 2018. the president essentially encouraged a primary challenge for jeff flake out in arizona, so i do think this is a significant and notable break. you know, maybe it's saying something about the way some republicans are going to charge 2018, as an average at some point, but i don't think we know yet what this actually means for legislation and how they'll vote. corker, for instance, was in some ways critical of health care reform and repeal and replace efforts, but went with what the president wanted to see and what mitch m

. >> a guy monitoring his twitter feed or leading a faction, his narcissism is well known. there's nobody who can say that we got a different president than the one that was elected. beginning with his desecration of the cia, clandestine service monument, where he talks about his crowd sizes. he talks about his election. he brags incorrectly about the dimensions in the historic nature of it. this is nothing new for this president. but what we now know for sure -- and bill kristol is exactly right about this. we have a president of the united states who lacks any -- any moral authority. domestically, internationally and i would argue that absence of moral authority on the part of a president of the united states coarsens our country. makes the country a worst place to live and abroad makes it more dangerous. >> michael steele, quickly, then i'm going to bring the rest of the table in here. republicans were quick to get to twitter, express their outrage in the 140 character increments but they don't ever do anything. do you think they'll do anything now? >> no. >> that's its?

find relatable, or we are only interested in people we find likeable, we're implicitly holding up narcissism conformity, and we're critiquing difference. i grew up in this country, and there's no way that my peers would have described me as "relatable" when i was young. i was shy to the point of extreme awkwardness, this height at age 11, terrible at team sports, and impossible to categorize racially or culturally. my father was a descendent of people who arrived on the mayflower, and my mother was a mixed-race refugee from the country now called myanmar, also known as burma. partly because i'm culturally and ethnically kind of anomalous, i've rarely related to people in my life. but that doesn't mean i haven't learned from and respected and felt with them. and that's really what i want to say: that there's a difference between relating or liking, in our current sense, and being curious and empathic. would i rather people like my novel or be affected by it finally? to be moved or affected by a piece of literature isn't necessarily to see ourselves reflected in it or to like everything about

his intent was complete and total narcissism based on the fact that he felt bad because he was getting horrible coverage. >> settling the score. >> had to go to a rally to make him feel better. >> settling a score. i've got to get to the break let me say this to all of you and the viewers and to be very plain about this. i think the question and the moral question for both politicians especially republicans and for journalists is not to pretend there's some sort of fake objectivity. history is watching right now. history will wear witness to this. do you pretend that what's in front of your eyes is not happening? do you enable someone like you enable and a addict by pretending it's not happening? we all see what's happening in front of our very eyes. we all hear it with our ears. it's time to stop pretending that something's not exactly right. and that's not a fake objectivity, we've got to be fair. you cannot pretend something is not happening. you cannot pretend there is sanity where there is none. we'll be right back. at whole foods market, we believe in food that's naturally beauti

he is incapable of moral leadership because he can't see past his anger, nar narcissism. i feel not only fearful as an american. i feel cheated. we deserve a leader in a country this great a hell of a lot better than donald trump. >> he could have rallied the country behind him saying, i disavow these people. this is what ronald reagan or bob dole did. >> yes. >> it was totally absent. you have got to wonder -- i love kelly o'donnell. she is a great reporter. the idea of staff being on vacation and is part of the problem. >> it goes back to the preschooler. he is not a 3-year-old. susan page joins the conversation. usa today, washington bureau chief. i wonder if watching this press conference and seeing donald trump do the real donald trump, where you think that leaves us as a country. and i never thought that a nuclear standoff with north korea would pale in comparison to the alarm that i feel and i think a lot of people feel about the first racial crisis that's taken place under donald trump's presidency. >> this is the beginning of the story, it's not the end of the st

a prisoner of his narcissism and also very obsessed with the base? >> yeah. that's right.resident trump's base is never going to leave him. remember, he talked about how he could walk down fifth avenue and shoot somebody and voters would be with him. this focus group is testing that. and what's striking here in the vulnerability and what the supporters are saying about him is they're speaking directly to character issues and temperament issues. those are not going to change. this man is 71 years old. donald trump has been the same way his whole life. he's not going to change. it's not like they're opposed to him over one specific policy decision that he made and maybe he can win them back easily. they're becoming disenchanted and disillusioned with who he is as a leader and president. that's a serious problem. >> mark, what's striking about this to me is all of my friends in pensacola and alabama and across the south that i know that i went to college with, that i went to high school with, that still support donald trump, three months ago, they were saying back off. give h