Why Donald Trump Attacked John Lewis (And Why He Will Always ...

Rep. John Lewis Testifies on the Nomination of Senator Sessions to be Attorney General

why donald trump attacked john lewis(and Why He Will ALWAYS Attack People Who "Wound" Him)by Richard Greene with Dr. Lynne Meyer, PhD

*Note: I am re-posting the "Why Donald Trump Attacked Meryl Streep (And Why He Will ALWAYS Attack People Who "Wound" Him) post from January 10. . . . and will continue to do the same and just replace the names until the press and the country understand four critical things:1. He will ALWAYS attack. This is what we have to look forward to for the next 4 years.2. He attacks because he has serious, incurable, untreatable and progressive "Narcissistic Personality Disorder", a "Cluster B" personality disorder characterized by extreme sensitivity brought on by an almost total lack of self-esteem and self worth. Donald Trump, himself, told us this. In his famous interview with Megan Kelly the following words came out of his mouth, not a Psychiatrist"s. "When I"m wounded I go after people hard to try to "unwound" myself." He also said "I view myself as a person and like everybody else, I"m fighting for survival." 3. This man, with this need to "unwound" himself, "fight for survival" and attack anyone and everyone, including a man who marched with Martin Luther King two days before Martin Luther King"s birthday, will have sole, unimpeded, "anytime he wants" ability to destroy our relationships with any world leader who hurts his feelings, destroy our relationship with any country and destroy the entirety of civilization with his exclusive control over 7,000 nuclear warheads.4. He is not fit to be President of The United States and Commander-in-Chief and must be impeached or otherwise removed from office as soon as practically possible.

Why Donald Trump Attacked Meryl Streep(And Why He Will ALWAYS Attack People Who "Wound" Him)by Richard Greene with Dr. Lynne Meyer, PhD

Maybe it took Meryl Streep for people to finally get it.

According to virtually every Psychiatrist, Psychologist and mental health professional that we know or have interviewed, whoare experienced in this field, Donald Trump has a serious mental condition called "Narcissistic Personality Disorder" (NPD), a rare, incurable, largely untreatable, progressive disorder that is incompatible with being President of The United States and, especially,Commander-in-Chief.

He will always attack anyone prominent who attacks him

Because, while he talks constantly about being "strong" and "tough" the reality is that Donald Trump, because of his serious condition, is too sensitive.

Because the attacks on him hurt too much.

"When I"m wounded, I go after people hard and I try to unwound myself."

Simple words of even mild criticism wound Donald Trump. Theycut through him like a knife.

Simple words of even mild criticism trigger the ever-present (but oft covered up) deep feelings of insecurity and an almost total lack of self-worth.

This is true for EVERYONE with NPD (as discussed in detail in the previous article, "Is Donald Trump Mentally Ill?"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-greene/is-donald-trump-mentally_b_13693174.html

Handing over the Presidency and the entire United States Military to this man is like a 747Pilot handing over the controls of the airplane to someone who isa knownalcoholic.

Or a surgeon giving the scalpel in the middle of a long, complicated surgery to someone who is prone to frequent epileptic fits..

When "attacked", aperson withoutthis personality disorderhas the ability to put that criticism into a larger context.People with NPD literally do not. Their system gets so highly stressed by the attack they can"t focus on anything else.

A healthy person would say, "Oh, Meryl Streep has an opinion. I don"t agree with it. Now I"m going to focus on something else because I am a world leader and have many other important things to focus on."

But someone with NPD is so stressed, because of their fragility, that they can"t have these logical, rational thoughts, and can"t even focus on other things. Instead, they think"I must devalue her because I feel devalued" and, therefore, the "overrated" comment and every other devaluation of so very many who have criticized Donald Trump.

According to universally accepted research there is a pattern that those suffering from NPD follow virtually every time they are criticized or attacked:

1.They Devalue. 2.They Threaten. 3.They Retaliate.

Devaluing is diplomatically and militarily dangerous with other world leaders who, themselves, may be unstable or have enormous egos, or even NPD, and threatening and retaliating have obvious potential for very real global crisis.

And, at this point, even though Mr. Trump has never formally laid down on a Psychiatrist"s couch (something that NPD sufferers arealmost never willing to do), we"ve seen that these three reactions to criticism or challenge are the very, and proudly held, modus operandi of our President--Elect throughout his business career and personal life.

How many people has he devalued? "Little Marco", "Lying Ted", "Low Energy Jeb", "Crooked Hillary", Miss Universe, all of his female accusers, Alec Baldwin.China, Meryl Streep and so many others. He"s not immature.This is a textbook symptom of NPD.

How many people has he threatened? Threatening people with lawsuits is part of his business model. As Commander-in-Chief he will have the entirety of The United States Military and 7,000 nuclear warheads instead of just a lawsuit.

How many people has he retaliated against? Actually filing lawsuits is also part of his business model. As Commander-in-Chief he will have the entirety of The United States Military and 7,000 nuclear warheads to use to, indeed, retaliate.

And no one - not The Secretary of Defense, not The Vice-President, not Congress, not The Joint Chiefs of Staff - are able to stop President Trump from launching a military or even a nuclear retaliation if he, in his sole discretion, wants to do it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-greene/dear-electors-donald-trum_b_13679096.html

It will never be different. It will never change. When "wounded" by criticism Donald Trump will "try to unwound" himself by lashing out.Donald Trump will not "grow up" as the Vice-President suggested. Donald Trump will NEVER be more "Presidential" as many have begged.

And the consequences could be horrifying.

What will happen, for example,WHEN (not if)Kim Jong-Un or Vladimir Putin or the leader of Iran or Pakistan or ISIS criticizes or challenges President Donald Trump?

On January 20, 2017 Donald J. Trump will have sole, unilateral, full, exclusive, anytime he wants authority to direct 2 million American servicemen and the high alert portions of a 7,000 nuclear warhead arsenal to lash out to make himself feel better.

It"s time to start thinking about "President Mike Pence" and invoking The 25th Amendment of The United States Constitution. Dr. Lynne Meyer, PhD is a Psychologist in private practice in Los Angeles specializing in "Narcissistic Personality Disorder" and other personality disorders.

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John Lewis Puts Race at Center of Jeff Sessions Hearing

Rep. John Lewis Testifies on the Nomination of Senator Sessions to be Attorney General
Video Witnesses Testify For and Against Jeff Sessions

Colleagues and former colleagues, including Senator Cory Booker, testified for and against the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general.

By SUSAN JOAN ARCHER. Photo by Al Drago/The New York Times. Watch in Times Video

WASHINGTON Senator Jeff Sessions, the Alabama Republican nominated for attorney general, came under sharp attack from black leaders Wednesday over his record on minorities, as Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a luminary of the civil rights movement, charged that he could set back racial progress by decades.

We need someone as attorney general whos going to look out for all of us, and not just some of us, mr. lewis, a Democrat, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on the second and final day of testimony for Mr. Sessionss nomination.

The emotional testimony from Mr. Lewis and other black leaders provided some dramatic moments at the hearing, but there was no indication that it would slow Mr. Sessionss confirmation in the Senate, which appears all but certain.

Republican members on the committee came to his defense at the hearing and said that he was being unfairly tarnished over accusations of racial insensitivity that have dogged him since the 1980s.

They produced witnesses, including several black conservatives, who vouched for Mr. Sessionss character and professionalism and said they were confident that he would enforce the law no matter what his personal views were.

Larry D. Thompson, a friend of Mr. Sessionss who worked with him in the 1980s when both were federal prosecutors, said the senator had a commitment to both strong law enforcement and equal justice for all.

The days testimony highlighted the strong racial undertones of Mr. Sessionss nomination. Three decades ago, the Senate rejected Mr. Sessions for a federal judgeship over questions about his failed prosecution of African-Americans in a fraud case and racially insensitive comments he was reported to have made. He acknowledged using words like un-American to describe the N.A.A.C.P.

Black leaders say that those accusations still resonate with them and that his votes as a senator in more recent years in opposition to a number of civil rights bills have given them more reason to question his record.

About a dozen members of the Congressional Black Caucus, along with civil rights leaders, turned out at Wednesdays hearing in support of Mr. Lewis and two other black Democrats Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and Representative Cedric Richmond of Louisiana as they voiced their opposition to Mr. Sessionss nomination.

Mr. Booker broke with Senate tradition by testifying against a fellow senator, a decision that he cast as a matter of conscience and country.

He alluded to Mr. Sessionss opposition to immigration and his support for voter-identification laws that disproportionately affect minorities and the poor.

He will be expected to defend voting rights, but his record indicates that he wont, Mr. Booker said. He will be expected to defend the rights of immigrants and affirm their human dignity, but his record indicates that he wont.

Mr. Lewis, who protested segregation alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was beaten severely during a march in Selma, Ala., said Mr. Sessionss pledge to enforce law and order harked back to the era in which he grew up.

Those who are committed to equal justice in our society wonder whether Senator Sessionss call for law and order will mean today what it meant in Alabama when I was coming up back then, Mr. Lewis said.

Mr. Lewis urged senators to focus on those views. It doesnt matter how Senator Sessions may smile, how friendly he may be, how he may speak to you, he said.

Democrats challenging Mr. Sessionss nomination also released a letter from 103 black ministers and religious leaders, who wrote that the senators unswerving hostility to the very rights he would be tasked with protecting had made him unfit to be attorney general.

Republicans, however, countered with their own testimonial. Just as Mr. Lewis was about to testify, Trump transition team members circulated photographs showing Mr. Sessions and Mr. Lewis marching together over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a confrontation there between civil rights marchers and the police.

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