S President Sky-High Extroversion Combined With Off-The-Chart Low Agreeableness: The Atlantic

Very similar feeling perplexed Mark Singer in the late 1990s when he was working on a profile of Trump for The New Yorker.

Singer wondered what went through his mind when he was not playing the public role of Donald Trump.

Trump, Singer writes, appeared baffled. The question is. When you are shaving in front of the mirror in the morning, what are you thinking about, Singer asked him?

Singer’s question this way.

Trump, when you are alone?

While leaving him to conclude that the realestate mogul who should become a realityTV star and, a leading candidate for president of the United States had managed to achieve something remarkable, singer never got an answer. That said, who are you. Human beings evolved to be consummate actors whose survival and ability to reproduce depend on the quality of our performances, as brainy social animals. Perhaps Surely it’s, in at least one sense. Is Singer’s assessment you never know he is always being observed. Oftentimes more than even Ronald Reagan, Trump seems supremely cognizant of the fact that he is always acting. So this article touches on a bit of that.

Plenty of questions have arisen about Trump during this campaign season about his platform, his knowledge of problems, his inflammatory language, his degree of comfort with political violence.

How does his mind work?

Who is he, really? How might he go about making decisions in office, were he to become president? So, its central aim is to create a psychological portrait of the man. It is in creating this portrait, Know what, I will draw from wellvalidated concepts in the fields of personality, developmental, and social psychology. For instance, many early efforts relied upon untested, nonscientific ideas. Basically, ever since Sigmund Freud analyzed the life and art of Leonardo da Vinci, in 1910, scholars have applied psychological lenses to the lives of famous people.

In recent years, however, psychologists have increasingly used the tools and concepts of psychological science to shed light on notable lives, as I did in a 2011 book on George Bush. In the realm of politics, psychologists have recently demonstrated how fundamental features of human personality like extroversion and narcissism shaped the distinctive leadership styles of past presidents, and the decisions they made. In this essay, Know what, I will seek to uncover the key dispositions, cognitive styles, motivations, and selfconceptions that together comprise his unique psychological makeup. His life history is well documented in his own books and speeches, in biographical sources, and in the press, trump declined to be interviewed for this story.a lot of people who encounter the man in negotiations or in interviews or on a debate stage or watching that debate on television seem to find him flummoxing, Trump’s personality is certainly extreme by any standard, and particularly rare for a presidential candidate. Extroversion.

Neuroticism. Openness. Some score toward one pole or the other, most people score near the middle on any given dimension. That said, research decisively shows that higher scores on extroversion are associated with greater happiness and broader social connections, higher scores on conscientiousness predict greater success in school and at work, and higher scores on agreeableness are associated with deeper relationships. That said, whenever having proved to be a risk factor for unhappiness, dysfunctional relationships, and mentalhealth problems, higher scores on neuroticism are always bad. These changes are typically slight, from adolescence through midlife. Less neurotic. Plenty of information can be found on the web. While going back to George Washington, on all five of the trait dimensions, the psychologists Steven Rubenzer and Thomas Faschingbauer, in conjunction with about 120 historians and similar experts, have rated all the former presidents.

George Bush comes out as especially high on extroversion and low on openness to experience a highly enthusiastic and outgoing social actor who tends to be incurious and intellectually rigid.

Across his lifetime, Donald Trump has exhibited a trait profile that you would not expect of a president.

We are not talking here about deep, unconscious processes or clinical diagnoses. For the most part there’s nothing especially subtle about trait attributions. I’m quite sure I believe that most of people who observe Trump would agree, it is my own judgment. Presidential candidates on the campaign trail are studies in perpetual motion. On top of this, only else seems to embrace the campaign with the gusto of Trump. He gets by with very little sleep. He is a dynamo driven, restless, unable to keep still. Certainly, some 30 years later, he is still constantly interacting with other people at rallies, in interviews, on social media. No other candidate seems to have a lot fun. Just think for a moment. In his 1987 book, The Art of the Deal, Trump described his days as stuffed with meetings and phone calls.

Trump plays his role in an outgoing, exuberant, and socially dominant manner, like George Bush and Bill Clinton.

Indeed, it’s the pursuit itself, more so even than the actual attainment of the goal, that extroverts find so gratifying.

Rather than having to run for the job, Trump said no, when Barbara Walters asked Trump in 1987 whether he would like to be appointed president of the United States. Fact, whether they come in the sort of social approval, prompted by the activity of dopamine circuits in the brain, highly extroverted actors are driven to pursue positive emotional experiences, fame, or wealth. Apprentice, the young boy simply wanted Trump to tell him, You’re fired! It is agreeableness is mostly about an overall style of relating to others and to the world, and these noteworthy exceptions run against the broad social reputation Trump has garnered as a remarkably disagreeable person, based upon a lifetime of widely observed interactions, like extroversion and the other ig Five traits.

Arguably the most highly valued human trait the world over, agreeableness pertains to the extent to which a person appears to be caring, loving, affectionate, polite, and kind.

People low in agreeableness are described as callous, rude, arrogant, and lacking in empathy.

Instead wrote the boy a check for a couple of thousand dollars and told him, Go and have the time of your life, trump could not bring himself to do it. Nevertheless, in the opposite direction, Trump’s agreeableness seems even more extreme than his extroversion. There’s even a famous story about his meeting with a boy who was dying of cancer. Therefore, trump loves his family, for sure. He is reported to be a generous and fairminded boss. Nonetheless, get ’em out of here! While complaining in Never Enough about some nasty shit that Cher, the singer and actress, Trump bragged, right after said about him. He was sweetness and light compared with the man who once sent The New York City Times’ Gail Collins a copy of her own column with her photo circled and the words The Face of a Dog!

By the standards of reality TV, Trump’s disagreeableness may not be so shocking.

Researchers rank Richard Nixon as the nation’s most disagreeable president.

Twitter, and she never said a thing about me after that. From unsympathetic journalists to political rivals, Trump calls his opponents disgusting and writes them off as losers. At campaign rallies, Trump has encouraged his supporters to rough up protesters. Indeed, anger can be the operative emotion behind Trump’s high extroversion as well as his low agreeableness. That’s real for sure, as far as the anger is concerned. Basically, while as pointed out by Barbara Res, who in the early 1980s served as vice president in charge of construction of Trump Tower in Manhattan, the emotional core around which Donald Trump’s personality constellates is anger. Trump’s tendencies toward social ambition and aggressiveness were evident very early in his lifetime, as we will see later. He’s not faking it, she told The Daily Beast in February. Combined with a considerable gift for humor, anger lies at the heart of Trump’s charisma.

Fact that he gets mad, that’s his personality. Whenever stoking a desire to win the adoration of others, anger can fuel malice, it can also motivate social dominance. Obama inherited a devastating recession, and after the 2010 midterm elections, he struggled with a recalcitrant Republican Congress. That’s a fact, it’s very difficult to predict the actions a president will take. You should take it into account. To be honest I haven’t read about it, I’d say if so. World events invariably hijack a presidency. Known what kinds of decisions might he have made had these events not occurred? For example, did anybody foresee that George Bush should someday launch a preemptive invasion of Iraq, when the dust settled just after the 2000 election. For instance, bush probably will never have gone after Saddam Hussein if 9/11 had not happened. Now regarding the aforementioned fact… Still, dispositional personality traits may provide clues to a president’s decision making style.

Entering office with high levels of extroversion and very low openness, Bush was predisposed to make bold decisions aimed at achieving big rewards, and to make them with the assurance that he could not be wrong.

Research suggests that extroverts tend to take high stakes risks and that people with low levels of openness rarely question their deepest convictions.

Actually the gamechanging decision to invade Iraq was the kind of decision he was going to make, as I argued in my psychological biography of Bush. Now look, a President Trump might try to swing for the fences in an effort to deliver big payoffs to make America great again, as his campaign slogan says, like Bush. Then, of the risks he has taken, Trump can point to luxurious urban towers, lavish golf courses, and a personal fortune that is, by some amount of his casinos and resorts. With all that said… He has certainly taken big risks, he has become a more conservative businessman following setbacks in the 1990s, as a real estate developer. On top of this, Trump can be a more flexible and pragmatic decision maker, more like Bill Clinton than Bush, since he isn’t burdened with Bush’s low extent of openness.

He may look longer and harder than Bush did before he leaps. Whenever leaving room to maneuver in negotiations with Congress and foreign leaders, being that he is viewed as markedly less ideological than most presidential candidates, Trump will switch positions easily. We might predict that Trump’s style of decision making would look like the hardnosed realpolitik that Nixon and his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, displayed in international affairs throughout the early 1970s, together with its bare knuckled domestic analog, Therefore if Nixon comes closest. There has probably never been a president as consistently and overtly disagreeable on the public stage as Donald Trump is. That may not be all bad, relying upon one’s perspective. Of course, like Nixon, not readily swayed by warm sentiments or humanitarian impulses, decision makers who, are dispositionally low on agreeableness might hold certain benefits when it drills down to balancing competing interests or bargaining with adversaries, just like China in Nixon’s time. In international affairs, Nixon was tough, pragmatic, and coolly rational. Real psychological wild card, however, is Trump’s agreeableness or lack thereof. Therefore, in domestic politics, Nixon was widely recognized to be cunning, callous, cynical, and Machiavellian, even by the standards of American politicians.

Now this sounds a lot like Donald Trump, So it’s generally believed today that all politicians lie, or at least dissemble. Now let me tell you something. Adding up the last three numbers, Trump scores 75 percent. You see, dishonesty and deceit brought down Nixon and damaged the institution of the presidency. Research shows that people low in agreeableness are typically viewed as untrustworthy. Bellicose.

Tough.

One possible yield is an energetic, activist president who has a less than cordial relationship with the truth.

In sum, Donald Trump’s basic personality traits suggest a presidency that will be highly combustible. Threatening. Did you hear of something like this before? He should be a daring and ruthlessly aggressive decision maker who desperately desires to create the strongest, tallest, shiniest, and most awesome result and who never thinks twice about the collateral damage he will leave behind. Jackson was an angry populist, they believed a wild haired mountain man who channeled the crude sensibilities of the masses. They named Jackson King Mob for what they perceived as his demagoguery. So similarities between Andrew Jackson and Donald Trump do not end with their aggressive temperaments and their respective positions as Washington outsiders. Now look, the similarities extend to the dynamic created between these dominant social actors and their adoring audiences or, to be fairer to Jackson, what Jackson’s political opponents consistently feared that dynamic to be. Besides, among white Americans, high scores on measures of authoritarianism today tend to be associated with prejudice against a variety of ‘outgroups’, including homosexuals, African Americans, immigrants, and Muslims.

During and after World War I, psychologists conceived of the authoritarian personality as a pattern of attitudes and values revolving around adherence to society’s traditional norms, submission to authorities who personify or reinforce those norms, and antipathy to the point of hatred and aggression toward those who either challenge in group norms or lie outside their orbit.

They may turn to strong leaders who promise to keep them safe leaders like Donald Trump, when individuals with authoritarian proclivities fear that their way of life is now threatened.

In a national poll conducted recently by the political scientist Matthew MacWilliams, high levels of authoritarianism emerged as the single strongest predictor of expressing political support for Donald Trump. Disgust is a primal response to impurity.

Trump appeals to an ancient fear of contagion, that analogizes out groups to parasites, poisons, and similar impurities, as the social psychologist Jesse Graham has noted. In this regard, So it’s perhaps no psychological accident that Trump displays a phobia of germs, and seems repulsed by bodily fluids, especially women’ He famously remarked that Megyn Kelly of Fox News had blood coming out of her wherever, and he repeatedly characterized Hillary Clinton’s bathroom break during a Democratic debate as disgusting. Responding to these fears, President Jackson pushed hard for the passage of the Indian Removal Act, that eventually led to the forced relocation of 45000 American Indians. In the 1820s, whitish settlers in Georgia and similar frontier areas lived in constant fear of American Indian tribes. They resented the federal government for not keeping them safe from what they perceived to be a mortal threat and a corrupting contagion. Did you know that the authoritarian mandate is to ensure the security, purity, and goodness of the in group to keep the good stuff in and the bad stuff out. As Jerry Falwell Jr. Fact, a American strand of authoritarianism may must prove to be so attractive to whitish Christian evangelicals.

a lot of described utter chaos families torn apart, rampant infidelity and hate, cities on fire, the inner rings of hell, when my research associates and I once asked politically conservative Christians scoring high on authoritarianism to imagine what their life might be scared anymore. You know what, darling? Considering the above said. For Trump, the concept of the deal represents what psychologists call a personal schema a way of knowing the world that permeates his thoughts. Now look. Cognitive science research suggests that people rely on personal schemata to process new social information efficiently and effectively. Ok, and now one of the most important parts. May not necessarily bend to accommodate changing circumstances, by their very nature. Schemata narrow a person’s focus to a few ‘wellworn’ approaches that may have worked in the past.

In the negotiations for the Menie Estate in Scotland, Trump wore Tom Griffin down by making one outlandish demand after another and bargaining rough with even the most trivial problems of disagreement.

He never quit fighting.

Trump’s attacks incurred the enmity of millions in the British Isles, inspired an award winning documentary highly critical of Trump, and transformed a local farmer and ‘part time’ fisherman named Michael Forbes into a national hero, as D’Antonio recounts in Never Enough. Certainly, while describing the locals as rubes who lived in disgusting ramshackle hovels, when local residents refused to sell properties that Trump needed with an eye to finish the golf resort, he ridiculed them on the Late Show With David Letterman and in newspapers. Sometimes, part of making a deal is denigrating your competition, Trump writes. Trump’s recommendations for successful deal making include less antagonistic strategies.

Trump will negotiate better trade deals with China, he says, guarantee a better healthcare system by making deals with pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, and force Mexico to agree to a deal whereby it would pay for a border wall, as president.

Trump’s focus on personal relationships and ‘one on one’ negotiating pays respect to a venerable political tradition.

Contributor to Lyndon Johnson’s success in pushing through civil rights legislation and similar social programs in the 1960s was his unparalleled expertise in cajoling lawmakers. For presidents, the political isn’t merely personal. Mosteffective leaders are able to maintain some measure of distance from the social and emotional fray of everyday politics. Presidents work within institutional frameworks that transcend the idiosyncratic relationships between specific people, be they heads of state, Cabinet secretaries, or members of Congress. Having said that, deal making is an apt description for only some presidential activities, and the modern presidency is can not afford to invest Undoubtedly it’s refreshing to hear a candidate invoke the concept of compromise and acknowledge that different voices need to be heard. Why did he have to stencil his name in 20‑foot letters across the front? The Trumps, the ‘firstperson’ singular pronouns, the I and me and my, eclipsed the he and his, as Gwenda Blair writes in her threegeneration biography of the Trump family. As a result, Trump has attached his name to pretty much everything he has ever touched from casinos to steaks to a called university that promised to teach students how to become rich, as nearly everybody knows.

Selfreferences’ pervade Trump’s speeches and conversations, I often stop to admire the sleek tower that Trump built on the Chicago River, when I walk north on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. When, in the summer of 1999, he stood up to offer remarks at his father’s funeral, Trump spoke mainly about himself. Did you hear about something like this before? It was the toughest day of his own life, Trump began. Now please pay attention. In the ancient Greek legend, the beautiful boy Narcissus falls so completely in love with the reflection of himself in a pool that he plunges into the water and drowns. Actually, highly narcissistic people are always striving to draw attention to themselves. Besides, the story provides the mythical source for the modern concept of narcissism, that is conceived as excessive selflove and the attendant qualities of grandiosity and a feeling of entitlement. So, what does Donald Trump really need?

Beyond his personal schemata for decision making to try to find out what motivates the man, to consider the role of narcissism in onald Trump’s life is to go beyond the dispositional traits of the social actor beyond the high extroversion and low agreeableness.

Narcissus wanted, more than anything else, to love himself.

Celebrities and rich people all come over to MaraLago, Trump’s exclusive Palm Beach estate. With that said, the fundamental life goal is to promote the greatness of the self, for all to see. Remember, palm Beach, Trump told the journalist Timothy O’Brien for his 2005 book. Notice that people with strong narcissistic needs look for to love themselves, and they desperately seek for others to love them most of us know that there is nothing necessarily compensatory, or even immature, about certain forms of narcissism.

Whenever leaving the child in desperate need of affirmation from others, the parents struggle to lovingly reflect back the young boy’s own budding grandiosity. Renowned psychoanalytic theorist Heinz Kohut argued that narcissism stems from a deficiency in ‘early life’ mirroring. Not necessarily since they suffered from negative family dynamics as children, narcissistic people like Trump may seek glorification over and over. Rather, they simply can not get enough. Consistent with this view, I can find no evidence in the biographical record to suggest that Donald Trump experienced definitely not a loving relationship with his mother and father.

Accordingly, New York City Military Academy for high school, he was relativelyrelatively popular among his peers and with the faculty, he did not have any close confidants. Then, in a 2013 Psychological Science research article, behavioral scientists ranked presidents on characteristics of what the authors called grandiose narcissism. Anyway, millard Fillmore ranked the lowest.

Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Nixon, and Clinton were next.

Whereas you would’ve been part of the job description for anybody aspiring to become the chief executive of the United States, American presidents appear to have varied widely on this psychological construct.

Correlating these ranks with objective indices of presidential performance, the researchers found that narcissism in presidents is something of a doubleedged sword. For example, lyndon Johnson scored the highest, followed closely by Teddy Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson. On the positive side, grandiose narcissism is associated with initiating legislation, public persuasiveness, agenda setting, and historians’ ratings of greatness. Steve Jobs was, from my point of view, almost any bit Trump’s equal when it boils down to grandiose narcissism. A well-known fact that is. Rather than the president himself. From President Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.

In business, government, sports, and many other arenas, people will put up with a great deal of self serving and obnoxious behavior on the part of narcissists as long as the narcissists continually perform at high levels.

They can attain high levels of popularity and esteem in the short term.

Psychological research demonstrates that many narcissists come across as charming, witty, and charismatic upon initial acquaintance. Their descent can be especially precipitous, when narcissists begin to disappoint those whom they once dazzled. More often than not, narcissists wear out their welcome. Besides, as long as they prove to be successful and brilliant like Steve Jobs they should weather criticism and retain their exalted status. Keep reading. So there’s still truth today in the ancient proverb. Over time, people become annoyed, I’d say if not infuriated, by their self centeredness.

Presidents create in their minds personal life stories or what psychologists call narrative identities to explain how they came to be who they are, like all of us. Whenever involving the selective reinterpretation of the past and imagination of the future, now this process is often unconscious. In middle age, George Bush formulated a life story that traced the transformation of a drunken ne”er do well’ into a self regulated man of God. On the international front, he believed that oppressed people everywhere could enjoy quite similar kind of God given rights self determination and freedom if they gonna be emancipated from their oppressors. Key events in the story were his decision to marry a steady librarian at age 31, his conversion to evangelical Christianity in his late 30s, and his giving up alcohol forever the day after his 40th birthday party.

By atoning for his sins and breaking his addiction, Bush did actually recover the feeling of control and freedom that he had enjoyed as a young boy growing up in Midland. Extending his narrative to the story of his country, Bush believed that American society could recapture the wholesome family values and small town decency of yesteryear, by embracing a brand of compassionate conservatism. He imagined himself as the heir to that legacy, the Joshua to the Moses of Martin Luther King Jr. Obama, surely, did not directly experience the horrors of slavery or the indignities of Jim Crow discrimination. His story was a progressive narrative of ascent that mirrored the nation’s march toward equality and freedom the long arc of history that bends toward justice, as King described it. Whenever tracking a move from enslavement to liberation, in Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama told his own redemptive life story. What about Donald Trump? What actually was the narrative he has constructed in his own mind about how he came to be the person he is today? Bush’s earliest recollections were about innocence, freedom, and good times growing up on the West Texas plains.

Parked in front of their mansion in Jamaica Estates, Queens, was a Cadillac for him and a Rolls Royce for her.

Yet the first chapter in as he tells it today, donald Trump’s story expresses nothing like Bush’s gentle nostalgia or Obama’s curiosity.

Instead, So it’s saturated with a feeling of danger and a need for toughness. Our narrative identities typically begin with our earliest memories of childhood. All five Trump children Donald was the fourth enjoyed a family environment in which their parents loved them and loved one another. These distant memories are more like mythic renderings of what we imagine the world to been, rather than faithful reenactments of the past as it actually was. For Obama, So there’s a feeling of wonder but also confusion about his place across the globe. Donald Trump grew up in a wealthy 1950s family with a mother who was devoted to the children and a father who was devoted to work.

Fred Trump made a fortune building, owning, and managing apartment complexes in Queens and Brooklyn.

It’s not fun being a landlord.

His father replied, since sometimes they shoot right through the door. It is his lessons in toughness dovetailed with Donald’s inborn aggressive temperament. Actually, on one such trip, Donald asked Fred why he always stood to the side of the tenant’s door after ringing the bell. You have to be tough. Growing up in Queens, I was a pretty tough kid, Trump writes. He would drag me around with him while he collected small rents in tough sections of Brooklyn, Donald recalls in Crippled America. As long as his own experience taught him that if you were not vigilant and fierce, he trained his sons to be tough competitors, you would never survive in business. On weekends, he would occasionally take one or two of his children along to inspect buildings. It reflected his worldview, while Fred’s response may was an exaggeration. As to alloy aggression with discipline, his decision to send his ’13 year old’ son off to military school, followed Donald’s trip on the subway into Manhattan, with a friend, to purchase switchblades.

He was not New York City Military Academy was a tough, tough place, as Trump tells it decades later. Military school reinforced the strong work ethic and anticipation of discipline Trump had learned from his father. Described by Blair in The Trumps as identical lesson was reinforced in the greatest tragedy that Trump has heretofore known the death of his older brother at age Freddy Trump was never able to thrive in the competitive environment that his father created.

Trump has never forgotten the lesson he learned from his father and from his teachers at the academy.

Donald, who doesn’t drink, loved his brother and grieved when he died.

The world is a dangerous place. Normally, alcoholism contributed to his early death. You have to be ready to fight. Consequently, in Trump’s own words from a 1981 People interview, the fundamental backdrop for his life narrative is this. However, the protagonist of this story is akin to what the great 20th century scholar and psychoanalyst Carl Jung identified in myth and folklore as the archetypal warrior. Although, man is the most vicious of all animals, and life is a series of battles ending in victory or defeat. His central life task is to fight for what matters; his typical response to a real problem is to slay it or otherwise defeat it; his greatest fear is weakness or impotence, According to Jung, the warrior’s greatest gifts are courage, discipline, and skill. A well-known fact that is. Trump loves boxing and football, and once owned a professional football team.

I am sure that the story we’ve got not very much about making money. Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score, as Trump has written. Everything begins with a strong military. Donald Trump promises, he would make America great again, as president. Accordingly the enemies facing the United States are more terrifying than those the hero has confronted in Queens and Manhattan. In Crippled America, he says that a first step toward victory is building up the armed forces. That’s right! Everything. Generally, there has never been a more dangerous time, Trump says. That said, in one problem. Now look. David Winter, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, analyzed presidential inaugural addresses and found that those presidents who laced their speeches with poweroriented, aggressive imagery were more likely than those who didn’t to lead the country into war.

That said, I believe there’s good reason to fear Trump’s incendiary language regarding America’s enemies.

As noted, and his extroversion and narcissism suggest a willingness to take big risks actions that history will remember.

The rhetoric that Trump uses to characterize both his own life story and his attitudes toward America’s foes is certainly aggressive. Tough talk can sometimes prevent armed conflict, as when a potential adversary steps down in fear. Here the story seems to go mute. What higher prize will victory secure? What broader purpose does winning the battle serve? His narrative seems thematically underdeveloped compared with those lived and projected by previous presidents, and by his competitors. I’m sure it sounds familiar. Marco Rubio told an inspiring story of upward mobility in the context of immigration and ethnic pluralism, nonetheless his candidacy never caught fire. Plenty of information can be found easily by going online. The story of Hillary Clinton’s life journey, from Goldwater girl to secretary of state, speaks to women’s progress her election as president my be historic.

Trump’s persona as a warrior may inspire reckon that he will indeed be able to make America great again, whatever that may mean.

Bernie Sanders channels a narrative of progressive liberal politics that Democrats trace back to the 1960s, reflected both in his biography and in his policy positions.

Ted Cruz boasts his own Horatio Alger narrative, ideologically grounded in a profoundly conservative vision for America. These candidates are fighters who need to win, and all seek for to make America great, in order to be sure. Normally, what fundamentals for governing can be drawn from a narrative similar to his? Victories have given Trump’s life clarity and purpose. Then again, he must relish the prospect of another big win, as the potential GOP nominee.

Donald Trump’s story of himself and of America tells us very little about what he similar psychological characteristics we see in Donald Trump the extroversion and social dominance, the volatile temper, the shades of narcissism, the populist authoritarian appeal.

It appears that Thomas Jefferson had it wrong when he characterized Jackson as completely unfit to be president, a dangerous man who choked on his own rage. However, jackson was, and remains, a controversial figure in American history. This is the case. Populism that his detractors feared would lead to mob rule instead connected common Americans to a higher calling a sovereign unity of states committed to democracy.

His life story appealed to a regular man as long as Jackson himself was a similar man one who rose from abject poverty and privation to the most exalted political position in the land.

Amid the early rumblings of Southern secession, Jackson mobilized Americans to believe in and work hard for the Union.

What’s more, Jackson personified a narrative that inspired large parts of America and informed his presidential agenda. What’s behind the actor’s mask? It’s as if Trump has invested a lot of himself in developing and refining his socially dominant role that he has nothing left over to create a meaningful story for his life, or for the nation. Make sure you scratch suggestions about it in the comment box. Who, really, is Donald Trump?

What I’m suggesting wouldn’t be rude, Therefore if everyone thought about email in quite similar way.

Just get right into it.

Write the recipient’s name if you must. Please do not waste time considering if Dear, or Hey or! Most people already know their names. Travel is still restricted to a few categories, of which golf ain’t one, while travel to Cuba has opened up recently. In July, BusinessWeek’s Jesse Drucker and Stephen Wicary reported on the Trump Organization’s forays into golfcourse planning in Cuba. Conforming to two people familiar with the discussions that took place in Cuba and who spoke on condition of anonymity, trump Organization executives and advisers traveled to Havana in late 2012 or early 2013. Accordingly the shopping expedition took place in the course of the annual conference of the International OCD Foundation this July.

Hoarding is among the many manifestations of ObsessiveCompulsive Disorder, a mental illness that forces its sufferers to perform specific rituals or think disturbing thoughts repeatedly.

On the surface, the analogy appeared reasonable.

Carter in 1980 bet hundreds of his chips on personally disqualifying Reagan, like Hillary Clinton today. For months, enough voters feared Carter and identical American alliances, just after onald Trump became the Republican nominee. Consequently, the fact is we are protecting so many countries that are not paying for the protection. We’re protecting the majority of countries. We have to seriously rethink at least those countries. They have an agreement to reimburse us and pay us and they are not doing it and if they are not intending to do that. Families head south, often to the theme parks in Orlando. East Lansing, Michigan, becomes a ghost town during spring break.

Wartinger is a professor emeritus at Michigan State, where he has dealt for decades with the scourge of kidney stones, that affect around one in 10 people at some point in lifespan.

Most are small, and they pass through us without issue.

While sending hundreds of thousands of people to emergency rooms and costing around $ 8 billion any year in treatment and extraction, loads of linger in our kidneys and grow. America’s rare chance to compare the candidates head to head. What’s wrong with that? For example, while replaying the zingers and goof ups, for weeks until the next matchup cable news keeps the top clips on rotation. Their software builds an audio fingerprint of any campaign advertisement, consequently listens for that distinctive waveform on live broadcasts.

For months, the Political TV Ad Archive, a project of the Internet Archive, has faithfully logged when campaign commercials air in key media markets. How they manage to track them is pretty neat. It’s certainly not humans not even close. No, conforming to a study led by José María Gómez from the University of Granada, the top spot goes to… the meerkat. They kill one another at a rate that makes man’s inhumanity to man look meek, these endearing grey masked creatures most probably to be murdered by its own kind?

Even apparently peaceful creatures take any other’s lives, our closest relatives. Are known to wage brutal war.

Whenever collating data on more than a thousand species, s study is the first thorough survey of violence in the mammal world. It clearly shows that we humans are not alone in our capacity to kill ourselves. Now let me tell you something. Over time, think that a selfmade man must also be a selfish man. That a millionaire shouldn’t pay taxes since they’ll only be squandered, that a smart businessman roots for the economy to collapse so he can buy real estate cheaply, that taxes on business might be lowered so the wealthy can do better. That I reckon going to be good for our country and my kids’ generation, Morris Pearl, a former managing director at the investment fund BlackRock, told me, what I’m talking about is what policies wouldn’t just think that paying more taxes and investing in public services is the way to more prosperity for everyone.