Joy Reid Says Trump’s ‘Dangerous Narcissism’ Reveals His ‘Dark’ Side
MSNBC pundit Joy Reid suggested that President Donald Trump‘s lack of mental stability and his “dangerous narcissism” reveals “something a little bit dark.”
Reid made the comments on AM Joy today when discussing a group of psychiatrists and mental health workers who believe Trump — due to his “lack of mental stability” — should be removed from office via the 25th Amendment. The president’s biographer and Bloomberg View editor Tim O’Brien joined Reid in the segment, echoing similar criticisms of Trump’s mental state.
“I think he’s a serial liar. We know he’s a profound narcissist. One of the things he does through his lies, Joy, is he creates these alternate realities for himself,” said O’Brien.
The two discussed a bizarre Trump story in which the president reportedly attempted to pimp-out one of his counterfeit paintings by calling it an original Pierre-Auguste Renoir piece. However, the real Renoir painting in question is the famous Two Sisters piece and it is located in the Chicago Institute of Art.
This inspired the former New York Times reporter to go on a vivid rant regarding the president’s dishonesty. “He will say something that is false repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly until I think not only is he lying to his audience, to a certain extent he lies to himself in order to get things over on the people around him and also to insulate himself from any sense of responsibility or guilt for the damage he causes when he misrepresents things,” he said.
Reid described this outlandish Trump story as an example of the president’s “fabulist” tendencies. “When you scratch the gold paint, it’s just paint,” said Reid. Additionally, the MSNBC pundit said the “funny” Renoir story is an example of the “dark” side of Trump.
“There’s something about it that’s a little bit dark — that this is the president of the United States with tremendous power, the power to start a nuclear war… Does that concern you, this kind of dangerous narcissism?” Reid said.
O’Brien agreed, saying, “Of course it’s dangerous, of course it concerns me.”
Despite all the media buzz that circulated as a result of Trump’s fake Renoir — which has been spotted both in Trump Tower in New York and on one of his private planes — the president has not acknowledged that his art piece is fraudulent.
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