President Trump Must Blame Others

Hopefully Rational

President Trump is compelled by his narcissism to blame others for anything that might reflect even slightly badly on him

In this tweet, the Chief White Host Correspondent for the New York Times, Peter Baker, points out that back in January, Trump was noting what a good and transparent job China was doing containing the Coronavirus.1

But now that Trump needs a scapegoat for the fact that the virus is clearly causing more problems in the U.S. than he would like, his story has changed to blaming the World Health Organization (WHO) for "praising [China's] so-called transparency."

It seems clear to me that Donald Trump's Narcissistic personality disorder2 will not allow him to admit that he has ever done anything even slightly incorrect, much less completely wrong. When faced with a situation in which he may have done something wrong, he needs to start finding something or someone else to blame. The second quote referenced in Peter Baker's tweet, is Trump trying to see if blaming the WHO for any problems the U.S. has with the new Coronavirus will work to absolve him of any responsibility. If it doesn't "stick", you can bet he'll keep throwing blame at others trying to find someone or something to which the blame will stick.

  1. You can call the New York Times the "Main Stream Media" and claim they're "out to get Trump" all you want. But like the journalist that he is, Mr. Baker is reporting the facts. The two quotes in the tweet are not "made up". They are just what the President said/wrote. ↩

  2. I am not a psychologist, psychiatrist, or therapist. I am not qualified to diagnose any mental condition or disorder. But I find it very hard to believe that anyone with any knowledge of Donald Trump's public behavior starting well before he became President and continuing through today could read the description of Narcissistic personality disorder given at the Mayo Clinic web-site and not conclude that, "Yep, that describes Donald Trump." ↩