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‘#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump’ Review: A Documentary Dissects the President’s Malignant Narcissism | Variety
Putting Donald Trump on the couch has become a national pastime, and this movie does it well.
by Owen Gleiberman
Aug. 21, 2020

Trump is the kind of screw-loose blowhard who has inspired all too many of us to play armchair psychiatrist. We’ve been putting him on the couch for the entire run of his presidency. So most, if not all, of the insights presented by the upcoming documentary “#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump” (it drops on Aug. 28) will be familiar to any student of TISDS (Trump Is Seriously Deranged Syndrome).

Trump, as Dan Partland’s film explains, is a malignant narcissist. (Has there ever been a DSM diagnosis that sounded like more of a direct insult?) The film details the four qualities in Trump that define that syndrome: his paranoia (the feeling that any journalist who asks him a challenging question, or any staff member who doesn’t kiss his ring, is out to get him); his anti-social personality disorder (the constant lying, the lack of remorse about even the most destructive things he does); the sadism (the thousands of vicious attacks and insults in his tweets); and…well, the narcissism (do I need to detail that?).

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'Donald is cruel': Trump's sister Maryanne is secretly recorded by his niece Mary saying 'you can't trust him' and talking about how he had a friend take his exams to get into college | Daily Mail
by Rachel Sharp
23 August 2020

Donald Trump's sister said her brother has 'no principles', 'you can't trust him' and he has been 'lying' throughout his presidency, according to secret audio recorded by the president's niece.

Maryanne Trump Barry, 83, slammed the president for his 'phoniness' and called him 'cruel' over his controversial migrant policies where thousands of children were separated from their families and held in detention centers.

The president's older sister dismissed Trump's intelligence saying 'he doesn't read' and cited some of his only accomplishments as his 'five bankruptcies'.

One of the most telling revelations in the leaked recordings, obtained by the Washington Post, is the confirmation that Maryanne was the source of claims made in Mary Trump's explosive memoir that the president paid someone to take his SATs.

In the shock recording, Maryanne says she did his homework for him and 'drove him around New York City to try to get him into college' before she named Joe Shapiro as the man who took his exams.