Inside trump’s Lizard Brain

Part I - ...or an expert political analyst’s projection?

If you are a regular reader of CNI, you know that we advocate for the urgent need to use more counter-narcissism in our world, countries, communities, and yes even families. However, we certainly do not urge the implementation of more psychology into nearly all aspects of society and human life because it serves CNI.

In fact, the think tank and philosophy were born out of the vacuum of reliable societal danger warnings that reveal, explain, and decode the psychology of the narcissistic disorders most of the world’s worst bullies, psychic vampires, villains and aspiring supervillains almost all seem to perfectly mirror.

As a person with a 1990 degree in International Relations and what seemed like a decent understanding of general psychology, it still amazes me I had no clue of any of this until forced to study the science for a few years in the late 2000s on behalf of another. Thankfully it amazes me even more how counter-narcissism philosophy brings such a clarity and predictability to right and wrong, caring and selfishness and good and evil.

Due to a decades long black hole in the public’s psychological education, we are at a point in humanity’s timeline where far too many of these types of malignant narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths have been empowered instead of being contained well enough to keep them from trying to take over and eventually destroy the free world and inevitably humanity itself.

We certainly see it in the ever-increasing warning signs of today. To be clear, CNI is not an exaggerating or hyperbolic philosophy. It is a hard-truth telling philosophy whenever personal or global survival is on the line. We know humanity is on the line because these are pathologically selfish and destructive agents of paranoia, hate, cruelty, trauma, chaos and often sadism, who can’t control themselves.

Therefore, it is statistically impossible that one or many more will not do something arrogantly stupid and selfish, like wanting to use nuclear weapons (trump’s “generals” reported he wanted to) or cutting funding and U.S. technical support for containing viruses in China. Oh right, trump did that early in his term before Covid spread around the world and killed millions.

Projection

If you have processed CNI’s Psychological Defense Class #1, you know that almost every narcissist’s primary defense mechanism is Projection. In simplest terms, almost everyone during times of stress or pressure is capable of unconsciously projecting their own issues or transferring their own thoughts or actions onto others in mental defense.

On the other hand, malignant narcissists like trump are almost always unconsciously projecting their faults and dirty deeds because they cannot mentally handle their own truths, thus must blame everyone else for their problems. What a strange coincidence that both nazis and narcissists use scapegoats to justify their dark, abusive and horrific behaviors.

This is why someone constantly projecting is showing one of the clearest and strongest signs of being a clinical-level narcissist. Ask yourself what other kind of person besides a narcissist, sociopath or psychopath blames and accuses everyone else of what they are doing and thinking, and yet they themselves can never do wrong (in their own minds)?

Projection cheat code supplemental

Certainly the line between unconscious and conscious Projection can often get quite blurry, so CNI advises that you be very mindful of using generalized accusations that can easily be turned around and directed at you by the very narcissists the reveal is meant to expose.

Indeed to avoid having your honest accusations turned back against you with pathological conviction, generally try to be as specific and strategically timely as possible. Essentially, if you leave a narcissist any wiggle room to escape like throwing an accusation back at you, they are drawn to it like a shark to blood, so count on it.

Personally, I remember more than a few times over the years when I said something to someone and thought, they could easily flip that right around and accuse me of the same thing because it’s vague enough to have validity about almost everyone, on some level.

We make special note of this because few things are more triggering than a victim being accused of abuse by an abuser. Again, what kind of person will accuse you of something they did? More often than most people realize, a cold, callous and remorseless form of a pathological narcissist.

Remember, most general and vague lines of attack can easily be blown back into your face via Projection by any narcissist for whatever reason, including just exercising and sharpening their claws in their trolling psychological cat and mouse game. Ergo, vague accusations are rarely if ever worth it unless you are the one sharpening your claws by trolling trolls.

We see you narcissistic trolls.

Diversity drives global awareness and common connection

With all the different types of people I experienced while growing up in the SF Bay Area, in my travels and even within my own family, I gained a keen interest in understanding global cultures, religions and politics so I could know where people were coming from (literally and figuratively), where they wanted to get to, and to find the common connections that we could bond over and perhaps become friends, or at least try to find areas of common cause or mutual respect.

However, ever since I gained a deeper understanding of malignant narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths all those years ago working to free my friend from a sociopath’s web, it is both amusing and often highly disturbing how clueless even top political experts remain and the total lack of respect they have for what goes on in the mind of every malignant-type narcissist they apply political lipstick to.

As with William Kristol’s Reading trump’s Mind for The Bulwark, the expectation for his new piece was there would be at least some strong political spin and analysis to help the Dems and Joe Biden defeat Mein Kampf 2025 cult leader donald trump.

Unfortunately, in Kristol’s new piece Inside trump’s Lizard Brain, there is sadly nothing about the science of how trump’s brain showed many clear signs of extreme disorder decades before anyone mentioned him having dementia or questioned Biden’s cognitive abilities. Worse still, it is Kristol disguising the Bulwark’s current agenda as trump psychology, or worst of all, he actually thinks he is reading trump’s brain and does not realize he is reading his own.

Therefore, we added some CNI psychological intelligence on how this piece is primarily Kristol’s own lizard brain and/or his tricksterish political spin. We have also added some of the thinking (or lack thereof) that is currently most likely going on inside trump’s actual lizard brain.

Inside trump’s or Kristol’s lizard brain?

As one can imagine, there are few things more revealing, amusing or easier for the think tank than to use Counter-Narcissist Intelligence to dissect, critique and review the conclusions of any political expert claiming to be revealing the psychology of a narcissist, sociopath or psychopath if they are not additionally expert in narcissism spectrum psychology as well.

Unfortunately, with rare exception, most of the political experts we see in corporate media today unknowingly regularly embarrass themselves even more by what they do not say about obvious malignant narcissists than what they do say.

This is why CNI is required to grade on such a low sliding scale. So few even sincerely make fly-byes of psychology, so we try to give the benefit of the doubt to anyone making the attempt, which is what we did for Bill Kristol a month ago.

Indeed Kristol has as much experience in politics and analysis as almost any other Republican or Never-trumper out there, but in neither of his recent “trump’s brain” pieces for the Bulwark did he make any noticeable attempt to teach his readers anything about trump’s dark and dangerous psychological disorders. Not a peep!

Again, this is not a personal shot at Kristol because the reality is narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths have been hiding in plain sight and in the shadows gathering power in our politics and economics for decades.

The fact that someone as knowledgeable, experienced and connected as William Kristol seems to have little understanding of the psychology should give you a good idea how hidden the psychology is from general society, so there is no shame in past ignorance here.

The shocking fact is that these psychological truths have been obscured from the public’s awareness by the American Psychiatric Association’s unconscionably antiquated and suicidal rules under the guise of “ethics” for far too long.

Indeed the way they have insisted their ethics be applied in the media, academia and rule of law is essentially a gag order and career sword of Damocles that can be dropped on anyone they deem to have gone too far in the APA’s eyes. It is a fascinating dynamic how otherwise very independent institutions seemed to have meekly deferred to the APA.

We needed them to realize years ago that obscuring the truth about compulsively disordered people without shame, guilt or remorse is not sustainable for the survival of humanity, that they had a duty to warn society, and must figure it out in the next few months, before it is too late.

What a strange coincidence that their stubbornness on this issue appears to be almost purely self-serving and narcissistic. In fact, it has become hard not to wonder if the APA itself as an institution has been taken over and is now run by the pathological.

“Inside trump’s Lizard Brain

by William Kristol”

To start off on the positive side, Kristol is correct in identifying trump as having a lizard brain. trump is all about fight or flight and his total thought process on just about everything is no more complicated than a lizard’s two fireflies in a jar, brainpower.

For those wondering about lightning bugs vs. fireflies. It’s regional.

“What’s Trump thinking right now? Funny you ask . . .

I don’t believe in God. But if I did, I’d say he likes me. Bigly.” 

To a megalomaniacal narcissist like trump, he likely only sees himself as the only God because he sees how good he is at manipulating “believers” by invoking their God in his name. Certainly in times of ultimate panic he will hedge his bets and may ask God for help, but there is no real faith behind it, because he is always instantly right back to serving himself 365 / 24 / 7. Besides, Kristol should know that trump never thinks about giving anyone any credit for anything other than himself. Frankly, trump like Republican Jesus, is a really selfish father, and son of an unholy ghost.

“Anyway, a month ago I was ahead in the national polls. But my lead had narrowed some with that bullshit conviction in New York and all, and that debate coming up on June 27 was a wild card.

Ha! That wild card turned out to be the ace of spades. Thank you, God, whom I don’t believe in.

To say trump thinks his NY conviction is BS is an understatement of biblical proportions. It drives him consciously and unconsciously insane that he is a “convicted felon” and it would have been a regular theme of Biden’s in Triggering the Narcissist in the debate if his people had a stronger understanding of narcissist psychology.

It is also completely backwards to say trump thought of the debate as a “wildcard” because while many were predicting trump would never show up to the debate due to his own cognitive decline, the CNI prediction was:

“it will also be almost impossible for the grandiose narcissist to give up so much attention and not be totally certain he will win, because of his arrogance. In fact, it is a step too far to think any doubt of his imagined debating greatness would creep into his conscious mind for more than a millisecond. Remember, a narcissist must always be winning in their own mind, or it may trigger a psychological collapse.” - “Reading trump’s Mind” - June 12, 2024

Hence, trump’s narcissism does not allow him to entertain the thought that he could lose or do badly in a debate, so he would never consciously see it as a “wildcard.” Indeed inside trump’s lizard brain is a coward who feared being embarrassed and being labeled the loser, but this is a thought he can’t entertain beyond his moments of panic, such as if he was triggered and started melting down on camera during a debate. Hint hint Biden people.

“And God, if by some chance you do exist, do not—do not—come down to tell Joe to step aside. I need Sleepy Joe to hang in there. I was worried for a few days that I’d have to run against someone new, someone young, someone dynamic, someone promising change. In America “change” is good. “New” is goodest, as Joe would say.

But Joe doesn’t want to leave, and the Dems don’t have the nerve to force him out. So I’m a 77-year old ex-president, but I’m the candidate of change. Amazing. Beautiful.

My only worry is that they keep the pressure up and Joe does get out. Hang in there, Joe! Ignore those terrible polls. Pretend the debate never happened. Pretend everyone didn’t see that. Some guy Orwell—he’s being recognized more and more recently—said something about not believing your own eyes. Fine. Don’t believe your eyes, Democrats.

And keep telling yourself Biden can “put that debate behind him” and “move on.” Well, good luck with that. We’re not going to let them put it behind them. We’ll make sure those video clips will be seen over and over again in Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania.”

Whether this ends up becoming true or not, it is almost 100% Kristol’s own lizard brain fully projecting and/or transferring his own thoughts and fears onto trump. As with all of trump’s “thinking,” a lot depends if one is speaking consciously or unconsciously.

We also know this is Kristol’s lizard brain because trump’s only move is as a “change agent.” How else do you think he rationalizes his relentlessly toxic bullying behavior, ignoring of rules, disregard for boundaries and limits, and justifies all the narcissistic chaos that results from society and the law letting trump be trump? Once again from a CNI perspective, psychology reveals Kristol’s comments here to be a bit silly and/or just weak spin.

Inside trump’s Lizard Brain Part II.

Part II