Reading trump’s Mind
Projection Analysis
Publication note and primer
This is a notice to assure those sick of trump that CNI has zero desire to give him attention. The truth is, once one fully understands that we are in a malignant narcissist + dementia situation, there is little reason to consider what he thinks.
However, what CNI does differently is to show how to use the disordered compulsions of predatory narcissists against them, and this starts with recognizing how their pathological patterns make them predictable.
As my personal poster child for NPD since 2015, it has never really been about trump. It’s about using his obvious dysfunctions and horrific outcomes to reveal how malignantly disordered minds always seem to trigger the same kinds of man-made disasters, from the individual to the familial to the global.
That being said, what better way is there to enjoy a little karma in our education than by using the words of the world’s most dangerous narcissist against him?
A needed new tool
CNI has concluded for some time that reading narcissistic minds is necessary for self-care because if you can see through a toxic predator’s projection and gaslighting, they lose most of their power to hurt or affect you.
In families, communities, and globally, we need to prepare quickly because now we live in an age of narcissists who are toxifying everything. As per the norm with stealth predators, our societies barely defended us because they “never saw it coming.”
Unfortunately, this means “We the People” must now contain malignant narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths. The alternative is humanity fast-tracking to dystopia and then extinction long before our time.
Need proof? Just think about how many of humanity’s foundations trump has captured or destroyed in a year and a half.
As should be clear by now, malignant types are going to try to do what they are driven to do, which is to acquire as much money, power, and control as possible, without empathy, compassion, or conscience.
Tragically, their endless craving for more is a futile attempt to fill a bottomless emptiness, built by trauma and/or missing brain elements. This is why they are limited to transactional reasoning and have an absence of deeper emotional connections. Something either soothes their emptiness or it doesn’t. One could even see this becoming a Narcissist’s Escalation Trap.
Ergo, they crave money and power and domination, but for the worst and most socially destructive reasons. To serve and protect their disordered selves. What could go wrong? Oh, here we are.
In this lab for “How To Read trump’s Mind,” we will show how projection translation can essentially read almost any narcissist’s mind because psychological projection is done unconsciously. Indeed, projection is at the root of the famous axiom “Every accusation is a confession.”
Yes, that means that while some are massive hypocrites knowingly accusing others of what they do, the vast majority of narcissists don’t even realize that they are constantly confessing. With that in mind, let’s see what secrets trump is revealing from behind his “mask of sanity.”
How to read trump’s mind
As a new analysis piece about how to read trump’s mind was being processed, he put out a couple of “epic fury” tweets this past week that seemed useful in showing how to read any narcissist’s thoughts.
If you prefer to start at a beginner’s level, it is no exaggeration to say that jd vance is CNI’s worst projector ever. His tone-deafness is often beyond sentient comprehension. Translation: He is so ridiculously transparent that it leads one to question if he has a fully functioning brain.
Regardless, reading trump’s mental state is a lot easier than most people think. In fact, he confesses almost everything daily on his social media platform, Lies Antisocial.
All one needs to do is review the latest ramblings and then apply a projection prism to know what is on his subconscious mind. The translated examples below should show how the process works, but please keep in mind that trump barely talks in coherent sentences, so the structure is a bit choppy.
Projection translation #1
The Hormuz Strait is CLOSED, and will remain CLOSED until I T.A.C.O. again, because what choice will I have? Iran took control of the strait to stop me from bombing them, and it mostly worked, but I will keep lashing out because my fragile ego can’t handle losing at anything ever and in hopes of pulling an imaginary victory out of the jaws of my ultimate defeat.
Yes, to avoid narcissistically collapsing, I am reinstating THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE until I am forced to back down, which will be very soon because the global economy will start crashing without Middle Eastern oil and fertilizer.
Yes, this blockade is just another meaningless panic move that lets me pretend I am strong, even though it only delays my inevitable surrender.
Obviously, I will be paying Iran an even larger fortune of American tax dollars in restitution because my narcissistic compulsions always make everything worse. Of course, I couldn’t care less about maxing out America’s credit card or burning through its arsenal of weapons because I love spending other people’s money on myself.
We know Countries will have open use of the Strait if they pay the Iranian tolls. The fantasy I want to believe is that I will be known as “THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” and as a TRIBUTE to my GREATNESS, I will be reimbursed to my crypto bank account at the rate of 20% of the value of all cargo shipped.
Can you believe Iran is only asking for about 1.5% per supertanker at two million dollars a ship? What a bunch of “suckers and losers.” As is always the case, I will keep putting any and all costs on America’s credit card and keep all profits for myself, which proves I’m a stable genius.
Hopefully everyone doesn’t realize that I will keep making the volatile Gulf more unsafe with no U.S. security because every move I make destabilizes it and hands more power to Iran and China.
In fact, I want to begin collecting my 20% immediately because I’m feeling really low from all my losing, and a new slush fund will make me feel better after my tariff and Jan. 6 piggy banks got canceled. Thank you for giving me your attention. I need it so badly to fill my emptiness! The global pirate narcissist #1.
Less than 24 hours later, projection translation #2
Oil has stopped flowing, and I am now in a panic because the U.S. Military doesn’t have the power to make my delusions come true. I thought I was the all powerful Oz.
My special hate goes out to Secretary of Surrender, Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine, and Commander of the United States Central Command, Admiral Brad Cooper because I was failed by all of them and America’s military too. They made me look weak by losing my genius war. However, somewhere in my subconscious, I know I need people to blame for starting and losing America’s stupidest and most unwinnable war ever.
Yes, the Strait of Hormuz is open to ALL Ships that pays Iran’s fees, which I desperately want a cut of. Honestly, I can’t psychologically handle anyone making money when I am not, and I need something to make me feel better about myself now that all my lying, violence, and malicious “leadership” are backfiring on me.
I can’t believe my perfect plans are taking both me and America down a path of TOTAL DESTRUCTION. Of course, I only care about one of those two things and will start stealing oil from tankers outside the strait to soothe my collapsing ego.
Also, while I will keep declaring a FULL Blockade of Iran that I can’t maintain for long, based on highly threatening conversations I had with Middle Eastern leadership, who told me to “Go F myself” about trying to charge my standard rate on U.S. government contracts of 20%, I will just claim the Gulf States will be making big investments into the U.S. because that tells them I expect big “fees” from them.
Never mind the fact that my war will cost them trillions of dollars and proved I can’t protect them from Iran anymore. I know they still want to give me billions because they love me so much.
As no one is aware or would believe because I am so good at “selling,” I’m going to keep claiming the United States has the greatest economy of any Country in History, and these new Investments will make that Number even larger, and we will see Factories, Plants, and Equipment pour into the United States at Historic levels, even though none of it can be proven true.
Hopefully nobody notices I keep saying false things and making big claims while most Americans’ lives are getting worse.
I’ll just keep promising millions of High Paying AMERICAN Jobs and claim America is WINNING again, winning like never before. I can make maga forget I just lost the Iran war by losing a second Iran war. In my current psychological death spiral, my self-serving compulsions and disordered thinking will keep making everything worse for the American people, and I love it.
I’m told by the twisted sisters, Stephen Miller, and Russel Vought that I have killed almost a million people with my cuts to USAID alone. The Iranian regime has nothing on me for cruelly killing hundreds of thousands of people, because most of my victims were children.
Now I am just going to declare more nonsense about stopping Iran from killing people, including protestors, and shout, “IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!” even if it is now just an empty threat that makes the Iranians laugh at me.
Never mind that by tearing up Obama’s effective nuclear agreement and losing a war to them, I have proven I have no power to stop Iran from doing anything, so once again I’m all big talk and bluster. I hope nobody mentions I have now incentivized them to build nuclear weapons.
I can’t believe all my plans keep backfiring on me. I even helped the regime I wanted to destroy (and steal the oil from) become a new Middle Eastern superpower. Who knew the Strait of Hormuz was another economic superweapon I could lose?
Please blame Joe Biden for me being constantly asleep on the job. Thank you for your attention to this matter. The weak and sad loser president.
Conclusions
In a perfect world, what everyone learns from this lab and from the upcoming class is how to read any narcissist’s mind by using their own words against them. Just keep in mind, it is an art and a craft, so translating disordered projection well takes practice. If someone the CNI community has a projection they would like translated, please share it in the comments.
Of course, in this example we had a little fun in a few areas, but most of the assertions seem pretty on the nose in terms of fitting the facts, so hopefully this lab exercise gives an entertaining, useful, and accurate example of how to translate any narcissist’s ramblings by using projection.
Remember, this isn’t the be-all and end-all. It is just an example exercise for the class, which will hopefully be out within the next week or two.
Update: With trump’s mind in a state of collapsing chaos due to having no ability to defeat Iran, Part II has been delayed a few more weeks so it can be more useful.
Warning and disclaimer: Of course, one should always consult experts when taking on a toxic predator because they are among the slipperiest and most dangerous creatures on earth. It is crucial to understand that the best-laid plans can backfire even when executed with precision and timing. That is why CNI’s first axiom is “do no harm.”
Additionally, the above is extrapolated psychology, so of course none of it is being presented as fact. It is all pure speculation that can only be judged by the test of time. That being said, CNI has a strong record of seeing the future by following narcissist psychology patterns. To quote the world’s most dangerous narcissist, “We’ll see.”
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Explanations of the projections are very much needed. This country has a history of various narcissists and unhinged politicians ( Lindbergh,Joe McCarthy) who eventually faded away but more importantly never attained the destruction we are experiencing now. The crazies never attained this much power: the military, the FBI, the intelligence services, and now the health care services. It will get worse.
Despite your disclaimer, it sure feels true to me. But then, according to Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, I am an Unhuman.