Special Edition: Conviction Day episode, "This is an emergency."
Shrinking Trump
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🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Top Psychologists John Gartner and Harry Segal discuss with Dr. Lance Dodes the psychological fallout America will have to brace itself for, following the first conviction of an unhinged former President in history on Really American's SMASH HIT podcast, Shrinking Trump.
This special episode is an "emergency session” of the iTunes chart-topping podcast to discuss fallout from the unstable Republican presidential candidate that could have dire consequences.
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Returning to the show for this special is our friend Dr. Dodes, a retired assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In this episode, Lance will be helping our hosts psychoanalyze Trump’s unhinged press conference from the morning after he was convicted of 34 felonies.
“Right now, Donald Trump is a wounded animal, " John said. “There's nothing more dangerous than a wounded animal. And there's really nothing more dangerous than a wounded malignant narcissist.”
Using video and direct quotes, our hosts provide you with an in-depth analysis of how Trump’s projection, narcissism, sociopathy, and dementia were on full display in his sham of a press conference. “Remember, this is a press conference to explain why he's been convicted of 34 felonies,” said Dr. Gartner. “But from the way he presents it, you'd think he was there to accept an award.”
Dr. Dodes walks us through his own diagnosis of Trump’s performance, and helps us understand the dangerous psychology of how a now-wounded malignant narcissist like Trump would respond if he were to regain power. He also gives us a rundown of the deranged cult mentality that empowers charismatic leaders like Trump, and the interpersonal effects his distorted beliefs have on his followers.
Trump’s ability to manipulate the truth rests in his ability to repeat his lies over and over. But he’s also helped by an army of surrogates who parrot his false reality. In this episode, we’ll be taking a hard look at how the conviction and these competing realities might affect the psychology of voters.
There’s also a chilling conversation comparing Trump’s malignant narcissism to Hitler’s that you are not going to want to miss. “I've been saying now for six years that Donald Trump is the American Hitler,” John explained. “And immigrants are the new Jews.”
Dr. Segal said it best when sounding the alarm. “We're not saying this as political activists,” he said. “We're talking about a very disturbed person with tremendous power and influence saying psychotic things that are organized around evoking rage and fear in his supporters.”
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| 0:30.4 | I'm Dr. John Gartner. |
| 0:32.6 | And I'm Dr. Harry Siegel. |
| 0:34.7 | And we welcome you to a special edition of Shrinking Trump. |
| 0:39.1 | Conviction Day. |
| 0:40.9 | Conviction Day. |
| 0:41.9 | We normally have a show at the end of every week. |
| 0:45.3 | We dropped our fourth episode on Friday. |
| 0:49.1 | But I don't know if you all know this, but clinical psychologist, I mean, John is a writer |
| 0:53.7 | and a researcher, but he's also a psychotherapist. |
| 0:56.8 | So am I. |
| 0:57.8 | And usually you see a patient once a week, kind of like our show. |
| 1:02.1 | But sometimes there's an emergency where we have to call our patient or have an emergency session. |
| 1:10.3 | So this is an emergency session for our patient, |
| 1:14.9 | Donald Trump. And before, but before we turn to Donald Trump psychology, you wanted to say |
| 1:19.7 | something about the psychology of the voter and how this conviction is affecting the psychology |
| 1:25.5 | of the electorate now and how it can affect the psychology of the |
| 1:29.3 | electorate going forward if the Democrats handle it properly. |
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