Would a Narcissist Do This?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Jedediah Purdy understands President Trump's supporters better than most champions of the left, having grown up in rural West Virginia (he has the greased-pig award to prove it). But he's still befuddled by the prospect of peeling away voters from the president's camp. Purdy's recent piece in theNew Republic is titled "America's New Opposition." For the Spiel, an annotated history of one of the Trump administration's favorite lies. Today's sponsors: Dunkin' Donuts. Upgrade your day with DD Perks. Earn a free Dunkin' Donuts beverage when you enroll by using promo code DDPODCAST, and speed past the line in store with on-the-go ordering. Download the Dunkin' app and enroll today. Green Mountain Coffee. Green Mountain Coffee is passionate about making a smoother tasting cup. Try it today with code TRYGMC. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at Slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.4	["The Star's Day"]
0:07.9	It's Thursday, February 16, 2017.
0:10.8	From slate, it's the gist, I'm Mike Pesca.
0:13.7	Donald Trump does not have narcissistic personality disorder.
0:17.3	According to a letter to the editor in The New York Times the other day,
0:20.5	it was written by the chairman of the task force
0:23.2	that defined narcissistic personality disorder.
0:26.1	Well, that guy thinks it's all about him.
0:28.3	Anyway, you're probably asking, what?
0:31.3	How can the marmalade menist not be a narcissist?
0:34.7	The good doctor did not say he wasn't a narcissist.
0:38.3	He said, you can't diagnose him with the disorder
0:41.1	because even though Donald Trump may be a world-class narcissist
0:44.4	to have narcissistic personality disorder,
0:47.1	you have to suffer from distress and impairment
0:51.0	because of your narcissism.
0:52.5	And if you watch Donald Trump at today's press conference,
0:55.1	he was gleeful.
0:57.6	Well, not during the time before he took questions
1:01.1	when he was describing the situation he inherited
1:03.5	as some sort of dystopian hellhole sandwich
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