Robert Reich

I find it helpful to interpret Trump angry blasts at others – the press, the courts, the FBI, other so-called “enemies” – as blasts at himself. Consider for example his explosion yesterday at the FBI for being “totally unable to stop the national security ‘leakers’ that have permeated our government for a long time. They can’t even find the leakers within the FBI itself. Classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on U.S.”
In reality, almost all the leaks have been coming from Trump’s White House. That’s how the press found out about Reince Preibus’s request to the FBI to debunk recent media reports of contacts between Russia and Trump campaign aides during the campaign.
So Trump is really furious about his own inability to stop ‘leakers.’ He can’t even find the leakers within the White House itself. And when he says classified information could have a devastating effect on U.S., he means it could have a devastating effect on Trump.
Trump’s narcissism is so boundless that he sees everyone and everything around him as extensions of himself. So he takes all opposition or constraint personally – and makes no distinction between, say, the FBI and his own White House, and his own White House and his own ego. The only communications he can accept from other human being are flattery and adulation, which he instantly transforms into self-congratulation.
Trump'spersonality disorder is massive. The question is which will come first: The 25th Amendment, or impeachment?
What do you think?