Trump: 'I hang out with losers because it makes me feel better.'
President Donald Trump made possibly the most honest statement of his life on Friday, telling a crowd of people at a Miami event that he surrounds himself with “losers” because it makes him feel better about himself.
“I hang out with losers because it makes me feel better,” Trump said to a crowded room at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) priority summit.
“I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success.”
Social media users ate up his remarks, with one X user calling the statement a “deathbed confession” and another saying they’ve “never heard anyone admit to anything even close to this out loud.”
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“Once again no politician has ever lied as much as him and none has ever been so honest either,” another user commented.
Trump’s comments mirror his previous statement that he “love[s] the poorly educated.”
His remarks are also consistent with patterns displayed by people who have high levels of narcissism or even narcissistic personality disorder. Because of their need for admiration and praise, narcissists like being the most successful person in the room and often resent anyone who takes attention away from them by achieving success of their own.
Psychologists say that narcissists “tend to look for relationships in which they can dominate and be seen as superior.”
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But it’s not enough for them to just win — “for many of them, it is important that you also must ‘lose.’”
On that measure, those working in the Trump administration have it covered.
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