It's gone beyond narcissism. He's having a psychotic break. UPDATED

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11. Did you see today's presser?

He is seeing things that are not there and seeing things that are there as the opposite of what they are. I would not have used the word before today but what I saw today is a person who has lost all contact with reality, not as a persuasion strategy but as an emotional self-coping mechanism.

A skilled propagandist - which I think Trump has been most of his life - would realize that he had taken it too far, but Trump is seeing loss as gain and defeat as victory and martingaling on his losses. I checked a few online definitions and they agreed that this is pretty much the definition of the phrase "psychotic break." In this case it's not so much that the break is a symptom of an underlying, otherwise diagnosable psychosis; it's more that the break is the psychosis, triggered by stress or some other type of chemical imbalance. In this case I think we can probably all agree stress is a big possibility.