"Oh, Trump's not so bad. He can be nice and friendly. "

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16. It would certainly help if more people would educate themselves...

in the basic, universal characteristics of anyone with narcissistic personality disorder. These people can absolutely charm people. They usually rise to the top of organizations/management because it oftentimes goes hand in hand with compulsive lying.

I had actually never knew about the personality disorder until several years ago when I experienced working for a boss who had NPD. A coworker who had a background in psychology and psychiatry told me that she almost immediately spotted this boss for one with NPD. She gave me some basic info about it and urged me to learn all about it so I would know how to deal with her. I ended up quitting almost immediately once I learned that there is NO changing someone with malignant NPD.

As a side note, that particular boss eventually got fired and moved out of state and got an even better job, but eventually she got fired again after only two years when some of her subordinates went to the press and spilled the beans on how this woman treated subordinates. This was in a large public entity, not a corporation.