As a psychologist, I can tell you: when malignant narcissists lose control, they don’t fade quietly. They escalate exponentially — rage, smear campaigns, humiliation, projection, even violence. Every move is about punishing those who expose their weakness to claw back control.

This isn’t “toughness.” It’s disintegration. In my field we call it narcissistic mortification: the sheer terror, shame, and dread of being forced to confront one’s own fragility. To them, it feels like annihilation — as the false self they’ve lived behind for decades shatters.

Mortification hits with both physical and psychological shock — chest pain, burning, panic, humiliation, obsessive thoughts. They feel exposed, worthless, desperate. That desperation is what fuels the meltdowns you’re watching play out in real time like an SNL skit/horror film.

For Trump, the trigger is being faced with his own mortality. He can’t sue death. He can’t cheat it, bribe it, or con his way out of it. It’s inescapable. And for the first time in his life, he’s powerless — and the panic shows in every crazed rant/wild attempt to project control

That’s why you see him suddenly fixated on things like getting in to heaven (LMAO NEVER going to happen, Don), legacy, and being remembered. Humiliation is the narcissist’s deepest wound — and nothing humiliates more than colliding with the truth that you can’t escape the end.

The Epstein files serve to make this terror far worse. Not only do they expose what he’s spent 30+ years concealing, but if they surface after he’s gone, he can’t spin them. The thought of being defined by that humiliation — with no power to control the narrative — is devastating

When narcissists face both mortality AND exposure, collapse deepens. They don’t reflect or accept responsibility. They deflect, rage, lie, smear, and escalate authoritarian grabs. Anything to keep the mask intact just a little bit longer — no matter who gets hurt in the process.

So when you hear “Many people want a dictator” understand: it’s not strategy. It’s the desperation of a cornered man. His inner circle knows his health is failing, which is why they’re sprinting to consolidate power for Vance and others before Trump’s decline makes it impossible.

And this makes him even more dangerous. A collapsing narcissist doesn’t calm down — they grow increasingly volatile, reckless, impulsive, and destructive. His unraveling is personal, but its consequences — given the office he occupies — will not just be national, but global.

History shows what happens when leaders in collapse drag nations into their death spirals. The personal breakdown of one man becomes political crisis for millions. That’s exactly what we’re seeing now.

Trump’s rants aren’t strategy. They’re symptoms. His unraveling isn’t just about him — it’s about the danger of what desperate men do when humiliated and terrified. As a psychologist, I see this clearly: Trump is unraveling. And he wants to take America (and the world) with him.

Trump isn’t “playing 4D chess.” He isn’t following a plan. He’s mentally unraveling — and when men like him unravel, they burn everything around them down. That’s the terrifying moment we’re in. And it’s everything those of us in mental health warned about for years. 🧵END🧵

If you want to better understand his pathology BEFORE he began imploding; check out this thread. The way I describe him is: “I have two psych degrees and am incredible with tech/computers, and yet I could not BUILD a crazier person if I were God him/herself than @realDonaldTrump”

@AmoneyResists As someone who has wanted nothing more for ten years than the demise of this one man I gotta say, I've been hearing this prediction of impending narcissistic collapse for almost as long. He's going to outlive us all.

@KateLowellShaw He’s not outliving us — he’s weak, sick, and unraveling. But I get the feeling. Living under his chaos inundates us with stress and anxiety that makes time almost stand still; every day dealing with him feels like a month. And the last 10 years have felt like an eternity.

@AmoneyResists This is a fabulous thread by Andrew Wortman. Everyone should read it to understand where Trump is now mentally, and the perils at hand for our nation.

@Marie4Democracy Thank you 🙏💙

@AmoneyResists Would it be better or worse if he lives till the midterms are done?

@anbayanyay Worse imho. Cults typically fracture, splinter apart and ultimately fade once a cult leader dies. But from what most medical experts who are weighing in are saying, he doesn’t have that much time left.

@AmoneyResists A MUST READ RE: The Mental Stability of the President!!

@RadRealityShow Thank you 🙏 💙

@AmoneyResists Thank you. Succinctly explained. I have been thinking & saying he looks like he is rotting from the inside out. The damage & danger grows exponentially every day.

@billiemarieh

@AmoneyResists Excellent thread!

@AmeliaHouchins Thank you! 🙏 💙

@AmoneyResists Please name one dictator in history who vowed to deregulate, shrink gov't size, and return power to the states. Name one who stops wars. You can't. It's impossible. You are a useful regurgitating lowbrow parrot who doesn't know shit about dictators or fascism.

@AmoneyResists Have you looked at DEM approval numbers? When a match starts a fire, the fire does not extinguish when the match pulls away…. The mantle is now being carried by millions. Do you really think Gavin or Kamala can save the DEMs? Really?

@AmoneyResists Not sure what you’re resisting but keep at it for its entertainment value.

@AmoneyResists A literal 2 am meltdown from you. How ironic

@AmoneyResists GPT wrote this.

@AmoneyResists This isn’t a thread — it’s an exercise in using ChatGPT.

@AmoneyResists So many em dashes... Plus the opening not x but y...

@AmoneyResists And here you are ranting at 3 in the morning.

@AmoneyResists Now do Netanyahu, zionists and Israel!