George Conway, husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, suggested Monday that President Trump has narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder.
Conway is a lawyer, without qualifications in psychology. That did not stop him from tweeting two pages from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders after stating that Trump’s behavior was “a product of his pathologies” and retweeting another lawyer saying Trump was “a deranged nutcase.”
The pages outlined the diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. Conway, 55, and Kellyanne Conway, 52, married in 2001 after being introduced by conservative firebrand Ann Coulter. They have four children together.
Conway’s Monday morning amateur diagnoses came after he said he thinks Trump’s mental state is deteriorating after a slew of Sunday tweets from the president, on subjects ranging from the possibility of a federal investigation into “Saturday Night Live” to what he viewed as the failings of late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
“His condition is getting worse,” Conway, a GOP lawyer who was considered for the job of solicitor general by the Trump administration, tweeted in response
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 18, 2019
The criteria listed included “a grandiose sense of self-importance”; “is pre-occupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love”; has a belief that they are “special”; “requires excessive admiration”; and feels entitled, among a handful of other qualities.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 18, 2019
Antisocial personality disorder is indicated by a “failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors”; being dishonest, impulsive, as well as “irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults,” among other criteria.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 18, 2019
The president’s doctors have said that he is healthy.
“I am happy to announce the President of the United States is in very good health and I anticipate he will remain so for the duration of his Presidency, and beyond,” White House doctor Sean Conley said in February.
