Donald John Trump: A Sick Narcissist of the Highest Magnitude

President Donald John Trup has survived two assassination attempts in 2024 after over nine years of celebrities stating publicly that they dreamed of his being killed, including one comedienne, who hoped that Mr. Trump’s head would be blown apart, something that nearly happened during the first assassination attempt by Thomas Matthew Crooks in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, July 13, 2024.

Although he was ill-advised to have called for the “stop the steal” rally in Washington, District of Columbia, on January 6, 2021, the evidence is fairly clear that the 2020 election was stolen, admitting that President Trump ran a very disorganized and half-hearted campaign and did not cover himself in glory after the results became official rather than simply promising to return to the fight in 2024, and it is even clearer that those who entered the United States Capitol that day were allowed to get close to the building because then Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro Pelosi rejected calls for extra security and because District of Columbia Muriel Bowser refused to call in the National Guard. Moreover, many of those who got close to the Capitol were egged on by agents-provocateurs within the Federal Bureau of Investigation and/or “assets” working with the agency (see an article from 2024: The January 6 Narrative: Unraveling the Bogus Insurrection Claims and the Double Standards in America’s Justice System.)

The corrupt, quasi-totalitarian administration of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Kamala Harris Emhoff used direct lawfare against then former President Donald John Trump, including putting pressure on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to raid Mar-A-Lago in 2022 despite there being no probable cause for such a raid:

The FBI did not believe agents had probable cause to raid President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022 — but former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice approved the search anyway, according to newly released records.

An FBI official even noted that agents had spent six “counterproductive” weeks trying to establish they had grounds for a search warrant but they were eventually overruled by the DOJ, with one top official grouching that he “frankly [didn’t] give a damn about the optics.”

“We haven’t generated any new facts, but keep being given draft after draft after draft,” one official in the FBI’s Washington Field Office groused in a July 13, 2022, email. “Absent a witness coming forward with recent information about classified on site, at what point is it fair to table this?”

The bombshell details were lodged in internal records released Tuesday by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).

Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, posted on X that the records were “shocking,” emphasizing that the “FBI DID NOT BELIEVE IT HAD PROBABLE CAUSE to raid Pres Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home but Biden DOJ pushed for it anyway.”

The Iowa Republican also claimed the emails and other documents were proof of a “miscarriage of justice” against Trump.

Interviews with witnesses had also not yielded any proof that sensitive intelligence files remained hidden at the former president’s estate since a trove of them was returned on June 3, 2022.

The memo on probable cause and another series of emails exchanged just one week before the Aug. 8, 2022, raid of the former president’s Palm Beach, Fla., residence show that the FBI was looking for “a second path” on the search warrant.

Washington Field Office Special Agent in Charge of Counterintelligence Tony Riedlinger and DC field office boss Steven D’Antuono were included on that email exchange.

The communications revealed the bureau wanted the warrant to be executed “in a professional, low key manner … mindful of the optics of the search” — though the reality was anything but.

That involved a request for cooperation from Trump attorney Evan Corcoran, who recused himself later and became a witness, that the FBI officials said “may not go well at DOJ.”

Trump later accused the dozens of plainclothes FBI agents of having “raided, and occupied” his home and breaking into a safe during the search for classified records and national defense information.

The former president wasn’t on site, as he and his family had decamped to the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ. Only a skeleton staff and groundskeepers remained.

Agents turned on their lights and sirens before swarming the complex, entering even first lady Melania Trump’s Versailles Master Bedroom, while a professional safe cracker later helped access items in his office, sources and Eric Trump later revealed.

“Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before,” he wrote on Truth Social on the day of the search, with agents lingering from 9 a.m. in the morning to after 6 p.m. in the evening.

“After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate.” 

Special counsel Jack Smith’s deputy Jay Bratt apparently did not expect to “negotiate” with the Trump attorney when serving an earlier grand jury subpoena because DOJ officials didn’t expect compliance, according to new FBI emails from June 2, 2022.

Earlier emails reveal DOJ officials wanted a search warrant ready as soon as June 6, 2022, for a meeting with Corcoran in case the president didn’t play ball — and were “adamant that no accommodation” be given to extend an earlier May deadline for the documents.

The scope of the search was later “widened” in July to only specify it wouldn’t include “guest rooms.”

An Aug. 1 email drafted to send to Corcoran listed “[a]ll boxes/containers present in the storage room,” “[t]he 45th Office at MAL,” “MAL Owner’s Quarters,” “[a]ll other spaces currently used to store USG [US government] documents from January 2021 to present,” “[a]ny relevant local off-site storage facilities.”

The same day, Riedlinger wrote to senior DOJ National Security Division attorney George Toscas: “Just to recap from earlier WFO ADIC [D’Antuono] has advised we will not do the SW unless direction is received by DD.”

Court filings last year show that Toscas reportedly said in a phone call before the search that he “frankly [didn’t] give a damn about the optics” of the recovery operation.

Former President Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland ultimately signed off on the search over the objections of D’Antuono and others at the FBI.

Smith charged Trump with dozens of counts in June 2023 related to his alleged hoarding of sensitive intelligence files in bedroom, bathroom, ballroom and basement locations at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

South Florida US District Judge Aileen Cannon later dismissed the case, ruling that Smith was unlawfully appointed special counsel without congressional approval.

In its letter to Grassley handing over the files, FBI Assistant Director Marshall Yates said the disclosures were aimed at restoring trust in the bureau. (FBI did not believe it had probable cause to raid Mar-a-Lago for classified documents, bombshell files show.)

Additionally, the Biden-Harris administration urged the prosecution of then former President Trump by the cartoonish Fani Willis in Georgia, the soft-of-crime Alvin Bragg in New York County (Bragg is the District Attorney of New York County, which includes all of the Borough of Manhattan and a sliver of the southwest part of the Borough of the Bronx) and the wild woman named Letitia James, the Attorney General of the State of New York.

For all that the forty-fifth and forty-seventh President of the United States of America has been through and survived to the point of becoming only the second man to be elected to a second non-consecutive term as president, he remains his own worst enemy as he truly is without any kind of personal filter, self-reflection, or even a modicum of Judeo-Masonic decency on a purely natural level when it comes to striking about at his critics within the Republican Party (Thomas Massie, Rand Paul, Marjorie Taylor Green) and his vocal opponents in the Democratic Party and in the field of “entertainment” (so-called), including the late Robert Reiner and his wife Michelle:

A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!  (Truth Details | Truth Social.)

This is sick, diseased.

This is as disgusting as it is narcissistically wrong as Robert and Michelle Reiner, no matter how much evil (see one example as described in Meathead Meets Meathead) they supported in their lives nor how Mr. Reiner’s work promoted impurity and indecency, were murdered by the drug-addicted son, Nicholas Reiner, not because of the “anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS.”

Donald John Trump truly believes in his own infallibility and that criticism of him is tantamount to treason against the country punishable by death. The man is so tone-deaf and self-absorbed that he can never be content with the fact that the attempts by Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro (see How Trump’s Own Appointees Aided Russiagate Plot Against Him), Hillary Rodham Clinton, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jack Smith, and Merrick Garland to take him down have either unraveled or are in the process of unraveling at this very time.

No, Trump has to take to his “Truth Social” to attack a murdered couple for having opposed him as though such is a crime in a supposedly free country, the same free country where the Biden-Harris administration sought to suppress dissent at every opportunity, and the same free country where Trump himself has appointed a “speech czar” to monitor and suppress all criticism of the genocidal polices of the Zionist State of Israel (see the information contained in Nothing to Fear from Mohammedan Migrants, Leo?).

As noted two and one-half months ago in Nota Bene, President Trump: Forgivness of Others is Not Optional, Donald John Trump knows nothing about how to treat others as he truly does not understand anything about Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ or His teaching and thus does not see the Divine impress in others while treating them as we would Our Divine Redeemer in the very Flesh.

Trump’s disgraceful and disingenuous attack on the murdered Reiners has drawn just criticism even from some Congressional Republicans and “conservative” commentators:

The attack on Mr. Reiner, so soon after his death, prompted a rare backlash against the president from some MAGA-aligned Republicans, some of whom urged the president to retract his comments.

Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday that Mr. Reiner’s death was “reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”

Asked by reporters later in the day whether he stood by those comments, Mr. Trump was unapologetic: “Well, I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person.” He added, “I thought he was very bad for our country.”

The Reiners’ 32-year-old son has been booked on suspicion of murder, the police said. There was no indication from the authorities that the couple’s political beliefs had anything to do with their deaths. Mr. Reiner was found dead on Sunday alongside his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, at their home in Los Angeles.

Mr. Trump’s attack brought immediate outrage, including from close allies who said the attack undercut Republicans’ calls for civility after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Prominent conservatives called for public shaming, firings and the threat of prosecution for those who spoke ill of Mr. Kirk.

“A man and his wife were murdered last night. This is NOT the appropriate response,” Jenna Ellis, Mr. Trump’s former lawyer who is now a conservative radio host, wrote on social media on Monday. “The Right uniformly condemned political and celebratory responses to Charlie Kirk’s death. This is a horrible example from Trump (and surprising considering the two attempts on his own life) and should be condemned by everyone with any decency.”

Over the years, Mr. Trump has shown little empathy over the deaths of perceived rivals. He criticized Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, after his death and suggested a deceased Democratic lawmaker, John D. Dingell of Michigan, was looking up from hell.

His attack on the Reiners came as many were still in shock over their violent deaths.

Sage Steele, the former ESPN host and Trump ally, responded online, calling the president’s post “so disappointing.” She added: “It’s comments like this that take away from the countless great things @realDonaldTrump does for America.”

Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, wrote on social media that “regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered.” He added: “I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the VP, and White House staff will just ignore it because they’re afraid? I challenge anyone to defend it.”

Some other Republican lawmakers also condemned Mr. Trump’s post.

“This statement is wrong,” Representative Mike Lawler, Republican of New York, wrote on social media of Mr. Trump’s post. “Regardless of one’s political views, no one should be subjected to violence, let alone at the hands of their own son. It’s a horrible tragedy that should engender sympathy and compassion from everyone in our country, period.”

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, said that this was no time to attack one’s political rivals. “This is a family tragedy, not about politics or political enemies,” she wrote on social media.

The Reiners’ son, Nick Reiner, was arrested on Sunday night and held in a jail in Los Angeles County on $4 million bail, according to county jail records.

Nick Reiner had spoken over the years about his struggles with drug abuse and bouts of homelessness beginning in his teenage years.

Mr. Trump “knows no shame,” Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, wrote in response to the president’s post. (Trump’s Post Attacking Rob Reiner After Stabbing Death Draws Immediate Outrage.)

Although Charles Schumer himself knows no shame as he has made one baseless charge against Donald John Trump after another, this is one of the few times when the pro-abort, pro-sodomite political coward and opportunist who always mugged to the cameras when he was in the United States House of Representatives prior to being elected to the United States Senate for the first time on November 3, 1998, is correct. Schumer the Shameless was correct to have called out the Shameless Trump.

President Donald John Trump has time enough to dance on the bodies of Robert and Michelle Reiner before they are even buried but he has no time or patience for the efforts of United States Senator Joshua Hawley (R-Missouri) start a “dark money” organization to highlight the evils of the surgical slaughter of preborn babies:

President Trump's advisers are furious with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) for starting an anti-abortion group to spur new action on the issue, which the White House views as a loser for Republicans in next year's midterms.

  • "Clearly, Senator Hawley and his political team learned nothing from the 2022 elections, when the SCOTUS abortion ruling [overturning Roe v. Wade] resuscitated the Democrats in the midterms," a close Trump adviser told Axios.

Why it matters: Trump's lieutenants believe the move by Hawley — a vocal populist who speaks up for the working class — is part of a plan to position himself to challenge Vice President Vance for the presidency in 2028.

Zoom in: Trump and establishment Republicans have been downplaying abortion rights as a top national issue since the Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion in 2022 — a decision that antagonized many suburban swing voters.

  • In Gallup polling last May, 51% of Americans described themselves as pro-choice and 43% called themselves pro-life.
  • Last week, Hawley revealed to Axios' Stef Kight that he and his wife, Erin Hawley, a fellow constitutional lawyer, are launching a dark-money group called the Love Life Initiative.
  • The group — which under the law doesn't have to disclose its donors — aims to support anti-abortion state ballot measures and fund TV ads, potentially during the Super Bowl.
  • "We think that there needs to be a ... strong voice advocating for life," Hawley told Axios.
  • Trump aides say they got no heads-up about Hawley's plans, and were steamed when they read our story.

Between the lines: The split shows the tension over abortion between Trump and traditional conservatives, who are more animated over the issue.

  • Trump privately views abortion through an electoral lens. He is more pragmatic than ideological, and believes stringent abortion laws turn off independent voters whose support the GOP needs to win elections — particularly suburban women.
  • Trump has told aides that swing district Republicans who advocate for anti-abortion measures will have a hard time winning midterm races.
  • A second Trump adviser who's deeply involved in midterm strategy said the GOP needs to focus instead on "aggressive action focused on positive gains in the economy."
  • "That alone will be the driving force behind the next election," the adviser said. "Picking a fight on an issue like abortion in a midterm is the height of asinine stupidity."

A Hawley spokesperson declined to comment.

The backstory: Trump's "20 core promises" from the 2024 campaign don't specifically mention abortion. The longer 2024 GOP platform says: "Republicans Will Protect and Defend a Vote of the People, from within the States, on the Issue of Life."

  • In 2024, Trump rejected overtures from conservatives who wanted him to support a federal ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Instead, he said individual states should decide. The president and his team believed a six-week ban would lead to massive electoral blowback.
  • A third Trump adviser said the president "showed the way forward and how to win on this issue in 2024."
  • Two additional Trump lieutenants were incensed that OnMessage — a well-connected Republican consulting firm that represents Hawley and is advising the party's House campaign arm — would allow Hawley to go forward with his plan.
  • An OnMessage representative declined to comment.

Zoom out: Hawley is part of a trifecta of potential 2028 aspirants who've shown a willingness to defy the White House.

It is never “stupid” or “asinine” to defend the inviolability of innocent life but it is entirely stupid and asinine to post indecent messages that attack one’s critics, living or deceased, as though the criticism itself is impermissible.

Donald John Trump, who has expressed a concern about going to Heaven, has no chance of saving his immortal soul, which was purchased at the price of the shedding every single drop of Our Blessed Lord Saviour Jesus Christ’s Most Precious Blood, unless he converts to the true Faith before he dies and publicly repents of his narcissistic indecency, blasphemy, lascivious speech, and his overwhelming and overweening pride, although he did admit yesterday, Tuesday, December 16, 2025, the Feast of Saint Eusebius, that he agreed with his White House Chief of Staff’s assessment that he, a teetotaler, had an “alcoholic’s personality.”

It is Trump’s pride, which, by the way, keeps him from admitting that hiring Susan Summerall Tell All Wiles as White House Chief of Staff was a mistake, that prevents him from recognizing that those who criticize him, whether justly or unjustly, are actually his best friends as Our Lord Himself, who suffered unjust humiliation and mockery at the hands of the Jews and the pagan Romans, motivated in large measure by the effects of our own sins having transcended time, teaches us that we must be ground into the dust to climb out of the Purgative Stage to the Illuminative Stage and from there to the Stage of Perfection:

Amen, amen I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die. 25 Itself remaineth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world, keepeth it unto life eternal. (John 12:24-25.)

We must continue to pray to Our Lady for the conversion of President Donald John Trump to the Catholic Faith before he dies as we ourselves pray on this Ember Wednesday in Advent to be converted on a daily basis away from our own sins, our selfishness, our own pride and lack of humility, our sloth, worldliness, and lack of faith by means of our own voluntary penances and by our observance of the penances imposed upon us by Holy Mother Church on obligatory days of fast and partial (or total) abstinence.

Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., exhorted us to see these Ember Days as days of manifest mercy so that we may be purified in these days of Our Lady’s Expectation for a fitting celebration of the Nativity of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in just eight days from today, Wednesday, December 17, 2025:

Today the Church begins the Fast of Quatuor Tempora, or as we call it, of Ember Days: it includes also the Friday and Saturday of this same week. This observance is not peculiar to the Advent liturgy: it is one which has been fixed for each of the four seasons of the Ecclesiastical Year. We may consider it as one of those practices which the Church took from the Synagogue; for the Prophet Zacharias speaks of the fourth, fifth, seven, and tenth months. (Zacharias 8:17) Its introduction into the Christian Church would seem to have been made in the apostolic times; such, at least, is the opinion of St. Leo, of St. Isidore of Seville, of Rabanus Maurus, and of several other ancient Christian writers. It is remarkable, on the other hand, that the Orientals do not observe this fast.

From the first ages, the Quatuor Tempora were kept, in the Roman Church, at the same time of the year as at present. As to the expression, which is not unfrequently used in the early writers of The Three Times and not The Four, we must remember that in the spring, these Days always come in the first week of Lent, a period already consecrated to the most rigorous fasting and abstinence, and that consequently they could add nothing to the penitential exercises of that portion of the year.

The intentions which the Church has in the fast of the Ember Days are the same as those of the Synagogue; namely, to consecrate to God by penance the four Seasons of the year. The Ember Days of Advent are known, in the ecclesiastical antiquity, by the name of the Fast of the tenth Month; and St. Leo, in one of his Sermons on this Fast, and of which the Church has inserted a passage in the second Nocturn of the third Sunday of Advent, tells us that a special fast was fixed for this time of the year, because the fruits of the earth had then all been gathered in, and that it behooved Christians to testify their gratitude to God by a sacrifice of abstinence, thus rendering themselves more worthy to approach to God, the more they were detached form the love of created things; “for Fasting,” adds the holy Doctor, “has ever been the nourishment of virtue. Abstinence is the source of chaste thoughts, of wise resolutions, and of salutary counsel. By voluntary mortifications, the flesh dies to its concupiscences, and the spirit is renewed in virtue. But since Fasting alone is not sufficient whereby to secure the soul’s salvation, let us add to it works of mercy towards the poor. Let us make that which we retrench from indulgence, serve unto the exercise of virtue. Let the abstinence of him that fasts, become the meal of the poor man.”

Let us, the children of the Church, practice what is in our power of these admonitions; and since the actual discipline of Advent is so very mild, let us be so much the more fervent in fulfilling the precept of the fast of the Ember Days. By these few exercises which are now required of us, let us keep up within ourselves the zeal of our forefathers for this holy season of Advent. We must never forget that although the interior preparation is what is absolutely essential for our profiting by the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, yet this preparation could scarcely be real unless is manifested itself by the exterior practices of religion and penance. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, Ember Wednesday in Advent.)

May these Ember Days in Advent be profitable to us all by means of Our Lady's prayers and graces as we keep close to her by means of her Most Holy Rosary, especially by meditating on the mysteries contained the Joyful Mysteries during these days of her Expectation.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.