Page 11 - Self Absorption News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

(all talking at once) >> this is rudeness and the point i wanted to make to you is it is not me. go to the fox poll. it's only like a quarter of americans who think this president has empathy. he goes to a fema headquarters. he is self absorbed talking about himself versus president bush's performance... >> can we just step... >> absolutely something that he shouldn't talk about. i would be delighted. >> okay, now let's get to the point where it matters. if you are having emergency surgery, do you want a surgeon who is a jerk who is the best surgeon or do you want an average surgeon who has a ...

Humanitarian climatological event. and being the devil's advocate does it matter what donald trump says about this? if it's handled well on the ground, does it matter whether he's tweeting mildly or severely inappropriate things over the weekend? >> to my mind and to other people the first -- the last couple of days were a collision of contrasts. you had the president of the united states tweeting in a self-absorbed way. you had general mattis the secretary of defense standing in front of the troops in iraq, talking about this country and the fact that the country is hurt right now. and he kno...

Watching them talk to the press for the first time in a long time. >> you saw a level of chaos that's been unmatched. you saw a president of the united states literally trying to go into doing something completely crazy that would change our world forever. you saw a president of the united states that doesn't understand the concept of legislating in washington, d.c. that you do need at some level a friend. some friend to help you. you saw a level of self-absorption. he indicating he was speaking the way he was speaking because

Pre-twitter. how do you think "seinfeld" would fall today if we were watching it? >> well, i think it would do well because it really was kind of the beginnings of the recognition of self-absorption. and we seemingly have stayed self-absorbed ever since. >> just backstage, you know, when the cameras weren't rolling, did you all get along? any good gossip you want to share all these years later? it's just us talking. >> no. not really. i think that, you know, there was a -- it felt like it was an opening night on broadway every time you were doing the show. and so, the concentration was on that...

Grant. he's now in charge of our country and the fate of the world. so certainly beware of the fact that he has these features, but don't call him psychiatric names. psychiatric name-calling won't help him, and it very much harms people who do have real mental illness. >> that's not to say that you don't have strong feelings about the president. because you go on to say, he's been richly rewarded rather than punished for his grandiosity, self-absorption and lack of empathy. why do you say that is stigmatizes the mentally ill when people apply these sorts of terms to the president, in your opin...