Donald Trump may be a narcissist, but since he is not mentally ill in the technical sense, he is not a pathological one. Aristotle would have seen him as entirely normal — a man driven by rage that the world does not see things his way.
For Aristotle, a man becomes angry because of what has been, or will be, done to him.
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