Stop Trying to Psychoanalyze Donald Trump

During the 2012 presidential election, Newt Gingrich was like a retrospectively muted version of this year’s Donald Trump. Which is to say, he was a provocative, populist target for liberal criticism. On the evening of January 27 of that year, talk show host Bill Maher offered his audience “proof” that Gingrich was clinically narcissistic by comparing definitions of the condition taken from a medical journal to a quote from the presidential hopeful.